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From 2001... ============================================== Dear Mr. Randi, I saw you recently on the Larry King Show during which you talked about your $1M Paranormal Challenge. I am writing to respond to your Challenge. I receive specific precognitive messages from my deceased father every...

This application arrived in 2000 without a claim letter, but with the following: ============================================== Description of what will constitute the demonstration. Any kind of remote sensing will do. I can telepathise anything that comes into my mind. Including thoughts...

My name is Jose Breton and my powers are the ability to sense people walking aroun me or coming aroun the coner. anyting that moves aroun me I can sense it coming. You mihgt say anybody can hear a person coming but not the way I do it I always got my music playing on my walkmen so it would be...

This fellow had been emailing me for many months. It took that long to get him to understand that he must send an application if he wanted to become a Challenge applicant and have a chance at the million dollar prize. He finally chose to send an application, and I received it today...

This morning (6-7-05) the doorbell rang at the JREF. A few minutes later, Linda appeared at my desk to announce that a Challenge applicant was here to speak with me. A bitter chill ran down my spine. I anticipated the very worst, took a deep breath, and sauntered toward the JREF entrance. What...

I am a homeopath. Practicing only homeopathy last 17 years at Navsari, Sujarat, India. A few words about me I have been doing research work in the field of homeopathy since I was in 2nd year of D.H.M.S. (4 yr. dip. course) in which I had developed a blood test to identify the most suitable...

This claim came in on July 16, 2004. ============================================== I will provide oral tablets containing 25mg of sodium chloride, with normal tablet making excipients Dibasic Calcium Phosphate Dehydrate PhEur, MAgnesium Stearate BP, Talc, purified BP. The tablets will be...

On June 13, 2001 (prior to my arrival here) the JREF received a paranormal claim from a Ms. Kathryn Kirchen, as follows: ========================================== I can put my consciousness in a persons body and identify any medical conditions that the person has. I can do this with 100%...

We first began to hear from Erik Bostrom back in 2001 when he submitted a Challenge application with the following words scrawled across the back page: ============================================ I will determine the contents of sealed identical* containers. Without using any of the usual...

This applicant submitted his claim prior to my arrival here in 2004, so I contacted him to see what the status of his claim was, as we had no record of anything correspondence past his initial application. An investigator from the Philadelphia Skeptics (Phact) agreed to take part in the...

This just in from Hong Kong, without a notarized signature. I have asked this applicant to send a new application with the proper notarization or signature confirmation. I have also made him/her aware that predictions must be VERY precise if they are to be accepted, as in WHEN, WHERE and HOW...

This application arrived on June 8, 2004. I responded by accepting her application, and asking the BIG THREE Questions (as you must certainly all be quite familiar with by now), centering on HOW the applicant proposes to demonstrate the claim. I received no response to my queries. On June 8...

After almost 2 weeks of silence, we received another Challenge application this morning. It's SO good to be reminded on an almost-daily basis that the Challenge continues to attract only the cream of the crop. ============================================= I am the one who talked to the staff...

This claim was received in April, 2004. I must admit that I found this one to be uniquely silly. It was also unnecessarily longwinded, but, let's not quibble. ============================================= My name is Armin Nikkhah Shirazi and I wish to apply for the JREF prize. About two...

From 1999... ============================================ I will demonstrate psychic ability. I can tell if someone is dead or alive by looking at photographs of them. If I had to assign a percentage, I'd have to say 99.99% when I saw the person on television and not on paper. Anita Davies...

Let's go back in time a bit, shall we? This claim is from the enormous backlog of claims left in the shadows prior to my arrival here. I wrote to this applicant in April of this year, but received no reply. His file has now been closed. From October, 2000...

Short & sweet. Just in, this morning. ============================================= I, Sharlene Burnette will mind read my partners mind for instance you will show my partner a card and I will read his mind and write down the card he is looking at with out devices...

The Damfino's is the name of the Buster Keaton Appreciation Society. Damfino is the name of a boat in one his his great silent films. In one scene wherein Buster is stranded at sea with a woman, she asks him what he thinks will happen to them, to which he replies (without a title card - you must...

I received this application and claim letter in early May, 2004. I accepted his claim and sent a reply in which I requested more data regarding his proposed test protocol. I received no reply. His file will remain open until May, 2005. ========================================== Dear Mr...

On August 3rd 2004 I received a Challenge application from New Zealand with the following scribbling all over it: ============================================ CLOSE YOUR EYES AND YOU WILL SEE YOURSELF! TELEPATHY! SPEAKING TO PERSON/PEOPLE WITH MY MIND SEEING! FOR A BLIND PERSON/PEOPLE WITH MY...

This came in during April, 2004, from Ramsdorf, Germany. ========================================= Dear Sir, I read in a local newspaper about your project concerning psychic, supernatural or paranormal claims. I found the application form on the internet and printed it out. Since it was able...

This claim came in on April 30, 2004. I accepted the claim and referred Mr. Colvin to the Seattle Skeptics Society for preliminary testing. To my knowledge, SSS has never been contacted by this applicant, and I have never received a reply to JREF's acceptance of this claim. The file will remain...

This came in at the end of April, 2004. Amazing. ============================================ In an effort to prove that homeopathy works, I will provide the following test procedure: 1- Use hashish, an essential oil extract from cannabis sativa, that will be smoked to cause the eyes to...

I will demonstrate psychic ability by identifying the gender of of a male and female over the internet, as they type a neutral sentenmce to me, such as a nursery rhyme. The male and female will alternate who types, based on a throw of the dice. Male types to numbers 2, 4 and 6. This will be...

This claim came in July 28th, 2004, from the great expanses of Utah. ============================================ Description of Demonstration: 1- Predict the day-to-day position of the Jetstream (upper level winds and jet core) over north america - extending well into the eastern pacific and...

This claim came in June 25, 2004...from a woman who is convinced that she is communicating telepathically to her dog, and to her friend's dog. ============================================== I would like to apply for your Million Dollar Challenge. My project involves communicating telepathic...

Hi. My name is Kevin Emerson. I will be demonstrating a form of ESP - telepathy. An actual sending of words or phrases to another person's mind. (really) This person will be sitting or standing 10-20 feet away from me. I will either...a) Use apre-memorized list of words and phrases, then send...

This came in this morning, from Seattle... ============================================= My claim is of an apparatus that can demonstrate action without reaction, violating Newton's Third Law. Our demonstration apparatus is contained in a cylinder measuring approximately 10" in diameter...

This would-be applicant has been trying to get Randi to eliminate Challenge Rule #3. Many would-be applicants refuse to apply as a result of JREF's refusal to do so. She is also trying to negotiate a test protocol prior to submitting her application, despite our advising her that we will not do...