Paranormal Society

Property Certification Program

Determine Whether Your Property Is Haunted.

The Society conducts formal haunting audits for hotels, historic properties, and private residences.

Each investigation concludes, where the evidence permits, in a numbered and publicly verifiable determination: Certified Not Haunted or Certified Haunted.

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The ordinary finding

Certified
Not Haunted

No evidence sufficient to establish a spectral or otherwise paranormal presence was documented under the conditions and during the period of examination.

The extraordinary finding

Certified
Haunted

A coherent pattern of evidence survived ordinary explanation and secondary review.

How certification works

The Audit Culminates in an Independent Finding.

The property owner purchases the audit; the determination remains the independent finding of the Society.

01
Eligibility Review
The Society establishes authority to commission the work, the suitability of the site, and the proper scope of inquiry.
02
Site Dossier
Documentary history, architectural conditions, prior testimony, local ghost-lore, and the present social use of the property are assembled.
03
Diagnostic Survey
Investigators record the material and environmental conditions against which unusual events must be evaluated.
04
Invigilated Encounter
The site is observed under a defined protocol, with controlled provocations introduced where they are methodologically appropriate.
05
Review & Determination
The record is examined for correspondences, recurrent anomalies, alternative explanations, and evidence of an independently acting presence.
06
Certification & Registry
A qualifying property receives a numbered certificate, a findings report, and a verifiable public record subject to the owner’s privacy election.

Learn More About Certification

The Registered Certificate

A Formal Record of the Society’s Determination.

A qualifying property receives a finding report, an archival paper certificate, an individual registry number, and (where the owner elects public registration) a permanent verification page.

A fabricated plaque may be commissioned after the determination is issued.

Submit a property

Paranormal Society

for Historically Informed Ghost Hunting

Property Haunting Certification

Certified Not Haunted

The property identified in the accompanying registry entry has been examined in accordance with the Society’s audit protocol. No evidence sufficient to establish a spectral or otherwise paranormal presence was documented under the conditions and during the period of examination.

PropertySpecimen only

RegistryPS—NH—YYYY—0000

ClassificationNH

StatusSpecimen / not issued

Authorized finding of the Society

Certificate study, shown for program development. This specimen is not an issued credential.

The practice behind the certification

Historically Informed Ghost Hunting

Historically informed ghost hunting is the investigation of ghosts and beliefs about ghosts, with particular attention to historic homes and properties. The Society examines both the reported phenomena of a place and the histories and folklore through which its hauntings have been understood. Its investigative protocol proceeds from four core principles: attunement, diagnostics, invigilation, and controlled provocation. Each is introduced below.