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Project - Project Alpha Part I

World's Greatest Con

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Yuri Geller and the Psychic Boom of the 1970s

Yuri Geller is the poster boy for the psychic boom of the 1970s. He claimed to be able to bend metal with his mind and find water in a desert through dowsing. The world had already seen all it needed to see, but Yuri Geller's powers were validated by science. Ornn: I've been reading a lot of research on him from the Stanford Research Institute.

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