The Magnus Institute Museum
From September 12, 2024 to January 12, 2025
Jurgen Leitner has amassed a collection of rare and peculiar books. These books belong to what is now known as "The Library of Jurgen Leitner" and he has graciously allowed us to display these artifacts as our current visiting exhibit, for your viewing pleasure!
*Disclaimer: These books are behind glass cases for your protection.
DO NOT TOUCH!
Featured Artifacts:
Once read, will compel the reader to walk to an unknown destination.
Looking at its image instills feelings of severe vertigo.
Allows the manipulation of flesh.
Grants the ability to change interior spaces but if read to completion, will bury the reader alive.
The Web represents the human fear of being trapped, lack of free will and manipulation. These artifacts are a manifestation of this fear.
(can be found in Gallery 5)
Once attached to a person, it can be used to track them and will subconsciously keep the person from ridding themselves of it.
Apart from being able to steal a person’s sense of time while looking at it, it can seal entities of a certain power.
Digital recording devices that manifest and follow people, feeding on fear and turning themselves on at will.
Cursed set of films that compel you to watch them forever. Specific effects of each film are unknown.
The Spiral represents the human fear that your mind is lying to you as well as the fear of insanity. These artifacts are a manifestation of this fear.
(can be found in Gallery 3)
It calls itself Michael. It is the throat of delusion incarnate and it lies.
It takes possessions from its owner, along with all memories and evidence of those possessions, from everyone except from the pot’s owner. Long thin fingers have been seen emerging from the interior.
It can manifest itself at will and appears to be part of a larger entity, acting as a mouth of sorts. Inside is a twisting nonsensical space of corridors and mirrors that drives all inhabitants to insanity.
Cursed set of films that compel you to watch them forever. Specific effects of each film are unknown.
The Stranger represents the human fear of the unkown, being replaced, and uncanny beings. These artifacts are a manifestation of this fear.
(can be found in Gallery 6)
Despite missing the blower, essential to playing music, it is often heard playing on its own and summoning clown dolls and mannequins.
A seemingly normal set of mannequins that change positions nightly. When a target is found, they become increasingly more bizarre, lengthening their arms, twisting their necks, cracking their faces, or completely rearranging themselves. However, these changes are only visible to the victim. The mannequins have been recorded to completely come alive to kill.
A sliced apple with a smile made from human teeth inside. The teeth all come from different unknown people and the apple never rots. Supposedly it was a gift to a professor from his students.
Once entered, the appearance shifts to that of a merry go round with live faceless horses miles in diameter. Those who enter lose their sense of self and identity, merging with other riders.
The Lonely represents the human fear of isolation and disconnection. These artifacts are a manifestation of this fear.
(can be found in Gallery 4)
A whistle that makes a shrill and piercing sound as if from unnaturally far away. When used it is known to summon massive clouds of fog which eat people and erase all evidence and memory of their existence but from those who witnessed the disappearance.
A drab English pastoral painting that compels the viewer to look. It is known to draw these viewers into its foggy space where they vanish from existence.
A small space station that was in operation for 2 years in 2007-2009. Anyone who enters would mysteriously be locked in spaces where no noise or light could be seen or heard, isolating them. It’s rumored that the station was alive and no one who entered left.
A ship recorded to have been lost at sea. It travels as a normal boat surrounded by fog but appears to fade in and out of existence when viewed.