The WORST episodes of Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal
Every episode of Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal!
Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal is a Canadian sci-fi/drama television series which was filmed in and around Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and aired 88 episodes from 1996 to 2000. The presence of Dan Aykroyd opening and closing every episode and emphasizing the legitimacy of the organization it was inspired by led some viewers to take the show somewhat more seriously than intended, though it was in fact a scripted drama.
#1 - Donor
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/1997
Case File #263-202 In a small farming community, the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research investigates the strange mutilation and seemingly ritualistic slaughter of livestock animals.
#2 - Happy Birthday, Matt Praeger
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/1999
Case File # unknown Matt inadvertently enters an alternate dimension as a contestant on a game show where he must re-examine his life.
#4 - Possession / Man Out of Time
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/1996
Case File #67102: ""Possession"" A software designer tells of demons attacking Case File #10103: ""Man Out of Time"" A disoriented man tells of being from the 17th century.
#7 - Pentimento
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/20/1998
Case File #721-219 When a horrific murder takes place, the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research gets a call to come to a gallery where they find a body strung from the ceiling in the back room, his clothing shredded and his eyes ground into their sockets.
#8 - School of Thought
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/18/1999
Case File #333-016 The Office of Scientific Investigation and Research team investigates after an auto shop teacher at Royalton Custodial School is crushed against a wall by a car. The ""accident"" could be the work of a student with telekinetic ability.
#9 - Dream House / UFO Encounter
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/1996
Case File #34112: ""Dream House"" Blaine and Debbie McCallister summon the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research to investigate the cause of numerous strange occurrences at the site of their new home, after their teenage daughter is hospitalized as a result of a poltergeist encounter. Case File #52111: ""UFO Encounter"" Agents from the O.S.I.R. are summoned to a small town to investigate a double alien abduction of two boys and UFO sightings witnessed by many townspeople.
#10 - Bad Dreams
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/9/1998
Case File #340-212 After a woman, recovering in her hospital bed from knee surgery, suddenly cries out from a terrifying dream and bleeds spontaneously from deep wounds, the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research arrives to secure the building following the inexplicable occurrence.
#11 - The 13th Floor / The Believer
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/12/1997
Case File #957176: ""The 13th Floor"" A possessed woman takes a horrible vengeance on her philandering husband Case File #284145: ""The Believer"" A kidnapper transmits his extortion demands psychically.
#12 - The Light
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/22/1997
Case File #206132: ""The Light"" As wounded Rollins lies near death, his evil doppelganger stalks the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research.
#13 - Frozen Faith
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/27/1998
Case File #721-219 The Office of Scientific Investigation and Research investigates a suburban home in which the living room has become an icy chamber.
#14 - The Warrior
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1997
Case File #371-211 When a curator of a museum decapitated by an unknown assailant, the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research starts to investigate.
#15 - The Fog / House on Garden Street
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/19/1997
Case File #559146: ""The Fog"" A dense fog, mass hallucinations and a serial killer arrive simultaneously on death row Case File #810126: ""House on Garden Street"" An apparition appears to a couple under stress.
#16 - Solitary Confinement
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/7/1999
Case File #226-051 The Office of Scientific Investigation and Research senior data analyst Lindsay Donner and pathologist Claire Davison are called to the Newgate Correctional Facility after an inmate dies mysteriously while in solitary confinement.
#17 - The Underneath / Phantom Limb
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/1996
Case File #28120: ""The Underneath"" A deadly creature lives in the sewers Case File #52113: ""Phantom Limb"" Strange events follow an accident that claimed a farmer's arm.
#18 - The Curse / Angel on a Plane
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/18/1997
Case File #631136: ""The Curse"" Death strikes archaeologists who uncovered an Egyptian burial chamber Case File #260122: ""Angel on a Plane"" A mysterious woman safely lands a plane hit by lightning.
#19 - The Fire Within / Fate
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/3/1997
Case File #994124: ""The Fire Within"" Spontaneous human combustion Case File #232148: ""Fate"" A teen with psychic powers struggles to understand events leading to his best friend's death.
#20 - The Night of the Setting Sun
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/2/1998
Case File #938-216 A dealer of rare animals breaks into an abandoned factory with an accomplice, who afterwards is pulled back into the complex by some unseen presence.
#21 - The Labyrinth
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/13/1998
Case File #309-217 When a city worker is killed by a wave of light and sound, the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research is called in to investigate.
#22 - Map to the Stars
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/4/1998
Case File #420-202 Case Manager Matt Praeger flies to Halifax to bail out Michael Kelly, who has been arrested for being drunk and disorderly.
#23 - The Kiss
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/1998
Case File #145345 The Office of Scientific Investigation and Research is called into action when the mutilated corpse of a police detective who gunned down an escaped convict is found in a dumpster.
#24 - Absolution
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/1998
Case File #569-977 The Office of Scientific Investigation and Research case manager Matt Praeger is institutionalized after a case goes tragically wrong. Working undercover as an arms dealer in order to gain access to a teenager with ESP Praeger gets caught in the middle of a double cross and apparently fires the bullet that kills the youth.
#25 - Harlequin
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/1998
Case File #828-456 The Office of Scientific Investigation and Research investigates the unusual death of a large South American rodent called a capybara at the Windsor Animal Hospice.