The supernatural is real
Ghosts, entities, monsters, psychic phenomena, and magic exist beside the everyday world. Most people simply never recognize the evidence.
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.
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
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.
Psychic Sensitive
A living warning system for hauntings and supernatural evil—useful, vulnerable, and rarely allowed the comfort of ignorance.
Fire Walker
A pyrokinetic whose connection to flame can be weapon, shield, clue, and temptation when an investigation turns violent.
Psychic Medium
A bridge to spirits and entities who may offer testimony, manipulation, or a final demand from beyond the grave.
Diviner
Finds meaning in symbols, chance, and hidden connections—the investigator who sees the shape of a case before anyone else.
Nega-Psychic
Skepticism becomes a psychic force of its own, resisting paranormal influence even while denying what is standing in the room.
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
Visit the House of BTS
The House of BTS is exactly what a fan site should be: strange, personal, useful, and packed with decades of material. Its rooms hold adventure ideas, GM advice, house rules, characters, supernatural threats, equipment, inspiration, and one of the best BTS book guides online.
Enter the House of BTS
Open the evidence locker
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.
Beyond the Supernatural 2E
The modern setting, psychic character classes, paranormal rules, Victor Lazlo’s legacy, the Lazlo Agency, magic, and the machinery of supernatural horror.
Creature Feature
Fifteen deeply developed creatures, encounter tools, adventure hooks, modern-horror advice, clarifications, lore, and a full adventure.
Boxed Nightmares
Six classic investigations, new monsters and villains, secret-organization rules, GM advice, and its legendary tabloid handout.
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