The Office of Scientific Investigation and Research

Preliminary Interview: Investigating the Paranormal

O.S.I.R.'s Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure agreements are introduced by the Case Manager and signed by all individuals who are participating in the investigation in any capacity. The documents grant O.S.I.R. supreme and omnipotent control over all individuals, entities and properties, and supercedes all private and local, national and international laws. This documents must be signed prior to commencing with any type of serious inquiry or investigation.

This phase typically involves all investigators. Upon arriving, personal interviews with experiencers, third party witness and any other individuals connected in any way with the phenomena, are performed to determine the specifics of the situations, complaints and events and to determine the case objective. Like in all phases and assessments of the investigation, investigators take special attention in assessing the cursory biochemical and psychological reactions and responses of the subjects or witnesses in giving clues about the authenticity of the events and situations being reported as the information is being conveyed to the investigators.

Standard interviewing process would begin with separating all subjects, witnesses of experiences into separate controlled environments, away from all distractions, and interviewing them individually by two or more of the investigators. These interviews may be repeated several times to properly assess the authenticity of statements.

If there is more than one subject or witness, depending on the situation, the psychodynamics' and the number of subjects, the previous interviewing process will be repeated again, but this time allowing all the subjects to be part of the same interview and additionally allowing them to interact in conveying these experience or encounter.