- 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 -- James Randi has secured monetary pledges from skeptics
the world over. The guaranteed $1,000,000 jackpot (which is fully secured by negotiable financial
instruments held by the James Randi Educational Foundation)
is to be awarded to the first person able to successfully demonstrate the existence of
any paranormal phenomenon under proper observing conditions.
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