PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal

A science team that works for the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research (O.S.I.R.) investigates the reports of supernatural phenomena.

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Cast:Nancy Anne Sakovich , Barclay Hope , Colin Fox , Dan Aykroyd , Soo Garay , Matt Frewer , Peter MacNeill , Nigel Bennett , Maurice Dean Wint , Paul Miller , Joanne Vannicola , Peter Blais , Michael Moriarty , Lindsay Collins , Lisa LaCroix , Heather Bertram , Anthony Lemke , Kathryn Winslow

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Dream House/UFO Encounter

Sat, Oct 12, 1996

Apparitions in an unfinished dream house may be a warning from a parallel dimension. Two Iowan boys claim to be the victims of an alien abduction but something doesn't add up.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Possession/Man Out of Time

Sat, Oct 5, 1996

A terrified family man starts seeing demons and soon so does his wife. A desperate Englishman who seemingly appeared out of nowhere claims to be a farmer from the 17th century.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Reptilian Revenge/Ghostly Voices

Sat, Oct 12, 1996

In a small town, pet snakes seek revenge. After she experiences what seems to be poltergeist activity, an old rich grieving widow becomes convinced that her dead loving husband is trying to contact her.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ The Creeping Darkness/Power

Sat, Oct 19, 1996

A mysterious field of darkness inexplicably appears in the home of an Argentinian family and starts to slowly expand. A single mother begins to lose control over her psychokinetic power and asks the O.S.I.R. team for help.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ The Freefall/Presence

Sat, Oct 26, 1996

A skydiver somehow lands safely without a parachute. A small boy is being terrorized by an entity that may or may not be real whenever he enters the kitchen.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ The Infestation/Human Apportation

Sat, Nov 2, 1996

Something is slaughtering NASA scientists and National Guardsmen sent to investigate a fallen meteor in a forest. The team's other case involves a family that's apparently become the victim of random apportation or teleportation.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ The Underneath/Phantom Limb

Sat, Nov 9, 1996

Some kind of giant reptile is slaughtering people in Lyon, France. A farmer that lost his hand in an accident develops psychokinetic abilities but refuses to accept this fact.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ The Transient/Two Lost Old Men

Sat, Nov 16, 1996

A rabbi tries to exorcise a dybbuk, or demon in Jewish mythology, from a possessed Jewish woman. Three young ecologists locate a strange dead zone in the middle of a forest, that somehow causes rapid aging.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ UFO Duplication/Clara's Friend

Sat, Nov 23, 1996

On a stormy night, a single mother discovers in shock the exact duplicates of all three of her pets and even her young son in their house. A little girl befriends what seems to be the ghost of a girl from the 1920s.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ The Hunter/The Healer

Sat, Nov 30, 1996

A farmer claims that a werewolf has slaughtered his cattle. A young man's miraculous healing gift comes with a grave price for him.

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ The Curse/Angel on a Plane

Sat, Jan 18, 1997

A team of archaeologists discovers a strange, sealed, Egyptian tomb and begins suffering from a mysterious illness. A passenger plane caught in the storm is saved from crashing by what some claim to be a mystery woman.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ Anasazi Cave/Devil's Triangle

Sat, Jan 25, 1997

A team of archaeologists discovers a mysterious cave used by the lost Anasazi people, but whoever enters it immediately inexplicably drops dead. A boat with one man on board is lost in the Bermuda Triangle.

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ The Undead/Stalker Moon

Sat, Feb 1, 1997

A homeless John Doe seemingly comes back from the dead. A popular film actress is being stalked by what seems to be the apparition of her jailed crazy fan.

14Season 1

S1.E14 ∙ The Forbidden North/Reincarnation

Sat, Feb 8, 1997

In a forest in the state of Washington, a group of lumberjacks see what seems to be a Sasquatch. Under regressive hypnoses, a man somehow remembers the future of another man, who happens to still be alive, as his own past life.

15Season 1

S1.E15 ∙ The Greenhouse Effect/The Buzz

Sat, Feb 15, 1997

A group of deadly sentient plants attacks a family in their home. A little girl starts hearing a maddening buzzing sound and soon the entire town falls victim to it as well as the rat infestation that might have something to do with it.

16Season 1

S1.E16 ∙ The Light

Sat, Feb 22, 1997

Lead O.S.I.R. investigator Dr. Curtis Rollins is shot by a serial killer known as the White Crow, who's obsessed with life after death. This inexplicably brings into existence Rollins' exact double who assumes the identity of the killer.

17Season 1

S1.E17 ∙ The 13th Floor/The Believer

Sat, Apr 12, 1997

In a Manhattan penthouse, a demonically possessed woman attacks the lift boy and her abusive husband. A physics professor, and Peter's old mentor, receives a vision from his insane, alien-obsessed rival, who kidnapped his wife.

18Season 1

S1.E18 ∙ The Fog/House on Garden Street

Sat, Apr 19, 1997

New convict, a feared Russian hitman dubbed the Angel of Death, somehow causes strange hallucinogenic fog to appear in the high security prison he's in. Wife's frustration over her busy yuppie husband manifests itself as an apparition.

19Season 1

S1.E19 ∙ Second Sight/Chocolate Soldier

Mon, Apr 21, 1997

A woman that's recovering from a kidney transplant starts having visions of a woman in danger and a strange octagonal fiery symbol. A disturbed cult leader with a harem of female followers has the power to mesmerize any woman he wants.

20Season 1

S1.E20 ∙ Fire Within/Fate

Sat, May 3, 1997

The simple case of a farmer turned victim of spontaneous human combustion uncovers a potential conspiracy. Bullied high school student with the powers of telepathy and precognition tries to change the tragic fate of his best friend.

21Season 1

S1.E21 ∙ Death at Sunset/Collision

Sat, May 10, 1997

Peter's hometown of Bell Island is being plagued by a mysterious deadly illness tied to the local Norse legend of ten mystical stones. The mother of a little girl is killed in a car crash and her soul enters the businesswoman who hit her.

22Season 1

S1.E22 ∙ Perestroika

Sat, May 17, 1997

A mysterious, deadly, ancient parasite that survived the Ice Age hidden in the frozen corpse of a Mylodon or giant sloth wreaks havoc at a remote Russian scientific outpost. The O.S.I.R. team is sent to help their Russian counterpart.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ Threads

Mon, Sep 29, 1997

Part of an unfinished building inexplicably and violently vanishes along with two construction workers. Lindsay is still dealing with Connor Doyle's tragic death. The O.S.I.R. gets a new lead investigator, Matt Prager.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Donor

Mon, Oct 6, 1997

Something is attacking the livestock in a small farming community. The team's new informant Michael Kelly implies that it may have something to do with the illegal cloning experiments conducted by a shady genetic research company.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Wish I May

Mon, Oct 6, 1997

In the bayou, a man is somehow brought back from the dead, but he's still decomposing. The locals accuse his family of witchcraft. The team tries to help, but Hendricks, who's showing unusually high interest in the case, becomes unhinged.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Communion

Mon, Oct 13, 1997

After being abducted by aliens, a traumatized scientist specialized in genetic research on plants discovers that he's been given strange power to read and control genetic material. Unable to cope with this, he becomes unhinged.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Frozen in Time

Mon, Oct 27, 1997

All members of a small remote aboriginal community as well as the nuns who were helping them there suddenly, inexplicably and simultaneously become victims of death-like state that resembles an extreme form of rigor mortis.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Devolution

Mon, Nov 3, 1997

A hospitalized elderly female convict is suffering from bizarre violent explosions that somehow rejuvenate her. The team starts their investigation with her nurse, who belongs to the vampire fetishists within the local goth community.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ The Warrior

Mon, Nov 10, 1997

The statue of a headless soldier from the Terracotta Army given to a museum as a gift by the Chinese consulate comes to life and starts decapitating people.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ The Grey Men

Mon, Nov 17, 1997

Matt is abducted by what may or may not be aliens and analyzed by a psychologist who looks like Kelly. The team questions a creepy trucker and a strange cook, who both show signs of anhedonia or the inability to feel joy, about the case.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ Man of War

Mon, Nov 24, 1997

A soldier vanishes in the woods after discovering a mysterious light in the sky. The team's job is made difficult by a military exercise in the area. Elsinger's psychic assistant Kate joins the case despite Matt's protests.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ The Damned

Mon, Dec 1, 1997

Something is drowning the members of a rich family of land developers headed by a ruthless greedy old patriarch and plagued by a psychotic gangster with a thing for power drills, who thinks Matt is behind the killings.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ Hell Week

Mon, Jan 26, 1998

A meek student with psychokinetic powers discovers that he has an egomaniacal twin brother with the same ability. Peter, who thinks about quitting the team, clashes with Matt over the way they should handle the case.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ The Edge

Mon, Feb 2, 1998

A psychotic janitor, who works in a psychiatric hospital and possesses mind control abilities thanks to his poisonous pet toad, kidnaps people, plays mind games with them and drives them completely insane. He targets Matt's daughter next.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ Bad Dreams

Mon, Feb 9, 1998

A hospital patient keeps having the same nightmare. In it, a masked man is trying to kill her with a blade and whenever he harms her in the dream, wounds appear on her body in reality. Lindsay becomes obsessed with the case.

14Season 2

S2.E14 ∙ Kiss of the Tiger

Mon, Feb 9, 1998

In desperation, Matt's old friend seeks help for his dying wife from a Chinese mystic. Unfortunately, his clan forbids him to use his healing powers under the penalty of death. Matt soon realizes that there's another player in the case.

15Season 2

S2.E15 ∙ The Haunting

Mon, Feb 23, 1998

A ghost scares a man to death in an elite hotel. The team discovers that the haunting may have something to do with the shady owner. Anton hopes the case might help him learn what happened to his family that vanished in a freak accident.

16Season 2

S2.E16 ∙ The Night of the Setting Sun

Mon, Mar 2, 1998

While investigating the resurgence of an old flu strain that resembles the Spanish Flu, the team finds a reclusive family of drifters in hiding, who all look like they came straight out of the 1910s, and may or may not be vampires.

17Season 2

S2.E17 ∙ The Labyrinth

Mon, Mar 2, 1998

A mysterious beam of light is killing sewer inspectors. The team determines that a female junkie with the rarest blood type of all - the Bombay or HH blood group, has got something to do with it.

18Season 2

S2.E18 ∙ Pentimento

Mon, Apr 13, 1998

A painting sketched by a traumatized artist in his own blood has something to do with a series of brutal killings. Meanwhile, Matt falls for a mystery woman.

19Season 2

S2.E19 ∙ Frozen Faith

Mon, Apr 20, 1998

While investigating a bizarre case of a young boy, whose room inexplicably froze along with him, Anton gets possessed by a playful, dangerous and unpredictable entity that may or may not be a fallen angel.

20Season 2

S2.E20 ∙ Map to the Stars

Mon, May 4, 1998

Three people from completely different walks of life believe to have been the victims of alien abduction, and that they were given a task by the aliens that they need to complete. Matt suspects, however, that the government is behind it.

21Season 2

S2.E21 ∙ The Endangered

Mon, May 11, 1998

Employees sent to a Canadian forest by their company to attend a team building exercise are being killed by a yeti. Their shady boss wants its head. The growing feuds between Matt, Peter, Elsinger and Kelly escalate with tragic results.

22Season 2

S2.E22 ∙ The Egress

Mon, May 18, 1998

A mysterious portal forms in a strange stone archway. Information leak about the case leads to a serious clash between Matt, the team and Elsinger. Can the team survive this infighting? Shocking revelation about Kelly makes things worse.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Jaunt

Sun, Sep 27, 1998

The team is reassembled to investigate the reappearance of Joanne, one of the people who went through the mysterious arch from the previous episode and is now obsessed with returning to it. Peter and Curtis try to find Anton.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Comings & Goings

Sun, Oct 4, 1998

Anton inexplicably reappears, but he's now dying from the arch's effects. Matt suspects that Elsinger knows more than he's admitting.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ Heartland

Sun, Oct 11, 1998

Something is creating dead zones on the land that's been given by the government to the Cree a long time ago, and people have now begun dying as well. Some believe it's supernatural, but the team has a more conspiratorial theory.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ Palimpsest

Sun, Nov 8, 1998

The bodies of a prospector and a young-looking old woman that mysteriously appeared in an unfinished building imply that the past, the present and the future might somehow be intersecting at that spot. The team's psychic, Kate, helps out.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ The Kiss

Sun, Oct 18, 1998

A mysterious killer with both male and female DNA is taking out the cops who covered up a questionable shooting. Their tongues are ripped out and spines crushed. Matt's ex, who was the reporter covering the shooting, contacts Matt.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Absolution

Sun, Oct 25, 1998

Inexplicably unhinged Matt is arrested for killing the young psychic son of a drug dealer. He's taken for treatment to a psychiatric facility that may or may not be run by demons. The team tries to figure out what's going on.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ Little People

Sun, Nov 29, 1998

The troubled, nerdy, young adopted brother of Matt's daughter's best friend is targeted by tiny but vicious forest trolls. Or are they just a figment of his imagination? Also, Matt's daughter falls for Peter.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ Return

Sun, Nov 15, 1998

Anton begins suspecting that his long lost wife, who came back from the arch with him, is actually a doppelganger planted by the Old Ones from H.P. Lovecraft's stories. He takes drastic measures to determine the truth.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ All Hallow's Eve

Sun, Nov 1, 1998

Linda Blair guest stars as Rebecca Royce, a successful author with a multiple personality disorder. Her hit novel "All Hallows Horror" has inspired a copy cat killer who is murdering his victims in the same fashion as the characters in Rebecca's book. The OSI Team (Office of Scientific Investigation) must race to discover the connection between Rebecca's novel and the murders before the killer strikes again !

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ Chango

Sat, Jan 30, 1999

Peter's ex teammate drops dead during a street dance party. He revives during the funeral only to be killed again by black magic tied to Santería. His strange girlfriend becomes the team's first suspect but things aren't that simple.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ The Winding Cloth

Sat, Jan 23, 1999

On the Welsh coast, Lindsay's archaeologist mentor and old flame discovers a burial site with a coffin that contains the winding-cloth (death shroud) of a sadistic medieval overlord. An evil cult kidnaps him.

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ Harlequin

Sun, Nov 22, 1998

A capybara is killed in an animal shelter by what some believe to be the El Chupacabra. Dr. Bob Dalhousie, who runs the shelter, turns out to be Cooper's biggest fan, which becomes a problem.

13Season 3

S3.E13 ∙ Old Wounds

Sat, Feb 20, 1999

A woman is somehow physically injured by the virtual reality space shooter game she's testing with its programmer. The team suspects that the game triggered suppressed traumatic memories of her life in communist China in 1989.

14Season 3

S3.E14 ∙ Solitary Confinement

Sat, Feb 6, 1999

Peter goes undercover as new inmate in prison to investigate the baffling death of a convicted murderer, who somehow choked on dirt while being in solitary confinement known as Room 216, a place where terrors from the past can kill.

15Season 3

S3.E15 ∙ Valentine

Mon, Feb 15, 1999

Lindsay falls for two men - a shady, charismatic nightclub owner and a charming, middle-aged widower, who are both connected to the case of a dead junkie drained of blood that the team is working on. Could one of them be a vampire?

16Season 3

S3.E16 ∙ The Observer Effect

Sat, Feb 27, 1999

The team arrives in a strange, secluded, reclusive and highly inhospitable gated community to interview two of its residents, who claim to have been the recent victims of alien abduction. But who's really observing who in this odd town?

17Season 3

S3.E17 ∙ School of Thought

Mon, Apr 12, 1999

After a shop teacher is almost killed by a car with no engine, the OSIR investigates antisocial teens with telekinetic powers in a high school for troubled youth. Also, the team's personal lives get more complicated.

18Season 3

S3.E18 ∙ Y2K

Mon, Apr 19, 1999

The team investigates the gruesome death of two programmers, who were working on a Y2K bug patch for a big security firm. Their brains were somehow destroyed by a strange computer virus. Also, Matt's relationship with Claire falls apart.

19Season 3

S3.E19 ∙ Tribunal

Mon, May 3, 1999

In this clip-show, the team is put on trial before an ad hoc tribunal. The prosecutor reexamines some of their cases involving aliens in order to debunk them and prove that aliens don't exist. Peter is poisoned before his testimony.

20Season 3

S3.E20 ∙ John Doe

Sun, May 9, 1999

A janitor with amnesia turns out to be a genius savant. He helps Peter successfully test a new experimental EMP weapon for the government and befriends him. However, he's haunted by the memory of an assassin killing his wife.

21Season 3

S3.E21 ∙ Forever and a Day: Part 1

Sat, May 15, 1999

Faith healer Nicholai Mosher is taken in by the OSIR to help a dying child of an influential man. He fails and the child dies. Nicholai is soon assassinated as payback. The people behind his death start dying supernaturally.

22Season 3

S3.E22 ∙ Forever and a Day: Part 2

Sun, May 23, 1999

Elsinger's boss is revealed to be a nearly immortal evil Frenchman, who seeks the key to immortality and is ready to kill the entire team to get it. The team tries to expose him with Kelly's help, but Elsinger has something else in mind.

1Season 4

S4.E1 ∙ Shocking

Sun, Sep 26, 1999

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.

2Season 4

S4.E2 ∙ Sacrifices

Sun, Oct 3, 1999

The team is investigating a dangerous satanic cult led by students on Matt's daughter's campus. She becomes the cult's next initiate.

3Season 4

S4.E3 ∙ Happy Birthday, Matt Praeger

Sun, Oct 10, 1999

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.

4Season 4

S4.E4 ∙ Soul Survivor

Sun, Oct 17, 1999

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.

5Season 4

S4.E5 ∙ 883

Sun, Oct 24, 1999

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.

6Season 4

S4.E6 ∙ Once Upon a Time in the West

Sun, Oct 31, 1999

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.

7Season 4

S4.E7 ∙ Body and Soul

Sun, Nov 7, 1999

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.

8Season 4

S4.E8 ∙ Temple of Light

Sun, Nov 14, 1999

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.

9Season 4

S4.E9 ∙ Inertia

Sun, Nov 21, 1999

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.

10Season 4

S4.E10 ∙ Nocturnal Cabal

Sun, Nov 28, 1999

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.

11Season 4

S4.E11 ∙ 'Til Death Do Us Part

Sat, Jan 22, 2000

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.

12Season 4

S4.E12 ∙ Tyler/Tim

Sun, Jan 30, 2000

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.

13Season 4

S4.E13 ∙ Super Sargasso Sea

Sat, Feb 5, 2000

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.

14Season 4

S4.E14 ∙ Persistence of Vision

Sat, Feb 12, 2000

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?

15Season 4

S4.E15 ∙ GeoCore

Thu, Feb 10, 2000

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.

16Season 4

S4.E16 ∙ Gone Fishing

Sun, Feb 20, 2000

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.

17Season 4

S4.E17 ∙ Chiaroscuro

Wed, Mar 15, 2000

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.

18Season 4

S4.E18 ∙ Regeneration

Wed, Mar 22, 2000

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.

19Season 4

S4.E19 ∙ Wendigo

Wed, Mar 29, 2000

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.

20Season 4

S4.E20 ∙ Elevator

Thu, Apr 6, 2000

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.

21Season 4

S4.E21 ∙ Force Majeure

Thu, Apr 13, 2000

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.

22Season 4

S4.E22 ∙ Stone Dreams

Sat, May 20, 2000

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.