Peter Popoff: The Faith Healer Exposed as a Fraud

Imagine a televangelist singling you out of a crowd, reciting your name, address, and hidden illness as if by divine revelation, then discovering the voice of God was his wife reading prayer cards into a hidden radio earpiece. This is the decades-long saga of Peter Popoff.This deep dive traces the complete arc of a man who built a televangelist empire, was unmasked on national television as a fraud, lost everything to bankruptcy, and then resurrected his career to become richer than ever.His childhood in tent revivals and the fabricated Miracle Boy origin storyDangerous stunts, from tossing away heart medications to staged wheelchair healingsJames Randi's team intercepting the 39.17 megahertz transmissions from his wife ElizabethThe 1986 exposure on The Tonight Show and his 1987 bankruptcyHis comeback through Miracle Spring Water infomercials and a church tax exemption