A real-life story that appeared in the feature documentary An Honest Liar. An Honest Liar is based on the life of psychic fake and debunker The Amazing Randi. Project Alpha was a ruse done by "Randi" along with Steve Shaw (known as Banachek) and Michael Edwards who auditioned for and then participated as "psychics" in a paranormal research project led by a team who truly believed that the two had psychic abilities.