AUSTRALIAN HUMANOID SUPERNATURAL TEXTS
Public-text archive and research display system
This project is a public-text archive for tracing how humanoid or humanoid-adjacent supernatural figures appear in Australian public sources.
It records published accounts, apparition narratives, local legends, traditional and spirit-person narratives, retellings, and related discourse as source-grounded public records. Inclusion means that a public source or public metadata record exists; it does not verify the supernatural claim described by that source.
Documented public texts, not proof claims
The archive treats each entry as a documented public text or source-grounded narrative unit. Records are organised by source family, narrative type, period, publicness, and available location evidence so later research can separate reported encounters, retellings, heritage discourse, catalogue metadata, and contextual material.
Source item to research record
Typed narrative surface
One verified location flag per mapped public record
Map points represent records with a verified display location. They indicate narrative geography, alleged event geography, or place association depending on the record type. They are not habitat maps, population maps, or proof of an underlying phenomenon.
Public sources first
The project prioritises public archives, libraries, newspapers, digitised books, institutional pages, public repositories, and community-controlled public sources. Tourism pages and unsourced paranormal aggregators may be useful as discovery leads, but they are not treated as primary evidence without stronger source support.
Public discoverability is not unrestricted permission
Records involving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, communities, or culturally specific figures require additional care around terminology, publicness, display mode, and source context. Sensitive public material may be summary-only or suppressed.
Designed for audit, revision, and extension
The interface is designed as a research display rather than a final authority. Future work can add sources, revise classifications, improve location evidence, separate source items from narrative units, and audit sensitive records without treating the current corpus as complete or peer reviewed.