While many are probably con men (and perhaps many scientists, too), there has been pretty interesting research on psychic phenomena. I haven't been able to reproduce their results, though.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=1454382

https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Brain-Neuroscientists-Case-...

https://www.amazon.com/Conscious-Universe-Scientific-Psychic...