For a certain brand of magician, cheating death is part of the job. As we learned from David Blaine nearly killing himself with a bullet in a feat gone awry, death isn’t always happy to take a clean L ...
Like Harry Houdini, I'm performing my straitjacket escape without a curtain. (He found that audiences preferred watching him struggle.) Unlike Harry Houdini, I'm not escaping (although I'm doing fine ...
Criss Angel is opening up about that scary stunt. The 49-year-old magician spoke out on Monday after recovering from a scary incident at Friday night's Mindfreak Live! performance. During the show, ...
PITTSBURGH -- Almost as soon as magician Lee Terbosic began to dangle 90 feet in the air in a canvas straitjacket, he was back on the ground. From the point he began to wriggle, the escape took just ...
Earlier this month, Lucas Wilson of Port Dover, Ontario, Canada achieved a new Guinness World Record for the fastest escape from a straitjacket and chains while hanging upside down. Performing at the ...
Tom Virden stands in a classroom. In front of him are several straitjackets, slung over a row of chairs. “Clearly," he says, his face and voice deadpan, "I didn’t have an ordinary childhood.” Virden, ...
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Steve Cabe is running a full marathon for the first time in a straitjacket at the CNO Financial Indianapolis Monumental Marathon on Saturday. Cabe is a magician from Niles, ...
Earlier this month, Lucas Wilson of Port Dover, Ontario, Canada achieved a new Guinness World Record for the fastest escape from a straitjacket and chains while hanging upside down. Performing at the ...