In the 1940s, the British ‘The Magic Gang’  were tasked with deceiving German Field Marshal Rommel and his men with ...

In the world of magic, it isn’t enough to simply come up with an innovative trick — you also need to be capable of pulling off the definitive version of it. The history of magic abounds with instances ...

Update: Thomas Poole’s drive-in magic show has been rescheduled to Friday, Sept. 25. When coming up with new magic tricks to perform, Thomas Poole asks himself two questions: “What would be the ...

On Halloween night in 1936, the tiny, white-haired widow of Harry Houdini made her final attempt to contact him from beyond ...

FARGO - Thad Ellsworth caught the magic "bug" in 1983, when his third-grade teacher gave the class a reading assignment on Harry Houdini. The Bismarck native asked his mom for a magic set that ...

Liberty Larsen, Richard Young, Sam Strange and Fernando Velasco, known as the Champions of Magic, join TODAY to talk about their magic show Chasing the Unbelievable. “There really is something for ...

He has escaped a watery grave many times, but this was different for Tristan Christ. This container he found himself in was dark - black in every direction. But it was perfect for his illusions show.

With a grand wave of his arms and a quick bow to a make-believe audience, the youngster climbs into an oversized milk can where he is “locked” inside with no visible means of escape. But — ta da- the ...

Making magic compelling on-screen is a really difficult trick. Sorry magicians, it’s not that you’re uninteresting—it’s that what you do is just really hard to dramatize. Tricks—sorry, illusions—are ...