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Psychic Moves Objects With The Power Of His Mind

By Paul Bannister

Amazing psychic Steven 'BANACHEK' Shaw has baffled university experts with his incredible feats - using only the power of his mind. "It is an understatement to say that he is one of the best psychics in the world," declared Dr. Berthold Schwarz, consultant psychiatrist and psychic investigator.
"There is just nobody like him in his field. He is a prodigy!"
BANACHEK'S amazing displays of power include:

Bending a metal rod inside a cheat-proof mold.
Moving a small clock without touching it.
Putting baffling streaks of light on sealed film.

In other tests, BANACHEK bent keys and spoons inside sealed containers.

BANACHEK is being studied at the McDonnell Laboratory of Psychical Research at Washington University in St. Louis MO.
"We are very encouraged from the results of these tests," said Dr. Peter Phillips, professor of the experimental laboratory at Washington University.
In the university tests, one of BANACHEK'S targets was a Lucite mold with a slot cut in it just large enough to hold a five-inch-long one sixteenth inch thick metal rod. The psychic merely stroked the rod on the top - and it bent, reported Phillips.

BANACHEK can also move small objects with the power of his mind, say observers. "Several videotape recordings have been made in which he apparently causes a small clock to slide and overturn on a table," reports Phillips.

BANACHEK - who says he discovered his powers after receiving a serious electric shock as a child - added, "They put a little inch-square travel alarm on the wooden table. I imagined a thread stretching between my hands and the clock. The clock moved seven or eight inches, then flipped over backward."
In other tests, Phillips reported, BANACHEK amazingly affected film inside a camera, "producing streaks and blotches of light" on film.

And in stringent tests, Dr. Schwartz, a consultant to the National Institute for Rehabilitation Engineering in New Jersey, took a number of containers, put various objects inside, then sealed them with fast-setting cement, taped them and surrounded the seals with hot wax.

BANACHEK then concentrated on bending or changing the contents of the containers - by using the power of his mind.
"One bottle contained two spoons, a pipe cleaner and a steel ring, "said Dr. Schwarz. "Overnight, the spoons and pipe cleaner twisted themselves into fantastic shapes through the steel ring. The seals were undamaged."
"In one box, we sealed a number of objects, including a key, a nail file, some calling cards, a row of flashbulbs and a crayon.
"When we opened it, the crayon was missing and the flashbulbs had burned out, the nail file was broken in three or four places, the key was cut through, and half of one card was charred."