A coded map of art made about exceptional and anomalous
experience — encounters, apparitions, near-death and out-of-body states.
Every entry is a work, not a person. Inclusion is not endorsement, and
nothing here says whether any of it is true.
Compiled 2026 · partial by design
Every work, placed by what it claims and how it tells it
Down the side: whether the work asserts these phenomena are real, denies
it, or deliberately declines to decide. Across the top: how it is told. One
dot is one work — click it. Colour is how far the work travelled.
Broadcast or major platform Cinema, festival or trade press Gallery, self-published or online
What nobody has made
Every medium against every theme. The dashed cells are the point: those
are combinations no work in this record occupies. A shaded cell counts the
works that do.
The channel problem
How much of each kind of work reached a broadcast or major platform —
which is where the audience least at ease with this subject actually is.
And by era
Stance over time, against the four-era framework. The later bands hold
few works, so read them as a hint rather than a trend.
The catalogue
Everything in the record. Descriptions are factual rather than
enthusiastic, on purpose.