About Paranormal Friends

We like to think of ourselves as just that – a group of friends with lots of experience in paranormal investigating.

Paranormal Friends isn’t a commercial company, and we use a combination of spiritual and scientific methods to investigate.

Each member of our team has a love of the paranormal and conducts investigations with the utmost professionalism.

Meet the team

Chris

If you contact Paranormal Friends, I’m most likely the person you’ll speak to.

I had my first encounter with what I believe was paranormal activity when I was a young trainee Chartered Surveyor and Auctioneer.

In 1976, during several visits to Rhysnant Hall, Four Crosses, Powys, while showing prospective buyers of the antique panelling around the now demolished buildings, I experienced many difficult to explain phenomena.

In terms of the paranormal, I’m most definitely an open-minded sceptic.

The intervening years have given time for me to ponder over what all this activity may have been.

I’ve had far too many unexplained encounters over the last decade to list them here, but I believe that there is so much going on out there that we still do not know all the answers – but we’ll keep trying to find them.

As a now former Chartered Surveyor, I’m ideally suited to debunk many events by using my detailed knowledge of building construction and surveying methodology.

I established a wonderful relationship with the Australian Paranormal Society some years ago.

This led me and Sam to join APS founder, Bill Tabone, on an investigation in Melbourne in 2015. I returned in the autumn of 2017 for another two investigations in Victoria as the special guest of the APS and will be returning over Christmas 2023.

See more about this on our Australian Paranormal Society page.

Sam

I’ve always been intrigued by the paranormal, without ever really thinking about it in great detail. Then, an incident in a local tearoom in Lincoln got me hooked.

Since then, I’ve attended hundreds of investigations and love the fact each one is totally different and you don’t know what you’ll find.

I remain open-minded about the paranormal and retain a sceptical approach. However, I know I’ve experienced many seemingly paranormal events which I haven’t been able to debunk.

Adam

I’ve been interested in the paranormal from an early age. My mother, being a physic medium, and her mother before her held regular séances and glass divination sessions and invited guests round on a regular basis.

I’ve witnessed glasses being thrown around the room, manifestations of spirits, temperature changes, sounds, touches and smells. I’ve felt sadness, pain, fear and love from spirits that I’ve encountered.

I love the gift I have and the connection with the spirit world. Being mediumistic and able to share those gifts on the investigations I take part in with Paranormal Friends is a real pleasure.

There’s more to the spirit world than we know and understand – another reason why I like to do what we do.

Elaine

My interest in the paranormal started around the age of ten when I witnessed my first sighting that I couldn’t explain. It was a misty shape that changed direction and disappeared. This made me start thinking about what it was. I started reading a variety of books about the unexplained.

I attended the first ever Paranormal Friends investigation at St Mary’s Guildhall in Lincoln. I’ve investigated several locations with the group since. Now I am delighted to be a member of the team.

During an investigation my favourite techniques include some of the spiritual methods such as table tipping and glass divination. I also enjoy using the scientific equipment such as the Mel meter and K2 meter.

Although I do believe in forms of spirit communication, I’m open minded and try to debunk evidence before classing it as paranormal.

Clare

I have three main interests. The first is genealogy – I’ve managed to trace my family tree back to 1280 and we are still in Shropshire.

The others are investigating the paranormal and photography.

I have always had an interest in the paranormal. The main thing that started it was when I saw the film ‘The Others’ and began watching paranormal TV shows.

Knowing that my parents had seen a psychic before I was born and what was said became true has also been a great influence.

I love the idea of there being a way loved ones can visit us once they’ve passed. I believe that I am a bit of a sensitive and I am trying to develop my understandings further. However, I do look for logical things that may debunk any activity that happens.

I was originally a guest with paranormal friends for many of their investigations and and was very pleased to be invited to join the team several years ago.

Bill Tabone, Honorary Team Member

As a long-time friend and on-going supporter of Paranormal Friends, we wanted to show our gratitude to Bill by making him an honorary member of our team.

Our founders, Chris and Sam have worked with him on several investigations in Australia and he joined us as our very special guest investigator in the summer of 2017 at Whittington Castle. Indeed, we hope that this reciprocal arrangement will continue for many years to come.

Along with his wife Amanda, Bill Tabone is the founder and director of the Australian Paranormal Society (APS).

Since he was a very small child Bill has had a fascination with all things paranormal, from UFOs to ghosts, reading, watching, studying and learning all he could on the subject. Bill has spent the past 30 years in the field investigating the paranormal.

With his very experienced and dedicated group of investigators, Bill conducts investigations into all things paranormal. Bill’s speciality is more to do with ghosts and hauntings, which is his real love.

Although the team use the very latest in technology, Bill really is an old school investigator coming from a time when bells and talcum powder were used in the field, old film cameras and VHS tapes and you made the gear you needed.

The team are constantly in the field helping people that have a problem in their home or business as well as conducting research in some of Australia’s most active historic locations.

Bill believes in building the paranormal field through networking with other groups and has built a worldwide network of teams and individuals that support and work together to gather research, educate and provide support to those that need it.

This networking has given Bill and the team opportunities to investigate throughout the globe at such places as Gettysburg and Alcatraz.

With ongoing work on several paranormal television programs, including “Mystical Guides: Haunted Australia” and the Paranormal investigator series by Moonlark Media and ongoing radio and newspaper interviews Bill hopes to educate the public about the paranormal field and build it into a more open subject.

The one thing that Bill believes will build this field is education, never stop learning.