Rachel possesses various psionic abilities, generally exhibited through telepathy, psychometry, telekinesis, and limited time manipulation. She can also sense and manipulate residual psychic energy in the form of psychometry. Skeptic Robert Todd Carroll describes psychometry as a pseudoscience. He attempted to identify through psychic means the owners of objects (psychometry). Psychologist Joseph Jastrow criticized Buchanan's work on psychometry as based on delusion and wishful thinking. Adrienne had the mutant ability of psychometry. Galton is regarded as the founder of psychometry. Skeptics explain alleged successes of psychometry by cold reading and confirmation bias. Buchanan proposed the terms Psychometry and Sarcognomy. Joseph Rodes Buchanan coined the word "psychometry" (measuring the soul) in 1842. There is no scientific evidence that psychometry exists. So, a blind Indian student studying Psychometry in Romania enters the game. There is no scientific evidence that psychometry exists and the concept has been widely criticized. He also believed that "place memories" could explain psychometry. Buchanan's work on psychometry was continued by the geologist William Denton (1823-1883).