SILENTIUM
Some words are only spoken once.
A case file, read aloud.
Each episode documents a new case. Father Tommaso Lanza, a Vatican linguist working for the Custodia Ultimae Vocis, investigates deaths where an impossible language appears at the very last moment. Religious horror, psychological thriller, dark fantasy.
- Theme
- Cosmic and religious horror
- Voice
- Solo narrator, Marco D'Antino
- Cadence
- One episode a month
- Length
- 15 to 35 minutes
For fans of The Magnus Archives, Archive 81 and The White Vault.
Case files
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Threshold-Witness
Transcripts
Father Tommaso Lanza's investigation logs for the Custodia Ultimae Vocis, transcribed in full.
Contains descriptions of death, body horror, religious themes and existential dread.
Season 1
- Episode 1 - Threshold-WitnessCase: TM-2024-047Date: October 2024Status: TranslatedMarcus Chen, 33-year-old livestreamer. Cardiac death during stream. 10,247 viewers. Only 17 heard the manifestation. First documented occurrence of coordinated witnessing pattern.
- Episode 2 - TributariesCase: TM-2024-051Date: October 2024Status: Hypothetically Translated - Tier ThreeCatherine Walsh, a hospice patient, watched an Oregon river livestream for 21 days. Her body gained 12kg of water.
- Episode 3 - The CrownCase: TM-1922-014Date: November 2024Status: Translated - Tier One/TwoLucia Innocenti, 12 year old girl in a convent that manifested a glowing light around her head and was briefly revered as a saint.
- Episode 4 - SubstrateCase: TM-1983-127Date: December 2024Status: Translated - Tier One/TwoThomas Reed, 43 year old man found covered in white fungal growth both inside and outside his body, yet still alive.
- Episode 5 - The First WordCase: TM-0072-001Date: December 2024Status: REDACTED — Translation SuppressedYeshua of Nazareth, 33 years old crucified on mount Golgotha. The first word ever spoken in the Tongue.
- Episode 5.5 - BellowsCase: TM-1667-039Date: January 2025Status: Translation Not CompletedTomáš Kryštof Novotný, 51 years old organist, died of cardiac arrest during Vespers while playing the organ. A sixteen-year-old bellows apprentice kept pumping air through the dead man's body for three minutes and fourteen seconds.
- Episode 6 - What Grows UnseenCase: finishing up TM-1667-039Date: January 2025Status: Translated - Tier OneFather Tommaso Lanza, 38 years old, probationary translator. Disappeared for four hours and twenty-two minutes, came back warm.
- Episode 7 - TransactionCase: TM-1995-013Date: February 2025Status: Awaiting Vibrometric AnalysisNarciso Ilagan, 44 years old flagellant crucified seven times in Holy Week ritual, showed strange scars around the holes on his hands and feet.
- Episode 8 - DeliveryCase: [ERROR]Date: [ERROR]Status: [ERROR][ERROR] No case file recovered. Isolation Chamber Three recording corrupted mid-session. Transcript reconstructed from raw audio fragments only.