ParaScience

TW // Ghosts The atmosphere within the Lakeside Bar and Grill is lively, loving, charming. It’s enough to put you at ease and almost make you forget why you came here. That was, until a haunting chord reverberated out of the previously inspected jukebox. An icy chill creeps over the bar as everyone draws their attention to that specific corner. ParaScience is an actual play, paranormal horror podc...

TW // Drowning. Ghosts. The signs of the supernatural aren’t materializing very clearly, but the glow of the neon signs of the Lakeside Bar flicker and permeate the room. The Lakeside is hopping. It’s as hopping as it’ll ever be. That’s Alister and Saint’s cue to do what they do best - blend in with the locals and look for clues. ParaScience is an actual play, paranormal horror podcast told throug...

TW // Drowning. Ghosts. Alister and Saint start their investigation of the Lakeside Dive in earnest and all three members of the cast get realllly into jukeboxes for a moment. 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...

TW // Drowning. Ghosts. Alongside the fog over the lake, there is a cloud of grief hanging over the Lakeside Bar and Grill. The building is empty save for their host, Lefty Douglas, but the signs of mourning are sprinkled throughout the bar. Flower petals drift from the memorial wreath in the corner. The slow drip of the kitchen sink can be heard through the fry cook window. A lone radio plays in...

TW // Drowning. Ghosts. Town would be a generous way to describe the scattered buildings around Lake Arkansas. A settlement. Maybe. One gas station. One convenience store. One bar. A handful of off the grid homes and trailers. And one, massive, lake. This is a place very few people call home. A bridge, one of the two connections to the half town, stretches across the expanse of the lake. There is...

TW // Drowning With Springwood Lodge in the rearview, Alister and Saint head south back to Saint’s hometown of Austin, Texas. Just when it seems like Saint and Alister may be parting ways, Saint receives a phone call from a family friend with a specific offer to look into a bar in the countryside. Thank you for your patience while we took a bit of a break over the holidays. ParaScience is back. Pa...

Like a Séance, this is an opportunity to catch up. We realized that we’ve been a little too quiet for too long, and so we wanted to provide some details on the upcoming Chapter Six: The Haunting of Lakeside Dive, as well as announce some side projects that we’ve been working on during our brief hiatus. Expect a lot of ParaScience, here and on our Patreon, in your immediate future. In a sense, this...

TW // death, ghosts, the afterlife, cults It’s been a harrowing night in Springwood Lodge, but it seems the haunting that has so long inhabited the beams and stonework may have passed into the night with the Visitor. The snow continues to drift down past the rose window at the end of the chapel and a broken Julian Springwood huddles on the ground in the darkness. The malevolent energy that was her...

TW // physical violence, blood, knife violence, gun violence, death, ghost “You don’t know what you’ve done.” The fight against the Springwoods ends here on the third floor of Springwood Lodge. Alister and Saint encounter something beyond either of their imaginations. The world is so much bigger than all of them. ParaScience is an actual play, paranormal horror podcast told through Fate. It is Gam...

TW // physical violence, blood, knife violence Saint and Alister and have been trapped in this labyrinth for far too long. It's Time to Stab at The Heart of the Beast. 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 Ga...

TW // physical violence, blood, fire, knife violence The flashes of electrical light illuminate the top floor of Springwood Lodge. The shadows of your fellow agents shoot up the side of the walls and flicker with the candlelight. It’s now or never. It’s time to strike against The Church of the Open Mind. ParaScience is an actual play, paranormal horror podcast told through Fate. It is Game Mastere...

TW // physical violence, blood A Single Chime HeraldsTheir Final Destination 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 and Nikki Boylan as conspiracy theorist Jules Ortiz! With a logo by cryptic Ter...

TW // physical violence, blood, knife violence, claustrophia Going Up? 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 and Nikki Boylan as conspiracy theorist Jules Ortiz! With a logo by cryptic Terra Bos...

TW // ghosts, claustrophobia Alister had uncovered some shocking details about Springwood Lodge’s foundation, both literal and figurative. What any of these strange unidentified objects mean about what happened here is as of yet unknown, but it’s their first step into putting the pieces together. ParaScience is an actual play, paranormal horror podcast told through Fate. It is Game Mastered by the...

TW // claustrophia, fire, dead bodies,Alister and Saint are both alone. Our investigators are on the opposite ends of a subterranean elevator shaft and neither of them know what’s waiting for them. The rot in Springwood Manor runs deep. 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 Blac...

TW // physical violence, cults Our investigators have been stalking the halls of Springwood Lodge for hours now and the few signs of life have been fleeting and far between. Trash in the hallways, dust on the furniture and footsteps on the second floor. Now, Alister and Saint are facing their fears face to face. In the snow and the darkness, right outside the ski lodge’s old abandoned chalet. Para...

TW // physical violence, cults Brave the cold. 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 and Nikki Boylan as conspiracy theorist Jules Ortiz! With a logo by cryptic Terra Bosart and theme by the eth...

TW // cults, ghosts, physical violence, electrocution One type of fear is replaced by another. 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 and Nikki Boylan as conspiracy theorist Jules Ortiz! With a l...

TW // cults, ghosts We last left Alister out in the cold, outside a mansion full of ghosts, on a phone call with his boss. It’s hard to tell what’s scariest here. 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...

TW // cults, ghosts, heights Elevators hum in the background. A reception bell dings on the front desk. Band music swells from the previous empty and dusty ballroom. It seems that Springwood Lodge is coming to life. Do you care to check in? 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...

TW // cults, ghosts As the power flickers in Springwood lodge, one thing becomes suddenly very clear. Alister and Saint are not alone. 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 and Nikki Boylan as c...

TW // cults, ghosts Broken windows letting in razor sharp cold air. A thick layer of dust covering the arm chairs of the lounge. For a place that the congregation of the Church of the Open Mind allegedly meets in, this place seems abandoned. The empty halls of Springwood Lodge are distorting Alister and Saint’s perceptions of what’s waiting for them. If anything’s waiting for them at all. The Spri...

TW // cults There’s a long winding road up into the mountains of Aspen, Colorado. The echo of the engine of Alister’s van is ricocheting across the silence of the highway. Patchy giants of black and white tower on both sides of your path up to Springwood Lodge and a thin wintery frost clings to the edges of your windows. It’s the dead of winter. It’s freezing out there in the great isolated unknow...

TW // cults, mind reading “I don’t think any of you understand what’s happening here. I don’t think you ever will.” Part One of the Springwood Saga comes to an end. 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...

TW // cults, mind reading, spying Document what we see Obscure what’s possible Misdirect from what we know Sounds like a sound strategy when engaging in passive observation of a weird world of conspiracy theorists and UFO trackers just outside your grasp. But what happens when there’s a more immediate threat inviting you to come closer and closer to it. For Agent McAndrews, that means throwing out...