The Paranormal Blog

Press Release: December 9th, 2010 - 09:45am EST

PSICAN and it's daughter groups wish to state that we condemn, in the harshest of terms, the destruction and vandalism recently reported at St. John's Shrewsbury in Quebec's Lower Laurentian area, that may have a connection to would be "ghost hunters" and wish to state, for the record, that these acts have not come from our groups and go against our laws of governance ("code of conduct") in terms of how our groups operate when we are looking into reports of "ghostly" activity. PSICAN's "Rules of Governance" which Ontarioghosts, Torontoghosts, and ParaResearchers strictly abide by are located here (click here to view them).

As not only historians, folklorists, and psychical investigators and researchers... but as just general caring people in Ontario, we are appalled at what has been reported to have happened.

As we (PSICAN, Torontoghosts, Ontarioghosts, and ParaResearchers,) are proud that we are not "ghost hunters" and do work with a publicly posted code of ethics and conduct, sadly, there are those who are too fond of the fictional view of our work (and how it's also portrayed on reality-ish television as well,) and they do terrible things. We implore anyone with a genuine interest in these topics to stop, listen, and read... ensure you are welcome where you're going to, and if someone you know feels that destructive or illegal behaviour is "okay", walk away from them... and if you hear of things like this report in Shrewsbury, consider HARD contacting the authorities... preferably before it happens... because no matter who it is, stupid behaviour like this affects us all negatively in some way.

We thank you for your time in this matter...

Please note: Although this event happened in Quebec, a CBC report had mistakenly placed it in Shrewsbury, Ontario...