About the PIGS
A brief history
The P.I.G.S. was formed in 2006, after a conversation between Johan Paul and Tim, where they discovered that they had a common interest in the paranormal. All three of them have been police officers at one time or another, and between them they have served over 30 years in the force - hence the name P.I.G.S! They decided that using the skills they had learned in the police, they would become paranormal investigators.
The P.I.G.S. enlisted the help two key researchers Amy and Lauren after a trial group the P.I.G.G.S. Amy has excellent organisational skills, Lauren excels in investigating possible leads with members of the public.
In April 2008 the P.I.G.S put an opportunity of becoming a P.I.G.S investigator to its 170 Facebook page followers, we had an enormous and positive response to this and as such we grew our team and spent the rest of 2008 training our new investigators: Matt Laker, Lib Kendrick, and Tori Hewett.
Where we are now
As the ambitions of the P.I.G.S has grown, so has the number of people in the team. Currently standing at eight team members, each colleague has specific tasks or roles to perform. This enables us as a group to cover each location with a detailed case file and a thorough investigation.
We have grown our Facebook followers to 800 and our twitter followers to over 600 we have over 200 friends on our Haunted Network page. We are currently hosting haunted challenge nights for the charity Anthony Nolan which have raised just over £70,000 in 2008/11 BUT the Anthony Nolan events ended with a bumper night of return guests to Mirus in Guernsey.
Anthony Nolan has decided to ceases doing big public events and concentrate on friends groups and in aid of events instead, there's no doubt that leaves the PIGS without a national partner, however we have decided to continue with the big events and hold in aid of Anthony Nolan charity events where possible in those locations instead.... "when your friend can no longer support you its time to support your friend"
We are also proud to have recruited the services of a well respected paranormal investigator throughout the industry, Mr. Kevin Ling who has worked with all the big paranormal companies and many famous people in this field. Kevin a long term friend of the PIGS and Anthony Nolan joins us late 2011 as we look to develop our own foundations in the paranormal events field.
We are currently writing articles for Ghost Voices magazine and continuing to develop the perfect paranormal event . ;)
