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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DMScott" data-source="post: 1782971" data-attributes="member: 11734">Hmm, not that I've heard. Usually, the way it goes is as a case goes on, more and more people phone in with tips of various sorts, including alleged psychics. If and when the case is resolved, one of the alleged psychics will have predicted - or perhaps guessed - something that can easily be post-fitted to the circumstances of the case. When psychics are actually sought out to help with a case, it's most often by a private party - a relative of a missing person, for example.In general, most reasonably controlled tests of predictive ability - or any other claimed psychic power - have shown no evidence of any unexplained phenomena at work. Most famous of these is probably the JREF challenge:<a href="http://www.randi.org/research/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.randi.org/research/index.html</a>... which offers a million dollars to anyone who succeeds at a mutually agreed upon test under controlled conditions. It's still up for grabs.However, there are a few fairly reputable tests which might point to something interesting. Most famous of those is probably PEAR, the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research program:<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~pear/" target="_blank">http://www.princeton.edu/~pear/</a>I'm fairly comfortable with simply dismissing psychic claims, but a part of me does hope that somebody like PEAR comes up with something really neat.</blockquote>