Anna Sheridan

''"It was a fitting way to go given my... Well, everything." -Anna Sheridan, "The Worlds, Perhaps, of Spirits''

Anna Sheridan is a New York Times Bestselling Author of supernatural horror who bases her fiction on her own investigations and experiences of the impossible and paranormal. Within the world of the show, Anna has a reputation as a troublemaker and rogue element, having at least one very public run in with the police following a house fire in Langlois, Oregon (TST EP.03) and a major car accident following an encounter at the Mirror House in 2005 (TST EP.02). Following that accident she began to record audio logs of her encounters using a digital recorder, but lost it while exploring Spirit Mountain Cave between 2008-09 (HOTC 04). Afterwards she began using an old tape recorder, which was gifted to her by her father when she was a child (TST EP.09).

Following a long string of close calls and strange encounters with the supernatural, Anna Sheridan went missing outside the city of Oslo, Nevada sometime in mid-October, 2018. Following a brief investigation by a team of OCPD detectives, her case was handed off to detective Samuel Bailey as a homicide investigation.

History
Anna has been involved with the paranormal since at least her elementary school years, when her childhood best friend Amy Sterling was pulled out of the world by an old well behind her school (TST 08). She attended college for one year, but dropped out and began writing about her experiences instead (TST 04), first in a successful blog before her first novel, Anathema, was published in 2005 by Poultice Press (TST 02). Following a terrifying experience at the mirror house, she crashed into a semi-truck near the Oregon/California border, spending a year in physical therapy trying to regain the use of her hands. It was at this point that she first began using audio recordings to draft her novels.

In 2006/7, she wrote a screenplay for a TV movie that was bought and produced by Voxel Media, a small production company in Los Angeles. The final product was cheaply made and poorly edited, but one of the interns at Voxel, Maria Sol, secretly produced a vastly improved cut that was eventually leaked on the internet. Following the debacle, Anna hired Maria as her production manager and technical assistant (TST 13).

Sometime in 2009, Anna went to investigate strange radio transmissions from Spirit Mountain Cave and encountered The Echo, a supernatural entity composed of radio waves and able to imitate the voice and appearance of others and create physics doppelgängers outside the cave. A BLM ranger named Rob Kirk was able to shoot and kill his duplicate, and Anna left Wyoming believing the Echo was gone. However, new transmissions began to appear across the country, all using Anna’s voice. She traveled to the National Radio Quiet Zone with her sister Kate later in the year to try and draw the echo out and destroy it, but is forced to abandon the stakeout when her recorder begins to interfere with testing equipment at the Green Bank Radio Observatory (HOTC 04, TST 09).

Later in 2009, she traveled to the small town of Langlois, Oregon in an attempt to break her writer’s block, but an unnatural fire begins inside the cabin and forces her to flee. She was arrested after the police tested her for THC and charged her with arson. This led to her developing a reputation for trouble and made her use of weed public knowledge. Her agent, Anthony Perdue, managed to get the charges dropped, though the owners of the cabin successfully sued Anna for damages (TST 03).

On or around October 16th, 2018, Anna visited their abandoned town of Agate Shore, Nevada shortly before the Arrowhead dam burst and flooded the town. Fleeing the disaster, she’s stopped by the entity calling itself Lieutenant De Witt and narrowly escapes (TST 15). Soon after this encounter (on or around October 20th), Anna’s Van was found empty outside the city of Oslo, Nevada and Anna was reported missing. By April 1st, 2019 she was presumed dead, and detective Samuel Bailey was assigned her case (TST 01).

Physical Description
Anna is described as looking like "an athlete or backpacker" by Dr. Ren Park (TST EP.06) and is mentioned to be blonde or close to blonde. (TST EP.08) She can tan.

Personality
When not ghost hunting or writing, Anna enjoys an active lifestyle such as running and hiking. She has problems "sitting still."

Relationships
Maria Sol: Maria Sol is Anna's editor, investigation partner and on again and off again girlfriend.

Kate Sheridan: Kate is Anna's older sister. The two are not close. There is some tension between them as Kate feels Anna needs to settle down and pursue a more conventional lifestyle. Anna is not out to Kate nor has come forward about her romantic involvement with Maria Sol.

Dr. Ren Park: Dr. Ren Park is Anna's friend. Him and ISPHA have both helped her by lending her equipment on at least one of her hunts.

Trivia

 * If Anna was an animal she would be a snowy owl because she is wise.
 * Anna's Starbucks order is a "matcha latte" however, if Starbucks had a fun new drink on the menu she would try that and carry multiple drinks out.
 * Anna is an Aries.
 * While Anna's sexuality has yet to be given an explicit label, she is attracted to women and has been in an on again off again relationship to Maria Sol. She is not out to her family.
 * According to Jesse Haugen, the show’s composer, if Anna was an instrument she would be a cello because there’s a surprising amount of depth and aggression.  But also it can register as a human voice and is “toneful”.