How we investigate

A paranormal claim is only interesting once you have honestly tried to kill it. Every dossier in this archive is built to be falsifiable and to show its work.

The dossier structure

Introduction — what is alleged, and by whom.
Deep dive — the full written investigation with footnotes and citations.
Unexplained core — the residue that survives every prosaic test we could apply.
Conclusion — our position, stated plainly and open to revision.
Case records — granular incidents with witnesses, evidence types and disputed elements.
Sources — every reference, labelled by credibility tier.

Source credibility tiers

Primary: Contemporaneous records made by people present: transcripts, logs, session notes.
Archival: Institutional holdings, press archives and library collections.
Secondary: Later analysis, books and journalism that interpret primary material.
Testimony: First-hand accounts recorded after the fact, treated as claims, not proof.
Debunked: Material shown to be mistaken or fabricated — kept on the record, labelled.

Editorial locks

Once an investigation's written deep dive or documentary script is approved, it is locked. Locked text cannot be overwritten by an automated publishing import — a researcher must deliberately unlock it, and the change is written to an immutable audit log.

About the researcher

The archive is built and run by Jamie Stas — independent researcher and author of several books examining paranormal claims through a trial-style, evidence-first method. He appeared as a guest on the High Strangeness podcast, episode #117 — "Afterlife! Beyond a Reasonable Doubt?", and is a published author on Amazon.

Selected books

Elsewhere

Community submissions

Experiences, case leads, evidence, source references and corrections all enter the same review queue as pending. Nothing is published automatically.

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