34 of 50 Greatest Magic Tricks - Moving Telephone Pages

[dakotathespanky]

Did he just call him a paranormal Chuck Norris?

[majesticmaniac]

This magic trick was as pathetic as Chuck Norris himself, and all the lame jokes inspired by him.

[louietheduke]

weird shit is Jame Hydrick is now a registered sex offender O.o

[troglodyto]

@louietheduke wow, really? wth.

[sGxMilLHouSe]

yr this guys got a shit haircut nd just blows shit (dick)

[DrOwnage97]

hilarious how it compares him to chuck norris

[ime239]

Paranormal Chuck Norris vs Normal Chuck Norris

Who is more dangerous guys?

[bennybobz9]

WOW....he can blow them!!!

[mkh4n]

You fuckers if he was blowing then how did he manage to flip the page towards him?

If everyone knew tricks and magic then these guys wouldn't be legend!

Oh now you gonna claim your a legend by just commenting on every YouTube clip?

[rockerguy567]

@mkh4n mate he also has the ability to inhale...genius!

[xboneava]

@mkh4n he was actually blowing on teh book james randi and some other dude exposed him serach james randi expose james hydrick

[Lioyd1rving]

@mkh4n From what I'm seeing, he uses nothing more complex than physics. When something moves quickly, the air pressure behind it is lower, and the surrounding air is sucked into where the thing used to be. A spread hand displaces a lot of air and paper is light. Do the math.

[textmachine09]

lol paranormal chuck norris

[SALVIFLPIE]

Randi ,fuck this guy ..

[nhonho23]

like a paranormal chuck norris

[j0nayblade]

only problems is that he at least claimed not to be fake... and WTF u seen those ppl lyin on the floor?? ppl actually belived him?

[Celshonar]

Some guy also claimed he had powers like that, but it turned out he would just blow on the objects, but to conceal that and make it seem as though it was moving by itself takes alot of talent.

[xiocx1]

AwEsOmE

[6MetaL6Core6]

This guy is a schmuck

[thepokkanome]

paranormal chuck norris

[SilverSkyline92]

" i can move that cup without touching it, *kicks table* see, it moved "

[NisseEricsson]

Chuck Norris

[livedandletdie]

well psychic phenomena exists so even if he were a complete fag I can still plant thoughts in people's head without commands. I can unconsciously read thoughts.

And I can say that just now I made you think this thought. No you cannot or Not happening and if you were lucky you had this thought good for you liar.

[skyerune]

@livedandletdie

So, you're going to call someone a fag, and then spell this poorly? Good job displaying the full range of ignorance.

[babyturtlex]

i used to do it at school its not that great of a trick. although he did bamboozles alot of idiots thats the real trick

[supajero]

I think i may know how this is done.

he probobly has a string on his sleeve attacked to a page of the book and lifts it up and down to make the pages flip.

Its that simple since i got scammed from those dumb-a** worms that use a string to move.

[charteredstreets]

He blows on the pages. Type 'James Randi exposes James Hydrick' into youtube.

[charteredstreets]

You know a magician is doing tricks though. This guy didn't identify himself as a magician, he came advertised as some sort of mystic with psychokinetic powers. Justifying it because magic is all fake is crazy; there's a massive difference between openly deceiving people with a magic trick and covertly deceiving them.

People pay for spoon-bending classes too, and some really think they are tapping in to psychic powers. This is fraud, plain and simple.

[charteredstreets]

I don't have a problem with it being fake; but I have a problem with people making money by claiming it's real.

[rk9295]

Type in "James Randi exposes Hydrick" on youtube.

The Amazing Randi exposed this guy as a fake. He is blowing on the page to make it move.

[CHASCHARLTON]

c'mon m8 there all tricks!

[theQbelek]

fake, as opposed to "real" magic? :3

[MasterMint2]

well ofcourse its fake! how do you think magic works?

[rk9295]

yes we know it's fake but Hydrick claimed his magic was real. magicians know they are doing tricks, this guy claimed he had real psychic abilities. he got exposed as a fake

[xhaze8]

@MasterMint2 Difference is this guy was trying to pass it off as real at the time.

[Laquun]

@MasterMint2 magic is not fake...people are.. trick's are trick's and magic is from pll who know tricks.

[Gamiac]

@MasterMint2 By using Materia, duh. Why, how does yours work?

[el5pk]

phony

[andywylde]

this guy was exposed a long long long time ago

[MJtheKandyman]

wat they dont show is the window next to him

XD

[aypianoman]

The real magic was getting people to pay for lessons!

[daniglue]

but this happens even with the fake magic...

I'm not saying the fake magic is real magic, but just that people pay for lessons... and that's pretty normal.

[xNizzle95x]

PARANORMAL CHUCK NORRIS.

WOOT WOOT!

[donrane]

hardly a top 50 greatest trick..Mr.Randi exposed him with small pieces of plastic around the phonebook...all of a sudden his powers was gone:-))

[Keeroe]

Here is what you have to take into consideration. These are top 50, because at the time they were the greatest. It doesn't matter if they were later revealed. Hell most magic nowadays is revealed. It matters that at the time they were great, and they were influential, or inspirational for magic nowadays.

[entaroduai]

yeah, doing magic is pretty entertaining, but claiming to be psychic is just not the way it goes

[aaqucnaona94]

@donrane He also confessed that he wanted to see how stupid the world was.

[burkey218]

@donrane ya but he did it amazingly, james randi even admitted it was the best he had ever seen anyone do it

[rosieavfc82]

0.50

LMAO i bet they feel stupid

i bet james was thinking, "what am i going on about"

[rosieavfc82]

how is this trick done... anyone?

[pausec]

THOSE STUPID PEOPLE PAID LESSONS

HAHA

[analubalitious]

Wow, people are gullible. I'm reminded of the Family Guy parody of Jesus doing a series of really lame tricks while a crowd looks on in awe.

Just learn a simple trick, claim it to be real, start a cult follow, and then you can dodge taxes.

[Swimmer2011583]

he obiously has a string attatched

[tufty1990]

This was obviously a trick, a brilliant trick but still a trick and as far as im concerned anyone dumb enough to think he was really psychic and go to tha school deserved to be scammed. Its 2009 and even back then it was 1980 if there was such a thing as psychic powers we would know for sure by now. Its so pathetic its funny

[jmstdis]

he confessed to how he did it...he jst breathes on it without moving his mouth

[godismyonlyfriend]

how the fuck can he make the turn yowards him then!?

he must breathe in pretty god damn hard xD

[arturo1990]

LMAO

[darthmarth28]

there you go!

The martial arts classes must be good for something!

[retroherb]

or he just blows on the other end?

[edinburghskeptics]

godismyonlyfriend: no, seriously, he just breathes on it with a strong controlled breath. I can do the pencil one quite convincingly, I will admit that the page turning one looks amazing and I'm practicing myself.

[godismyonlyfriend]

far enough.. but what if someone wants to put some styrofoam infront of your mouth :P or the object?

i'd also practise this, but because of that i'm going to have to say no, if that werer to happen you'd be exposed imediatley :P

[glenm99]

He didn't confess so much as he was exposed by James Randi after claiming that his powers were real.

[michaelhu95]

ROFL PSYCHIC CHUCK NORRIS

[Kropotov]

Chuck Norris does not need psychic powers... psychic powers need Chuck Norris

[saber1992]

ok a school no thats a first class scammer, if it was just performing the trick for money fine , but a school o.m.g

[SaamAzargive]

So true... also an amazing trick though

[happymyster]

he blew on the page

[EarDestroyer]

a paranormal chuck norris?! gtfo chuck norris is more then paranormal i bet you that narrator is dead right now for insulting chuck like that

[normalman37]

SHUT UP EVERYBODY

AND WATCH THIS:

watch?v=u7yDLRib5CQ

enuff said.

[kingquadroon]

Hydrick was pwned by James Randi, he has no business being on this show.

[daichi2097]

Agreed. Magicians, by definition, are dishonest in their work, but (to borrow a phrase from Derren Brown) they are "honest about their dishonesty".

Charlatans such as Hydrick don't deserve to be celebrated in this way. (The same goes for Uri Geller, who also made the list.)

[LookMaNoBrains]

i know hydrick is a trickster. BUT i fuccking loves his hair and his outfit and his style! he fuccking rocks!

[shatterhandeve]

just a fag

[EzeaLor]

right now hydrick is in prison for child molestation..

wikipedia removed that info recently..

[sussexcounty]

Who said that there is a sucker born every minute? Well, let's update that statement to every second! This dude is on California's sex offenders list! Look it up. Just like levitation, it's all tricks! The game is to figure out how they did them.

[TheratMonkey]

I'm sorry, but what does being a sex offender have to do with knowing how to make people think you're moving pages of a phone book with your mind?

Most of us know it was some illusion, but I don't see how that has anything to do with proving the trick.

[ShaneGillen]

yeah he admits it was all a scam.

[LovelyYTRocks]

James Randi revealed this mother fucker.

He put a book on a table, and scattered it with styrofoam. So if the styrofoam moved, it means he's blowing on it.

James Hydrick chickend out saying the "Chi" in the styrofoam was too strong.

[Bobalithmiss1]

Damn it T_T

Houdini spent a lot of the remainder of his life to make people aware of the BS in psychics and telekenisis and people are jst overlooking his efforts.

[zcm12]

Yes this is blowing it's rediculus. this is blowing

[Zemmyy]

how thw fuck people believe him. he does those things with trickery, nothing more.. and those arent eaven good tricks!!!

[saleall]

that is a normal and unexplainable power of TELEKINESIS.

[StealthDonkey007]

"that is a normal and unexplainable power of TELEKINESIS."

No, this is a guy blowing on a telephone book.

[saleall]

no he is not blowing on it. search for other telekinesis abilities. so you can see what others do .

[StealthDonkey007]

Search for Randi exposing Hydrick here on YouTube. Hydrick does his trick with the phonebook, Randi says he thinks that he's blowing on it and sprinkles polystyrene packing beads around the phone book. The beads would allow us to could see if he was blowing. Hydrick refuses to perform the trick again, making up a bullshit excuse about static electricity.

[TheArkhamAngel]

I'm not saying that telekinesis isn't real.  I am saying that James Hydrick is a fraud.

[donrane]

Well allow me then...Telekinesis is a fraud. If someone had abilities they should come forward and claim the million dollar.

But they always have a bullshit excuse to why their "power" dont work under controlled circumstances.

[saleall]

well i don't really care if he was blowing on it, but this can be done without blowing on it. and TELEKINESIS you need to reed little bit about. i sow people breaking a dish and move a glass or what ever an object off a table until it falls without touching it at all. if you gain this ability so much , you can do even more things ..like levitating your self in the air. but unfortunately it takes tenth of years to gain the ability, and even not anyone can gain the ability.

[StealthDonkey007]

"TELEKINESIS you need to reed little bit about. i sow people breaking a dish and move a glass or what ever an object off a table until it falls without touching it at all."

Then you should encourage the people you have seen with these powers to get them scientifically authenticated, it would be the biggest scientific discovery in at least the last couple of hundred years.

[Jikario]

Dude. Too much Tv. Too many books. Or too much anime. Telekenesis is a myth in which people believe the mind overpowers the body, which it dosent. If the human body were use 100% fo ti s brain power or ever over the 10% ti normally uses, it would collapse ithin seconds due to the strain. TIs been attempted. But never sucessfull.

[donrane]

Its a myth that we only use 10% of our brain...i think it came from scientology. Its bullshit regardless of the source.

[JimboWoodo]

I think that statement is about how much of it we consciously use. But I agree. Our brain is a whole lot more active than 10%.

[SithRage]

Actually it's the opposite. Our brains have essentially an unlimited capacity for knowledge. No brain has ever said "hard drive full!" However, I'm talking strictly about knowledge here, and not special powers that others assume the "90%" is used for.

[dsgx7]

is because you have to think out of the box

[opannefrank]

I prefer to munch the box.

[familyduenas]

i agree

[tywonellington]

proly not bullshit. static electricity is proly exactly how he does it.

[StealthDonkey007]

"static electricity is proly exactly how he does it. "

How exactly do you propose that he moves pages in a phone book using static electricity?

[bennybbomber]

charge separation stupid

[StealthDonkey007]

That doesn't answer my question. How exactly is he influencing the pages with static electricity?

[LovelyYTRocks]

No fucking dumb piece of mother fucking faggot.

James Randi exposed him.

Check it out on Wikipedia.

There are also videos on this.

You're a fucking mother fucker if you believe in telekinesis.

[InjectingNumbskull]

Doesn't it strike you as a bit odd that he only moves the same two objects with the exact same two setups each time? Doesn't that set off a giant flashing "BULLSHIT!" alarm? Why only the pages of a book?

By the way, if you read about what this guy is doing now he admitted it was just a magic trick.

[lostbluedot]

haha I love the video where james randi debunks him :)

[ecco88]

yeah so funny.