The Randi Challenge: People try to prove they're Psychic and fail

[CptStern]

The Challenge was first introduced in 1964 when James Randi offered $1,000 of his own money to the first person who could offer proof of the paranormal. When the word got out, donors began stepping forward to help, and soon the prize had grown to One Million Dollars.

Q: How many people have applied for the Challenge?

A: Between 1964 and 1982, Randi declared that over 650 people had applied. Between 1997 and February 15, 2005, there had been a total of 360 official, notarized applications. Applications continue to pour in!

Q: Has anyone ever gotten past the preliminary test?

A: No. Some people use this fact as a reason not to apply â?? and yet the protocol is never altered once the applicant agrees to it. In fact, we ask the applicant to design the test.

Q: Has anyone taken the formal test?

A: No. Applicants must pass the preliminary test in order to move on to a formal test. So far, no one has ever performed the paranormal ability they claimed to have.

very interesting reading

http://forums.randi.org/forumdisplay.php?f=8

check out people's applications and why they failed

Natal'ya Vorotnikova has applied for the Challenge with all required documents and the claim that she will be able to identify a box containing a male who speaks Russian in a warehouse type setting.

According to Ms. Vorotnikova's Challenge claim, she will be able to identify a box (I am assuming coffin-like, though it must be painted a bright colour, like red) amongst many (like twenty) identical boxes if there is a Russian male inside. None of the other boxes can contain people, and the test should take place in a large room, like a warehouse.

lol people are retarded

Rosemary Hunter has applied for the Challenge, media presence requirement included, with the extraordinary claim that she can make people urinate themselves with the power of her mind.

Mr. Seuffert invited Rosemary to take him to a park and attempt to make him urinate. Mr. Seuffert stopped the demonstration when he began to feel strange and ill.

Ms. Hunter says this ability is a gift from God, and that she is one of His angels.

god has a pee fetish?

 

[CR0M]

All self appointed psychics should be arrested as any fraudster would and then pilloried or burned at the stake, depending on the obvious transparency of their deception.

 

[VirusType2]

I'm a psychic, I know that everyone reading this does not believe me.

 

[unozero]

wrong thread

 

[ríomhaire]

You humans really have no idea, do you?

 

[Adabiviak]

I was a member of those forums for a while until it occurred to me that a large part of them wound up in awful religious debates. There was a somewhat famous woman huckster (Sylvia Brown, I believe) who called them out and said she'd prove them wrong on some certain day. She never showed, and they had a timer on the front page for a long time waiting for her to show afterwards.

 

[Azner]

I'm a psychic, I know that everyone reading this does not believe me.

Heh I believed you, so that means youre not psychic, so i don't believe you anymore, but wait, that makes you a psychic.

Shit, you're real.

 

[Raziaar]

Have you ever been in a situation in a public bathroom where you're surrounded by people and you need to pee... but cannot? The pressure to pee becomes overwhelming and you start to go a little insane as you stand there looking like a complete buffoon, your muscles still contracted and preventing you from finishing the job.

It is at that moment, where Rosemary Hunter could be standing outside the bathroom door and with a wave of her hand, you will feel the release and the relief.

 

[Warped]

Have you ever been in a situation in a public bathroom where you're surrounded by people and you need to pee... but cannot? The pressure to pee becomes overwhelming and you start to go a little insane as you stand there looking like a complete buffoon, your muscles still contracted and preventing you from finishing the job.

It is at that moment, where Rosemary Hunter could be standing outside the bathroom door and with a wave of her hand, you will feel the release and the relief.

i'd love her to help me when i'm constipated. just call her up and then bam! crapola

 

[Sulkdodds]

Video of the urination woman.

Warmup:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytDq-4NIXCA

And test itself (skip to this, tbh):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv-NPFRUV8E&feature=related

 

[MuToiD_MaN]

I can turn streetlights on or turn them off when I walk under them.

But it's random and I can't make it happen when I want to. But that's just because I haven't honed my abilities yet. I totally have the gift of E/M telekinesis. I'll post a youtube of me doing it later in case you don't believe me. :dork:

Bozos who actually believe that shit have a name for themselves ... they call themselves SLIders

 

[Raziaar]

me and my brother when younger could each take a 9 volt battery and stick our tongue to them to make traffic lights turn green for our dad.

 

[Jintor]

I'm so psychic and then and then and then I made their heads explode and now I wear this special hat.

 

[CptStern]

me and my brother when younger could each take a 9 volt battery and stick our tongue to them to make traffic lights turn green for our dad.

ok this was pretty funny. I must teach my kids to do this

 

[CR0M]

9 volt or taser? decisions, decisions

 

[CptStern]

my kids are my little minions. you treat your minions well and they wont hesitate to kill for you

 

[CR0M]

I like your logic.