On April 14, 2018, Kreskin failed to find the hidden check while performing to a sold-out crowd in Theatre Row, New York City on 42nd Street.

After about 30 minutes of leading viewers around the small theater trying to find the check, Kreskin settled his search on an area behind the stage, out of view of most of the audience.

[16] Kreskin taught classes for law enforcement groups, which "focus[ed] on psychological methods such as jogging lost memories through relaxation techniques or detecting lies through body language and voice inflections".

[15] The 2008 movie The Great Buck Howard is based on the experiences of writer-director Sean McGinly, who worked briefly as Kreskin's road manager.

[24] Kreskin's last television appearance was on Fox Business on May 2, 2023, predicting the Super Bowl,[25] and his last scheduled performance was on March 7, 2024, a "pendulum seminar" on Zoom.

He stopped performing after being injured in a fall in early 2024[32] and had a period of poor health in the weeks leading up to his death.

[32] Kreskin died from complications of dementia at an assisted living facility in Wayne, New Jersey, on December 10, 2024, at the age of 89.

[10][4] In 2002, Kreskin made a prediction that there would be a mass UFO sighting over Las Vegas on June 6 between the hours of 9:45 PM and midnight that would be witnessed by thousands of people.

[33] Bell read Kreskin's press release over the air to the effect that "the sighting prediction was a total fabrication in order to prove people's susceptibility to suggestion post-9/11".

Kreskin claimed he was concerned that a terrorist, with the skills of a mentalist such as himself, could pull a similar stunt involving something much worse.

When asked about the $50,000 donation he previously promoted, Kreskin claimed there was indeed a sighting that night since he said glowing green orbs were supposedly spotted in the sky just before midnight and reported by witnesses after news camera crews had already left the scene.