History Main / OccultDetective

* Lord Zimbabwe, the protagonist of ''Radio/{{Ectoplasm}}'' is a "walker in the ether", or occult investigator.
* June Harper, the co-star of ''Radio/{{BellinghamTerror}}'' quickly shakes off her disbelief to become an occult detective.

* PermaStubble: He has several days worth of unshaven facial hair. * David from ''Literature/Haunted1988'' investigates ghosts though he doesn't believe in their existence.

* David from ''Literature/Haunted1988'' investigates ghosts though he doesn't believe in their existence.

* The protagonists of ''LightNovel/TheLongingOfShiinaRyo'' may become this, depending on their sensei's mood.

* ''LightNovel/LordElMelloiIICaseFiles'' features its titular character as one working on behalf of the various clients, students, and associates that come to his department of the [[TheMagocracy the Magic Association]]. His method usually is to unravel the esoterica behind the magic rituals used in each case in order to figure out what happened and then let [[StrongGirlSmartGuy his assistant Gray clean up the mess]] when the culprit inevitably become aggressive.

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* ''Series/{{Constantine}}'', being a LiveActionAdaptation of ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'', has the eponymous John Constantine as one of these. He's ostensibly up to saving the world, but it's mostly a case-by-case basis to get there.

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* ''Anime/PhantomQuestCorp'': Detective Karino, of U Division, is a paranormal investigator who has a working-class relationship with [[ChristmasCake Ayaka]] [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl Kisaragi]], the president of Phantom Quest Corp. As such, he often commissions his extra assignments to her as a personal favor, which lightens his workload. Of course, that's not the ''[[LoveInterest only reason]]'' he does it.

* ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'' has the Null Mysteriis, or: The Organization for Rational Assession of the Supernatural. The other organizations are more interested in [[HunterOfMonsters hunting and destroying the supernaturals]] than uncovering facts about them.

* ''ComicBook/Invincible'': Damien Darkblood is a demon detective who worked for the Global Defense Agency.

* "ComicBook/Invincible": Damien Darkblood is a demon detective who worked for the Global Defense Agency.

* ''Series/LostGirl'' has [[HornyDevils succubus]] Bo reluctantly becoming an Occult Detective, who specializes in cases involving the fae.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' has two classes that can function as this: The Investigator[[note]]Think "Fantasy Franchise/SherlockHolmes" and you're on the right track[[/note]], and the Occultist, a psychic mage who uses items to channel his power. The latter is a much more clear-cut example, as the description of the class even mentions using their powers to research things.

** Dupin and the player character in ''VideoGame/DarkTales'' may not consider themselves to be this; however, roughly half of the cases they solve in the course of the series have some sort of supernatural genesis. Usually this takes the form of a ghostly encounter of some kind, although ''The Fall of the House of Usher'' takes the weird factor UpToEleven.

* ''Manga/GhostTalkersDaydream'': Misaki Saiki is a [[OnlyInItForTheMoney freelance]] [[MagneticMedium medium]], who occasionally works with Kadotake Souichiro, a liaison officer from the Livelihood Preservation Group[[note]]a government agency that [[ParanormalInvestigation investigates paranormal activity]] and performs exorcisms, in the interest of public safety[[/note]]. Their assignments involve investigating murders and suicides in order to allow the victims' restless spirits to move on.

* ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'': John Constantine, TropeCodifier for the most common occult detective accessory, the [[TrenchcoatBrigade trenchcoat]] -- though in the DCU alone, fellow Trenchcoat Brigadiers Dr. Occult, the Phantom Stranger, and MisterE all rocked the look decades earlier.

* Downplayed in ''The Peculiar Exploits of Brigadier Ffellowes'' and its followup novel ''The Curious Quests of Brigadier Ffellowes'' by Sterling E. Lanier. While the titular brigadier has done a few investigation on behalf of the British government, many of his adventures don't involve the supernatural and his stories are as much Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs as Creator/WilliamHopeHodgson.

* Franchise/IndianaJones is an [[AdventurerArchaeologist adventurer]] rather than an official detective, but he uses his skills as a historian and archaeologist to find [[MacGuffin MacGuffins]] that are almost always occult in power: [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade The Holy Grail]], [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom the Sankara stones]], [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk the Ark of the Covenant]], [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull the Crystal Skull]], etc.

* Dante from ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry''.

* The protagonists of both ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' and ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'' end up very frequently investigating and/or fighting ghosts, [[RecycledINSPACE Force]] ghosts, demons and the like.

** Ban and Rosé, the second set of companion characters, are part of a supernatural investigation group who were hired by Yashiki, the protagonist of the previous game ''VisualNovel/DeathMark'', to investigate the spirit that puts them in the path of ''NG's'' protagonist. After [[spoiler:his son]] was killed by a spirit, Ban was motivated to hunt them down and expose the truth behind their existence. Rosé's motives, meanwhile, are a {{myster|iouspast}}y.

%%%* "Witch Hunters" in the fourth episode of ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry''. They're a community of crime enthusiasts obsessed with finding out the truth of the Rokkenjima Massacre, with theories ranging from the realistic to the fantastical. The name of the group is a ShoutOut to the FanTranslation, [[http://witch-hunt.com Witch Hunt]].

-->-- '''ComicBook/JohnConstantine''', ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}''

* John Film/{{Constantine}} is definitely an occult detective and an exorcist to boot, a demon hunter...

* James Randi, a scientific skeptic and former stage magician, describes himself as an 'investigator' in the occult, paranormal and supernatural (which he collectively refers to as "woo-woo"). He claims that, to date, his search for ''true'' woo-woo has been unsuccessful.
* Beginning in 1952, Ed and Lorraine Warren claimed to have investigated over 10,000 hauntings across America, writing several books about them in the process. Said cases inspired such well-known media franchises as ''Franchise/{{Amityville}}'' and ''Film/TheConjuringUniverse''.

* In ''VideoGame/CultistSimulator'', these are the {{Hero Antagonist}}s to your own VillainProtagonist. As the player attempts to [[ImmortalitySeeker attain immortality]], [[ImmortalityImmorality usually through illegal and immoral means]], Hunters from the Supression Bureau will be sent to track them and turn their Notereity into evidence that can be used to imprison them.