| Genre: | Reality television |
| Based On: | Psychic Challenge |
| Presenter: | Celso Portiolli |
| Narrated: | Celso Portiolli |
| Country: | Brazil |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| Num Seasons: | 1 |
| Num Episodes: | 13 |
| Camera: | Single-camera setup Multi-camera setup |
| Runtime: | 60-70 minutes |
| Company: | Cygnus Media |
| Network: | SBT |
Os Paranormais (English: The Paranormal) was a Brazilian television series, produced by Cygnus Media and broadcast as a segment of Sunday program Domingo Legal. Hosted by Celso Portiolli, it was based on the Dutch format Psychic Challenge, distributed and broadcast in more than eleven countries, including the Netherlands, Russia, United States, Peru, England, Ukraine, Norway, Denmark, Lithuania and Israel.[1]
A team of paranormals compete to find the best one in Brazil. Among the contestants, wizards, holistic therapists, tarot readers and mediums. The winner of the program was the wizard Edu Scarfon, who had the highest score in the end and earned 50,000 reais (US$14.988,26 – 2017 dollars) in gold bars.[2]
Produced by Cygnus Media in Brazil for Sunday program Domingo Legal, the program brought sixteen contestants in the premiere, twelve women and only four men. They demonstrated their skills in very objective challenges that also put the viewers to the test, interacting through digital platforms. The central issue is controversial, many people believe that it is possible to have a supernatural gift, whilst others discriminate the idea.
The theme was for the first time seriously treated on a TV show in Brazil, where one and a half times someone appears bending silverware, using force of thought, predicting events or doing illusion. For being interesting and different, both surprised and amused the audience.[3]
Divided into groups of four, each Sunday the participants presented themselves in well-elaborated challenges, using their instruments of work, such as tarot cards, pendulums or just intuition.[4]
| Contestant[5] | Profession | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edu Scarfon | Wizard | Winner on December 21, 2014 | |
| bgcolor= | Selena F. | Therapist | 2nd Place on December 21, 2014 |
| bgcolor= | Márcio Lambert | Tarot reader | 3rd Place on December 21, 2014 |
| bgcolor= | Vandinha | Therapist | 4th Place on December 21, 2014 |
| Elias Luiz Bispo IV | Metaphysical | 5th Place and 6th Place on December 14, 2014 | |
| Cathia D Gaya | Consultant | ||
| bgcolor= | Rosa Eliana | Therapist | 7th Place on December 7, 2014 |
| bgcolor= | Silvia Brianna | Witch | 8th Place on November 23, 2014 |
| bgcolor= | Iyá Vanju | Priestess | 9th Place on November 16, 2014 |
| bgcolor= | Sandra Susi | Clairvoyant | 10th Place on November 9, 2014 |
| bgcolor= | Maíra | Tarot reader | 11th Place November 2, 2014 |
| bgcolor= | Val | Missionary | 12th Place on October 26, 2014 |
| bgcolor= | Luciá Küma | Tarot reader | 13th Place on October 19, 2014 |
| bgcolor= | Ana Luz | Medium | 14th Place on October 12, 2014 |
| bgcolor= | Lucas Nascimento | Babalorixá | 15th Place on October 5, 2014 |
| bgcolor= | Vanessa Lucas | Medium | 16th Place on September 28, 2014 |