All around the world, in every era mankind expanded, certain inexplicable phenomena were discovered and studied by innovative persons to better understand what caused these anomalies.
Some tried to emulate the effects with limited success, birthing the controversial witches and shamans, while others declared the study a forbidden practice, to be forgotten and shunned.
Regardless of the various opinions, both natural and artificial paranormal hotspot cropped up regardless, more often than not on ancient burial sites like pyramids or cemeteries, or even in strange woods and isolated locations.
Sorceress and druids toyed with these forces, sometimes luring unsuspecting travelers toward their workshops, never to be seen again after the experiments of the magic users. A famous story whispered around England was of an innocuous looking old woman that graciously accommodated fatigued wanderers for the night in her farm, telling the neighborhoods the next day that the visitors left before dawn or decided to travel thought less known lands.
She never missed the marketplace one of the day after the encounters, willing to sell each time a healthy cow or a young sheep…
These hubs of supernatural events were not usually sentient, but they did not regard interlopers or raiders well, often twisting their form or mind to neutralize the threat.
Thus legends and stories were told about mysterious disappearances and activities, marking the dangerous location for the unwary.
But even the best stories can be forgotten with time…