Has there ever been a paranormal TV game show?

Question

Where psychic contestants battle it out to win a new car or a holiday by reading minds and making predictions.

Perhaps they could compete against random auidence members too.

Would a show like that be popular and entertaining?

Answer 1

Wasn't there one on NBC last year?  I think it was called 'Phenomenon' with Criss Angel (good magician) and Uri Gellar (lousy psychic fraud).  I know it was some sort of reality / game show thing, but I don't know if it was testing your skills as a magician or claimed to be testing actual psychic or magic skills or something.

But if you want to start one, that would be awesome.  Get a whole bunch of people who claim to have powers, and subject them to an actual test.  Not just sitting around guessing common names, but something with a right answer and a goal in mind and see if any of them aren't just making it all up.  I'm guessing they're making it all up.

Answer 2

Many years back there was a show where a family would have to stay in a reported haunted house & investigate.  

If they stayed in the said to be haunted place the whole time, then they would win.

There were no vamps, or voodoo or anything to that effect involved with this.

As for psychics on a show, no that wouldn't be very interesting.  They have these "healing" revivals down here, the same thing & about as unappealing as a psychic show.

Answer 3

There was a reality show that was in a game show format that had several psychics pitted against one another to see who abilities were best.  I believe the name of it was "worlds greatest psychic."  It was interesting.

Answer 4

They have one on HBO Family, it airs every weekend.  

Its called "Ghost Trackers"

A live-action series that explores the art and science of ghost hunting, "Ghost Trackers" is a series that will make your skin crawl and your heart skip a beat. Teens, outfitted with only a point-of-view camera enter haunted locations, completely on their own and use ghost tracking devices to record the paranormal activity that seems to lurk around every corner. Watch as the participants fight with their instinct to flee the houses in order to beat out their competitor, be judged by a group of their peers and become the Ultimate Ghost Tracker!

Answer 5

This is a fantastic idea.  That way the general public could see what abilities these self-professed psychics really (don't) have.  I would bet that, in the interest of not being found out, most psychics would refuse to participate.  The apologists would say that psychic powers aren't that easy to control, aren't 100% accurate, shouldn't be cheapened and anything else to divert from the fact that psychic abilities are non-existent.

Answer 6

I think that would be a GREAT idea...as long as the contestants don't come on claiming to be psychic. I think it should just be regular people  ..wanting to see if they can read people's minds etc.Also..they could throw in a little teaching about the paranormal...terms etc.

Answer 7

There was one on the Sci-Fi channel called "Mad Mad House."

Part reality and part game, the one-hour ten-episode series chronicled the unhinging of ten everyday people who move into a house run by a Vampire, a Witch, a Naturist, a Voodoo Priestess, and a Modern Primitive to compete for a $100,000 prize.

Kinda like Survivor meets Big Brother.

I watched it and thought it was very interesting.

There was also a show in Canada featuring Eugenia Last - who is an astrologer. Basically the show tested her more than the competitors. For example, two men and a women would be presented to her and she had to determine based on their charts which of the two men the woman was romantically involved with. Stuff like that. It never took off as there was no way for the audience to believe that anything about it was genuine. It was too easy to assume she had the info in advance, so how could the average watcher be impressed?  Kinda like John Edward's Crossing Over. its just too easy for it to be fixed. So its not worth the watcher's time.

Answer 8

The closest would be MTV's fear, they had to stay in a haunted place and do rituals and things.  I am not sure what they got if they won though.  You should try to find the old shows on YouTube, it was really good!