Department of Spectral Sciences
Studies apparitions, hauntings, ghostly behavior, and the social habits of the recently inexplicable.
Divisions for the classification of things that refuse classification.
IOPS research favors ambitious theories, polished diagrams, and the sober conviction that wonder should not wait for a committee decision.
Department of Manifestation Analytics
Applies modern tools, charts, graphs, and questionable confidence to unusual activity.
Department of Forgecraft and Artifact Studies
Examines the creation, preservation, and distribution of objects believed to be important by at least one person.
Department of Polyhedral Communication
Explores why supernatural entities appear drawn to dice, probability, and dramatic timing.
Method
Observe, classify, argue over prepositions, repeat.
Institute research balances archival seriousness with a practical acceptance that some phenomena become less cooperative when described plainly.
Public Inquiry
Step into the archives.
Applications, field reports, and bold claims of parafunormal stewardship may be addressed to the Registrar.