PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal
A team of scientific researchers belonging to a scientific group that investigates reports of paranormal phenomena. A procedural format that follows a hand-full of characters on their assigned cases, the investigations would either be determined to have rational/explainable causes or be determined to be paranormal in-nature. Loosely inspired by a real-life organization and true-events.
- 1996-2000
- 4 seasons
- Eyemark Entertainment
- Drama, Fantasy, Suspense
- TV-14
A team of scientific researchers belonging to a scientific group that investigates reports of paranormal phenomena. A procedural format that follows a hand-full of characters on their assigned cases, the investigations would either be determined to have rational/explainable causes or be determined to be paranormal in-nature. Loosely inspired by a real-life organization and true-events.
Season 4 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1999 - 2000
Episode 1
Shocking
45 mins
Johns are somehow being electrocuted during their tryst with a strange seductive hooker, although not lethally. The team tries to find the woman before she actually kills someone. Also, the team gets a new member - Mia Stone.
Episode 2
Sacrifices
45 mins
The team is investigating a dangerous satanic cult led by students on Matt's daughter's campus. She becomes the cult's next initiate.
Episode 3
Happy Birthday, Matt Praeger
45 mins
On his birthday, Matt unknowingly walks through a portal and becomes trapped in a bizarre metaphysical game show where he must face both its host and the mischievous doppelgängers of his teammates, who each have a challenge for him.
Episode 4
Soul Survivor
45 mins
The plane carrying a famous rock band goes missing along with its passengers in 1989. In 1999, it suddenly reappears buried underground with the band's singer as the sole survivor. The team slowly uncovers what happened on the flight.
Episode 5
883
45 mins
Matt finds a disfigured mute with number 883 embedded on his arm. His toxic blood infects Matt and slowly starts killing him. Matt's only chance for survival is the secretive female doctor behind the genetic experiment that created 883.
Episode 6
Once Upon a Time in the West
45 mins
The Houdini Gang, a cowboy trio straight out of 1899, is stealing bullion from a bank's vault when their time machine breaks down. They take Peter hostage. Outside, familiar stranger approaches Lindsay and her psychotic SWAT leader beau.
Episode 7
Body and Soul
45 mins
A woman's vision of her own brutal murder leads the team to an unmarked shallow grave on her boyfriend's mother's farm. Anton suspects that the boyfriend's missing father has been reincarnated as the woman.
Episode 8
Temple of Light
45 mins
Lindsay infiltrates a serene, anti-government, new age cult that worships an entity they call Varik to investigate the reported possession of a cultist and popular scream queen by Varik. She and the team uncover a deadly conspiracy.
Episode 9
Inertia
45 mins
Peter and Lindsay join a team of military scientists who are secretly transporting a female alien. A survivalist group of cultists who believe that the alien is their messiah ambush the convoy. Peter and the alien escape into the woods.
Episode 10
Nocturnal Cabal
45 mins
In this comical meta episode, Mia takes Lindsay to a rave night club that turns out to be a front for hungry vampire-like ghouls. Meanwhile, Peter must deal with an aggressive female TV producer who wants to make a TV show about the team.
Episode 11
'Til Death Do Us Part
45 mins
A female author in love with the subject of her book, a reformed death-row inmate, believes that he's contacting her through astral projection. The team discovers there's a far more sinister explanation.
Episode 12
Tyler/Tim
45 mins
The team is called to a camp for mentally challenged kids to investigate a lake monster. The monster turns out to be a prank of an autistic teen, who shows signs of psychokinesis. The team discovers the shocking truth behind his power.
Episode 13
Super Sargasso Sea
45 mins
Frogs and fish rain in the backyard of an alcoholic divorcee. Lindsay and Peter find the lake where the animals came from, but two hicks find the teleporting device that caused the incident first. Their disapproving mother falls into it.
Episode 14
Persistence of Vision
45 mins
Investigation of a ghostly image on a wedding video leads Mia to a young secretive homeless man who has visions of murders committed by a mysterious serial killer. Another man is following them. Is he the killer, a demon or an angel?
Episode 15
GeoCore
45 mins
A chemist hired by a shady businessman to analyze a soil sample from the sacred ground of a Native American tribe is killed by something in it. Lindsay, Peter and everyone in the building are put in quarantine. A shaman offers her help.
Episode 16
Gone Fishing
45 mins
Peter and an old friend with a grudge go on a fishing trip but end up being captured by a psychotic feral woman who lives like a hermit in a secluded cabin in the nearby forest.
Episode 17
Chiaroscuro
45 mins
Abandoned church turned art studio is haunted by a force that possesses and forces the artists there to draw images of hell. The team suspects aliens until they realize that three bohemian artists in a menage-a-trois are haunted the most.
Episode 18
Regeneration
45 mins
The team's former female colleague has secretly created a clone of Lindsay that possess rapid healing. Connor reappears and warns the team that the clone is actually a highly unstable and dangerous human-alien hybrid.
Episode 19
Wendigo
Sat, Apr 29, 2000 45 mins
Peter and Lindsay investigate what happened to their three colleagues who went missing in the woods while investigating a werewolf case. The missing team's found footage clues the two in that they're actually dealing with a wendigo.
Episode 20
Elevator
45 mins
A man kills himself after having a deja vu of an alternate timeline in which his wife admitted to infidelity. Lindsay, Claire and Mia get stuck in his building's elevator and start an uncharacteristically frank and mean-spirited argument.
Episode 21
Force Majeure
45 mins
Lindsay and Peter give contradictory accounts of why a man they were investigating went up in flames. Peter believes he was a drunk swinger who spontaneously combusted, while Lindsay believes he was a demon trying to take Peter's soul.
Episode 22
Stone Dreams
45 mins
Mia, Lindsey and Peter discover a cocooned alien. Mia suffers from hallucinations after being caught in the alien's web. She becomes part of an experiment that goes very wrong. The show ends on a sad, ambiguous note.
