How to Establish a Paranormal Team: A Leadership Guide for Building a Responsible, Skilled Investigation Group

What This Guide Is

Paranormal teams succeed or fail based on leadership, communication, and trust. This e-book is designed to help investigators move from working alone to building a thoughtful, well-structured team that operates with clarity and respect.

Rather than focusing on equipment or evidence collection, this guide addresses the human side of investigation. It explores how teams form, grow, handle conflict, review evidence collaboratively, and build a reputation rooted in credibility rather than spectacle.

This book is ideal for anyone starting a paranormal group, refining an existing team, or stepping into a leadership role for the first time.

What You’ll Learn

Inside this guide, you will learn how to:

• Define your team’s identity, mission, and values
• Assign roles and develop individual strengths
• Screen and onboard new members thoughtfully
• Create clear expectations and codes of conduct
• Plan and run investigations as a coordinated group
• Review evidence collaboratively and responsibly
• Manage conflict and maintain healthy team dynamics
• Build trust with property owners and institutions
• Grow your team sustainably over time

The appendix includes planning frameworks and reference materials to help teams apply these concepts in practice.

Who This Guide Is For

This e-book is ideal for:

• Investigators ready to form a paranormal team
• Existing teams seeking clearer structure
• Team leaders and coordinators
• Paranormal groups working with historic sites
• Anyone interested in ethical, collaborative investigation

No prior leadership experience is required.

About the Author

Ashlynn Rickord Werner is a historian, cemetery professional, and paranormal researcher focused on ethical investigation, leadership, and public engagement. She is the co-founder of Paranormal Pin, a platform dedicated to helping people explore paranormal locations responsibly through research, documentation, and storytelling.