"The exact process of how an Altered Item is born eludes us. We find them in the aftermath of Altered World Events. They take the form of everyday objects — ever-present in our lives, constantly evoked in the thoughts of millions of people. Now infused with unpredictable energies, they're altered. The superstitious would call them cursed."
— Dr. Casper Darling, Control, "Multimedia: Altered Items"
Tropes for the paranormal: those things that are spooky but not outright magical. May require investigation. Frequent in the horror genre.
Sub-categories:
- Anatomy of the Soul
- Anomalous Art
- Astral Projection
- An Astral Projection, Not a Ghost
- Backup from Otherworld
- Bad Black Barf
- Battle in the Center of the Mind
- Creepy Cave: Caves are inherently creepy and supernatural.
- Creepy Changing Painting
- Creepy Children Singing: A scene is accompanied by children singing in a creepy manner to make the scene all the more unnerving.
- Creepy Monotone: Character speaks in a monotone to sound unsettling.
- Cymbal-Banging Monkey
- Demonic Possession: Someone gets their body taken over by an evil spirit.
- Demon Slaying
- Doppelganger Link
- Ectoplasm
- Eerily Out-of-Place Object
- Electromagnetic Ghosts
- Empathic Weapon
- Fearless Undead
- "Freaky Friday" Flip: Two or more people get their minds switched.
- Ghostly Chill
- Ghostly Glide
- Ghostly Wail: Ghosts groaning, moaning, or screaming for an added creep factor.
- Glamour Failure: A supernatural being is unable to hide aspects of their appearance that give away who they truly are.
- I Am Legion
- I Do Not Drink Wine
- I See Dead People
- Levitating Lotus Position
- Living Aphrodisiac
- Mad Oracle
- Magical Barefooter
- Magical Homeless Person
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: It's left ambiguous whether a situation or person believed to be supernatural in nature actually has a logical explanation for the weirdness or is genuinely supernatural.
- Medicate the Medium
- Meditation Powerup
- A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: A mind-reader is repulsed from reading the thoughts of an unpleasant individual
- The Mirror Shows Your True Self: A shape-shifter's reflection shows their true form.
- Missing Reflection: Vampires do not reflect in mirrors.
- Mortality Grey Area: A character is considered to be neither alive nor dead, or both at once.
- Museum of the Strange and Unusual
- Mystical Pregnancy
- Near-Death Clairvoyance
- Necromancer: A sorcerer with the ability to raise the dead.
- Not-So-Phony Psychic
- Occult Detective: A detective who specializes in supernatural cases.
- Occult Law Firm
- Oracular Urchin
- Otherworldly Communication Failure
- Otherworldly Visits Youngest First
- Our Cryptids Are More Mysterious
- Our Souls Are Different
- Out-of-Clothes Experience
- Phone Call from the Dead
- Pineal Weirdness
- Poltergeist
- Police Psychic
- Possession Burnout
- Possession Levitation
- Powers via Possession
- Psi Blast
- Psychic Children
- Psychic Nosebleed
- Psychic Powers
- Psychic Radar
- Psychic Static
- Psychometry
- The Real Spoofbusters
- Sleep Paralysis Creature: A supernatural presence who causes or is present during episodes of sleep paralysis; depending on the work, they can be unambiguous beings or hallucinations.
- Speak in Unison
- Spirit Advisor
- Spontaneous Human Combustion
- Spoon Bending
- Supernaturally Delicious and Nutritious
- Supernaturally-Validated Trans Person
- Synchronization
- Tainted Veins
- Telepathy: Communicating to other people mentally.
- Television Portal
- Thermal Dissonance
- Touch Telepathy
- Trapped on the Astral Plane
- Tulpa: An imaginary being who becomes real
- Twin Telepathy
- Unbelievable Source Plot
- The Undead
- Vampire-Werewolf Love Triangle
- Violence Detector
- Voice of the Legion: Someone's voice sounds like multiple voices speaking in unison.
- Waif Prophet
- Whispering Ghosts
- Who You Gonna Call?
- Your Soul Is Mine!
