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 story
• Dangerous stunts, from tossing away heart medications to staged wheelchair healings
• James Randi's team intercepting the 39.17 megahertz transmissions from his wife Elizabeth
• The 1986 exposure on The Tonight Show and his 1987 bankruptcy
• His ...