Hurkos and his supporters maintained that he was a great psychic detective.

He had be- longed to this secret order of "psychic detectives" since he was a child.

Jesse read the works of all the great psychic detectives, mediums, and mentalists.

They concluded that most psychic detectives were frauds, but left open the possibility that some might not be.

Once you decide to take all of this lightly, however, a documentary like "Psychic Detectives" can throw things off course.

In murder cases, psychic detectives will often claim to communicate with the spirits of the murder victims.

Three psychic detectives were compared with a control group of three students who did not claim to be psychic.

Or like a secret file on the case in the archives of the order of psychic detectives called the Talamasca.

As psychic detectives, they were given thirty minutes to find a stuntman that was buried underground in ten acres of California desert.

There is no evidence that any psychic detective has ever provided significant assistance in a criminal State Police case using paranormal abilities.