ParaScience

The harsh kitchen lights filter into the freezer and illuminate the empty, frozen eye sockets of a skull, carved from a solid chunk of ice, and left conspicuously so that our investigators would find it. Between the halogen eyes of the steel face in the lobby, the x-ray film you had to look through and the sculpture of the artist’s own cranium staring back at you; one question rises to the minds o...

Our investigators have already come face to face with the first of Maurice Clayborn’s odd self-depictions. An imposing metal sculpture of the artist’s own face that hid a key to his home. Is this whole process his magnum opus or just a game to him? That’s up to the investigators to decide as they step into the next room, uncertain about what’s to follow. Content Warning: Surveillance, Medical Imag...

“Gaze upon my works, ye mighty and enjoy,” the self satisfied tone of Maurice Clayborn uttered that before the VHS tape ran to a stop. The grey fuzzy static replaced him immediately. Questions about what to expect surely echo through the minds of both investigators as the doors to the next room unlock automatically. The investigators are truly going in blind. “Has Saint canonically played Silent H...

The distorted and abstract videos that Maurice Clayborn sent to The Austin Art Museum do not paint a clear picture of the artist’s intentions. They’re creepy, seemingly disjointed, but are they trying to communicate anything? In a word of signs, symbols and clues, Exorcist Saint Garcia Flores and Man in Black Alister McAndrews may be facing their most confounding challenge yet: Interpretive Art. E...

She reaches out a hand from a long draping black dress. She has a shock of white hair and rose tinted eyeglasses that mask her smile lines. As she extends her hand toward you, it’s hard not to notice the sapphire tipped rings on her fingers. She wants you to notice and holds her hand that way. Experimental artist Maurice Clayborn has dropped contact with his employer and retreated to his home stud...

With the tiny town of refinery workers and bartenders in the rearview, the investigators’ next destination is clear. After disbanding a cult, rescuing an immaterial alien, realigning shadowy planes of reality, busting a fraudulent tourist attraction and saving the senior citizens of the Swaying Birches Retirement Community, Alister and Saint’s haphazard partnership has come to its logical conclusi...

All five candles in Lake Arkansas Texas are lit and only the faded reflections of Saint Garcia Flores and Agent Alister McAndrews flicker in the mirror. The room at the top of the Creek Estate feels very quiet. Still. Silent. The light of the setting sun cuts through the gauzy curtains and fills the room with an orange warmth. Through the single pane of glass, our investigators can hear the chirpi...

Even with the thick cloth covering the mirror in the attic of the Lakeside Bar and Restaurant, you can feel a seeping malice radiating through the room. Whatever’s on the other side is no friend of the investigators, even if it briefly appeared as one. TW// death and grief. ghosts, blood, knives, drowning, imagery similar to self harm ParaScience is an actual play, paranormal horror podcast told t...

Face to face. Alister is face to face with a stranger’s reflection. It’s mirroring your exact movements for now, but while your expression is one of bewilderment, its isn’t. There’s something far more sinister radiating off the glassy surface of the backroom mirror of the Lakeside Dive bar. Its expression is hard to pin down, for the longer you stare at, the more its face begins to shift. Individu...

A tell tale heart lies thump thumping on the floor as Macy regains her composure behind the bar. Saint was able to talk her through one of the worst moments of her life, seeing Phillip Creek for the last time. The details about their protracted fight over the oil lease and the fate of the Lakeside Bar were details Macy has been holding back all week. It was eating her alive. Even with Macy Goodwin...

The bright overcast skies above Lake Arkansas begin to dim, as the light fades on the second day that Saint and Alister are in town. A series of disturbing diary entries from days gone by illuminated to our investigators that something shady is keeping this town afloat on the lake edge for so long. Whatever happened over a century ago, the doors of the Lakeside Bar and Restaurant will have to open...

There’s something under the water of Lake Arkansas. And it’s screaming at you to let it out. When investigating the candle on the center of Lake Arkansas, Saint and Alister find themselves staring face to face with Phillip Creek again, but this time, under far grimmer circumstances. Phillip Creek is clawing up toward the surface of the lake, toward their rowboat, toward the sweet relief of Oxygen....

There’s something under the water of Lake Arkansas. And it’s screaming at you to let it out. When investigating the candle on the center of Lake Arkansas, Saint and Alister find themselves staring face to face with Phillip Creek again, but this time, under far grimmer circumstances. Phillip Creek is clawing up toward the surface of the lake, toward their rowboat, toward the sweet relief of Oxygen....

There’s something under the water of Lake Arkansas. And it’s screaming at you to let it out. When investigating the candle on the center of Lake Arkansas, Saint and Alister find themselves staring face to face with Phillip Creek again, but this time, under far grimmer circumstances. Phillip Creek is clawing up toward the surface of the lake, toward their rowboat, toward the sweet relief of Oxygen....

After finding mysterious black candles all over the town of Lake Arkansas, Alister and Saint decide to paddle out to the scene of the accident where Phillip Creek perished one week earlier. Alister’s Cape Cod Childhood is in full swing this episode. Really what could go wrong? TW// death and grief. depiction of a drowning, mention of boating accidents. ghosts. ParaScience is an actual play, parano...

Alister interviews a potential suspect as Saint sweeps up broken pieces of a shattered neon light. First on the stand, Lefty Douglas, the very man who invited our investigators to Lake Arkansas. TW// death and grief, ParaScience is an actual play, paranormal horror podcast told through Fate. It is Game Mastered by the disembodied mind of Ben Hamlin with Ezra Kaye as Man in Black Alister McAndrews,...

The attic storage room is dry and without life. Just cascading canvas hanging off of old wood furniture. Broken bar stool legs, a shattered plastic adirondak chair and rusted license plates. Piles of unopened crates. The single black candle sits on a silvery plate in the half darkness with only fractional beams of dull light filtering through a gauzy certain. A biting winter wind cuts through the...

Leave Our Town Alone. Stop Snooping. A threatening message on a very flimsy medium. The colder winter breeze makes the cocktail napkin flap and flutter in your hand. The smell of the lake, the woods and decay of this place drifts by on the same wind. A number of questions arise in the silence, like just who is warning you off of the case of Phillip Creek. TW// death and grief, vehicle accidents an...

A lone candle flickers on a silver tray in the dark basement beneath the Lake Arkansas church. It’s light crackles against the dirt walls in this dank space that smells strongly of whiskey mash and mushrooms. Hardly a dead end, this single candle illuminates that something odd is happening in this tiny town of less than a dozen people. TW// death and grief, vehicle accidents and drowning. ParaScie...

Y’all wanna hang out at the hundred year old church buried deep in the woods near the haunted laike? TW// death and grief, vehicle accidents and drowning. ParaScience is an actual play, paranormal horror podcast told through Fate. It is Game Mastered by the disembodied mind of Ben Hamlin with Ezra Kaye as Man in Black Alister McAndrews, Matty Trumbo-Gomes as agnostic exorcist Saint Garcia Flores a...

It turns out that once you snoop through a man’s bedroom, you can learn a lot about him. Whether it’s the occult books on the bookshelf, the brass telescope in his bedroom, the strained relationship with his family or the crumpled up contract in his locked bedside table. The texture of who Phillip Creek was is slowly coming into focus. TW// death and grief, vehicle accidents and drowning. ParaScie...

It’s a hard thing. Dealing with other people’s grief. But Saint and Alister know they’ll have to engage with the bereaved Alice Creek in order to get even a glimpse into who Phillip was. Saint and Alister find some surprising secrets about the dear departed. TW// drowning, death, vehicle accidents. ParaScience is an actual play, paranormal horror podcast told through Fate. It is Game Mastered by t...

Going forward, we’ll be putting the trigger warnings and the bottom of the first paragraph of the description. It’s a new dawn at Lake Arkansas and the nightmare of what happened last night in the Lakeside Dive is over for now. Saint and Alister need to start putting together the pieces of who Phillip was - starting with the departed’s family home. TW// drowning, death, vehicle accidents. ParaScie...

TW // Ghosts, Grief, Afterlives “Why do I get the idea that you two know way more about this than I do?” After the encounter that Saint and Alister had on the second floor, it seems that Phillip Creek is not as dearly departed as previously thought. With a bar full of patrons and a whole small town to answer to, it’s up to our investigators to dive a little deeper into the events leading to Philli...

TW // Ghosts, Drowning, electrical disturbance, talk of death. Come on around Alister. Meet everybody. All the patrons of the Lakeside Dive greet our investigators. ParaScience is an actual play, paranormal horror podcast told through Fate. It is Game Mastered by the disembodied mind of Ben Hamlin with Ezra Kaye as Man in Black Alister McAndrews, Matty Trumbo-Gomes as agnostic exorcist Saint Garci...