I asked him when he first realized he had this extraordinary gift and did he ever use it in school, or with his friends and family. He said he has this gift as far back as he can remember.
"I especially practiced in the fourth and sixth grades with my friends and favorite teacher, Mr. Galloway," he said. "She would set aside Fridays during show and tell for me to practice with my fellow students."
Kreskin said it was great foresight on her part realizing that he had an ability that needed to be cultivated. He said Arthur Godfrey, the great broadcaster, was his mentor. He had the greatest influence on his career because Godfrey knew how to communicate with the listener and viewer.
"Godfrey changed the whole fabric of radio and TV broadcasting," Kreskin said.
Kreskin never accepts a paycheck unless, through his ability, he can find it on someone or someplace in the audience.
"I have succeeded in some 6,000 occasions finding mu paycheck, and only failed nine times," he said.
One challenge Kreskin remembered in finding his check took place at the University of Alabama. Among an audience of 3,000, Kreskin opened the jacket of a gentleman who happened to be a plainclothes policeman. Kreskin took out the policeman's concealed gun and turned the barrel toward his eyes. They had taken tweezers and stuffed his paycheck down the barrel of the gun.
Kreskin said that to the best of his knowledge there is no one in the world who functions the way he does. He never uses stooges or confederates to aid him. He has offered $50,000 to anyone who can prove he employed a paid assistant in any phase of his program.
Kreskin has hundreds of stories, so it's hard to pick just one or two. I asked him about the time he was asked to find Robin Leach of the television show "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous." Leach was hidden someplace in New York City.
"I was driven to the city with columnist Cindy Adams and two other associates whose job was to concentrate on where Robin was hiding," Kreskin said. "I ended up having our limo stop in front of a building with no particular name. It was not a prominent building, and I was frustrated when I walked to the elevator.
"I finally left the building and then realized when I looked overhead, that there were more floors than the elevator went up to. I took Cindy Adams and the camera crew back. We found another elevator, a private one that went even higher and led to a private club and a huge swimming pool. A few minutes later I found Robin Leach."
When asked if he believes in UFOs, Kreskin said he does believe in extraterrestrial intelligence.
"How can we be so presumptuous as to think we are the only intelligence in the universe?" he said. "If that were the case it would be a sad commentary on humanity or the existence of life. So who are we to doubt there is other intelligence?"
Kreskin had some predictions. He said he was backing away on the presidential election, as he did not want to get involved in showing prejudice at this heavy political time. However, when Rudolph Giuliani stepped down as New York City mayor, Kreskin made it clear at a press conference that he felt Giuliani would run for president in 2008. This was a number of years before there was much serious thought of his running.
When President Clinton left office, Kreskin predicted that Hillary Clinton would run for U.S. Senate in New York and would win. He also said for a number of years she would run for president in 2008.
Kreskin has been known to predict headlines, the length of wars and much more. He was awarded, among many honors, an honorary doctorate from Seton Hall University. He has incredibly loyal fans all over the world, and his name is synonymous with mind reading. He truly lives up to his name, The Amazing Kreskin.
Mind Over Matter: An Interview With The Amazing Kreskin is an article I wrote in 2007 after doing and interview with Kreskin. For more interviews visit my blog: www.StephenBriggsOnline.blogspot.com
Copyright © Stephen Briggs, 2009
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