Who to call when you don't know who to call.

East Coast Research and Investigation of the Paranormal is made up of dedicated professionals with specific skills that make them assets to paranormal investigation. Currently, ECRIP has members with skill-sets in engineering, photography, psychology, technical equipment, environmental phenomena and historical research/genealogy. These skill-sets provide us with a solid background to be able to research and investigate to provide real world answers to potential paranormal activity. Once we have ruled out all the natural explanations, we can confidently get behind a paranormal explanation of a phenomenon.

"Paranormal" can be defined as: outside the normal;  can refer to events that are unexplainable;  an event or activity that does not have a definitive cause.

Our goal is not to prove a location is haunted. We strive to, through scientific means, provide an answer to all active phenomenon with real world explanations. If we cannot provide a natural explanation for an event, then we have potential evidence of paranormal activity. So, our goal is to disprove until we find empirical evidence to the contrary.

We take great care in researching and investigating. We want to find paranormal evidence, but wanting to find evidence is not the same thing as investigating for paranormal evidence.

If you are experiencing something as yet unexplainable, and you don't know who to call, call us. We strive to seek out and provide the service(s) that will be the most beneficial to you, and all are 100% no-cost, and guaranteed professional and confidential.

That's why we are the ones to call when you don't know who to call.

ECRIP and TAPS:

Why we are proud to be a TAPS Family Member Team

Published in Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson's book: Seeking Spirits.

Jason: Our Biggest Regret 
2001

We’re not perfect here at TAPS. We make mistakes, some of them the kind that keep us up long into the night, thinking coulda-woulda-shoulda. In the end, all we can do is our best, and when we make a mistake, do our damnedest to correct it.

On Monday, July 16, at about three in the afternoon, we got a call from a woman in St. Charles,  a town of about a thousand people in Ontario, Canada. The woman, April Singer, was reporting threatening activity in her house. In a voice that reeked of nervousness, she said she had been attacked on numerous occasions by an unseen force. Usually these attacks took place in the bathroom while she was either bathing or sitting on the toilet.

April, who described herself as being in her midthirties said that she had been grabbed in what she called “sexual ways.” Afterward, she described that she saw burn marks in places where she felt that she had been touched. What’s more, handprints would turn up on the bathroom mirror – but not on the outside, where they could be wiped off. They would show up on the inside of the mirror.

Her dog, a bull terrier, wouldn’t enter the bathroom for anything. No matter how much she coaxed him, he would just sit and whine at the bathroom door. That scared her as much as anything else.

It was clear to us that April was upset. Unfortunately, in those days we didn’t have the financial wherewithal to pick up and fly to Canada on short notice. We promised her that we would get her some help with her problem, and got on the phone looking for a paranormal group in her area.

We found a couple, too. However, none of them would return our calls, even though I let them know we might be dealing with something serious. We sent emails, but those weren’t returned either. And even if they had been, we couldn’t say how professionally these groups would have handled April’s case. Would they know what to do to help her? Or would they just scare her more than she was already?

We called April back and told her that we’d had no luck but that we would keep trying. We also asked her to remain in contact with us and let us know if the activity in her home was getting worse. She agreed that she would do that.

Unfortunately, we still couldn’t obtain any local help for her. We spoke to her a couple more times over a two-week span. Then she stopped calling, and we figured she had finally received some assistance.

The next we heard of her was about a month later, at the end of August. Just after dinner, I received a phone call from a woman named Jessie Singer, who said that she was April’s sister. In a flat, emotionless  voice, she demanded to know why her sister had called me.

Now we don’t give out information on our clients. We consider what we say to them and do for them a private matter, strictly between us and them. But I made an exception when Jessie Singer had told me she was trying to retrace her sister’s last steps, and had noticed a number of calls to my phone number from her sister’s phone.

“Last steps?” I said, feeling a pit open in my stomach.

Jessie Singer informed me that her sister April had been found dead in her bathtub on Tuesday, August 14. Apparently, April had hit her forehead on the porcelain sink, fallen into the tub a full eight feet away, and drowned.

Now I understood why Jessie Singer had been so terse with me. I told her what her sister had been calling me about, and that I had been working for a while on getting her some help. I asked if there had been any marks on her sister’s body, burn marks, for example. She said that there was a mark over April’s left breast that looked like a cigar burn. However, she added, April had been a smoker and could have caused the burn herself.

However April had died, I felt bad about it . And I felt worse when Jessie said, “It would have been nice if you had actually helped her.” Then I heard her hang up the phone on me.

But the April Singer case wasn’t over – at least, not for me. It continued to eat at me over the years, long after I heard the grim details of her death. I couldn’t help thinking that what happened to her could have been avoided. If there had been a reliable paranormal group up in Ontario, they might have done something. She might have been alive today.

In fact, this client’s sad end was one of the reasons I created the TAPS family of paranormal investigators – a network of groups across the world that observes the same professional standards of TAPS itself, and can get timely assistance to people almost anywhere. Unfortunately for April Singer, that network didn’t exist back in 2001.

It does now

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