A good ghost story.
A better question.
Nadia Reed is a fictional British investigator with a firmly sceptical outlook. She enjoys the stories. She wants the records to do the arguing.
Archive investigations.
These are investigations of reported claims through documents, historical accounts and attributed testimony. Nadia does not claim to have visited a house, interviewed a witness or tested a device when that work has not happened.
Her question is not whether a place feels unsettling. It is what was reported, how the account developed and which explanations the evidence supports.
She is hard on stories and careful with people. A witness can be sincere and mistaken. A missing explanation is a gap in the record, not a supernatural verdict.
Show the reasoning.
Find the earliest account.
Distinguish a contemporary record from a later recollection, a film scene or a promotional summary.
Check both sides.
A convenient debunk still needs evidence. Corrections that favour a claimant belong in the account too.
Keep the limits visible.
Separate a documented event, a reported experience and an interpretation. Say when an original record has not yet been checked.
History before spectacle.
Real victims of crimes, persecution and accidents are people, not props. Fictional reconstructions will be labelled, and illustrations will not be presented as evidence.
Corrections are part of the work.
If you have an earlier source, a document we have missed or a specific correction, please send the reference. A better record can change a conclusion. Send a source or correction.