{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Glossary","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary","author_name":"Glossary","author_url":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/author\/adminglossary\/","title":"Psychic detectives - Definition of Psychic detectives","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Ame5fcBbc7\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/psychic-detectives\/\">Psychic detectives<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/psychic-detectives\/embed\/#?secret=Ame5fcBbc7\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Psychic detectives&#8221; &#8212; Glossary\" data-secret=\"Ame5fcBbc7\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/\/# sourceURL=https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/wp-includes\/js\/wp-embed.min.js\n<\/script>\n","description":"Stories of psychically gifted individuals using their abilities to aid people and law enforcement, find missing items and persons, solve crimes, and bring criminals to justice can be found in many societies and in most historical periods. These range from the biblical tale (Samuel 9) of Saul Ending lost livestock after consulting a seer in the land of Zuph, through the many incidents recorded during the 15th and 16th centuries where victims of theft recovered their goods through the help of cunning men and wise women, to contemporary cases of psychics being consulted by police and even the Central Intelligence Agency.Psychics who specialized in working on police cases in Europe during the 1920s and 1930s gained much notoriety, and included Germany\u2019s August Drost, W. de Kerler and George Mittelman; Austria\u2019s Dr. Leopold Thomas (who worked with a hypnotized helper known only as Megalis), Maximilian Langsner, and Raphael Scherman (a psychographologist); Hungary\u2019s Alfred Pathes and Michael F. Fischel and, especially Janos Kele; France\u2019s Madame Luce Vidi; Czechoslovakia\u2019s Frerick Marion; and the United States\u2019s Eugenie (Gene) Dennis and Florence Sternfels. Kele and Marion are particularly noteworthy for volunteering for laboratory studies of their alleged abilities. Among these sleuths, the records left by Dennis and Sternfels are perhaps the most impressive. Eugenie Dennis, who left her native Kansas to give her \u201creadings\u201d on the vaudeville stage when she was 16, had many successes reported throughout the United States and obtained the endorsement of the city\u2019s police department, including testimony on her behalf from the captain of that department\u2019s Missing Persons Bureau. New Jersey\u2019s Florence Sternfels reportedly \u201cread more people and solved more crimes than any medium who ever lived\u201d (according to the American Psychical Institute), received many public police endorsements, and was said to correspond with England\u2019s Scotland Yard and France\u2019s Surete."}