Criss Angel is the star of a show called Criss Angel Mindfreak. The whole idea behind this show is trickery basically. Tricking the mind that is. Criss Angel is a magician or sorts, somewhat like Houdini, but he usually takes some of his tricks to an even higher level. For example he does do the classical card tricks and things like that but other tricks he do include walking up walk, going through walls to get into vaults, levitating, and being burred alive (he's done a lot of escape tricks).
He never calls it magic, he says straight out that everything he does is a trick, even going as far as to show how to do some of the smaller tricks. Every day people, such as myself, can only guess at how he does some of these seemingly impossible stunts. To some level we might believe some of it to be magic even though we know it's not only because we can't seem to explain it any other way.
This quality might have something to do with why people watch this show and attend shows in Vegas. In my experience it seems people like what they can't explain and as I've said before in other posts, things they can't do themselves. Criss Angel is very good at what he does, creating the a blur between reality and the unexplained with his illusions. This blur, I think, will continue to interest people. It's just human nature to be curious.
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