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Paranormal Investigation
"We're ready to believe you!"
Advertising slogan of the Ghostbusters

A genre with characters who specialize in investigating reports of paranormal activity - in other words Occult Detectives.

The paranormal occurences can be a hoax or the real thing.

When actual supernatural forces are in play, the characters can either be no physical match for them, or they can fight the supernatural on equal terms, either physically, or technologically.

According to Ghostbreakers website the genre is in fact Older Than Feudalism starting with Letter to Sura by Pliny the Younger.

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  • Alone in the Dark: Carnby investigates the paranormal in the second, third, and fourth games in the series.
  • Clive Barkers Undying: Patrick's current profession is paranormal investigator. Despite possessing the Gel'ziabar Stone and knowing some magic, he's rarely come across anything that couldn't be explained by mundane causes.

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     Western Animation 
  • All Scooby-Doo all the time.
  • The Looney Tunes film Daffy Duck's Quackbusters is a compilation of classic shorts with the bridging story that Daffy Duck opened a Paranormal Investigation service to rid other people of ghosts like the one who has been plaguing him and taking his money.
    Daffy: You say the Loch Ness Monster is living in your jacuzzi?
    [rolls eyes]
    Daffy: Well, call Roto-Rooter!
  • The Real Ghostbusters
  • The 1937 Disney animated cartoon Lonesome Ghosts featuring Mickey, Donald and Goofy as Ghostbusters.
  • On Invader Zim, eleven-year-old Dib aspires to being a paranormal investigator, and is the only person to realize that Zim is an alien. Other paranormal investigators appear in the series (Bill, the Swollen Eyeballs), but they tend to be fairly useless.

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