(Re: Quantum Leap)
Yeah I think it was mainly meant to be scientific rather than supernatural, and I did say “so far”. I saw them all when they first came out and it does get a little woo-ish near the end, with him talking to God and all (and the actor who played him is, incidentally, in the pilot episode).
Wait - you mean we were supposed to believe that really happened?!
In the novel, A Drowned Maiden’s Hair by Laura Amy Schlitz, the heroine, Maud, dreams of another girl, Caroline. In the dream, Maud learns information she couldn’t have gotten in real life. On the other hand, it may have been a coincidence.
Otherwise, it’s a straight historical novel.
Stephen King AGAIN. ***Cujo ***is just about a dog with rabies, except there was a tip of the hat to another Stephen King story in the first chapter. Some ‘demon’ in the kid’s closet was a real evil spirit. IME, for no reason.
I don’t think anyone’s mentioned the best example: Sharyn McCrumb’s Ballad novels. These include people with clairvoyance and precognition, a Cherokee demigod, ghosts, a family curse, and a woman who talks to an angel who makes a brief appearance. However, the supernatural elements usually don’t have much to do with the main plot. A couple, If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O and *The Ballad of Tom Dooley *don’t even have supernatural elements.
The entire series is supernatural. Something is making him leap into people and not letting him leap again until things are made better. There is always the idea that something is guiding him.
Yes because it did.
Damn lucky to be alive.
Wow. I had no idea. Ignorance fought.
IIRC(it’s been decades since I read the book and it was one of his weaker efforts) there’s a veiled suggestion that when Cujo got rabies he was possessed by the spirit of the serial killer deputy from The Dead Zone(the sherif from* The Dead Zone* is also in the story).
Karate Kid, Mr Miyagi’s laying hands to fix Daniel’s knee.
There was an episode of ER some years ago, or it may have been a two-parter, where Dr. Carter had a storyline featuring Ed Asner as a tired old practitioner running a (free?) clinic. When Carter went to talk to Ed Asner about something, the room in the building where the clinic had been was completely derelict and empty. Not a stick of furniture, like it had been deserted for years. The clinic had existed the day before. Had Carter dreamed the whole thing or…what? It was creepy and left unresolved.
I think Asner’s character was a thief who embezzled the money that Carter gave him.
Yes, that’s it, thanks - it’s been years since I saw it and my memory is fuzzy, all I recall clearly was that last scene. So…n/m
I realize that there was supernatural stuff in The Shining, (specifically, the shining), but even so I was surprised when the ghost of Mr. Grady actually unlocked the door to the freezer in which Jack was trapped. Up to that point there was just the shining stuff and Jack seeing things, which I wrote off as a form of his madness.
Another one I just thought of - the Molly Turgiss episode of Green Acres.
Even so, I place the whole Indiana Jones set in the “supernatural stories” camp, anyway. The Ark melting people and obliterating its box, the priests pulling people’s hearts out without killing them in temple of doom, the Holy Grail healing wounds, etc. The characters expected these things to be supernatural, and never acted very surprised when they turned out to be right.
Another nod to Stephen King: The Green Mile. Except for John Coffey’s supernatural healing powers, the whole tale is plausible.
Hamlet struggles between it being the ghost of his father or an evil spirit has taken the shape of his father and is trying to trick Hamlet into doing evil. Either way, it’s a supernatural being.
That’s because *The Green Mile * is King’s exercise in magic realism I would think most magic realism stories would fit what the OP was asking for.
Edit: Incidentally, I now notice that other posters have mentioned magic realism.
And the fact that the healing powers are not incidental and are in fact the driving force behind the plot. If it were a different story he could have made it just a regular prison story. But the big reveal and plot twist is what happened to the narrator. And Mr Jingles.
I’m pretty sure there is one episode where Potter is trying to trip Radar’s anticipation of his next request up - and finally manages it.