Modern horror • psychic investigation • things best left unseen

The world is normal. That’s the lie.

Science calls it hysteria. The authorities call it a hoax. You know better. Something is feeding in the dark, and the closer you get to the truth, the stronger—and more dangerous—your psychic gifts become.

Beyond the Supernatural Second Edition hardcover

From Vince’s table

Beyond the Supernatural is not about kicking down the monster’s door. It is about finding the door, realizing it should not exist, and deciding whether you are brave—or foolish—enough to open it.

— Vince, The Evil Dungeon Master

What kind of horror is this?

Three truths nobody wants to believe

The supernatural is real

Ghosts, entities, monsters, psychic phenomena, and magic exist beside the everyday world. Most people simply never recognize the evidence.

Proof does not make you safe

Institutions dismiss the impossible as fraud, madness, or coincidence. Investigators often stand alone when the case turns deadly.

Power follows danger

Psychic energy reacts to supernatural proximity and threat. The closer the horror gets, the more capable the investigators become—and the worse the situation probably is.

The people who answer the phone

Investigators, protectors, and survivors

Characters are not interchangeable spell lists. Their psychic gifts shape how they read a scene, confront danger, and live with what they know.

They feel it first

Psychic Sensitive

A living warning system for hauntings and supernatural evil—useful, vulnerable, and rarely allowed the comfort of ignorance.

Fire answers back

Fire Walker

A pyrokinetic whose connection to flame can be weapon, shield, clue, and temptation when an investigation turns violent.

The dead still speak

Psychic Medium

A bridge to spirits and entities who may offer testimony, manipulation, or a final demand from beyond the grave.

Patterns become prophecy

Diviner

Finds meaning in symbols, chance, and hidden connections—the investigator who sees the shape of a case before anyone else.

Nothing supernatural here

Nega-Psychic

Skepticism becomes a psychic force of its own, resisting paranormal influence even while denying what is standing in the room.

No powers required

Ordinary People

Reporters, scholars, cops, survivors, and witnesses can face the unknown with training, nerve, and the terrible advantage of having something to lose.

Build a case, not a combat queue

The anatomy of a BTS investigation

The disturbance

A disappearance, impossible wound, repeated nightmare, cold room, corrupted recording, or witness nobody believes.

The pattern

Interviews and evidence reveal that the strange event is not isolated. Something has rules, habits, and a history.

The proximity

Psychic senses sharpen. I.S.P. rises. The investigators are close enough to know the threat is real—and close enough for it to notice them.

The price

Stopping the creature may require sacrifice, ritual, exposure, or a choice that cannot be solved by a better weapon.

The confrontation

The investigators act with incomplete information because waiting guarantees another victim. Horror becomes decision.

The residue

The official explanation is clean. The survivors are not. Every closed file leaves a scar—and perhaps one unanswered question.

QuietUnease and weak impressions
NearPatterns and psychic pressure
PresentPower rises with the danger
FeedingThe case has become survival

A light left on in the old house

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The essential case files

Start with the Second Edition core book, add a gallery of nightmares, then raid the classic adventure file when you need a case tonight.

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