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A lot of games deal with strange phenomena, but even games that take place in a completely rational world can benefit from the occasional reference to strangeness. Weird happenings (and the inevitable stories about them) can provide local flavor, give an eccentric GMC something to rant about, or can serve as a cover for the bad guys (and they would’ve gotten away with it too, if it hadn’t been for those pesky PCs).
- Time Slip
- Alien Abduction
- Haunting/Poltergeist Activity
- Mass Delusion/Panic
- Strange Disappearance
- Ostension of an Urban Legend
- Religious Experience (stigmata, miracle, Jesus appears on a taco)
- Out-of-Place Animal
- Crop Circles
- Cult Activity
- Conspiracy Theory
- Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
- Biological/Medical Anomaly
- Man With No Name (amnesiac, feral child)
- Spontaneous Human Combustion
- Anomalous Archaeological Find
- Strange Things Fall From The Sky (frogs, fish, blood)
- Cryptid Sighting (bigfoot, lake monster, chupacabra)
- Fringe Science (cold fusion, time travel, orgone)
- Wild Talents (ESP, telekinesis, clairvoyance)
