What's in the envelope?
Wednesday, May 14 2008 | Comments (0)
1 million dollars
In case you need an update, the October 31, 2007 episode of the reality show Phenomenon where Criss Angel is a Judge with Uri Geller, Jim Callahan performed a summoning, to help discover the contents of a locked box. Raven (from That’s so Raven) assisted and it was a small metal car. Although Uri Geller praised the performance, Angel called it "comical" and subsequently challenged both Callahan and Geller to guess the contents of two envelopes he pulled out of his pocket, offering a million dollars of his own money to whoever could do so.
This led to an argument between Callahan and Angel, during which Callahan accused Angel of being an "ideological bigot", and after Criss rose from his chair and approached Callahan, the two were pulled apart as the show promptly went to a commercial break.
with Jim Callahan
After the show Criss reveals his reasoning for the aggressive behavior. He went on to challenge Geller once more on a later show, with a debatable outcome. Some say Geller got all three numbers, other aren't in agreement. The card was imprinted with the numbers "911" for September 11, 2001. Criss' explanation was this: "If on 9-10 somebody could have predicted that 9-11 was going to happen, they could have saved thousands of lives". The other envelope's contents will be revealed on the first episode of Season 4 of Criss Angel: Mindfreak.
But you can’t be surprised by such strong opinions from Criss, he did tell Larry King just the day prior "no one has the ability, that I'm aware of, to do anything supernatural, psychic, talk to the dead. And that was what I said I was going to do with Phenomenon. If somebody goes on that show and claims to have supernatural psychic ability, I'm going to bust them live and on television.”
Well, on June 5, 2008 we will have the answer. See you then!
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