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One minute of narration, with the clues and the suspects. No spoilers: the killer stays hidden until you host.
The Halloween Files · Case dossier
The Séance at Ravensmere
Ravensmere House, Norfolk · All Hallows' Eve 1923
“Six pairs of hands joined in the dark, and one of them still managed it.”
- Players
- 6 to 12 adults, plus the host
- At its best
- 6 to 9 guests
- Runs
- 2 to 3 hours with dinner
- Setting
- Ravensmere House, Norfolk, 1923
- History
- Original fiction
- Suits
- Clever, note-taking tables. Twisty
- Best for
- Halloween
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Acting
- None needed. Short lines to read where the story needs them
- You need
- A TV or laptop, and a phone each
- Delivery
- Instant access. Printable pack included
- The host
- Plays the victim, then runs the inquiry
- Price
- A$39, one payment
- Content
- This story involves bereavement after the First World War, spiritualist fraud, and poisoning. It does not depict graphic violence and it does not describe the body.
Host this case · A$39Access code by email the moment you pay.
The scene, before you arrive
A Norfolk house in 1923, a family still counting its losses from the war, and a medium who has been producing details she has no business knowing. The great sitting is held on All Hallows' Eve, doors sealed and hands joined. The medium dies in the dark, in a room arranged specifically to prove that nobody could have touched her.
That is as much as the file will give you. The rest comes out on the night, one piece of evidence at a time, and the room will be well into the evening before the shape of it shows.
Inside the file
What you get
The script
Fully scripted evening
Every act cued, every scene set, your lines where you need them. No prep, no printing, no experience required.
The evidence
Clues arrive in stages
Evidence and private dossiers drop to your guests' phones as the night unfolds, one act at a time.
The host
You play the victim
Set the table, welcome your guests, then haunt the evening while they work out who wanted you gone.
The table
6 to 12 players
A core cast carries the case, with flexible roles as your table grows. Latecomers can join as observers.
The stage
App-hosted
The case runs from any screen in the room. Your TV is the stage, the phones are the wings.
Original fiction
Ravensmere, the family and the medium are all invented. Nothing here is supernatural, and the room can prove exactly how a living person did it.
Unlike our eight Case Files, which reopen real cases with real inquests, this file is invented from end to end. There is no historical verdict to look up and nothing to spoil by reading around it. The solution is fair, the evidence is all in the room, and your table settles it.
Want a real one? The eight Case Files are genuine historical cases, with real inquests and verdicts still argued over.
Trial on sale now
Take it to trial.
This case can end at the reveal, or it can go to trial: the person your table accused stands in the dock, your guests become the jury, and nobody learns who really did it until the verdict is in.
The trial for The Séance at Ravensmere is ready. Play it on the same night as the party, or on a second night, and the reveal waits for the verdict either way.
Host The Séance at Ravensmere.
Host it at your own table. Nothing to print, no script to learn, and you play the victim, so you finally get to attend your own party.