Aside from witches and ghosts, we have new-age healers who insist - without any apparent irony on the part of the filmmakers - that Little Oberon is a strange town because "it's on a junction (of) energy lines which connect ancient, sacred places".

I wonder what sense of irony he was thinking of? The implicit 'look we know it's all crap but go with it for the sake of the show' type of irony, or 'Little Oberon is strange for more reasons than just ley-line conversions' or what? It's a confusing statement.

I think one thing that Kenneth has forgotten is that just because a character says so, that doesn't make it true – especially here. They could be mistaken. They could be lying. They could be full of shit. The character who mentioned Ley Lines I think believed what she was saying, but Natasha believed that she was her Aunt as well. It's an explanation proposed by someone to explain strange circumstances, which is consistant with their worldview.