The Amazing Kreskin
Tuesday February 19, 2008 8:24 AM
The Amazing Kreskin is not a psychic. No, Kreskin bills himself as a mentalist, or a person able to perform seemingly psychic feats without the use of psychic powers. According to Kreskin, he can receive mental signals from his subjects, or send signals of his own to get people to choose the right card or the right word in a passage from a book.
The Amazing Kreskin had his own show on Canadian television in the 1970s, and has logged many appearances on the "Mike Douglas Show," the "Merv Griffin Show" and "The Tonight Show." Kreskin performs several hundred live shows per year, and occasionally spends his New Year's Day giving predictions for the coming year.
A favorite stunt of Kreskin's is to perform a show, and then have his hosts hide his check somewhere in the building. If he fails to find his check, he forfeits his pay for the evening. In thousands of performances, Kreskin has failed to find his check a total of nine times.
Of late, the Amazing Kreskin has become involved in current events. In December 2007, he predicted who he thinks will win the 2008 U.S. presidential election. He wrote the name down, had the paper signed by a rabbi, and put it into a locked box, to be opened after the election results come in. In January 2008, he offered to help investigators in their search for Stacy Peterson, a Chicago-area woman who has been missing since October, but withdrew his offer when he discovered that Peterson's husband would only meet him with an attorney present.
