In Lost Souls, the Inspector's name never appears, even in newspaper articles or the hotel guest book. If you pay attention to his first vision of the resuscitation attempts and hospital lights, the first thing he's asked is "Sir, can you tell me your name?" The Inspector's name is never stated because his medical crisis has left his brain so addled, he can't remember his name, even within his own hallucinations!
The D.E.O.S. employees' collections of long-obsolete discs and mp3 players make a little more sense if you recall that one of their team is an archaeology buff, to judge by his room's trappings, another has to dig through backup archives to find fingerprint data, and some of the others take an interest in vintage music or scifi. It's possible that when the island was converted to an underwater research facility, a lot of antique discs and chips left behind by the staff and tourists were salvaged from the abandoned lighthouse's rubble. When Vimal stumbled over a bunch of them in snooping through the relics, his colleagues got excited that some invaluable Missing Episode or previously-lost recording might be among them, and ordered the old-tech mp3 players and such from the 2090 equivalent of those companies that sell vinyl-record turntables today.
Verney's glimpses of "new" constellations in The Journal could actually be visions of very old constellations, dating back to some distant epoch when the Dark Fall first took up residence in the caverns beneath the hotel's current location. We know from the third and fourth games that the supernatural forces haunting Dowerton Station can generate visions of the past, so why assume that the Inspector was the first person ever to experience such a time-slip?
Lights Out seems like the odd one out among the games, as its premise turns out to be more scifi than horror and the actual Dark Fall entity is only peripherally referenced. But considering how Malakai crash-landed in a prehistoric marsh off Cornwall after getting sidetracked through who-knows-what sorts of weird dimensions and distorted realities, it's quite possible that hitching a lift on the wayward deep-space probe is how the Eldritch Abominationgot to Britain in the first place.
In Lost Souls, the inspector starts in a train tunnel, carrying nothing but a bottle of vodka and some pills. If you look at the latter's label in the inventory, it says "Clozapine". This is a drug used as a last-ditch method to counter insanity, by destroying white blood cells. How sane would the Inspector be to have that kind of medication on him?
In Ghost Vigil, one of the "newbie's" first experiences with a full-on ghostly hissy-fit is likely to take place in the storage room, where a lot of children's toys and games sit neglected on shelves and in bins. The reason for the hissy-fit in question becomes clear if you examine the brown metal object on the floor of the entry area. It's an archaic wood-burning heating unit: something that wouldn't normally be needed in a storeroom. Unless, of course, it's a storeroom for the material you're burning in it. At some stage in Shangri-La's history, the staff weren't merely confiscating, but systematically destroying the kids' toys as a standard punishment. Which explains why the ghosts react with such absolute hysteria when they observe a complete stranger barging in and scooping up the old rag doll to take away.
