| “ | It’s still there, still watching me. There’s nowhere I can go, a place I can hide that it doesn’t keep looking at me. I don’t know why. No idea what it wants from me, or if it ever had any plans beyond just staring from wherever it is hiding. I can’t eat, I can’t sleep, it’s been months now, and it’s still there. | „ |
| ~ Rosa Meyer beginning her statement to the Magnus Institute. |
Rosa Meyer is a minor character in the Rusty Quill horror podcast The Magnus Archives, serving as the protagonist of Mag 60: Observer Effect. She was a woman living in Norwich who was inadvertently cursed by a mirror belonging to the Eye, giving her a persistent feeling of being watched. This feeling eventually drove her insane, and she tried to destroy the Magnus Institute, believing them the source of her suffering.
Appearance[]
Rosa isn't described in detail, although she mentions that after her brother's death, she had unwashed hair, red eyes from crying, and patchy purple lips from wine.
Personality[]
Rosa was a fairly normal woman before she began to feel watched, albeit apparently somewhat anti-social and isolated, as well as very religious. After she began to feel watched, her mental state rapidly deteriorated, although she was able to retain the state of mind to try to see if the feeling was simply the result of schizophrenia. The feeling of being watched began to take over her entire life, and she wasn't able to focus on anything but it. She became suicidal and would do anything to solve this poorly defined problem, even commit a violent crime.
Despite her loss of sanity, Rosa maintained a strong care for her family. She was not close with her brother but mourned his loss intensely, and when she wanted to kill herself, decided not since that would be leaving her parents without children.
Biography[]
Rosa lived in Norwich England and was an anchor for the Look East segment for BBC News. In 1972, her brother, Christopher, died of a stroke, and she had to go to his house to organize his belongings. Her brother had been studying ancient myths and fetishes, leading to her searching through several ancient artifacts. She ended up finding a mirror with a note on it that said, "Look Behind You". Although there was nothing behind her, in the mirror she saw a horrific face with large eyes looking through the window behind her.
This was when the feeling of being watched started, and it prevented her from sleeping or eating. At first, she believed she was being stalked, but that proved false. She eventually lost her job after having a breakdown on air and considered suicide. She met with some of Christopher's associates, but they proved unhelpful.
She eventually discovered that Christopher had been working with the Magnus Institute; an institute of paranormal investigators based in London. She came to them and gave a statement describing her experience. There, she began to feel watched even more, and began to think that whatever was watching her was operating from the institute.
In 1984, Rosa's parents died, and she murdered a delivery man named Danilo Costich. She emptied out his van and filled it with barrels of petrol before driving towards the institute, presumably hoping to destroy the place. She was caught running a red light and arrested. She died in prison of pneumonia in 1993.
Quotes[]
| “ | A strange thing is, it’s a feeling I should be used to. I’ve been watched by people for years. I present the Look East segment for BBC News almost every day – well, I used to. And on the other end of that camera, there were tens of thousands of people, but I never felt it from them. Sometimes, as I kept my eyes locked on that camera, reeling off the latest string of burglaries, I tried to feel it, tried to imagine all the people seeing me, watching me. Even then, even when I was trying, it was never more than a dead, empty lens. Maybe it’s just as well that I never felt it before. | „ |
| ~ Rosa Meyer talking about her old job. |
| “ | Seven years’ bad luck, isn’t it? Maybe that’s it. Maybe I have to feel this horrid, aching panic of the eyes I know are following me for seven years before they finally leave. I hope not. But maybe even that’s wishful thinking. Maybe this is now my life forever, and it will never, ever stop. I’ve tried to think whether I’d be able to go on if that was the case. I think I’d try, at least until my parents passed away. I couldn’t stand for them to lose both children. | „ |
| ~ Rosa Meyer contemplating suicide. |
| “ | Those eyes still haunt my dreams and follow me through the waking world, even here. Especially here. | „ |
| ~ Rosa Meyer ending her statement to the Magnus Institute. |
Trivia[]
- Rosa's statement is one of the first hints that the Magnus Institute is a stronghold for the Eye.
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