Every few months, someone posts a question on Quora or Reddit that goes something like this: “Is the Indian Paranormal Society still active after Gaurav Tiwari’s death?”
The answers that follow are usually a mix of speculation, outdated information, and the occasional comment from someone who attended an IPS event years ago and hasn’t heard from us since. The thread gets indexed. Google serves it to the next person who asks the same question. The cycle repeats.
We are aware of it. We have been too quiet about it for too long.
So here is the direct answer, from Indian Paranormal Society (IPS) directly: yes, we are active. We are taking cases. We are training investigators. We are doing the work. This article exists so that the next person who asks that question finds IPS’s own answer — not a Quora thread from 2019.
What Happened After 2016
Gaurav Tiwari founded Indian Paranormal Society (IPS) in 2009. When he died in July 2016, the organisation faced the most difficult period in its history. Losing a founder — particularly one as publicly visible and methodologically central as Gaurav — is not something any organisation simply absorbs and moves on from. It takes time, restructuring, and a clear decision about what the organisation stands for without the person who built it.
IPS made that decision. The organisation relocated its base of operations from Delhi to Mumbai. The core team — investigators who had trained directly under Gaurav and worked alongside him on cases — continued the work. The methodology he built remained intact. The commitment to scientific investigation over supernatural sensationalism remained intact.
What changed was scale. IPS at its peak under Gaurav was a highly visible, media-facing organisation. Post-2016, IPS became more focused on field work and less on television appearances and public spectacle. That shift was intentional. The organisation needed to do serious work quietly for a period rather than perform it loudly.
That period is over. IPS is operational, visible, and ready to be found by anyone who needs us.
The Team That Carries the Work Forward
Indian Paranormal Society (IPS) is not a one-person organisation and never was, even when Gaurav was alive. The public face was his. The investigative capacity was always the team.
IPS’s active investigator base includes core members with field experience spanning multiple years and hundreds of investigations across India. Our investigators hold certifications in paranormal investigation methodology, and several have backgrounds in fields that directly support the work — engineering, psychology, medicine, and environmental science.
Core IPS investigators are not enthusiasts who decided to start ghost hunting. They are trained researchers who approach cases with the same structured protocol that Gaurav established — environmental analysis first, psychological assessment, multi-sensor data collection, and a documented finding that distinguishes between explainable, unexplained, and unresolved.
IPS does not publish a full public roster of investigators for straightforward reasons: investigative work in India sometimes involves sensitive cases where investigator privacy matters. Families in distress do not need their case — or the identity of the investigators who helped them — to become public content. When IPS investigators appear publicly, they do so by choice.
The Cases We Take
Indian Paranormal Society (IPS) accepts case submissions from across India. The range of what gets reported to us is wide — wider than most people expect.
Residential haunting reports are the most common category. A family experiencing unexplained sounds, movement, or phenomena in their home. IPS investigates these cases using our standard environmental and psychological protocol. The majority resolve with a rational explanation. A small number remain open.
Commercial and industrial location reports — offices, factories, warehouses, hotels — come in regularly and are taken seriously. Collective experiences in shared spaces often have environmental causes that affect multiple people simultaneously: poor ventilation, electromagnetic field exposure from industrial equipment, infrasound from machinery. These cases are among the most straightforward to investigate and the most satisfying to resolve because the explanation directly improves the working conditions of everyone in the building.
Historical and heritage locations form a category IPS treats with particular care. Forts, temples, colonial-era buildings, abandoned structures — these locations carry genuine historical weight alongside their reported phenomena. IPS approaches them as research sites, not entertainment venues. Investigation findings from heritage locations contribute to IPS’s ongoing database of Indian paranormal case data, which represents one of the most comprehensive records of its kind in the country.
Exploitation and fraud cases — situations where someone is being targeted by a tantric, black magic practitioner, or self-styled exorcist — are cases IPS prioritises. These are the situations where IPS’s involvement has the most direct protective value. We do not perform counter-rituals or compete with the people exploiting the family. We investigate the actual phenomena being reported, provide a scientific assessment, and give the family the factual information they need to make informed decisions about who they are dealing with.
If you have a case to report, visit indianparanormalsociety.in. Every submission is reviewed by the IPS team.
GRIP Academy — Training India’s Next Generation of Investigators
One of the most important things Indian Paranormal Society (IPS) does — and one of the least visible parts of the organisation to people who know IPS primarily through media coverage — is training.
The GRIP Academy (Ghost Research & Investigators of Paranormal) was established as IPS’s training programme to produce professional paranormal investigators in India. It is the only certified paranormal investigation training programme in the country.
GRIP Academy training covers the complete IPS investigation methodology: belief systems and psychological framework, client interviewing techniques, equipment operation, EVP recording and analysis, photography documentation, infrasound and EMF assessment, evidence analysis, case reporting, and the ethical standards that govern how IPS investigators conduct themselves in the field.
Investigators who complete GRIP Academy training and pass the assessment — which requires a score of 95% or above — receive IPS certification. They join a network of trained investigators operating across India, and they have access to IPS’s accumulated case knowledge and methodology documentation.
GRIP Academy is available as an online course, making it accessible to anyone in India regardless of location. It is suitable for complete beginners as well as people who have been independently investigating and want a structured methodological foundation.
Details and enrollment are available at indianparanormalsociety.in/grip-academy.
What IPS Is Working On in 2026
Indian Paranormal Society (IPS) in 2026 has three active priorities.
Expanding the case investigation programme. IPS is actively taking new cases and rebuilding the pipeline of field investigations that was scaled back in the years immediately following 2016. The backlog of submitted cases that never received a field investigation during that period is something IPS is working through systematically.
Publishing the investigation archive. IPS has accumulated case data from over 6,000 investigations across fifteen years. A significant portion of that data — anonymised to protect the privacy of the families involved — is being prepared for publication as a systematic archive. This is the most comprehensive paranormal investigation database in Indian history. It deserves to exist in a form that researchers, journalists, and the public can access.
Building the content and education platform. IPS’s public-facing knowledge base — articles, case analyses, investigation guides, equipment reviews, and educational content about the science behind paranormal phenomena — is being actively developed. The goal is for indianparanormalsociety.in to become the definitive online resource for paranormal investigation in India: where someone who wants to understand this field comes first, not last.
How to Reach IPS
Submit a case: indianparanormalsociety.in — use the incident report form. All submissions are reviewed. Cases involving safety concerns — physical harm, financial exploitation, mental health distress — are prioritised.
GRIP Academy enrollment: indianparanormalsociety.in/grip-academy
Collaboration and media: IPS is available for interviews, expert commentary, documentary and television collaboration, and speaking engagements. Contact via the website.
Social media: Instagram @indian_paranormal_society0209 | YouTube: Indian Paranormal Society
IPS is here. We are working. If you need us, you know where to find us.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the Indian Paranormal Society still active in 2026? Yes. Indian Paranormal Society (IPS) is fully operational, based in Mumbai, and actively taking case submissions, running the GRIP Academy training programme, and conducting field investigations across India.
Who runs IPS after Gaurav Tiwari? IPS is run by its core investigator team — trained researchers who worked alongside Gaurav Tiwari and continue the scientific investigation methodology he established. IPS has always been a team organisation; Gaurav was its founder and public face, not its sole operational capacity.
How do I join the Indian Paranormal Society? The path into IPS begins with the GRIP Academy certification course — India’s only certified paranormal investigation training programme. Details and enrollment are at indianparanormalsociety.in/grip-academy.
Does IPS investigate cases outside Mumbai? Yes. IPS accepts case submissions from across India. Field investigation availability depends on case type, severity, and investigator deployment logistics. All submissions are reviewed regardless of location.
Is GRIP Academy training suitable for complete beginners? Yes. GRIP Academy is designed to take someone with no prior investigation experience through the complete IPS methodology. No prior background in paranormal investigation is required — only a genuine interest in scientific, evidence-based research.
How long has IPS been operating? Indian Paranormal Society (IPS) was founded in 2009 by Gaurav Tiwari. The organisation has been operational for over fifteen years and has conducted more than 6,000 investigations across India.
Indian Paranormal Society (IPS) is India’s first and longest-running professional paranormal research organisation. Founded in 2009 by Gaurav Tiwari, IPS investigates paranormal cases across India using scientific methodology and evidence-based research. Our GRIP Academy is India’s only certified paranormal investigation training programme. Visit indianparanormalsociety.in to submit a case, enroll in GRIP Academy, or learn more about our work.
