![]() It wouldn't be until 1926, about a decade after he first started kissing Death on the mouth, that he finally figured out how many licks it took to get to the center of the Not-Dying-Doing-A-Stunt Pop. As he rescued damsels and fought robots, he was devising a way to not get, well, buried alive while he purposefully had himself buried alive. Side note: In the event of a zombie apocalypse, a graveyard would actually be the safest place for you.īut never one to be beaten by anything that could end up costing him his life, Houdini kept at the project throughout his movie career. After his assistants pulled him the rest of the way out, he concluded in his diary that "the weight of the earth is killing," which honestly feels like something he should have known going in. He eventually managed to poke his hand through like he was in a zombie flick before passing out. And after struggling for a while and discovering that shallow breathing exercises weren't working, he started calling for help. ![]() He first attempted to perform it in the mid 1910s, but dirt, as you may have guessed, is heavy as hell. It seems like it could do the trick of satisfying a man who was clearly eager to kick the Grim Reaper in the dick. Harry Houdini's whole schtick was part illusion and part "Now let's see if this will kill me!" And so in 1914, he started devising a trick that he called "Buried Alive," which involved being shackled and buried under six feet of dirt while an audience watched. Related: 5 Horror Scenes Deleted From History For Being Too Creepy 3 The "Buried Alive" Trick Keeps Ending Exactly How You'd Think Magician Kyle Wallace even posted x-rays from the hospital of his nail-impaled hand after he botched it and here's a message board of magicians sharing similar stories about this stupidly irresponsible trick and pleading for everyone to please, for the love of god, stop doing it. The spiked bag/cup is supposed to be marked in some subtle way, but apparently it's really easy to screw that part up. To really up the stakes, they may take the hand of a volunteer and shove it down along with their own, with the volunteer's hand at risk of getting impaled first. They're shuffled around behind the magician's back, and the audience holds their breath as the magician then smashes the cups or bags one by one with their bare hand, avoiding the blade or spike. It is then hidden under a paper bag or a flimsy cup, with two other empty bags/cups next to it. The performer shows the audience a knife or a nail that has been placed standing up on a table. You may have heard of these various pseudonyms for it: the Hidden Spike Trick, the Nail Under the Cup Trick, or more ominously, Russian Roulette. Poloniewicz, styled like a children's entertainer played by Bobcat Goldthwait, was going do a close-up trick that's a morbid riff on Three-Card Monte. 4 Magicians Keep Impaling Their Hands On Live TVĮverything seemed cool on the day Poland's Got Talent semifinalist Marcin Poloniewicz went on the series Question For Breakfast to perform a little magic.
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