Obolus: The Ghost Register

One case a night, sealed until midnight. Obolus is a register of hauntings. It issues one case each night at midnight, and you cannot read ahead. When the night is over the case is yours, entered under your own name, and the next one waits. Thirty cases make Volume I. The Founding Cases run from the house at Athens in the first century to Ballechin in 1897, by way of Cock Lane, Berkeley Square, Hinton Ampner, Epworth and the Bell Witch. Drawn from the written record Every case is built from what people actually wrote down. Depositions, coroners' inquests, Society for Psychical Research proceedings, parish letters, newspaper columns. Mary Ricketts set down what happened at Hinton Ampner in 1772 and her account is still there to be read. No claim of the supernatural is made anywhere in the app. The Register records what was said, by whom, and how well it stands up. Each case takes about…