So, in keeping with our storied tradition of periodically ruining everyone's fun by punching creepy stories directly in the dick with the groin-hammering fist of science, here are some more examples of famous paranormal phenomena that seem to have some compelling evidence behind them ... until you look a bit closer.

It's easy to believe in the supernatural when you're lying awake in bed at 3 a.m. after many episodes of the show Supernatural . However, many people stick to the "ghosts are totally real" mindset even once the sun has come back up, despite researchers' ongoing attempts to ruin every single seemingly supernatural mystery with easy explanations . After all, everyone has seen something they can't explain.

5 "Psychic Detectives" Who Actually Solve Cases

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On July 12, 2009, a 24-year-old New Yorker named Melissa Barthelemy disappeared. A few days later, her sister got a call from Barthelemy's cell phone. An unidentified man on the other end said: "Do you think you'll ever see her again? You won't, because I killed her." The man then hung up, presumably checking an item off of his "Chilling Shit To Do Today" list.

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Barthelemy's sister received several more creepy calls from this man, who turned out to be a goddamned serial killer, playing horrific mind games by detailing his abuse of Barthelemy. Police tried to trace down the location where the calls were coming from, but couldn't because the killer had seen the same movies as the rest of us and would hang up too quickly. Desperate, Barthelemy's family hired a psychic to help find her body. The psychic said that she was buried in a shallow grave overlooking a body of water, with a "G" in a sign nearby.

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The real letters involved with this are "B" and "S".

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Nine months later, cops dug up Barthelemy's body wrapped in plastic bags on Long Island's Gilgo Beach. Holy shit! A "G" in the sign and everything! And this is not an isolated incident. Some police departments actually use self-proclaimed psychic detectives (or at least allow the desperate families of victims to use them), and there's case after case after case after case after case of psychics using their paranormal abilities to solve crimes.

Does that mean all those goofy mind detectives from bullshit shows such as Long Island Medium and whatnot actually have powers?