Paranormal Studies and Investigations Canada looks into accounts of ghosts and hauntings, ufological reports, psychical events, cryptozoological claims and sightings, and many other things that currently reside under the popular title of "The Paranormal".

To that end, we would like to invite anyone who is a serious student of these events to join with us for information sharing, discussion, and indeed investigations into these topics.

PSICAN as a group is beyond pleased that we have and continue to work with The Koestler Parapsychology Unit of the Psychology Department of University of Edinburgh and work closely with members of The Society for Psychical Research, The Parapsychological Association, The Mutual UFO Network, and a host of other groups examining "paranormal" events.  We also are proud that we work with and continue to work beside faculty and students from many of the major universities across Canada. We have enjoyed communicating with everyone from our friends at The Association for Science and Reason (formerly Skeptics Canada) to The Spiritualist Church of Canada. We have enjoyed productive and happy relationships from many of the community/local based historical and museum groups and societies right up to Parks Canada and countless business and literally thousands of individual witnesses.

It is with all this in mind that we wish to literally extend an invitation to prospective candidates across the country to become members, investigators, and/or researchers with PSICAN.

Joining us is not an easy venture, but the rewards for the serious student of the paranormal (we hope) make it worth the challenge. Being a PSICAN investigator or researcher is hopefully an asset and will help broaden the successful candidates study and interest in these topics as well as allowing for new ideas and concepts being added to our work.

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If you wish to continue on and become a member, investigator, or researcher within PSICAN (and therefore, with our site/group,) here are the minimum requirements...

#1: Candidate must be eighteen years of age or older

#2: Candidate must be a citizen of Canada (or landed immigrant)

#3: Candidate must be bondable

#4: Candidate must have regular access to the internet

#5: Candidate should be able to devote about one hour per week to the study

#6: Candidate does not require any post-secondary education

#7: Membership to PSICAN and the processes to become a member will always be free of charge to the candidate

#8: Candidate understands that PSICAN is a volunteer organisation

#9: Candidate understand that violation of our "Rules of Governance" will mean permanent expulsion from the group

(Rules of Governance are available to read/look at here... http://www.psican.org/PSICAN_Gen-Inf_Codes.pdf )

If you understand and can adhere to/meet the requirements above, then here's the steps to become an investigator, researcher, or member of our group...

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There are several steps to becoming involved with PSICAN and specializing in ghosts and hauntings...

FIRST: Read through our FREE online coursebook http://www.torontoghosts.org/course/coursebook.pdf

It's an Adobe PDF document available for download and printing if desired.

SECOND: (Not available between September 15th and November 15th) Take a FREE online quiz/examination and pass it. (The exam is based on the coursebook.)

These exams are taken up (marked) by one of our existing staff who will then let you know if you should move on to the third step or if you did not pass the quiz. If you did not pass, you MUST wait 365 days before re-trying the exam if you still wish to become a part of the team. Although a small minority have suggested this test or exam are "unfair" or somehow are meant to "stifle" the creative or intellectual input of investigators, it is not. It is structured to test the ability to read and retain information, cognitive abilities, and ethics... It is "geared" towards our way of looking at things "neutrally", but this is also to ensure you will be able to work within our team and accept other's thoughts and ideas on the topics. PLEASE don't request "the right answers" if you do not pass the examination. We cannot give that information until we do a complete re-build of the examination.

If you're ready to take the exam, please e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and request the link.

THIRD: Once passed, you will need to submit TWO complete articles, notes about an investigation, and/or papers to the team for approval.

These items must be as complete as possible, cite sources of information and/or acknowledgment of any help received. They must be concise, but missing no relevant data to the study in general.  These documents, like all items created for PSICAN remain in the ownership (copyright) of the authors, but in sending them in to us, give us permission to republish and use the documents ourselves and for our own work in perpetuity. These documents will then be sent to a committee of three of our existing investigators/researchers for review... If a majority agrees that the documents are up to good standards, you will be submitted to at least two of our directors who will inform you if you are a member of our team. All articles *must* be submitted in text format (Word Document, PDF, RTF, or ASCII text,) and "video"/"audio" submissions will not be considered.

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FIRST: Contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for a link to an exam.

SECOND: Take a FREE online quiz/examination and pass it.

These exams are taken up (marked) by one of our existing staff who will then let you know if you should move on to the third step or if you did not pass the quiz. If you did not pass, you MUST wait 365 days before re-trying the exam if you still wish to become a part of the team. Although a small minority have suggested this test or exam are "unfair" or somehow are meant to "stifle" the creative or intellectual input of investigators, it is not. It is structured to test the ability to read and retain information, cognitive abilities, and ethics... It is "geared" towards our way of looking at things "neutrally", but this is also to ensure you will be able to work within our team and accept other's thoughts and ideas on the topics. PLEASE don't request "the right answers" if you do not pass the examination. We cannot give that information until we do a complete re-build of the examination.

THIRD: Once passed, you will need to submit TWO complete articles, notes about an investigation, and/or papers to the team for approval.

These items must be as complete as possible, cite sources of information and/or acknowledgement of any help received. They must be concise, but missing no relevant data to the study in general.  These documents, like all items created for PSICAN remain in the ownership (copyright) of the authors, but in sending them in to us, give us permission to republish and use the documents ourselves and for our own work in perpetuity. These documents will then be sent to a committee of three of our existing investigators/researchers for review... If a majority agrees that the documents are up to good standards, you will be submitted to our Ufological director who will inform you if you are a member of our team. All articles *must* be submitted in text format (Word Document, PDF, RTF, or ASCII text,) and "video"/"audio" submissions will not be considered.

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FIRST: Contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for a link to an exam.

SECOND: Take a FREE online quiz/examination and pass it.

These exams are taken up (marked) by one of our existing staff who will then let you know if you should move on to the third step or if you did not pass the quiz. If you did not pass, you MUST wait 365 days before re-trying the exam if you still wish to become a part of the team. Although a small minority have suggested this test or exam are "unfair" or somehow are meant to "stifle" the creative or intellectual input of investigators, it is not. It is structured to test the ability to read and retain information, cognitive abilities, and ethics... It is "geared" towards our way of looking at things "neutrally", but this is also to ensure you will be able to work within our team and accept other's thoughts and ideas on the topics. PLEASE don't request "the right answers" if you do not pass the examination. We cannot give that information until we do a complete re-build of the examination.

THIRD: Once passed, you will need to submit TWO complete articles, notes about an investigation, and/or papers to the team for approval.

These items must be as complete as possible, cite sources of information and/or acknowledgement of any help received. They must be concise, but missing no relevant data to the study in general.  These documents, like all items created for PSICAN remain in the ownership (copyright) of the authors, but in sending them in to us, give us permission to republish and use the documents ourselves and for our own work in perpetuity. These documents will then be sent to PSICAN's cryptozoology director or an appointed assistant for review.  All articles *must* be submitted in text format (Word Document, PDF, RTF, or ASCII text,) and "video"/"audio" submissions will not be considered.

Upon successful completion of the quiz and articles, you will be asked to be a part of the PSICAN team.

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For now, as we don't have an examination or criteria currently set-up for these topics, we ask you join our message board/forums at http://www.psican.org/messagecentre/ (VIP code for sign-up is 1967,) and post your request and interest in the subject you are most interested in.  The directors of the site do check in on the message board frequently and will let you know what or if we can examine your request to join the team with the subject you're interested in as a possible focus.

On approval, you will need to submit THREE complete articles, notes about an investigation, and/or papers to the team for approval. (The topics of these article will be at the discretion of one of PSICAN's directors.)

These items must be as complete as possible, cite sources of information and/or acknowledgement of any help received. They must be concise, but missing no relevant data to the study in general.  These documents, like all items created for PSICAN remain in the ownership (copyright) of the authors, but in sending them in to us, give us permission to republish and use the documents ourselves and for our own work in perpetuity. These documents will then be sent to three of our executive for review. All articles *must* be submitted in text format (Word Document, PDF, RTF, or ASCII text,) and "video"/"audio" submissions will not be considered.

Upon successful completion and then following approval on your articles, you will be asked to be a part of the PSICAN team.

Nota Bella: PSICAN will not be opening sections devoted to solely specific religious studies or general conspiracy theories... If there are areas of faith-based "paranormal" events, please decide which specific section that already exists they might best fit with and work towards that goal. If there's a specific area of possible conspiracies involving the "paranormal", again, please consider looking into being involved with an area that is already mentioned above. Thank you.

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- Access to as much material on the paranormal as possible

- Cases, reports, and e-mails we receive when they're pertinent to your chosen field of interest

- Invitations to investigations, learning seminars, and meetings (both online and "in person")

- A forum in which to work with other's in your field of interest

- As they become available, any other benefits we can offer...

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A: Not yet. The overall plan is to one day have meeting space, a library, and a learning centre... which may be located in Ontario for the initial phase, but we hope that we can expand to have some form of physical resource in all the provinces... but that may be far in the future. Right now, we're strictly an "online" group.

A: Yes. A successful candidate will not only be invited when investigations come up (and they can be "fit in" with the work,) but also be encouraged to start and do their own investigations and work. One warning though... If you believe that joining our group will mean "receiving the keys to a haunted house" on a regular basis or be doing "cemetery stomps" or the like, you may be a tad disappointed.

A: Yes and no. We do understand there is a reason to do interviews and information media, but we are not looking for a television show devoted to "us" or any other sort of media presence particular to our group(s) and especially, not geared towards any "personalities" on the team.

A: No (although it is an asset.) You do need the ability to work from a neutral standpoint and be able to practice good research, data collection, and indeed even scientific skills, but to do these things does not require a post-secondary education and can be learned if needed.

A: Although there are some staff that do report they feel they have special abilities, it is not a prerequisite nor will it be an advantage in joining our team. Those that are on our team are there because they agreed to, passed, and have demonstrated the ability to work within our standard parameters as a "regular" researcher or investigator.

A: Nothing. There is no and never has been any fees to become an investigator/researcher or member of the team.

A: You can give PSICAN a gift, but it will not assist you in becoming a member of the team.

A: Yes... provided you adhere to the privacy rules outlined in our rules of governance, there's no problem with that whatsoever.

A: No.

A: Provided they meet the standard requirements, of course! Please note: We have a reputation of being neutral or "agnostic" and often do debunk ourselves and make those findings public... If you are more a "non-believer" than a true sceptic and wish to join to simply shout that all paranormal events are bogus or the like without absolute empirical evidence of this on a "case-by-case" scenario, don't waste our time or yours. We don't make "proclamations" without evidence; we demand you do the same if you're on our team.

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