LETTERS: $1 MILLION AWAITS PERSON WITH PROOF OF PSYCHIC POWERS

To the editor:

When I read the article in your paper about a psychic in the area, I thought at first I had picked up a National Enquirer by mistake.

The Southeast Missourian does not enhance its credibility when it publishes such stories.

Are the claims of psychics really news? What will we see next: reports of leprechauns, flying saucer sightings, haunted house stories?

James Randi is a stage magician who has reproduced every single trick employed by so-called psychics. Randi has deposited $1 million in a bank with the offer to pay it to the first person who can prove that psychic powers are real. The reward money has remained unclaimed for many years.

When someone earns that reward money, now that will be a real story.

BILL HOPKINS

Marble Hill, Mo.