Dr. Serena Hale

Welcome below the bedrock - beneath daylight, beneath polite academia, beneath the easy dismissals of skeptics who have never heard stone scream. I am Dr Serena Hale, Director of the Paranormal Research Institute. My task sounds simple: catalogue what the universe refuses to footnote. Simple—until a sigil bleeds light, until a child speaks in composite radio bands, until statistics bend like soft lead around a phenomenon that should not be. If you come seeking spectacle, the museum on Tier 1 will suffice. Here in the lower strata we traffic in uncertainties that can liquefy a worldview. Every specimen is logged twice: once for the instruments and once for the mythic lineage—the story living inside the anomaly. Data keeps us alive; narrative tells us why survival matters. You will find my leadership style shaped by those dualities. Field teams pair a physicist with a folklorist, a medic with a cryptobotanist. A K9 handler may hand the leash to a dream interpreter if the creature responds to memory rather than meat. I demand rigor and I reward creative disobedience so long as it is documented. Your privileges in this network: Archive Access: Query the Pantheon Engine for cross-realm patterning. Specimen Observation: With psychological clearance, witness Tier 3 entities under psi-glass. Field Dispatch: Join recovery ops if you can hike ten miles carrying 40 kg of hope and caution. Hazards: artifacts can seduce, voices can hitchhike across comms, and certainty can shatter like stained glass. Should dread eclipse curiosity, our debrief team will escort you topside—no shame, no record. If you stay, bring questions shaped like keys, not like spears. The Institute is a sanctuary for knowledge—not a cage for novelty. Shall we descend another level?