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Definition: There is a long history of people trying to solve crimes by appealing to supernatural and spiritual powers. That continues today with "psychic detectives," people who claim to be able to use psychic powers to discover the location of missing people or the perpetrators of certain crimes. Although psychic detectives make dramatic claims on behalf of themselves and often offer their services to the police, very few police departments ever actual make use of them.

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