Founder

Tonya is a Pittsburgh native who spent most of her childhood and some of her teenage years in Mount Washington. Her interest in the paranormal piqued when she moved into a home that had activity. It wasn't that she was a skeptic, Tonya will tell you first hand that she just "never thought of things like that" until she noticed suspicious activity herself.

Prior to starting up G.P.P.S with Co-Founder Nancy Drexler, Tonya had the opportunity to take part in another team, The Center for Paranormal Study and Investigation (C.P.S.I.), and is forever grateful to have the chance to work under such dedicated, wonderful, interesting and fun-loving people.

When she is not out trying to figure out the paranromal, she is enjoying much needed time with her three children, husband, and two insane but loving cats.

Co-Founder

Nancy is an invaluable member of GPPS. She brings her substantial knowledge in all aspects of natural home occurrences, and is excellent at historical research and collecting data. Her fun loving attitude, yet ability to sustain a certain level of assertiveness makes her a natural born leader.

Nancy is our thinker, she is the very backbone of our team, and it shows anytime that she graces an investigation.

Shawn was born and raised in the heart of Pittsburgh, he is dedicated to his community and serves as a Volunteer Firefighter and as an Emergency Medical Technician. Shawn Works for a large retail chain doing criminal investigation and surveillance, he is dedicated to running paranormal investigations as if he was running a criminal investigation. Shawn grew up in a large family that all had some interest is the unexplained and a general belief that there were spirits everywhere. Shawn entered the field of Paranormal Investigation in hopes of finding proof of some other existence.

Managing Director/Case Manager

Born and raised in New Castle, PA,Cindy has been interested in the paranormal since she was a small child listening to her great-grandma tell stories about "unexplained" occurrences that happened to different family members. After a few experiences of her own, Cindy knew she had to explore the paranormal further and joined GPPS in January of 2008.
She is as passionate about investigating as she is about helping those who are afraid to better understand what is happening. Skeptical, yet open minded, Cindy is always looking for the hard proof of activity without ruling out the improbable. She considers GPPS her second family and when she is not investigating or reviewing evidence she is spending time with her very understanding fiance, two great boys, and her insane but lovable cat, 'Mo'.

Investigator/ Tech Team Manager

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 Lead Investigator

Pam has called Pittsburgh home for the majority of her life. She is a geologist, working with an environmental company.

She has been interested in the paranormal for a very long time, but her curiosity was piqued when she lived in a haunted dorm for three years in college. She first became acquainted with GPPS through the message boards, and enjoys the diverse opinions expressed there. She hopes to keep using her scientific analysis of situations to better aid GPPS in investigations.

Lead Investigator

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Lead Investigator

Over 20 years Law Enforcement Investigative Experience.
B.S Degree in Liberal Arts from Seton Hill University with minors in Political Science and History

Hobbies-Paranormal Investigations, Photography, Astronomy, History, and Ham Radio.

Investigator

Over 5 years of work in Legal Field
Housewife

Chris and Heidi are married and enjoy their time together investigating the paranormal and helping people find answers.

Investigator

Rachel has lived in or around the city of Pittsburgh her entire life and has been interested in the paranormal since she was a small child. She can recall countless unexplained happenings in two of the homes she grew up in. After time it seemed there was just no logical explanation for things moving on their own and her curiosity regarding the paranormal was heightened to the extreme. She joined up with GPPS with the hopes of helping others face and understand the unexplainable and of finding evidence that what is beyond the veil may exist.

In addition to working her regular day job, Rachel runs her own small business doing freelance photography work and can often spot a fake photo and can debunk most photos that claim to be of the paranormal.

In her spare time, Rachel does a lot of volunteer work and is on the Board of Directors with a local non profit dog rescue group. She assists teaching dog training classes at the humane society, works diligently to help shelter dogs, and seeks to teach others who don't quite understand the importance of rescue. She lives to be compassionate to everything, and her husband, daughters and pets are the center of her world.

Investigator

He was born and raised in Western PA.  His natural curiosity of life led me to a degree in biology, curiosity for the afterlife was supplemented by research and reading up on the paranormal, this led him to the wonderful GPPS team and actually putting his biology degree to use, he is now part of the research team of GPPS, he helps locate deed histories and local histories to help supplement our investigations. 

Investigator

Shawn is 24 years old and lives in Wampum Pa (about an hour north of Pittsburgh).
He got into the paranormal, possibly because of his religious background, and his belief that there had to be something out there beyond death. The paranormal always fascinated, yet terrified Shawn as a kid. Never having a personal experience before, hw was always worried about seeing spirits. As Shawn got older, the fear subsided and his fascination grew stronger. He saw the show Ghost Hunters on Sci-Fi and always thought how great it would be to do the same thing. Shawn looked up G.P.P.S, submitted an application and been doing what he imagined doing ever since.