[Alex just smiles and shrugs because honestly, the only people who would get it who weren't living it would be here. Everyone seemed to have a screwed up story like she did.]

Okay so, to start with, back home I'm a reporter. I work for Pacific Northwest Stories in Seattle which is a bit like NPR. I started off doing a show of my own that was supposed to be on interesting people doing interesting jobs. The first job we were looking at was that of a paranormal researcher. I interviewed a few different ones, and one name kept coming up: Dr. Richard Strand of the Strand Institute. He was different because he was trying to disprove every instance of the supernatural that he'd come across.

So, I called him eleven times until he agreed to let me interview him, and then I discovered that he had these collections of what I called "Black Tapes." They were the cases that he couldn't actually disprove... Well, disprove yet. And he housed them in old black VHS cases which is where the name comes from.

We decided to shift focus onto Strand and his Institute and those black tapes of his. But it ended up being so much more than that.