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When writing stories about the supernatural which purport to happen in the real world, there is a consistent problem that needs to be resolved: the fact that the supernatural parts of the world remains entirely nonexistent in any part of the world that we examine.
One popular resolution to this particular problem, common enough that it could very much be its own genre, is to propose that, for whatever reason, that there is some sort of censorship barrier preventing information transfer from the normal side of the world to the supernatural side of the world. More often than not, this censorship barrier has some or all of the following properties:
The combination of some of these qualities can result in some fairly interesting storytelling beats, which is why these points are chosen in the first place. One of the more popular consequent details of this censorship barrier is that it is brought up to explain some of the mysteries of the normal world. This can be an elaboration of an existing legend, or the fabrication of a completely new legend. However, the category that we are most interested in for the purposes of this post is the phenomenon where the supernatural conspire to cause an effect in the real world, which eventually becomes a major world event. Such an event would, outside of the fiction, be attributed to some other mundane quality.
The specific thing that I would like to point out is the fact that the