List of Paranormal Files characters

This page lists all the significant characters from the *Paranormal Files* series. (Page currently under construction.)

### Members of the Paranormal Files Agency

* Rick Rogers
* Rachel Cowell
* Gabriel
* Isaac
* Mia
* Daemon

### Allies

These are friendly characters Rick and Rachel meet along the way.

#### Emily

In life, she was a sweet, pretty young woman who was deeply in love with Nicholas Bennet, and accepted his marriage proposal. But on her way to the church for the wedding, she fell into a trap laid by the family gardener and crashed her car in a ravine, where she was never found. Her hitchhiking ghost spent the next several years unwittingly causing countless kind-hearted drivers to die when they failed to solve her murder. After Rick was able to reunite the spirits of Emily and Nicholas and free them from the earthly plane, she gave him a parting gift which she described as "protection from death," unlocking deep psychic powers to allow him to assist both the living and the dead.

#### Tina Rise

Tina was a young woman who ran into the Forest of the Missing after being humiliated in front of her crush during a party with friends. She was killed by the Tall Man, but remained bound to earth because of a fight she'd had with her sister, Jessie, just before going to the party. She regretted the fight and her regret turned her into a banshee; however, she was able to retain her sanity and use her new powers for good rather than evil, doing her best to scare people away from the forest before they could become victims of the Tall Man. When her good friend Nicky Summers hires Rick to look into the situation, he encounters Tina and hears her story. By ridding the world of the Tall Man and giving Tina's apology to Jessie, he allowed her to pass on into the afterlife.

#### Anna Gray

Anna is the protagonist of the *Grim Tales* series of games. In *Counterpart*, she comes to the agency's aid when they need to travel to another dimension.

### Antagonists

Unlike the rest in the "DUniverse," the *Paranormal Files* games have almost no recurring antagonists.

#### Rose Bennet

Rose and her unnamed gardener are the true villains of the debut title *Fellow Traveler*. Together, they murdered Rose's son Nicholas's bride-to-be, Emily, after she was accused of having stolen various valuables from the Bennet estate. (It's implied that the gardener actually framed her.) Ever since then, Emily's ghost has been picked up as a hitchhiker by various people driving along the road where she was killed, and anyone who picks up the ghost is doomed to die within three days unless they can solve her murder. Naturally, Rose does not want the murder solved, but her decades of tyranny come to an end when Emily gets into Rick's car. After being defeated in battle, she disappears. What becomes of the gardener is unknown, but unlike Rose, he doesn't seem to have been a ghost, so presumably he finally died.

#### The Tall Man

The eponymous villain of *The Tall Man* is some kind of ancient evil spirit, who in centuries past had been worshiped by people who offered him blood sacrifices to keep him appeased. When his worshipers died out, he became sealed in an underground totem, where he remained for an unknown number of centuries until the 1700s. A group of miners accidentally disturbed his totem and set him free, and for the next three hundred years he abducted and killed people in what came to be known as the Forest of the Missing. Rick, after learning that the Tall Man was weak to light, was able to detonate a wall and let the rising sun burn him to a crisp.

#### The God of Truth

Whether he's really a god is up for debate, but the spirit calling himself the God of Truth is more or less the antagonist of *The Trap of Truth*. He's less of a villain and more of a neutral figure, however. Fed up with the antics of con artists and phony psychics, he kidnaps four people from the paranormal carnival whom he wants to punish for their deceptions. But he likes Rick, because Rick actually is everything he claims to be, so he offers a deal - he'll help Rick enter the memories of his four colleagues and see if he can make their situations better. When Rick succeeds in this venture, the God of Truth keeps his promise and releases the captives.

#### Alt Rick

Rick Rogers, only not. This one hails from another dimension and isn't the friendly, cheerful ghost hunter that Rachel knows.