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Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal

Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal is a Canadian science fiction television series that surrounds a scientific team that deals with all manner of paranormal phenomena around the world; from alien abductions to possessions. The organization depicted in the series is loosely inspired by a real-life scientific organization. While locations in the series took place worldwide, the series was primarily filmed in and around Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and aired 88 episodes over four seasons from 1996 to 2000.

TV Show Stats +8%

4 seasons

88 episodes total

Status

Ended

First Aired

1996

Rating

TV Show

6.9/10

33 votes • HD

Season 1

22 episodes
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Dream House / UFO Encounter
Episode 1

Dream House / UFO Encounter

Episode 1 • Sep 28, 1996

Case File #34112: ""Dream House"" Blaine and Debbie McCallister summon the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research to investigate the cause of numerous strange occurrences at the site of their new home, after their teenage daughter is hospitalized as a result of a poltergeist encounter. Case File #52111: ""UFO Encounter"" Agents from the O.S.I.R. are summoned to a small town to investigate a double alien abduction of two boys and UFO sightings witnessed by many townspeople.

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Possession / Man Out of Time
Episode 2

Possession / Man Out of Time

Episode 2 • Oct 05, 1996

Case File #67102: ""Possession"" A software designer tells of demons attacking Case File #10103: ""Man Out of Time"" A disoriented man tells of being from the 17th century.

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Reptilian Revenge / Ghostly Voices
Episode 3

Reptilian Revenge / Ghostly Voices

Episode 3 • Oct 12, 1996

Case File #99101: ""Reptilian Revenge"" After an elderly man dies, his pet snakes escape Case File #44114: ""Ghostly Voices"" A voice calls a woman home.

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Creeping Darkness / The Power
Episode 4

Creeping Darkness / The Power

Episode 4 • Oct 19, 1996

Case File #77110: ""Creeping Darkness"" Impenetrable darkness threatens to engulf an Argentine town Case File # unknown: ""The Power"" Stress boosts a woman's psychokinesis.

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Free Fall / The Presence
Episode 5

Free Fall / The Presence

Episode 5 • Oct 26, 1996

Case File #47129: ""Free Fall"" A sky diver tells of defying gravity Case File #92109: ""The Presence"" A child fears a destructive force.

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The Infestation / Human Apportation
Episode 6

The Infestation / Human Apportation

Episode 6 • Nov 02, 1996

Case File #33130: ""The Infestation"" NASA scientists die searching for a meteorite Case File #87105: ""Human Apportation"" A Californian and her daughter inexplicably find themselves in Toronto.

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Season 2

22 episodes
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Threads
Episode 1

Threads

Episode 1 • Sep 29, 1997

Case File #262-201 After two electricians at work on a building suddenly disappear, along with a huge part of the construction, the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research arrives to investigate.

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Donor
Episode 2

Donor

Episode 2 • Oct 06, 1997

Case File #263-202 In a small farming community, the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research investigates the strange mutilation and seemingly ritualistic slaughter of livestock animals.

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Wish I May
Episode 3

Wish I May

Episode 3 • Oct 13, 1997

Case File #360-203 In swamp country, county doctor calls in the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research to help her find out why a teenager seems to be clinically dead but somehow alive.

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Communion
Episode 4

Communion

Episode 4 • Oct 20, 1997

Case File #245-208 The Office of Scientific Investigation and Research investigates several UFO reports in the industry area of Montex Bioengineering.

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Frozen in Time
Episode 5

Frozen in Time

Episode 5 • Oct 27, 1997

Case File #417-205 Deep in the interior of a national park, a strange epidemic strikes a Native American reserve, turning the residents into living statues.

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Devolution
Episode 6

Devolution

Episode 6 • Nov 03, 1997

Case File #567-212 After a blinding light explodes in a hospital room, a blood-covered entity throws the guard out into the hall and the body of a sixty-year-old woman, sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a police officer, disappears.

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Season 3

22 episodes
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Jaunt (2)
Episode 1

Jaunt (2)

Episode 1 • Sep 27, 1998

Case File #898750 As the third season begins, physicist Peter Axon is the only remaining member of the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research team. Dr. Anton Hendricks is apparently dead, having disappeared into a mysterious apportation device known as the Arch, case manager Matt Praeger has tendered his resignation after differences with the O.S.I.R.'s Director of Operations Frank Elsinger and senior data analyst Lindsay Donner has left the team after running afoul of Praeger and revealing confidential information. Axon and Curtis Rollins, the case manager assigned to the Arch case, take their investigation to a remote area of northern Quebec after an RCMP officer finds a woman wandering alone in the sub-tundra. It turns out the woman had vanished into the Arch and then re-appeared 2,000 miles away. Lindsay Donner and Matt Praeger rejoin the team to recover Hendricks from the Arch.

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Comings and Goings (3)
Episode 2

Comings and Goings (3)

Episode 2 • Oct 04, 1998

Case File #751718 Following a memorial service for Dr. Anton Hendricks the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research team members receive an anonymous phone call informing them that Hendricks is at a nearby hospital unconscious and on a ventilator.

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Heartland
Episode 3

Heartland

Episode 3 • Oct 11, 1998

Case File #898777 When a forest area turns into a bone-dry wasteland virtually overnight, a government agriculture official turns to the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research for help.

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The Kiss
Episode 4

The Kiss

Episode 4 • Oct 18, 1998

Case File #145345 The Office of Scientific Investigation and Research is called into action when the mutilated corpse of a police detective who gunned down an escaped convict is found in a dumpster.

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Absolution
Episode 5

Absolution

Episode 5 • Oct 25, 1998

Case File #569-977 The Office of Scientific Investigation and Research case manager Matt Praeger is institutionalized after a case goes tragically wrong. Working undercover as an arms dealer in order to gain access to a teenager with ESP Praeger gets caught in the middle of a double cross and apparently fires the bullet that kills the youth.

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All Hallows Eve
Episode 6

All Hallows Eve

Episode 6 • Nov 01, 1998

Case File #659-311 The Office of Scientific Investigation and Research case manager Matt Praeger, security co-ordinator Ray Donahue, chief science analyst Peter Axon and senior data analyst Lindsay Donner visit the scene of a grisly, pre-Halloween murder of two college students who died after having their faces torn off.

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Season 4

22 episodes
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Shocking
Episode 1

Shocking

Episode 1 • Sep 26, 1999

Case File # unknown Struck by lightning, a woman must release the electricity through sex in order to survive.

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Sacrifices
Episode 2

Sacrifices

Episode 2 • Oct 03, 1999

Case File # unknown The O.S.I.R. investigates satanic cult activity on a college campus.

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Happy Birthday, Matt Praeger
Episode 3

Happy Birthday, Matt Praeger

Episode 3 • Oct 10, 1999

Case File # unknown Matt inadvertently enters an alternate dimension as a contestant on a game show where he must re-examine his life.

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Soul Survivor
Episode 4

Soul Survivor

Episode 4 • Oct 17, 1999

Case File # unknown The O.S.I.R. investigates a plane crash and its survivors, who have been in a sort of limbo since their disappearance 10 years ago.

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883
Episode 5

883

Episode 5 • Oct 24, 1999

Case File # unknown A doctor's mission to colonize a new world forces Matt to make a decision about his future.

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Once Upon a Time in the West
Episode 6

Once Upon a Time in the West

Episode 6 • Oct 31, 1999

Case File # unknown An old man following three Old West outlaws is actually Axon 30 years in the future, warning his younger self against inventing time-travel.

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