SCOTT FRANK, Floridian Psychic

[KRAMER]

Received today...
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I wish to demonstrate "mind reading" by reading a closed box for the contents inside. Please if you can arrange:

1- Quiet room, well lit but not bright or distracting.

2- a uncrowded orderly atmosphere, probly with only several persons (to aid concentration and limit too many signals)

3- one box (or more, but I will need only one box and one object)

4- a common object(s) put theirin.

I would also ask that the same person I will be tested by, be the same person to put the object(s) in the box.

I will ask this person "what is in the box" by getting that person to "think" of it's content.

I will then use my mind reading powers to "see" what's in the box.

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I accepted this very concise claim and made the applicant aware that one test alone would prove nothing, advising him of the need for approximately 8-10 tests, using various objects.

We now await his reply.

 

[KRAMER]

Scott Frank's previous test results...

Once again it has come to our attention that an applicant had been tested previously yet decided not to inform us of this fact.

In 2001, Scott Frank was referred by JREF to TBS (Tampa Bay Skeptics) for testing of an identical claim.

Follow this link to the TBS website to see an article on the results:

http://www.tampabayskeptics.org/v14n4rpt.html

 

[KRAMER]

Case CLOSED:

As the result of one of the most bizarre telephone conversations of my adult life, JREF has, after considerable debate, decided to reject this claim and close this file.

The applicant is clearly in need of a mental health professional.
I did my very best to help him to see the necessity of this, for his own good, but the response was, well, not surprising.

One of the few truly negative things about working for James Randi at JREF is the realization that few (if any) of the mentally ill people who apply for the Challenge will use their experiences with us to honestly consider the possibility that they just might need help - that they just might possibly be suffering needlessly from a condition that is easily controlled with medication.

Mr. Frank left me with no kind words, and angrily instructed me to give the following message to Randi:

Stop harrassing Sylvia Browne and stop ruining people's good reputations.

As per his request, I passed his message on to Randi, who responded by grabbing a section of his belly and saying,
"Do you think I'm getting fat? Right around here, I mean?
I mean, really - do you think I should be worried about it? Maybe I should go on a diet. What's your feeling on this important matter?"