The Magnus Archives Timeline - Work in Progress.

 I've been trying to get into the Magnus Archives and much like my relisten to Archive 51 I thought in might be fun to work out a time line of the podcast story. This is a work in progress. 86-91 g/h

Updated up to episode 3. 

1818: The Magnus Archives is founded[1]

Sometime in the 20th century: Jonathan Sims is born and lives his early life in Bournemouth, Dorset, England [2]

Around 15 May 1995: [#9982211 statement begins] Joshua Gillespie is on holiday (Trans Note: Vacation (AE)) in Amsterdam after graduating from Cambringe University. While at a cafe he encounters a strange englishman named John (no Lastname given) who gives him £10,000 to '[look] after a package'. JG agrees but makes sure not to spend the money in case he can back out of the agreement. He returns to England without encountering John again. [2]

Spring 1996: Joshua Gillespie moves to Bournemouth taking up a job at a architects firm. As Bournemouth is a resort town JG spent part of the ten thousand pounds to cover living expenses moving into 'the Triangle', a neighborhood, near the town center. He had also grown a beard during the time. [2]

Early Summer 1996: Joshua Gillespie receives an unexpected package which he discovers is the package that John paid him to watch over a year ago. The item in question is a wooden coffin bound in a 'thick metal chain' with a 'heavy iron padlock'. A warning on the lid tell JG 'do not open'. The Coffin was oddly warm to the touch. [2]

Summer 1996: Joshua Gillespie becomes aclimatted to living with the coffin. He begins to notice a soft scratching sound coming from the inside of the coffin despite the fact that anything living that would have been in the coffin would have died from lack of air, food, or water in the time frame. Water seems to be a trigger as the next time it rained that summer JG reports moaning eminating from the box. He describes it as 'melodic' almost musical in quality. He begins to spend less time in the living room. [2]

Winter 1996: Joshua Gillespie begans to experience bad dreams and sleepwalking. Waking up in an attempt to open the coffin. Medical Care fails to resolve this tendency. He begins to hide the key in more eleborate places through this strategy proves ineffective until after a near accident he begans to freeze the key in a bowl of water preventing sleepwalking him from accessing the key before he wakes up from the cold. [2]

Summer 1998: The Coffin begans to quiet. Shortly after this John and the delivery men come to pick up the coffin. through they are surprised to see Joshua Gillespie presumingly because they expected him to die from the coffin entity in the interim. JG gives J the key to the coffin and the movers load the coffin into a Breekon and Hope delivery van. Sometime Later JG moves to London.  [#9982211 statement ends][2]

22nd November 1998:  Joshua Gillespie gives his statement to The Magnus Archives. [2]

Late 1998/Early 1999: The Triangle neighborhood building that Joshua Gillespie lived in with the coffin is demolished. [2]

4th August 2001: Graham Folgers parents, Desmond and Samatha Folger, die in a car crash on the 'M1 near Sheffield'. GF later inherents his parent's wealth. [3]

Sometime in the early 2000s: Graham Folgers finds and repairs the Ornate Wooden Table. [3]

September 2005: [Case File #0070107 Begins] Amy Patel starts a Criminology course at Birbeck University when she meets a fellow classmate Graham Folgers, she describes him as fairly unobtrusive except for his constant 'note taking' [3]

November 2005: Jessica McEwen disappears in Old Fishmarket Close in Edenburgh. Case Remains unsolved as of 2016 [1]

Late December 2005: Amy Patel notices Graham Folgers on the same bus as her and discovers that not only do they both live in the same neighborhood in Clapham they are in fact next door neighbors. After an unseen force pushes her to the ground, GF takes her to his house to recover from her concussion. His apartment is sparse except for shielves full of identical notebooks and a ornate wooden table whose pattern AP discribes as 'hypnotic'. one point of note is a square hole in the middle of the table. It is implied that she catches a glimpse of a 'entity' which she mistakes for the window hooks of a box planter. [3]

Winter/Spring 2006: Amy Patel begans to spy on Graham Folgers, observing his erratic manic behavior mostly involving his various notebooks. The most notable is him physically eating an entire notebook in one setting. AP also notices a contenued hypervigulance to loud noises. Besides these tentpole events GF appears to live a very mundane dull life. This stalking continues for several months. [3]

Spring 2006: Amy Patel drops her Criminology Course. [3]

7th April 2006: Amy Patel witnesses a entity climbing into the fourth floor window of Graham Folgers's apartment which she discribes as a having incredible long spindly limbs and being mottled grey in color. A police car arrives ten minutes later and is greeted by a entity impersonating Graham Folger, this Not-Graham consoles the police. As the police leave N-G acknowledges AP presence before drawing his curtains. [3]

April 2006: Not-Graham begans destroying Graham Folger's notebooks over the next week. N-G intimidates Amy Patel who moves out the next week. [Case File #0070107 ends] [3]

1st July 2007: Amy Patel give her statement to The Magnus Archives. [3]

August 2006: Sarah Baldwin disappears in Old Fishmarket Close in Edenburgh. Case Remains unsolved as of 2016 [1]

December 2006: Daniel Rawlings dissappears in Old Fishmarket Close in Edenburgh. Case Remains unsolved as of 2016 [1]

May 2008: Ashley Dobson dissappears in Old Fishmarket Close in Edenburgh. Last communication was to her sister Siobhan (Lastname unknown), consisting of a darkened alleyway showing a 'drunk creeper'. Supposedly the 'anglerfish' that Nathan Watts describes in his [#0122204] statement. Case Remains unsolved as of 2016 [1]

June 2008: Megan Shaw dissappears in Old Fishmarket Close in Edenburgh. Case Remains unsolved as of 2016 [1]

2009: Breekon and Hope Delivery Services goes into liquidation. At time of writing it is unknown when the company was founded [2]

March 2010: [Main Events of #0122204] Nathan Watts goes to a college party at the bequest of his schoolmate Michael MacAuley to celebrate McAulay getting into his Master's Program. NW got drunk at this party and choose to walk home to sober up. While walking through the Old Fishmarket Close in Edinburgh he came across an unnamed entity who requests several times for a cigerette. NW claims that this 'person' was floating several inches off the ground and that this 'person' was presumingly some kind of lure to trick him into entering the alley. he refused the stranger and made it home safetly. '[A] few days later' NW learns of the dissapearence of a college student named John Fellowes. NW insinuates that JF possible ran afoul with this entity. [End of Statement #0122204] [1]

John Fellowes dissapears in Old Fishmarket Close in Edenburgh. Case Remains unsolved as of 2016 [1]

Around 2012: Jonathan Sims begans work as a researcher at the Magnus Archives. [1] 

22 April 2012: Nathan Watts gives his statement to The Magnus Archives. [1]

Before 24 March 2016?: Head Archivist Gertrude Robinson Meets her Death [1]

Around 24 March 2016?: Jonathan Sims is hired by Elias Bouchard as head archivist after the death of former archivist Gertrude Robinson. [1]. 

24 March 2016: [Episode 1 of TMA is released] JS describes the archives at the time as 'thousand of files spread loosely' or stuffed into unmarked boxes. The files themselves are hand or type written without any form of digitization. JS mentions off hand three research assistants, Tim, Sasha, and Martin. The later JS seems to dislike. JS also mentions that he has began digitizing files but that some files have to be recorded on tape recorder as presumingly digital audio recordings become distorted. It is to be assumed that the current audio we hear is one of these Tape Recordings. JS begans to recite Case File# 0122204. A Witness Statement by Nathan Watts [1]. See March 2010. JS discusses his desire to create a 'discredited' section indicating his skepticism torwards the supernatural aspects of the case before reporting on the post-statement findings. Research Assistant Sasha (RAS) finds a series of missing person cases which have been indexed above (See 2005 - 2010). Evidence of Note is a photo taken by missing person Ashley Dobson which seems to corroborate the existence of the entity in NW's statement. End of Recording. [1]

26 March 2016: [Episode 2 of TMA is released] JS recites Case File #9982211. A Witness Statement of Joshua Gillespie. [2] See 1995 -1998. JS reveals that he was born in Bournemouth, the coastal resort town were JG lived during the ordeal. Research Assistant Tim (RAT) finds limited information on Breekon and Hope, the courier service, (Trans Note: Moving Company (AE)), that takes the coffin. Of note is that B&H is located in Nottingham which is about 4 hours away from Bournemouth a considerable distance by british standards. other items of interest is that JG lived in an empty apartment complex during this two year period this is especially odd considering that he lived in a popular tourist district near the economic center. End of Recording [2]

27 March 2016: [Episode 3 of TMA is released] JS recites Case File #0070107. The witness statement of Amy Patel. see 2005-2006. Research Assistant Tim (RAT) uncovers AP medical records. Further research coloborates Graham Folger's history as well as his change of appearance. RAS also manages to find one of GF journal which contained the phrase 'Keep Watching' written over and over again. End of Recording. [3]