ParaScience
A paranormal horror story, collaboratively told through the Fate ttrpg system. At the intersection of the supernatural and quantifiable, three wayward souls find themselves facing a world of the unknown and unexplained. Who among us can navigate the flickering boundaries between the paranormal and the scientific and questionable grey area in between? ParaScience features the tabletop talents of Ezra Kaye, Nikki Boylan, Matty Trumbo-Gomes and Game Master Ben Hamlin
Episodes
November 1, 2019 • 47 mins
TW// Elder Endangerment
At the intersection of the supernatural and quantifiable, three wayward souls find themselves facing a world of the unknown and unexplained. Who among us can navigate the flickering boundaries between the paranormal and the scientific and questionable grey area in between?It is autumn and it feels like it always has been. The leaves have fallen and have been falling for awhile. The air feels crisp enough th...
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November 29, 2019 • 44 mins
TW// Elder Endangerment, Puppets, Ghosts
Welcome back to ParaScience - a glimpse into a world unknown at the intersection of the supernatural and the quantifiable. You’ve already met two of our principal characters Agent Graham McAndrews and Saint Garcia Flores. The two of them have stumbled into a disappearance case that may have a slight paranormal twinge to it. And while they haven’t solved any mysteries in the Swaying Birch Re...
Mark as Played
December 29, 2019 • 46 mins
ParaScience is an actual play, paranormal horror podcast told through Cortex. 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 ethereal Johnny Rinaldo!
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January 11, 2020 • 30 mins
Out past Unit 584, the woods seem endlessly dense and endlessly dark. Perhaps whatever mystery lurks between its branches will be lost in the foliage forever. Unless the phantom voice in the back of Allister McAndrew’s mind is guiding them in the right direction
ParaScience is an actual play, paranormal horror podcast told through Cortex. It is Game Mastered by the disembodied mind of Ben Hamlin with Ezra Kaye as Man in Black Alis...
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February 24, 2020 • 46 mins
There is a dark compulsion in the back of our heroes’ minds that is drawing them deeper and deeper into the endless woods ahead of them. There is something alluring about the phantom that appeared before them, however briefly. Just when they seem to be making progress through this ethereal glen, a horrifying scream jerks Saint out of his daze and back into the arms of safety… or is it just another danger inside Unit 584?
ParaScien...
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May 6, 2020 • 65 mins
”Go to the Woods,” urges the ghost..
”Go to the Woods,” clatter the puppets..
”Go to the Woods,” chants Saint’s brain..
What mental monster is hiding deep within the Walla Walla Woods? We return now to Jules and Allister behind a chain link fence deep in the woods outside the Swaying Birch Retirement Community.
ParaScience is an actual play, paranormal horror podcast told through Cortex. It is Game Mastered by the disembodied m...
Mark as Played
July 1, 2020 • 41 mins
Death comes for us all in time - and the temporary residents of the Swaying Birch retirement community know that more than anyone. Even so, it seems that two lives have been cut short before their timely end. And It’s becoming increasingly clear that whatever claimed the souls of George Sampson and Morgan Carmichael is at the end of this long, dark mouth. And two word drip off the foul tongue of dark water that flows from this tunn...
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July 29, 2020 • 48 mins
When you turn the corner into this dim and eerie chamber, you find yourself overwhelmed by a pulsing light. A formless frothing light that fills the chamber and gleams across every inch of your being. Pulsing shifting light that it is indescribable in every possible way and in the dim caverns of this underground chamber: it illuminates absolutely nothing.
Illuminating nothing but the part of your mind that SCREAMS at you: come cl...
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August 13, 2020 • 33 mins
Whatever it was that was screaming in your mind.Whatever it was that was urging you to come. eat.Whatever it was that was that haunted you with images of what it ate.Whatever it was that was that controlled those puppets.Whatever it was that gave Ms. Periwinkle Nightmares.Whatever it was that was infected these woods.
It’s dead.
ParaScience is an actual play, paranormal horror podcast told through Cortex. It is Game Mastered by t...
Mark as Played
August 26, 2020 • 87 mins
Chapter One of ParaScience has come to a close. Our heroes, who are only slightly more trusting of each than when they met, are being called to Long Beach California. Before we start the next page of our story, Matty, Ezra, Ben and Nik sit down to talk about the decisions they made as the as players, how they created their characters, what gross horror trope chapter one was almost about and how everyone (except Ezra) got into horro...
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September 23, 2020 • 49 mins
After their encounter with the strange, psychic plant in the depths of Walla Walla, Washington, our three investigators have formed a tentative alliance and friendship in the face of what they witnessed together. Now Allister has places to be as part of his day job, and there’s no better assistance than a motorcyclist with an ear to the undead and a hermit with a bit of paranoid muscle and a gun.
I’d like to take you to Long Beach...
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October 7, 2020 • 28 mins
The sun is starting to set in Long Beach and the party onboard is just getting started. Whatever gathering is happening on board - our investigators weren’t invited. Does explore the shifting non-realities of the world include lying to a well-meaning concierge?
I’d like to take you to Long Beach, California, just as autumn is beginning to fade. The air and ocean are indistinguishably grey and paint a bright canvas against the ocea...
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October 21, 2020 • 50 mins
Our investigators have snuck on board the illustrious and antiquated Queen Mary through some simple white lies. Saint Garcia Flores, ever an honest exorcist finds himself collaborating on a cover story with a federal agent and a bigfoot conspiracy hermit, all for the chance to see a new ghost aboard this haunted old vessel.
I’d like to take you to Long Beach, California, just as autumn is beginning to fade. The air and ocean are i...
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November 11, 2020 • 43 mins
Our investigators have comfortably checked into a comfortable room aboard the Queen Mary. Their investigation can’t possibly begin in the minifridge so our trio must head further down into the heart of the ship, to the indoor pool where a hazy spectral entity was captured on video only a few weeks before.
I’d like to take you to Long Beach, California, just as autumn is beginning to fade. The air and ocean are indistinguishably gr...
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December 16, 2020 • 55 mins
After a harrowing encounter with a swimming pool and an even more harrowing encounter with the ship’s historian, our investigators have to start navigating through the other guests onboard the Queen Mary and formulate a battle strategy to gather as much information as they can about the ship’s recently materialized specter.
What secrets does Saint bring to the table from his past?
I’d like to take you to Long Beach, California, j...
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January 27, 2021 • 58 mins
A creeping encounter by the emptied pool below deck has left our three investigators a little bit shaken as they navigate the swaying hallways of the Queen Mary. Allister, Jules and Saint haven’t got their sea legs yet and already they’ve told a few white lies and been set adrift aboard this aging vessel. Now Saint’s been invited to tonight’s proceedings, but that doesn’t mean he’s going to get any straight answers.
What secrets d...
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February 11, 2021 • 33 mins
While Jules and Agent McAndrews head into the depths of the Queen Mary to search out the ghostly encounter and its sole witness, Saint finds himself rubbing elbows with the ship’s other guests, none of whom seem particularly qualified for the horror that lurks below.
What secrets does Saint bring to the table from his past?
I’d like to take you to Long Beach, California, just as autumn is beginning to fade. The air and ocean are ...
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June 9, 2021 • 43 mins
The powerful smell of chlorine and mildew assaults the senses of Allister and Jules as they both sniff out any spectral happenings in the abandoned, historical pool of the Queen Mary. Is there something more than cameras, sound equipment and patch jobs down here?
I’d like to take you to Long Beach, California, just as autumn is beginning to fade. The air and ocean are indistinguishably grey and paint a bright canvas against the oc...
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July 1, 2021 • 36 mins
The Drowning Ghost on board the Queen Mary comes deeper into focus as a strange and jarring radio signal echoes off the tiles of the ship’s pool. Now Jules, Saint and Alister are putting their heads together trying to piece together the clues leading up to this new phantom.
I’d like to take you to Long Beach, California, just as autumn is beginning to fade. The air and ocean are indistinguishably grey and paint a bright canvas aga...
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July 31, 2021 • 46 mins
“Mister Thornwall, I have dedicated my whole life, my whole adult life, to saving people,” Saint explains to the ship’s concierge when asked what he and two supposed port authority inspectors are doing exploring the abandoned pool inside the Queen Mary.
But there may not be anything to save down here beneath the surface.
I’d like to take you to Long Beach, California, just as autumn is beginning to fade. The air and ocean are in...
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