It’s early autumn. You’re fishing in mountain lakes with your cousin. He takes you to a small saloon in the middle of nowhere.
It looked a lot like this.
You walk inside and as your eyes adjust to the interior, the first thing you see is this.
This was no ordinary tavern. The owner / bartender was no ordinary proprietor. He owned championship race horses and hunted big game all over the world. That takes money, and not the kind of money you eke out of a little bar in the Catskills selling Miller High Life and little bags of Rold Gold pretzels.
Back to the fanged deer. I thought it was a taxidermist’s joke, but in fact, that’s an actual Korean deer. Look it up.
McCoy – that was the bar owner, was a legendary character in those mountains. He’d reputedly spent a lot of time in India and while there had learned… things.
He did a few magic tricks — and he was adroit — but nothing I hadn’t seen many times before. Then he began a trick that he swore was no gimmick, but actual… magic.
It’s been a long time since I watched his illusion, although illusion is not an accurate word. I’ve described it to a number of professional magicians in Los Angeles – guys you’ve seen on TV or in Vegas. And every one of them was absolutely stumped. Some told me I must have “missed something.” But I didn’t. It happened exactly as I describe it in this episode. I’ve never seen anything like it since. Nothing even close. Utterly unique and mystifying.
Listen for yourself.
Can you figure out how it was done?
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