UK ‘Dark Magician’ Paul Bell took the daily mirror on a tour of the ghostly residents of London’s haunted Clink Prison.
The skeptical Mirror newspaper was invited to a ghost hunting evening with Fright Nights co-founder Martin Jeffrey, dark magician Paul Bell and medium Daniel MacDonald.
You can watch the entire video over on the Mirror.co.uk
This is Bristol reports that Magician Paul Daniels is touring the UK in search of ‘the great British banger’. Paul and his wife Debbie McGee are travelling around the country tasting the best sausages in the country to crown the best in each region as part of British Sausage Week.
More than 300 entries from butchers, supermarkets, school cooks and chefs are taking part in a competition organised by the British Sausage Appreciation Society.
The West Country’s regional heat will be held at the Clifton Sausage restaurant and bar in Portland Street, Clifton.
Paul and Debbie will be at the Clifton Sausage on November 3 at 2.30pm. The winner of the West Country will go into the national finals in London later this year.
Tim Ferris’ Blog has a report on how he was taught by David Blaine at TEDMED this week how to hold his breath.
David holds the Guinness world record for holding his breath: 17 minutes and 4.4 seconds. Tim describes the method Blaine taught at the conference. Amazingly after 15 minutes of training Tim was able to hold his breath for 3 minutes and 33 seconds.
Out of roughly 12 TEDMED attendees he also taught, all but one beat Harry Houdini’s lifelong record of 3 minutes and 30 seconds. One woman held her breath for more than 5 minutes.
Want to know how to do it ? Head over to Tim Ferris’ Blog
Before Houdini’s death, he famously gave his wife a code word. This was to prevent mediums and psychics from coming to her door, breathlessly confirming that they had spoken with Harry after his passing. With the word, she could immediately double check their work by asking if he’d passed along the secret message.
As time passed, the word (”believe”) slipped out. And even Criss Angel would agree that the word has officially outlived its usefulness.
So for our Houdini Seance, THIS SATURDAY at 9 p.m. EST LIVE ON THE FRONT PAGE OF iTRICKS.COM, we needed new words. Thankfully, we have some friends to help us out…
Author, speaker and editor of Skeptic Magazine Michael Shermer will help us with a word.
President of the Reason foundation, David Nott has agreed to contribute.
Magicians, BS artists and soon-to-be TV detectives Penn & Teller will EACH give us a word suitable for Harry Houdini himself to divine from beyond the grave.
All of those listed above are sending their words to James Randi who will seal them in envelopes and challenge us to discover their contents with the help of Houdini’s spirit.
But that is not all, expect more announcements today and tomorrow!
On the adidas Facebook page, you can witness Dynamo levitate former Stone Roses lead singer Ian Brown.
Now THAT is something you don’t see every day.
• Andi Gladwin is offering a free gruesome trick for Halloween. Did you hear me, vultures? FREE! [The Clog]
• Katie Kenner would like to know why magicians love to hang out with magicians yet love to say the phrase “I hate magicians.” [The Kenners Blog]
• Ever just had a night when you absolutely killed and you knew it? [Diary of a Working Magician]
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As per the man’s Twitter account @MrTeller.
