O.S.I.

 

The Office of Supernatural Investigation (O.S.I.)

“We see what others deny. We fight what others can’t.”

Founded in the shadowy wake of the Cold War, the Office of Supernatural Investigation, or O.S.I., was born from the classified remnants of Project MKULTRA. While the public remembers LSD experiments and mind control conspiracies, deeper within the program were records of parapsychological incidents—patients speaking in dead languages, agents vanishing mid-session, and hallucinations that bled into reality. When the Department of Defense could no longer write it off as coincidence or psychosis, a new directive was issued: contain the unknowable.

Established in 1961 under an unmarked sub-division of DARPA and later buried within the Department of Energy’s black budget, OSI’s existence has never been officially acknowledged. It operates as a semi-autonomous agency whose task is clear: assess, contain, and if necessary, eliminate threats of supernatural or paranormal nature—both domestic and foreign.

Structure and Operations

OSI agents operate under strict need-to-know protocols. Most are “retired” military, ex-intelligence operatives, or civilians with confirmed anomalous experiences. New recruits undergo The Ashcroft Battery, a battery of psychological, psychic, and spiritual stress tests. Only a handful pass.

Assignments are delivered old-school: sealed envelopes in designated post office boxes, a relic from the agency’s Cold War roots. These missions are vague, often accompanied by outdated maps, faded photographs, or ominous personal effects from “prior incidents.” Failure to comply—or discretion breaches—may result in sanction or reassignment to Site 13 (rumored to be a holding facility for unstable assets and cursed personnel).

Agency Traits:

• Headquarters: Unknown. Suspected to shift locations quarterly.

• Known Facilities: "Cold Cell" in Anchorage, "Station Red" in Nevada, "Ward Nine" in Baltimore.

• Director: Only referred to as "The Warden." No agent has claimed to have met them.

• Funding: Allegedly rerouted from misreported FEMA or DOE projects.

• Official Status: Classified beyond Top Secret. Listed internally as a “redundant continuity asset.”

Motto:

“In Tenebris Nos Custodimus.” (In the darkness, we stand guard.)

O.S.I. agents are trained not only in counterintelligence and survival, but in esoteric disciplines: ritual containment, folk necromancy, cryptid tracking, and psionic resilience. They carry blessed sidearms, silver-threaded restraints, and field manuals annotated in blood and Latin. Their badge is a black eye inside a pentagram, sealed in laurel leaves and seven stars—a symbol officially denied by the U.S. government.

Whether it's a ghost in a missile silo, a blood cult in a Louisiana parish, or a haunted school built over a “convergence site,” OSI handles it quietly.

The world sleeps peacefully because they don’t know what’s out there.

And that’s just how O.S.I. likes it.