1973 - 1975 Articles mentioning Ted Owens
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1973 - 1975 Articles mentioning Ted Owens
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Best wishes always to my old gas-battle-teacher, Murray Bentley,
Ted Owens
PARAPSYCHOLOGY IN EUROPE
Ted Owens
Prof. W.H.C. Tenhaeff
Prof. Hans Bender
Sir John Eccles
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MENSA BULLETIN
No. 171
EDITOR: KARL F. ROSS
NOVEMBER 1973
MENSA BULLETIN
November 6, 1973
MensAchievers
Stephanie Caruana, of Los Angeles, CA, has become a contributing editor of Playgirl magazine. A feminist comedy written by her, The Rip-Off, has been video-taped for KVST-TV.
Howard H. Crumit, Jr. of Detroit, MI has been promoted to Second Vice President and Operations Officer at Manufacturers National Bank of his city. He is also Chairman of the Public-Relations Committee of the Detroit Chapter of the American Institute of Banking.
Rose Jacobowitz of New York City has been appointed Executive Editor for the PRODIST division of Neale Watson Academic Publications, Inc., New York.
Frank E. Kutcher, Jr. has been appointed Executive Vice President for Foote & Davies, a Division of the McCall Printing Company in Atlanta, GA. He is a member of the National Institute of Financial Executive Institute, and serves on the Board of Governors of Vanderbilt YMCA Men's Athletic Club.
Kathleen Ann McMichael, of Wichita, KS, has been chosen as one of the ten President's Australian Science Scholars from the nation's high-school seniors to represent the U.S. at the International Science School at the University of Sydney (Australia) in Late August and early September. Other honors include a National Merit $1,000 Scholarship, listing in the WHO'S WHO AMONG AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, and a scholarship at Princeton University where she is now a sophomore.
Scot Morris, Ph.D. of Del Mar, CA, a member of San Diego Mensa, is the co-author (with Wayne McLoughlin) of a humorous article entitled The Fallout Follies scheduled for publication in the October PLAYBOY.
Rosaura Esteva Murray of Knoxville, TN graduated with high honors from University of Tennessee, majoring in Political Science.
Franklin G. Osberg, M.D., Director of the Drug-Abuse Division of the Indiana Department of Mental Health, has been elected Chairman of the National Association of State Drug-Abuse-Program Coordinators.
Ted Owens, of Cape Charles, VA, has been described as one of America's greatest psychics in various books and other publications dealing with occultism.
Philip Philbosian, of Honolulu, HI, has been appointed Executive Vice President and Regional Director for Century 21 of Hawaii, a franchisor of real-estate brokers.
Joshua Phillips, of Chicago, IL, has been named Assistant to the President of Pioneer Mortgage Company. He holds an MBA degree from Wharton Graduate School of Finance and a BA degree from Williams College.
NEW LOCAL SECRETARIES
CT & W MA Southern Ct Coord: Dr Robert Pomeranz, POB 473 W-Haven, 47 Chestnut St., West Haven 06516.
FLORIDA Indian River: Marguerite Gerstell, 673 St Lucie Crescent, Stuart 33494.
NEW YORK Buffalo: Charles Wertz, 147 N. Long St., Williamsville 14221.
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1974
Ted Owens
# Famed Psychic Visits Here
By CATHY STOTT
(Enterprise-Record Intern)
One of the "world's greatest psychics" who predicts that the nation will be plagued by a drought this year is visiting in Chico. Ted Owens, who hails from Virginia and has been the subject of numerous national magazine articles as well as appearing on national television, is a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Al Bailey, owners of Chico MotorLodge, 725 Broadway.
Accalimed as one of the "world's greatest psychics" in the April 1971 issue of Saga Magazine, Owens says he doesn't just predict, he claims to have the power to cause "miracles" to happen.
He says his mind had control of professional basketball and football teams in recent years and that he caused injuries to key players to keep certain teams out of the Super Bowl.
In June 1967, Owens said, he notified the U.S. hurricane center that three simultaneous hurricanes would occur. Just after that, hurricanes Beulah, Chloe and Doris were active on the same weekend.
In 1972, Owens told a team of scientists and other authorities that the country would experience terrible floods because humans had been polluting lakes, rivers and streams for too long. Many damaging floods occurred.
Owens, who has been written about in many issues of Saga, Sports Illustrated, in two books, "Revelation, The Divine Power" and "Occult America" and many newspapers, explained that he gets his power from the Bermuda Triangle, off the Florida coast where many U.S. aircraft and ships have been reported missing. Owens pointed out that Dr. Jonathan Wright, National Aeronautics and Space Administration physicist has stated there is a UFO base in this area on an island in the Bahamas.
"I have worked for and with them (UFOs) for 10 years," Owens said.
Owens, who claims an IQ of 153--genious level--is a member of Mensa, an international organization of people with IQs above 148. Only 2 per cent of the world's population belongs to Mensa, he said. To become a member, one must apply and go through extensive tests and analysis by teams of scientists.
Owens has been analyzed over and over again by scientists in this country because of his 200 documented predictions and "paranormal phenomena."
Owens has been a jazz drummer, lecturer, hypnotist -- the list of vocations approaches 50. He has appeared on a CBS television special and has recently been approached by Hollywood producers about a movie of his life, he said.
Owens now trains people to become what he calls "super brains." He teaches individuals how to have instant access to 50 to 80 per cent of their brain power whereas most people have a much more limited usage. He gives them the "tools to solve any problem they are confronted with." He stated he is going to train some people while in Chico.
Owens has a wife, Martha, and an 8-year-old son.
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cisco Chronicle N Mon., June 3, 1974
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# When Superbrain Makes It Happen
By Kevin Wallace
Ted Owens, "the UFO and PK man" from rural Cape Charles, Va., has been widely misrepresented as using his flying saucer contacts to predict the scores of pro ball games.
"I don't predict," Owens explained impatiently. "I watch the games, two at a time on the TV, and I MAKE it happen, play by play."
Owens, a smiling and portly man with a cigar, has been here at the Bayside Motor Inn for the past few days, on a tutoring errand to improve a local student's brain.
"I teach a few people how to have superbrains," he said, offhandedly, and moved back to the bigger picture:
"I have a special brain, half UFO, half human.
"I see the day when each pro team will have its own master psychic on the bench - say, Jeane Dixon and her crystal ball with the Raiders, and me with my SI Disc with the 49ers - and the most powerful psychic would win."
He produced a clipping showing it's already being done on a small scale in Kenya, where soccer teams hire witch doctors.
Next he produced an SI Disc - a sort of red poker chip with white squiggles on it.
"I don't sell SI Discs," he said. "But since it takes me 20 minutes to program each one, and I have mailing costs, I have to ask for a minimum $5 contribution." He also lectures.
SI Discs seem to help people, Owens said - and, from a mass of articles and documents strewn over his bed, he extracted a letter from a small girl in Bremerton, Wash., saying her back trouble cleared up after a year of wearing her SI Disc and seeing the doctor.
But SI Discs won't get just anybody into contact with what SI stands for - "Space Intelligences," which are UFO-borne beings, "not from another planet, but another dimension," who ten years ago established two-way telepathic contact with Owens, at the time just another writer, while he was mooning along on a drive through Texas.
"They told me I was the only human they'd been able to get into two-way communication with them - and survive it - since Moses," Owens recalled, with modest relish.
With a batting average like that, it's hardly likely that a third SI communicator will turn up right away, despite the great revival in occult interest, especially in the Bay Area.
"But the new interest is a good thing," Owens said, "even if it only makes everybody read a book called 'Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain', which shows how far ahead the Russians are in all this."
He shuddered pleasurably.
Actually, when Owens arranges ball game outcomes - and, as he adds, "other large-scale PK things, such as storms, droughts, volcanos and hurricanes, all of them documented by scientists and lawyers in these articles and letters right here" - it's the SI folks up in their flying saucers who are doing it, at Owens' request.
By "PK," Owens alludes to "psychokinesis," the term for mentally affecting objects at a distance - the sort of thing that the Stanford Research Institute's Uri Geller likes to do, bending spoons and car keys on TV shows.
Owens maintains a common sense skepticism about whether Geller's alleged extraterrestrial contacts are on a par with his own SI friends - asking, reasonably, "If so, why just bend spoons?"
From the bed, he produced accounts of his own larger-minded enterprises from the Chicago National News Exploiter, the National Tatler, Saga Magazine, the Chatanooga Times, a couple of paperbacks about "What the Seers Predict," and the Mensa Bulletin, house organ of the society of Owens' peers in the higher IQ brackets.
A paperback showed that in 1970 Owens "predicted" - though the verb is at odds with Owens' general usage - "President Nixon will not end in office. Something unusual will occur, and he will either resign or be forced out of office."
Other clippings and affidavits credited Owens with arranging for lightning to strike in Philadelphia and three simultaneous hurricanes to harrass Florida in 1968, the losing streak of the Baltimore Colts in 1971, an earthquake in the Texas panhandle last February, and the materialization of a UFO earlier this month over the Dallas Airport - which was nothing.
"The time those two Mississippi fishermen went for a flight aboard a UFO - well, I not only asked the UFO to go pick them up, I brought out the other UFOs in 25 states right afterwards, to create a furor."
Owens, an Indiana boy to start with, creates his furors nowadays in an otherwise sleepy "six-by-six block" Virginia village, sometimes to the alarm of his wife, who he says is "a simple Texas girl who doesn't know much what goes on.
Such unnerving trivia are accepted with aplomb by Owens, much as the whole world was by W. C. Fields. And still is by Walter Cronkite.
Owens' four children are more psychically gifted, especially Teddy, 3, who brings an ashtray when Owens is just sitting in his chair, smoking and beginning to wish an ashtray was at hand.
The next-youngest, Beau - "actually that's Beau-garde, with an accent over the e" - first showed his own gift four years ago.
"I was sitting in front of the TV one day, planning to control two basketball games, when Beau climbed on my lap and controlled them himself - two basketball games in one day, and that's complicated even for me. And Beau was only 3 at the time!"
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SCOTLAND
DAILY EXPRESS Thursday March 27 1975
# Ted's hot-line to space helps him find Nessie
By Alex Main
MONSTERS on demand and a hot-line to outer space are just two modest achievements of Ted Owens.
And it's all done by spiritual appointment says the American who whistled up Nessie last week.
"Ya gotta believe it, baby. It was so close I could have hit it with a stone," drawled the 55-year-old American in Drumnadrochit, Inverness-shire.
Mr. Owens's psychic powers stem from a childhood experience when "I was taken aboard a U.F.O. in the Mexican desert and my brain was 'modified' to receive messages."
Of his Nessie sighting, he said: "It was dark and impossible to make out detail, but I could see it had a long neck about 6 to 8 inches in diameter and a small egg-shaped head."
![Mr. Ted Owens]
Mr. Ted Owens
## Reports
Inverness taxi-driver Ron Petri admitted initial scepticism.
"Then he told me he had seen a U.F.O. over the loch. The following day there were news reports of similar sightings near Fort William."
Fort William police have since confirmed they received several reports of a strange object in the sky.
Mr. Owens is author of a book "How to Contact Space-people," which was published in 1968.
Why the Loch Ness visit?
"I have been informed by U.F.O. that at one of four locations I will receive a psychic operation to the right lobe of my brain which will make my psychic powers even greater.
"Loch Ness is one, Stonehenge another."
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Virginian-Pilot, Tuesday, March 27, 1973 B7
# PK Man' Owens Retires--Undefeated
By FRANK VEHORN
Virginian-Pilot Sports Writer
Ted Owens, a man who stopped both Julius Erving and Bubba Smith without moving a finger and who wrecked entire major league teams, is disassociating himself from the affairs of sports.
A resident of Cape Charles who has achieved international attention by performing supernatural wonders, Owens disclosed he is withdrawing all hexes previously applied to persons, geographical locations and athletic teams.
The announcement will be cause for celebration in Philadelphia and Baltimore, where Owens' power did the most severe damage in disrupting athletic teams.
In several magazines and national television programs, Owens has explained that his special powers are received from "space intellectuals" with whom he communicates.
Most of his predictions have involved storms, earthquakes, space research and draughts. He can produce documented proof of his success. But he also has carried out attacks against several professional teams and assumed responsibility last season for the Squires losing in the ABA playoffs to the New York Nets.
Owens made known most of his predictions in news letters to scientists and selected journalists.
In his latest, he says he has "erased the blackboard clean... and any vestige of PK (the power he uses) effect in the past, attached to anything or anyone at all... is now gone and erased."
Owens would not disclose the reason for removing his power.
"I am under orders not to do so," he said. His only remaining act, he said, would be to produce a mild earthquake in northern California in which no one will be killed or hurt.
Owens, whose powers are described in an article in the current Saga Magazine annual, said a movie soon will be made of his life but he would not reveal any other future plans.
For the past several years, Owens attempted to reach agreement with several proteams for a deal in which he would use his psychic powers to help the team win.
Owens said former Baltimore Colts owner Carroll Rosenbloom, who now owns the Los Angeles Rams, wanted to employ him but was prevented from doing so by National Football League commissioner Pete Rozelle.
Owens then turned against the Colts, who one year won the Super Bowl and then started falling apart, culminated last season when coach Don McCafferty was fired and the legendary Johnny Unitas was benched.
Before the season, Rosenbloom swapped the Colts for the Rams and Owens said the move was because Rosenbloom was trying to escape the hex that Owens had on him.
But Owens notified Rosenbloom that he would PK the Rams, too, and a couple of days later Rams quarterback Roman Gabriel was stricken with a rare lung injury.
The mood for the Colts was set when Bubba Smith injured himself by running into a yard marker when no one was near him. Smith's season-long absence badly hurt the Baltimore defense.
Last year, the Squires infuriated Owens by bringing in an actor who claimed to cast evil spells on New York during the playoffs. The Squires had ignored an offer by Owens.
**Owens informed the Squires, who were ahead, 3-1, in the best-of-seven series, that he was working against them. The Nets won the last three games and the series.**
In the final game, the Squires shot their worst of the season and one player commented, "It was strange. The shots that usually go in just were not dropping."
Not even Julius Erving, the remarkable forward Owens considers the best in basketball, could pull the Squires through.
But Philadelphia, home of the worst collection of professional athletic teams, has felt the sting of Owens the most.
"It started back in 1966 when I lived there," explained Owens. "The brother of Eagles owner Jerry Wolman met with me and said he was interested in using my powers to help the team.
"He gave me a couple of tickets to the game. The opponent was Pittsburgh and that team fumbled and dropped the ball about every time. But Philadelphia was worse."
So the Steelers won and the Eagles rejected Owens.
Owens then, to prove his powers, turned against the Eagles and eventually all of Philadelphia's athletic teams. Last year the baseball team had the worst record in the National League and this season the basketball team has the worst record in pro basketball.
Owens remembers when Norman Snead broke his leg while playing with the Eagles. "There was no one near him when it happened" said Owens. "But I was on the spot, throwing my PK at him."
Owens normally PKed teams while listening to games on radio or by watching games on television.
Last season Eagles owner Leonard Tose "guaranteed" his team would beat New York in a game on national television.
Owens called The Virginian-Pilot and said he was "going one-on-one" with Tose and the Eagles would not win.
Sportscaster Howard Cosell remarked the game was one of the strangest he had seen, that the Eagles were moving the ball all over the field but couldn't score.
Owens won and Tose and his Eagles lost.
"From the time I started working against the Eagles, the team was wiped out, the coach (Joe Kuharich then) was fired and the owner (Wolman) went bankrupt," said Owens, who last season claims to have stopped both the Chicago Bears and Cleveland Browns.
**Most of the times Owens went against teams was because he was ridiculed. Two years ago, Baltimore Bullets coach Gene Shue insulted Owens on television while his team was leading in the NBA playoffs.**
"I told Shue his team might as well not suit up for the remaining games of the playoffs," said Owens, "and I was right because the Bullets didn't win."
Owens says now when he sits down to watch a ball game on television it is just for enjoyment.
"I don't care if the Eagles, the Phillies or the 76ers win," he said. "But it may take a while for the PK force to wear off in some areas."
Owens says he won't PK a team any more, even if someone calls him a nut or crackpot. He is even forgetting the differences he had the past year with the Squires.
"In fact, I hope the Squires win the championship in the playoffs," he said, "and I believe they can do it. The Squires are the best team in professional basketball when Julius Erving is at full strength.
"I would even put them up against the Celtics or the Lakers."
If the Squires went against the Celtics or Lakers, though, they would probably need the blessing of Ted Owens.
Now, that can't happen. For Ted Owens, whose name can't be found in any record book, is retiring from sports unbeaten.
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SCOTLAND -
EVENING EXPRESS WEDNESDAY MARCH 26 1975
AMERICAN Ted Owens claims he can make the Loch Ness monster appear at his will.
And late on Tuesday night, he says, Nessie rose from the depths of Loch Ness a few yards in front of him.
Ted (55), from Indiana, describes it as having a long neck, six to eight inches in diameter, and having a small egg-shaped head.
It was pitch black by the lochside and he could not make out details, nor could he take a photograph.
But this is the least of Mr Owens' claims. He maintains that he communicates with UFOs and makes them appear.
He said that last Thursday he went down to the shores of the loch to make a rendezvous with a UFO and saw it in the sky over Drumnadrochit.
The following day, the "Evening Express" carried the story of a Fort-William woman seeing a bright light in the sky. She said it looked like a helicopter light but there was no noise.
Mr Owens says he was responsible for the sighting.
Speaking from his hotel, the Glenurquhart Lodge, at Drumnadrochit, Mr Owens, who claims he is one of the world's leading psychics, said he was in Scotland on a strange and supernatural mission.
"I have been guided by UFO since I was a child.
"My brain has been modified so I can make things happen and I am here for one final modification to the right lobe.
"The UFOs have told me this type of psychic surgery will take place in one of four locations--Loch Ness, Stonehenge, Germany or France.
● ABOVE--Ted is pictured beside Castle Urquhart where he claims to have seen a UFO.
'Nessie does what I say'
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Best wishes always to my old gas-battle-teacher, Murray Bentley,
Ted Owens
PARAPSYCHOLOGY IN EUROPE
Ted Owens
Prof. W.H.C. Tenhaeff
Prof. Hans Bender
Sir John Eccles
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MENSA BULLETIN
No. 171
EDITOR: KARL F. ROSS
NOVEMBER 1973
MENSA BULLETIN
November 6, 1973
MensAchievers
Stephanie Caruana, of Los Angeles, CA, has become a contributing editor of Playgirl magazine. A feminist comedy written by her, The Rip-Off, has been video-taped for KVST-TV.
Howard H. Crumit, Jr. of Detroit, MI has been promoted to Second Vice President and Operations Officer at Manufacturers National Bank of his city. He is also Chairman of the Public-Relations Committee of the Detroit Chapter of the American Institute of Banking.
Rose Jacobowitz of New York City has been appointed Executive Editor for the PRODIST division of Neale Watson Academic Publications, Inc., New York.
Frank E. Kutcher, Jr. has been appointed Executive Vice President for Foote & Davies, a Division of the McCall Printing Company in Atlanta, GA. He is a member of the National Institute of Financial Executive Institute, and serves on the Board of Governors of Vanderbilt YMCA Men's Athletic Club.
Kathleen Ann McMichael, of Wichita, KS, has been chosen as one of the ten President's Australian Science Scholars from the nation's high-school seniors to represent the U.S. at the International Science School at the University of Sydney (Australia) in Late August and early September. Other honors include a National Merit $1,000 Scholarship, listing in the WHO'S WHO AMONG AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, and a scholarship at Princeton University where she is now a sophomore.
Scot Morris, Ph.D. of Del Mar, CA, a member of San Diego Mensa, is the co-author (with Wayne McLoughlin) of a humorous article entitled The Fallout Follies scheduled for publication in the October PLAYBOY.
Rosaura Esteva Murray of Knoxville, TN graduated with high honors from University of Tennessee, majoring in Political Science.
Franklin G. Osberg, M.D., Director of the Drug-Abuse Division of the Indiana Department of Mental Health, has been elected Chairman of the National Association of State Drug-Abuse-Program Coordinators.
Ted Owens, of Cape Charles, VA, has been described as one of America's greatest psychics in various books and other publications dealing with occultism.
Philip Philbosian, of Honolulu, HI, has been appointed Executive Vice President and Regional Director for Century 21 of Hawaii, a franchisor of real-estate brokers.
Joshua Phillips, of Chicago, IL, has been named Assistant to the President of Pioneer Mortgage Company. He holds an MBA degree from Wharton Graduate School of Finance and a BA degree from Williams College.
NEW LOCAL SECRETARIES
CT & W MA Southern Ct Coord: Dr Robert Pomeranz, POB 473 W-Haven, 47 Chestnut St., West Haven 06516.
FLORIDA Indian River: Marguerite Gerstell, 673 St Lucie Crescent, Stuart 33494.
NEW YORK Buffalo: Charles Wertz, 147 N. Long St., Williamsville 14221.
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1974
Ted Owens
# Famed Psychic Visits Here
By CATHY STOTT
(Enterprise-Record Intern)
One of the "world's greatest psychics" who predicts that the nation will be plagued by a drought this year is visiting in Chico. Ted Owens, who hails from Virginia and has been the subject of numerous national magazine articles as well as appearing on national television, is a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Al Bailey, owners of Chico MotorLodge, 725 Broadway.
Accalimed as one of the "world's greatest psychics" in the April 1971 issue of Saga Magazine, Owens says he doesn't just predict, he claims to have the power to cause "miracles" to happen.
He says his mind had control of professional basketball and football teams in recent years and that he caused injuries to key players to keep certain teams out of the Super Bowl.
In June 1967, Owens said, he notified the U.S. hurricane center that three simultaneous hurricanes would occur. Just after that, hurricanes Beulah, Chloe and Doris were active on the same weekend.
In 1972, Owens told a team of scientists and other authorities that the country would experience terrible floods because humans had been polluting lakes, rivers and streams for too long. Many damaging floods occurred.
Owens, who has been written about in many issues of Saga, Sports Illustrated, in two books, "Revelation, The Divine Power" and "Occult America" and many newspapers, explained that he gets his power from the Bermuda Triangle, off the Florida coast where many U.S. aircraft and ships have been reported missing. Owens pointed out that Dr. Jonathan Wright, National Aeronautics and Space Administration physicist has stated there is a UFO base in this area on an island in the Bahamas.
"I have worked for and with them (UFOs) for 10 years," Owens said.
Owens, who claims an IQ of 153--genious level--is a member of Mensa, an international organization of people with IQs above 148. Only 2 per cent of the world's population belongs to Mensa, he said. To become a member, one must apply and go through extensive tests and analysis by teams of scientists.
Owens has been analyzed over and over again by scientists in this country because of his 200 documented predictions and "paranormal phenomena."
Owens has been a jazz drummer, lecturer, hypnotist -- the list of vocations approaches 50. He has appeared on a CBS television special and has recently been approached by Hollywood producers about a movie of his life, he said.
Owens now trains people to become what he calls "super brains." He teaches individuals how to have instant access to 50 to 80 per cent of their brain power whereas most people have a much more limited usage. He gives them the "tools to solve any problem they are confronted with." He stated he is going to train some people while in Chico.
Owens has a wife, Martha, and an 8-year-old son.
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cisco Chronicle N Mon., June 3, 1974
# people
# When Superbrain Makes It Happen
By Kevin Wallace
Ted Owens, "the UFO and PK man" from rural Cape Charles, Va., has been widely misrepresented as using his flying saucer contacts to predict the scores of pro ball games.
"I don't predict," Owens explained impatiently. "I watch the games, two at a time on the TV, and I MAKE it happen, play by play."
Owens, a smiling and portly man with a cigar, has been here at the Bayside Motor Inn for the past few days, on a tutoring errand to improve a local student's brain.
"I teach a few people how to have superbrains," he said, offhandedly, and moved back to the bigger picture:
"I have a special brain, half UFO, half human.
"I see the day when each pro team will have its own master psychic on the bench - say, Jeane Dixon and her crystal ball with the Raiders, and me with my SI Disc with the 49ers - and the most powerful psychic would win."
He produced a clipping showing it's already being done on a small scale in Kenya, where soccer teams hire witch doctors.
Next he produced an SI Disc - a sort of red poker chip with white squiggles on it.
"I don't sell SI Discs," he said. "But since it takes me 20 minutes to program each one, and I have mailing costs, I have to ask for a minimum $5 contribution." He also lectures.
SI Discs seem to help people, Owens said - and, from a mass of articles and documents strewn over his bed, he extracted a letter from a small girl in Bremerton, Wash., saying her back trouble cleared up after a year of wearing her SI Disc and seeing the doctor.
But SI Discs won't get just anybody into contact with what SI stands for - "Space Intelligences," which are UFO-borne beings, "not from another planet, but another dimension," who ten years ago established two-way telepathic contact with Owens, at the time just another writer, while he was mooning along on a drive through Texas.
"They told me I was the only human they'd been able to get into two-way communication with them - and survive it - since Moses," Owens recalled, with modest relish.
With a batting average like that, it's hardly likely that a third SI communicator will turn up right away, despite the great revival in occult interest, especially in the Bay Area.
"But the new interest is a good thing," Owens said, "even if it only makes everybody read a book called 'Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain', which shows how far ahead the Russians are in all this."
He shuddered pleasurably.
Actually, when Owens arranges ball game outcomes - and, as he adds, "other large-scale PK things, such as storms, droughts, volcanos and hurricanes, all of them documented by scientists and lawyers in these articles and letters right here" - it's the SI folks up in their flying saucers who are doing it, at Owens' request.
By "PK," Owens alludes to "psychokinesis," the term for mentally affecting objects at a distance - the sort of thing that the Stanford Research Institute's Uri Geller likes to do, bending spoons and car keys on TV shows.
Owens maintains a common sense skepticism about whether Geller's alleged extraterrestrial contacts are on a par with his own SI friends - asking, reasonably, "If so, why just bend spoons?"
From the bed, he produced accounts of his own larger-minded enterprises from the Chicago National News Exploiter, the National Tatler, Saga Magazine, the Chatanooga Times, a couple of paperbacks about "What the Seers Predict," and the Mensa Bulletin, house organ of the society of Owens' peers in the higher IQ brackets.
A paperback showed that in 1970 Owens "predicted" - though the verb is at odds with Owens' general usage - "President Nixon will not end in office. Something unusual will occur, and he will either resign or be forced out of office."
Other clippings and affidavits credited Owens with arranging for lightning to strike in Philadelphia and three simultaneous hurricanes to harrass Florida in 1968, the losing streak of the Baltimore Colts in 1971, an earthquake in the Texas panhandle last February, and the materialization of a UFO earlier this month over the Dallas Airport - which was nothing.
"The time those two Mississippi fishermen went for a flight aboard a UFO - well, I not only asked the UFO to go pick them up, I brought out the other UFOs in 25 states right afterwards, to create a furor."
Owens, an Indiana boy to start with, creates his furors nowadays in an otherwise sleepy "six-by-six block" Virginia village, sometimes to the alarm of his wife, who he says is "a simple Texas girl who doesn't know much what goes on.
Such unnerving trivia are accepted with aplomb by Owens, much as the whole world was by W. C. Fields. And still is by Walter Cronkite.
Owens' four children are more psychically gifted, especially Teddy, 3, who brings an ashtray when Owens is just sitting in his chair, smoking and beginning to wish an ashtray was at hand.
The next-youngest, Beau - "actually that's Beau-garde, with an accent over the e" - first showed his own gift four years ago.
"I was sitting in front of the TV one day, planning to control two basketball games, when Beau climbed on my lap and controlled them himself - two basketball games in one day, and that's complicated even for me. And Beau was only 3 at the time!"
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SCOTLAND
DAILY EXPRESS Thursday March 27 1975
# Ted's hot-line to space helps him find Nessie
By Alex Main
MONSTERS on demand and a hot-line to outer space are just two modest achievements of Ted Owens.
And it's all done by spiritual appointment says the American who whistled up Nessie last week.
"Ya gotta believe it, baby. It was so close I could have hit it with a stone," drawled the 55-year-old American in Drumnadrochit, Inverness-shire.
Mr. Owens's psychic powers stem from a childhood experience when "I was taken aboard a U.F.O. in the Mexican desert and my brain was 'modified' to receive messages."
Of his Nessie sighting, he said: "It was dark and impossible to make out detail, but I could see it had a long neck about 6 to 8 inches in diameter and a small egg-shaped head."
![Mr. Ted Owens]
Mr. Ted Owens
## Reports
Inverness taxi-driver Ron Petri admitted initial scepticism.
"Then he told me he had seen a U.F.O. over the loch. The following day there were news reports of similar sightings near Fort William."
Fort William police have since confirmed they received several reports of a strange object in the sky.
Mr. Owens is author of a book "How to Contact Space-people," which was published in 1968.
Why the Loch Ness visit?
"I have been informed by U.F.O. that at one of four locations I will receive a psychic operation to the right lobe of my brain which will make my psychic powers even greater.
"Loch Ness is one, Stonehenge another."
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Virginian-Pilot, Tuesday, March 27, 1973 B7
# PK Man' Owens Retires--Undefeated
By FRANK VEHORN
Virginian-Pilot Sports Writer
Ted Owens, a man who stopped both Julius Erving and Bubba Smith without moving a finger and who wrecked entire major league teams, is disassociating himself from the affairs of sports.
A resident of Cape Charles who has achieved international attention by performing supernatural wonders, Owens disclosed he is withdrawing all hexes previously applied to persons, geographical locations and athletic teams.
The announcement will be cause for celebration in Philadelphia and Baltimore, where Owens' power did the most severe damage in disrupting athletic teams.
In several magazines and national television programs, Owens has explained that his special powers are received from "space intellectuals" with whom he communicates.
Most of his predictions have involved storms, earthquakes, space research and draughts. He can produce documented proof of his success. But he also has carried out attacks against several professional teams and assumed responsibility last season for the Squires losing in the ABA playoffs to the New York Nets.
Owens made known most of his predictions in news letters to scientists and selected journalists.
In his latest, he says he has "erased the blackboard clean... and any vestige of PK (the power he uses) effect in the past, attached to anything or anyone at all... is now gone and erased."
Owens would not disclose the reason for removing his power.
"I am under orders not to do so," he said. His only remaining act, he said, would be to produce a mild earthquake in northern California in which no one will be killed or hurt.
Owens, whose powers are described in an article in the current Saga Magazine annual, said a movie soon will be made of his life but he would not reveal any other future plans.
For the past several years, Owens attempted to reach agreement with several proteams for a deal in which he would use his psychic powers to help the team win.
Owens said former Baltimore Colts owner Carroll Rosenbloom, who now owns the Los Angeles Rams, wanted to employ him but was prevented from doing so by National Football League commissioner Pete Rozelle.
Owens then turned against the Colts, who one year won the Super Bowl and then started falling apart, culminated last season when coach Don McCafferty was fired and the legendary Johnny Unitas was benched.
Before the season, Rosenbloom swapped the Colts for the Rams and Owens said the move was because Rosenbloom was trying to escape the hex that Owens had on him.
But Owens notified Rosenbloom that he would PK the Rams, too, and a couple of days later Rams quarterback Roman Gabriel was stricken with a rare lung injury.
The mood for the Colts was set when Bubba Smith injured himself by running into a yard marker when no one was near him. Smith's season-long absence badly hurt the Baltimore defense.
Last year, the Squires infuriated Owens by bringing in an actor who claimed to cast evil spells on New York during the playoffs. The Squires had ignored an offer by Owens.
**Owens informed the Squires, who were ahead, 3-1, in the best-of-seven series, that he was working against them. The Nets won the last three games and the series.**
In the final game, the Squires shot their worst of the season and one player commented, "It was strange. The shots that usually go in just were not dropping."
Not even Julius Erving, the remarkable forward Owens considers the best in basketball, could pull the Squires through.
But Philadelphia, home of the worst collection of professional athletic teams, has felt the sting of Owens the most.
"It started back in 1966 when I lived there," explained Owens. "The brother of Eagles owner Jerry Wolman met with me and said he was interested in using my powers to help the team.
"He gave me a couple of tickets to the game. The opponent was Pittsburgh and that team fumbled and dropped the ball about every time. But Philadelphia was worse."
So the Steelers won and the Eagles rejected Owens.
Owens then, to prove his powers, turned against the Eagles and eventually all of Philadelphia's athletic teams. Last year the baseball team had the worst record in the National League and this season the basketball team has the worst record in pro basketball.
Owens remembers when Norman Snead broke his leg while playing with the Eagles. "There was no one near him when it happened" said Owens. "But I was on the spot, throwing my PK at him."
Owens normally PKed teams while listening to games on radio or by watching games on television.
Last season Eagles owner Leonard Tose "guaranteed" his team would beat New York in a game on national television.
Owens called The Virginian-Pilot and said he was "going one-on-one" with Tose and the Eagles would not win.
Sportscaster Howard Cosell remarked the game was one of the strangest he had seen, that the Eagles were moving the ball all over the field but couldn't score.
Owens won and Tose and his Eagles lost.
"From the time I started working against the Eagles, the team was wiped out, the coach (Joe Kuharich then) was fired and the owner (Wolman) went bankrupt," said Owens, who last season claims to have stopped both the Chicago Bears and Cleveland Browns.
**Most of the times Owens went against teams was because he was ridiculed. Two years ago, Baltimore Bullets coach Gene Shue insulted Owens on television while his team was leading in the NBA playoffs.**
"I told Shue his team might as well not suit up for the remaining games of the playoffs," said Owens, "and I was right because the Bullets didn't win."
Owens says now when he sits down to watch a ball game on television it is just for enjoyment.
"I don't care if the Eagles, the Phillies or the 76ers win," he said. "But it may take a while for the PK force to wear off in some areas."
Owens says he won't PK a team any more, even if someone calls him a nut or crackpot. He is even forgetting the differences he had the past year with the Squires.
"In fact, I hope the Squires win the championship in the playoffs," he said, "and I believe they can do it. The Squires are the best team in professional basketball when Julius Erving is at full strength.
"I would even put them up against the Celtics or the Lakers."
If the Squires went against the Celtics or Lakers, though, they would probably need the blessing of Ted Owens.
Now, that can't happen. For Ted Owens, whose name can't be found in any record book, is retiring from sports unbeaten.
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SCOTLAND -
EVENING EXPRESS WEDNESDAY MARCH 26 1975
AMERICAN Ted Owens claims he can make the Loch Ness monster appear at his will.
And late on Tuesday night, he says, Nessie rose from the depths of Loch Ness a few yards in front of him.
Ted (55), from Indiana, describes it as having a long neck, six to eight inches in diameter, and having a small egg-shaped head.
It was pitch black by the lochside and he could not make out details, nor could he take a photograph.
But this is the least of Mr Owens' claims. He maintains that he communicates with UFOs and makes them appear.
He said that last Thursday he went down to the shores of the loch to make a rendezvous with a UFO and saw it in the sky over Drumnadrochit.
The following day, the "Evening Express" carried the story of a Fort-William woman seeing a bright light in the sky. She said it looked like a helicopter light but there was no noise.
Mr Owens says he was responsible for the sighting.
Speaking from his hotel, the Glenurquhart Lodge, at Drumnadrochit, Mr Owens, who claims he is one of the world's leading psychics, said he was in Scotland on a strange and supernatural mission.
"I have been guided by UFO since I was a child.
"My brain has been modified so I can make things happen and I am here for one final modification to the right lobe.
"The UFOs have told me this type of psychic surgery will take place in one of four locations--Loch Ness, Stonehenge, Germany or France.
● ABOVE--Ted is pictured beside Castle Urquhart where he claims to have seen a UFO.
'Nessie does what I say'
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Citation
“1973 - 1975 Articles mentioning Ted Owens,” Archive Home, accessed July 28, 2026, https://pkman.org/archive/items/show/753.