Mark Johnson - NJPR Coordinator & Lead Researcher

Occupation: Database Analyst for a marketing company

Biography: Mark has been interested in the paranormal since he was young, but it wasn't until shortly after he moved to New Jersey from Los Angeles, in 1999, that he realized the house that he was living in was haunted. He contacted a local ghost research group to investigate his house and was impressed enough with the investigation to join them. He's been researching the paranormal ever since and has been a member of two other research groups before forming North Jersey Paranormal Research in 2004.

Mike Mittentag - Webmaster & Researcher     

Occupation: Information Technology                    

Biography: Mike became interested in the paranormal after experiencing strange things in his home as a teenager. After researching the paranormal on his own, he decided to join NJPR to help further his understanding of the unknown.

Chris Rogers - Researcher                                    

Occupation: Business Owner                                      

Biography: Chris has been involved in many different occupations including sales, personnel, finance and education; but he has found no other field of work more fascinating than the study of the paranormal. He has lived and worked in Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York and Georgia, and after recently getting married, moved back to his birth place of New Jersey. Although Chris has never had an experience with ghosts before joining the group, he has experienced some unexplainable evidence that there is validity to the study of the paranormal.

Raul Malave - Researcher                                   

Occupation: Fireman

Biography: Raul has always been interested in the paranormal. He worked with two other research groups before joining NJPR.

Howard "Chuck" Harder - Researcher               

Occupation: Business Owner

Biography: Howard had experiences as a child and later in life that he could never fully explain. He joined NJPR to explore and study the paranormal in the hopes of better understanding it.

Darren Large - Researcher & Historian             

Occupation: Airport Operations Coordinator

Biography: Darren became interested in paranormal investigation after a visit to the Farnsworth House in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. His experiences there led him to seek out NJPR in order to better understand the paranormal. His history degree teamed with a background in historical and genealogical research has added a new dimension to the research currently conducted by NJPR. This outside research helps provide valuable information about the history of each location.

Gretchen Mendel - Researcher                           

Occupation: CMA Certified Medical Assistant    

Biography: Gretchen has been interested in the paranormal for as long as she can remember as she grew up in a home with paranormal activity.

Mary Pavlik - Researcher in Training

Occupation: Business Owner   

Biography: Mary is a life long resident of New Jersey and has had countless experiences with paranormal activity. She has studied and taught classes in the field of the Paranormal and Metaphysics - along with history and genealogy research. Mary joined NJPR to further expand her knowledge in the paranormal field and to help others understand what they are dealing with.

Ectoplasm captured outside a home during an investigation in Wantage, NJ

A splitting vortex captured in a cemetery in upstate New York.

Photo of the Hainesburg Mansion - one of our ongoing cases.