- TBS's "$1,000 Challenge" -- Since 1989 TBS
has been offering $1,000
to anyone able to demonstrate any paranormal phenomenon under mutually agreed-upon
observing conditions. If you believe that you are able to do so, please
contact TBS.
- William A. Blake III of Orlando attempted to demonstrate telepathy in March 2008.
[Full story]
- Igor Simchanko, in the former Soviet republic of Belarus, attempted to predict Florida Lottery results in 2006.
[Full story]
- From his home in Prattville, Alabama, Ron Pearce took the TBS "$1,000 Challenge" by e-mail and phone
in 2005, claiming the ability to diagnose medical conditions remotely. [Full story]
- Bill Pierce, a dowser of Polaroid photographs, first took the TBS "$1,000 Challenge" in 2000.
[Full story] And he was retested in 2002. [Full story]
- Scott C. Frank of Homosassa, Florida, tried to win the TBS "$1,000 Challenge"
at the Winter 2001-02 TBS quarterly meeting. [Full story]
- In Sept. and Dec. 1999, Gainesville resident James D. Moore, Jr., had TBS test his claimed ability to
detect the presence of precious metals and gems with "Crazy Rod," a plastic divining rod that
he has invented. [Full story]
- Titusville "psychic/prophet" Virginia Levy had her "psychometry" powers
(reading vibrations from objects) scientifically tested by TBS in 1998.
[Full story]
- Local "psychic" Joan Morin accepted TBS's "$1,000 Challenge"
in 1989. [Full story]
- TBS has taken its "$1,000 Challenge" to TV a number of times. Read the details of our
1993 and 1994 TV challenges,
as recounted in TBS Report.
 James Randi's $1,000,000 Challenge -- The James Randi Educational
Foundation will award its fully secured $1,000,000 prize to the first person able to successfully produce proof of
paranormal powers for an independent authority, in accordance with the rules
as posted here.
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