Department of Supernatural Beings and Locations

The Department of Supernatural Beings and Locations is an international department founded after World War I to study, utilize, and contain the weaponization of supernatural beings, locations, objects, and ideas.

Origin
Throughout history the use of the supernatural as a weapon has been documented, usually with enchanted items such as swords and otherworldly creatures such as the Yunkdoo (used extensively during the Napoleonic Wars). In World War I, however, use of the supernatural became more extreme and deadly as the war dragged on. This is extremely apparent in the Battle of Verdun, where everything from skeleton armies to cursed spoons were used to attempt to end the stalemate. Unfortunately, the stalemate continued due to both sides willingness to utilize the supernatural for combat purposes.

In the aftermath of World War I, a group of scientists, mystics, politicians, businessmen, lawyers, witches, alchemists, occultists, and intellectuals gathered in Paris as the Treaty of Versailles was being worked out and laid out the plans for an organization which could regulate the use of the supernatural in wartime. Unsatisfied by the results, however, the group parted ways with the ideas unfinished.

Founding
In 1919, Karl Winslingdale, who had been present at both the Treaty of Versailles and the group meetings that lay the idea behind supernatural combat regulation, founded the Department of Supernatural Beings and Locations with U.S. Government backing in New Orleans. It was here he began studies of the supernatural, discovering things that had been previously unknown about creatures such as ghosts and entities such as The Bald Man.