Watcher: The Lost Tapes, Tape 1 - Are You Scared?
Added 2024-10-17 15:00:11 +0000 UTCRyan and Shane receive a mysterious envelope containing 3 tapes. In this episode, they listen to the first tape and meet Tommy and Adam- whose reality begins to fray at the seams. Featuring Jonathan Sims and Alexander J. Newall.
Content Notes:
- Strong Language
- Hallucinations/Altered Reality / Unreality
- Paranoia
- Graphic Violance
- Infestation
- Vehicle Accidents (air and automobile)
- Drugging
- Mass Death
- SFX: Bugs, explosions
Alexander J Newall and Jonathan Sims, creators of The Magnus Archives and The Magnus Protocol, have leant their voices to Watcher Entertainment to bring you 3 special episodes of their series Are You Scared?
The video version of this episode is available now for early access on WatcherTV.com, or on the WatcherTV app, and will be available on YouTube on November 13th.
Are You Scared is created by Ryan Bergara
Story Written by Garrett Werner
Directed by Katie LeBlanc
Produced by Kat Hartman
Executive Producers Ryan Bergara, Shane Madej, and Steven Lim
Hosted by Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej
Featuring Alexander J Newall as 'Adam' and Jonathan Sims as 'Tommy'
Additional Voices by Charlie Clay
Watcher Entertainment Production Staff
Assistant Creative Director Charlie Clay
Editing and Motion Graphics by Charlie Clay
Director of Photography Mark Celestino
Camera Operator Annie Jeong
Sound Mixer Brendon Ryu
Illustrators Rafael Mejia & Mollie Ong
Production Coordinators Carter Lau & Violet Rawlings
Production Assistant (Social Media Intern) Emily Graham
Post Production Supervisor Sam Young
DIT/Assistant Editors Andrew Ilnyckyj & Frank Parker
Head of Development Katie LeBlanc
Head of Production Lizzie Lockard
Head of Post Production Sam Young
With Special Thanks to the Team at Rusty Quill (thats us!)
Comments
I so want to listen to all three of these but have to stop in the middle of this because to be honest the constant stopping and commentary is really annoying and fully takes me out of the story on the tapes.
FleshWitch
2025-05-02 13:44:25 +0000 UTCAs a listener from the old Magnus Archives who hasn't been able to get into the new show, I was excited that Sims and Newell were featured in this one and decided to give it another listen. Their piece was fabulous, but the constant running commentary and interruptions from the other narrators was not a great choice. It kept pulling me out of the story.
Kara Moskowitz
2024-11-02 21:16:18 +0000 UTCShouldn't of listened to this in bed in my dorm laughed my ass off
Jeida
2024-11-02 10:17:13 +0000 UTCI mean it was good, but the interrupting, stopping the tape for commentary, just was not a good flow. But overall a pretty good episode.
Bah Humburg
2024-11-01 13:15:10 +0000 UTC"it's from a stranger!" Or THE STRANGER (dun dun dun)
Emma Grace
2024-10-31 17:59:13 +0000 UTCOmg Shane and Ryan! I love ghost files
ShinyPenUnlimited
2024-10-27 02:28:53 +0000 UTCI didn't expect that combo of duos to work so well!!! Very fun to have the ghoul boys interrupt and react to the Magnus men -- especially with the meta angle. That was so funny on both sides. Loved the dig to BFU lmao. That truly is a real fun story concept (loved the moment of OHHH I KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON) and I'm excited for next part! (Also got inordinately excited and happy at hearing the AYS theme but with Magnus-style sound distortions!)
sAZAndorable
2024-10-21 18:15:38 +0000 UTCI refuse to believe this wasn't just Johnny and Alex regular banter while creating Protocol.
Grace 'Gengar' Soria
2024-10-21 18:01:30 +0000 UTCOh wooow! I love the dynamic between Alex and Jonny that we have in S5 of the Magnus Archives. I'm so happy to hear you guys together in this collab. Great job and great story so far!
Sophie
2024-10-21 16:57:59 +0000 UTCOh this was delightful! Very excited for the next two parts!!
Kristsune
2024-10-20 18:25:44 +0000 UTCThanks April, you guys rock!
Kim Void.
2024-10-18 12:07:58 +0000 UTCThese are available now, apologies for the delay
Rusty Quill
2024-10-18 10:44:30 +0000 UTCApologies, we did not write the script for these, so did not have the content warnings to hand. They are available now (April)
Rusty Quill
2024-10-18 10:36:23 +0000 UTCAw beans, I was hoping the content warnings would be in the audio, I hadn't started it yet. If you listened, would you mind commenting any obvious content warnings?
Haze Elrie
2024-10-18 05:05:02 +0000 UTCAw, it’s so good to hear Jonny and Alex tell a brand new horror story as new characters. Really thoroughly enjoyable horror! Also, FYI - the next time audio is missing? The preview dialogue between Tommy/Adam isn’t present in the audio, but is in the transcript 😊
RedDedZombie
2024-10-17 16:53:55 +0000 UTCThis collaboration is everything i needed and wanted!
Molly Rose
2024-10-17 16:45:56 +0000 UTCI know you guys are collaborating with Watcher and they kinda don’t really do the content warnings that rusty quill does, but I really wish you had put them on the content you’re hosting over here, even if it’s just for the things you guys wrote. I personally trust rq and support it because of those warnings and them missing here really feels not great, especially when what’s in the “tape” are incidents that are so varied.
Kim Void.
2024-10-17 16:06:27 +0000 UTCthe NOISE i just made😭 this is so much better than i even could’ve imagined!!!!! i can’t believe we get two more! how am i going to survive the wait aahhgghghg
Anthony
2024-10-17 15:25:18 +0000 UTC
