Specter Protocol: The Carter Files

In the aftermath of Operation Threshold-the world's first verified ghost encounter-the U.S. government quietly launches Specter Protocol, a covert initiative tasked with identifying, studying, and containing supernatural entities. When traditional science fails, the Department of Anomalous Phenomena turns to civilians-engineers, psychics, first responders, and even content creators-to face what the military cannot. At the center of it all is Alex "Lex" Carter, a brilliant but haunted engineer whose sister vanished during a ghost hunt gone wrong. Now leading a small team known as Field Unit Alpha, Carter and his crew-Maya Torres, a troubled medium with voices in her head; Jordan Lee, an adrenaline-junkie documentarian; and Riley Nguyen, a steadfast ex-firefighter-travel from one haunted site to the next, armed with bleeding-edge detection tech and their own fraying sanity. Their mission: gather evidence, recover cursed artifacts, and survive encounters that no human should. But with each case, the team uncovers disturbing patterns linking hauntings across the country-a network of artifacts inscribed with ancient sigils that may be part of a single catastrophic design. As the walls between the living and the dead begin to weaken, Specter Protocol must decide whether they are investigators... or the last line of defense against something far older than humanity itself.