What's the freakiest bit of magic you've ever seen done RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU?
 

Before your eyes.

It's just a card trick, but it was unreal, and to this day I have no idea how the fuck the guy did it (or even who he was).

I was in a local bar, this was maybe 12 or 13 years ago. I'm standing around with friends, drinking, flirting with the cute coat check girl..... and this average - a bit goofy looking guy - just sidles up and starts into his shpiel holding a deck of cards. I'm curiious so I play along.

It started out the usual way, he fans the deck and asks me to pick a card, don't show him, then slip it back in the deck, shuffle it etc. Then he starts trying to guess my card (10 of diamonds). He sifts through the deck, pulls up a card and says "This your card?"
I say "No"
He does this a few more times, each time getting it wrong.
He shakes his head as if confused as to why it's not working. My friends are snickering at him now. THEN.... he says "hmm, something's not right, I'll have to try something here..." and he inverts his hand over the deck and smacks the deck up into his hand with his other hand.
*SMACK*
He then hands me the deck and says "Find your card in there, make sure it's there"

I go sifting through the deck and can't see the 10 of diamonds anywhere. I look at him and say it's not there, he smiles and says "Look up"
I look up and there's my card, stuck about 8 feet off the floor, on the cieling. (we were standing in a spot in the bar where the cieling just happened to be lower than in other areas)
"Is that your card?"
I'm like "Yep, that be it"
The guy wasn't tall enough to reach up and retrieve the card. Me being 6'4", he asked me to get it for him, which I did.

Everyone within visual range of us was blown away, including me.

I offered to buy the guy a drink, and in fact everyone I was with offered him one, but he just thanked us for playing along and then blended back into the crowd and I never saw him again. Still don't know who the fuck he was, but that was on amazing trick.

Card tricks are lame.

Often they are. But not this one.

Sam Bam Cunningham

Hmm... False shuffle controlling the card to the top. Palm it, distraction. Double sided sticky tape on back of card throws it up? far fetched but...

It's only way I can think of.

Or maybe he just pulled the "already stuck to the ceiling because who the fuck ever looks up before the card trick is done" trick

a bitch went from incensed by me to completely uninterested. All in the course of a day. That was pretty incredible.

chair levitation trick, but the rig broke in the middle.
The girl fell - I broke her fall enough so she didn't get hurt, but she walked off the set and I had to go explain to my boss why we needed a new model.

There was no sticky tape on the card of any kind when I plucked it off the cieling. No glue, nothing. Just the card.


Doesn't anyone here have a for-instance of their own to tell?


Okay, here's one more....

My mom told me this story when I was a kid. Back before I was born (like 1962-ish) my mom and dad were out to dinner, then to a lounge for some drinks and entertainment. There was a magician/piano player/hypnotist act (one man show). At a certain point in the evening there my mom started to feel ill... headachey, sick to her stomach, a bit dizzy even. She was about a minute away from calling it a night, but my dad coaxed her to stay just a bit longer.

The guy up on stage said he was about to hypnotize a certain few random people in the audience, and once he went into his dialogue sure enough, certain people start to fall asleep in the audience. My dad, amazed by this, looks over at my mom about to say "did you see that?" and finds that my mom too has been hypnotized and is asleep.

The hypnotist makes several suggestions to these people, one of which was something like "If you've not been feeling well tonight you will wake up feeling 100% better and refreshed..."

After he snapped his fingers and woke everyone up, my mom's ill sicky feeling was completely gone. The old man couldn't believe it, and she had to be convinced that it even happened.... but apparently they were able to go on and enjoy the rest of the evening, with her feeling totally fine.

I find shit like that quite amazing.

not amazing at all

the card was already there on the ceiling before the trick began

yeah card tricks normally get me pretty well.

Oh really?

How would the guy know which card I would pick? I picked one at random, and saw the complete deck before the trick began.


I didn't ask for geniuses to try their uber debunking skills here, I'm asking if you've seen any freaky unreal or otherwise insane magic tricks done in front of you. So have you?

If not, thanks for the thread bump. :D

Often times, it's the power of suggestion that makes you pick your "random" card though. Mind control is some crazy shit. Sometimes it's something as small as just a flicker of the card or that card sticking out from the fan a fraction of an inch that can sway your random pick to the card he wants you to pick. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. If it didn't work, he would have faded back into the crowd anyway. No loss for him. But if it did work...you're still talking about it 12 years later. He gotcha.:winkwink:

Did you see the cards when picking them?

I was watching for that shit though. Whenever anyone pulls this kind of thing on me I always go for what I know to be a completely random card, not one they are "trying" to get me to choose. Same with putting it back in the deck, it was done in such a way that it would be impossible to control. (or so it would seem)

Guess you guys had to be there. I'm no dummy and wouldn't easily fall for such things as you're describing. Your suggestions are all good but just not quite applicable to this instance.

He showed me the complete deck first, let me shuffle it, then fanned it out and asked me to pick one. He even looked away, I mean completely away. He then allowed me to put the card back into the deck at any place I wanted, and like I said, at one point in the trick he handed me the entire deck and asked me to go through it and find my card.


I don't know guys... to me there 's no sense trying to debunk it. You either know how it's done or you don't. If you don't, you either go crazy with your "theories" or you just enjoy it for what it is.


Magic. :D



None of you have any stories of your own about this? Cripes what a dull group today.

:upsidedow

He showed you that card more times than the other cards and he knew you would choose it (at least the odds are in his favor you would choose it) and the card was up there before you even started to play the game.

*sigh*


Good ol GFY.

i believe magic exist

lol, we are trying. I can only think that he lead you into that card... as suggested above.

I only got one amazing trick. It uses simple slight of hand. when they turn that card over. hehe, People think I am some wizard or something. Then I have to break their hearts and tell them thats the only trick under my belt. :upsidedow

I see my money disappear right in front of me all the time.. my girlfriend is a wizard ;) love you babe.

I mean was it like this, when you were picking the card? ->
http://www.jalove.com/IS/Card%20Ticks/images/Fan.jpg

or were the cards face up?

magic confuses me

Magic is lame =\ Not quite as lame as chinese checkers mind you, but still pretty damn lame.

The deck was fanned out and shown to me (and everyone else) face up... as in all the cards were visible so everyone could see it was a full deck. Then he turned the deck back over and fanned them out, the cards never leaving anyone's sight. As I already said, he turned away while I picked the card. Since he was turned away he could "subliminally suggest" a certain card all he wanted, but I made sure I chose one that wasn't in the forefront, I had to dig a little for it.

You guys kill me.


I'm telling you, the guy was fucking good. There was no "obvious" way of telling what he was doing. You just had to be there I guess, I've tried to describe it as best I could to you all.



Those who think they're so smart and think they can see right through everything, tell me how THIS one was done then.....

On TV earlier today I watched a magician do another "lame" card trick.... On a crowded bus he gets up, starts his shpiel to the 40-odd people riding along. He gets a random girl, one he has never met before, to pull a random card out of the deck (a fresh deck that he let her shuffle as much as she liked) then he asked her to take a pen and sign her name on that card.

She then slipped the card back into the deck, and was again allowed to shuffled the deck.

He then took the entire deck and THREW all the cards at the inside of the front window of the bus, after which all the cards flew, bounced off the glass etc, but one card remained... stuck on the glass at the end.... HER SIGNED CARD.

Here's the real kicker: He asked the bus driver to stop, whereupon he got out, asked the girl to get off the bus with him, showed her the card.... IT WAS STUCK ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE WINDOW... not the inside.


Now, I would LOVE for some of you self-proclaimed brainiacs to have seen that first-hand, then sit there and try to explain how he did it. :1orglaugh

Well, but you were in a dark bar, probably after a few beers, it's not exactly impossible that he could have switched the full deck that he showed you, for a deck that contained only 10 of diamonds as he turned the cards over...

I know you will probably say, no way that is what happened, I was watching his hands all the time, etc... but these guys are pros, all you need is some hand waving, some distracting story to go along, and you can turn a quarter into a pigeon right in front of your eyes....

i know alot of card tricks, that bar trick can be several of many time-tested card tricks he pulled...i would have had to see him do it in person to tell you exactly which technique he used

I saw David Copperfield live once, he started flying around and shit, very weird to see in person.

Oh no, don't get me wrong CD...I was just saying that it was the ONLY explanation I could come up with. The power of suggestion is a crazy thing. Not that he used it on you...but after hearing what you said from the onset, it was the only answer I could muster. :)

i had a similar situation with my friend... went into a bar... playing pool started talking to some guy who said he did magic. we started taunting him. he pulls out a deck of cards... goes through the whole "pick a card" routine. shuffles them... "is this it?" .... "no"....."is this it"...... "no"...... "is this it"...... "no"

so i start telling him he really sucks at magic. he asks my friend if he was being honest etc. then says "you had to have cheated. you probably tricked me and still have the card on you. check your back pocket" and there was the card.

he NEVER came even close to my friends pocket.

we were totally floored and spent a lot of time trying to figure out how the hell he did that.

Watching my two kids being born was pretty amazing bit of magic. Watching them blossom into the fine people they ended up being was even more magical.

Your friend was in on it and still laughs behind you guys' back when you're not looking.:winkwink:

Speaking of 'Coppa-feel'... Check out this clip ~> Laser Illusion
Saw him do this live and in person... From the 2nd row... NO CAMERA TRICKS!

He could have done a lot of things woj. Am I telling you it was actual "magic"? No. I realize there's a trick to it. I'm just saying you had to have been there. There was no visible way he could have pulled the kinds of things being suggested. I'm saying I don't know how he did it, and quite frankly... I really don't care how he did it. I just enjoyed it for what it was... a kickass card trick that blew a lot of people's minds.

And no, at that point in the evening it was early, we were not drunk.

That guy on TV earlier today that I mentioned, he did this trick you're describing, almost exactly.

His victim was Ice-Cube (the actor), and it was vouched for by him that there was no prior arrangement of any kind between them. Of course people will doubt it, because some people doubt every fucking thing they see and hear no matter who is talking or how credible the person is. But that's another discussion entirely.

Anyways, he went through the trick just like you said, but the end kicker was that the card wasn't just found on Ice-Cube's person, IT WAS INSIDE HIS WALLET. And.... the deck was pre-checked by Ice-Cube, the card he chose was no longer in the deck.

Freaky.



Seriously, I don't care how "lame" some find it, I would love to be able to do card tricks of that calibre.

I used to work with a guy who had an amazing arsenal of card tricks... We asked him to show us new ones every day and he would show us one maybe once a week. All his stuff was flawless and we were all amazed, he used to do all the crazy stuff like rip your card up and then have it appear in your pocket and stuff.

Too bad he wasn't as good of a programmer as he was a parlour magician.

What's the freakiest bit of magic you've ever seen done RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU?
My ex-wife made 7 different cocks disappear deep inside her while we where still married. I suprised her......

A friend pulled my finger and a noise came out of my pants once

Now that's fucking talent my friend. :thumbsup

Not knowing how its done is the best part.
Once you know its no fun anymore.

Yeah, that's a good one: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2mu0Mj5MkFI

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/8...erfieldhx0.jpg

:thumbsup

That's exactly the guy... Chris Angel. What a killer card trick that was.

Nice find. :D

I saw Criss angel make an 9000lb elephant disappear about 10 feet away from me. I don't think anyone will top that.

yeh i saw him fly in west palm beach. the one trick the did freak me out a bit. is where he takes the girls head off, and carries it around in a box. while her body is still on stage. now that was freaky.

This one is quite freaky... https://youtube.com/watch?v=CwGiAtx3xIs

Woman is made to appear as if she's been ripped in two..... somehow.


That guy is good.

^ that is obviously one special lady

Great, now I won't be able to sleep.

oh come on. you gotta know what happened there. easy.:winkwink:

A friend of mine who makes his living as a showman regulary performs the following "trick" with over a 90% success rate.......

Every day for 7 days prior to one of his performances he purchases and reads cover to cover a daily newspaper and memorises every word, ( yes his memory really is that good ).

On the night of his show he randomly picks 7 members of the audience to come up on stage and to each he gives 1 copy of the 7 newspapers that he has purchased and read in the previous 7 days.

He then instructs them to to spend a few minutes scanning through the newspapers, ( while his back is turned ), and then for each to pick out a random sentence from anywhere in the newspaper of around 10 - 15 words and write it down on a peice of paper that they have been given.

Then he asks another member of the audience to select one of the 7 participants he has on stage and to collect from the selected participant a sealed envelope with that persons randomly selected sentence writen inside and hold it high in the air for all to see.

Next the showman focus's his mind for a moment before speaking out loud the sentence that he belives is contained in the sealed envelope and then asks the person holding up the envelope to open it and tell him whether he is right or wrong.

In at least 90% of the occasions he performs this trick he gets it word for word accurate , ( the participant who's envelope is selected is then asked to confirm what he had written to show there has been no slight of hand involved )

My friend has been performing this trick for several years now, ( I can assure anyone that there is no slight of hand involved ), yet still cannot fully explain how he does it, however he does suspect that there is some sort of telepathy or thought suggestion involved operating at a subconscious level.