Rhode Island · incorporated 2026-04-07

A research organization that publishes what it finds, including nothing.

Veil Veterans RI Inc investigates locations that carry reported unexplained phenomena, using instrumented and documented method. We commit to what we are measuring before we walk in, and we publish the result either way. This page is the record; every claim on it points at a document you can open.

Who we are

Veil Veterans RI Inc — the mark is V.E.I.L., for Veterans Exploring the Invisible Line — is a veteran-operated, pre-registered, evidence-integrity-first paranormal-investigation organization. Scientific methodology, not entertainment. It was founded by four combat veterans.

Paranormal investigation is the vehicle, not the mission. The organization exists for four things, and the field work is how it pays for them in effort and attention:

Veteran wellness

Purpose and structure for veterans after service.
Historical preservation

The buildings we ask to enter are somebody's history first.
STEM education

Instruments, thresholds and statistics are the teachable part of this work.
Community giving

Work that returns something to the communities we work in.

We are early. One pre-registered investigation is complete. There is no track record beyond it and we are not going to present one.

Legal identity

Veil Veterans RI Inc is a veteran-founded Rhode Island domestic non-profit corporation, incorporated 2026-04-07 (RI Corporation ID 001807058). We are actively working toward federal 501(c)(3) status; that determination is not yet in hand, and we do not solicit tax-deductible contributions.

Legal name: Veil Veterans RI Inc
Entity type: Rhode Island domestic non-profit corporation
RI Corporation ID: 001807058
Articles filed: 2026-04-07
Federal 501(c)(3) determination: Not in hand.

The corporation ID above is checkable by anyone: the Rhode Island Secretary of State runs a public corporate database. We would rather you look it up than take our word for it.

What we do, and what we do not do

A property steward may reasonably wonder whether we are the same kind of operation as a paid public ghost-hunting event. We are not, and that distinction is the most important thing on this page.

What we do

Publish a pre-registration before entering a site: what we will measure, what numeric threshold counts as an anomaly, how we correct for the chance of a false positive, and what a negative result would look like.
Commit in advance to publishing our findings whether or not we find anything.
Work only under a written access record naming which rooms and which recording methods are permitted, with any excluded areas listed explicitly.
Stop and remove our equipment within five minutes if access is withdrawn — for any reason, or none, verbally or in writing.
Attach nothing to walls, surfaces or fixtures, move no furnishings without permission, and leave a building exactly as we found it.
Withhold every recording made on a property unless its owner gives separate written permission, and give the owner our findings first.

What we do not do

Sell tickets, charge admission, bring a paying audience, or run a fundraiser at a property.
Open a visit to the public. The team is roughly seven people and the visit is closed.
Take a commercial or entertainment interest in a property turning out to be remarkable. In our experience the likeliest outcome of a rigorous investigation is that we document an ordinary environmental explanation, and we consider that a legitimate, publishable result.

The record

A pre-registration is a public document committing us, in advance and in writing, to exactly what we intend to measure. It exists so that we cannot revise our expectations after seeing the data. Here is ours, unedited, with the signature file that accompanies it.

Investigation #2 — Nathanael Greene Homestead, Coventry, Rhode Island

Pre-registration written 2026-04-20 for an investigation on 2026-05-01. It states the hypotheses, the per-channel numeric anomaly thresholds, the statistical correction, and what would be reported as a null result.

Read this before you rely on that signature. The document was amended after data capture and the signature file was never renewed, so the signature does not currently verify against the document's contents. We are publishing both files unchanged, and this notice with them, rather than re-signing an amended document and letting it look as though it had been signed before capture. The integrity check did its job here; we are not going to hide what it found. How to restore a verifiable chain is an open decision, and it is ours to make in public.

A second pre-registration, not yet published

A pre-registration for a further site exists in draft. Access there has not been granted and the document is not ratified or signed. We do not publish a pre-registration until it is both, because an unsigned pre-registration published as a signed one destroys the only property that makes publishing it worthwhile.

Our commitment on null results

We commit to publishing whatever the data shows. … Null is a result.

That is quoted from the pre-registration above, section H5, written before the investigation.

The null we actually have, stated plainly

Our one completed investigation produced a null, and it is not the kind of null that sentence implies. We went in with the magnetometer not wired — it recorded 0.000 microtesla on all three axes — and with the command-center computer and both sensor pods not working in the field. What we hold is an instrument-failure null, not a measured-and-found-nothing null. We are telling you that here rather than letting the word "null" do work it has not earned.

How a pre-registration works

Written for someone who has never read a research protocol, because that is who has to judge us.

Before we collect a single measurement, we write down the questions we are testing, the number on each sensor channel that would count as an anomaly, and how we will correct for the fact that watching many channels at once produces coincidences on its own.
We also write down what a negative result looks like, so that "we found nothing" is a reportable outcome rather than an embarrassment to be quietly dropped.
We sign the document and publish it, before the visit. After the stated deadline, changing any threshold requires a signed, committed and publicly posted amendment. It cannot be done quietly, and if it is done wrongly the record shows that too.
Investigation #2 was deliberately scoped to a lower publication ceiling ("Class B") than the standard we are building toward, because the tooling for the higher standard was not ready. We said so inside the document, before we went in, rather than after.

What happens to a recording after we capture it

An investigation is only worth as much as the evidence handling behind it. This is the whole of what we do, with no part of it dressed up:

The raw originals stay on storage the team owns.
A second copy is kept on the same machine, on separate storage.
Snapshots are taken daily and keep seven days of history.
An encrypted copy is held off-site, and it has been restore-tested — not just written.
Every file has a SHA-256 fingerprint recorded in a ledger — 1,433 files — and that ledger is committed to our repository. A file that is altered stops matching its own entry.

What we do not claim

An organization whose asset is that its record can be trusted has to be as precise about what it cannot do as about what it can. These are the claims we could make and will not:

Not hardware-signed. Our signatures are software Ed25519. We hold hardware security chips; none are enrolled and the signing binary is unbuilt, so nothing we hold is signed by hardware and we will not describe it that way.
No trusted automated transcription, no two-engine cross-check. Machine transcription exists and has been run over parts of our archive; we treat none of it as evidence until a person has listened to that span and recorded a verdict, and there is no second-engine cross-check.
Our spectrum analyzer does not detect infrasound. Its band table spans normal hearing, roughly 20 Hz to 20 kHz, so it cannot do the below-hearing job its name suggests. Rebuilding it is an open decision.
We count independent observations, never republications. A story carried by three outlets from one witness on one night is one observation, and we will describe it as one.
No track record. One completed pre-registered investigation, null by construction. We will not imply more.

Getting in touch

If you have experienced something

Contact is arranged directly with the investigator on record. We are deliberately not printing an email address on this page: we have not yet confirmed that mail sent to it arrives, and an address that silently discards a frightened person's first message is worse than no address at all. When we have verified it, it will appear here.

If you steward a property

The same route applies. We will provide our pre-registered methodology documents and our organizational information, and we are glad to appear in person to answer questions before anyone decides anything.

If you are on the team

Members sign in at the team portal.

Accessibility

This page is built to be read with JavaScript turned off, with stylesheets turned off, by a screen reader, and on a printout. If any part of it is not usable for you, that is a defect on our side and we want to hear about it through the contact route above.