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Definition: The supernatural has been part of human belief for thousands of years. Across cultures people have reported encounters with ghosts, spirits, prophetic visions, and unseen forces. This section explores the history of those beliefs, from village folk magic and cunning folk to Victorian spiritualism and modern psychic research. The articles here examine the historical record behind these traditions and how they inform the mysteries of Easterwich.
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Environmental Memory, Psychical Research, and the Idea of Recorded Trauma The house replays its past. Old houses sometimes feel as though they are holding their breath. A staircase carries a tension that has nothing to do with creaking timber. A particular room feels heavy, charged, as though something once happened there and has not entirely settled. Whether one interprets this as imagination, suggestion, or…
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Ghost vs Spirit
The Taxonomy of the Unseen in Paranormal Research Mermaid Inn Rye – Ghosts Duel At four in the morning, in a timber-framed inn in Rye, guests have reported the same scene for decades: the clash of steel, the stagger of a wounded man, a body dragged across floorboards toward a hidden door. The figures do not look at the witnesses. They do not vary…