The Ghost Club wished for the paranormal to be accepted right beside the other groundbreaking scientific discoveries being made during the era, and to this end took a very intellectual, academic approach to it all. They applied this philosophy to all of their investigations, which in those early days were almost solely concerned with ghosts, hauntings, and mediumship, and they were the most active paranormal society around, not only launching major investigations, but also adding to the academic discussion and debate on what the nature of ghosts actually was.
