Who Is CAPI?
CAPI is currently a non-profit, volunteer organization whose primary focus is to investigate and document suspected paranormal activity in homes and businesses in the Calgary and Southern Alberta region.
Our services are free. Any and all expenses connected to investigations and research are covered by team members. While we do not charge for our services, we do ask our clients to consider donating a minimum of $50 per investigation visit.
Our History
Jay McMahon and Tom Davis formed the Calgary Association of Paranormal Investigations on August 1, 2001. Our first website went live October 1, 2001 and contained our first investigation at the Deane House. It was a small free Yahoo! space that showed its limitations quickly. Our second site, a much larger web space, went live January 5, 2002. We eventually outgrew this web space and on September 29, 2005 our current website came online.
Over the years we have had many incredible volunteers without whom research and investigations would not have been successful. CAPI owes our past and present volunteers eternal gratitude for their dedication and commitment.
Our Mission
To investigate and document all suspected paranormal activity. To use scientific methodology as a base to determine if reported activity can be explained logically by eliminating all probable and rational variables. To apply spiritual philosophy as a secondary tool, along with our clients' spiritual belief system, to determine non-tangible explanations for activity.
Our Objectives
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To dispel myths.
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To establish reported activity as either paranormal in origin or scientifically explainable by documenting all of our procedures thoroughly.
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To control conditions using scientific methodology (as the locations permit).
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To use equipment that is readily available to any person when conducting our investigations, creating a non-elitist investigative association.
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To give the highest priority to our clients' privacy and use all known and available resources to assist them.
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To provide historical research that is as comprehensive as archival records allow empowering us to decipher possible causes for activity.
