JREF Narrows Challenge

The overabundance of dowsers and psychics hoping to be tested but unwilling to submit to the arbitrary, fluid, and unfairly weighted experimental protocols established by an ornery stage magician -- The Amazing Randi -- has forced the James Randi Educational Foundation to limit applicants for the One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge to established psychics (sic) with a TV crew.

Slain spirit medium's lottery numbers 'too accurate'

As a medium, he had predicted winning three-digit numbers for both the Oct 1 and Oct 16 draws. Many punters had won money on the underground lottery betting on numbers based on his forecasts. Several underground lottery operators had suffered huge losses as a result. Possibly they had been angry enough to hire gunmen to kill him, Pol Lt Col Praphan said.