needle

Hi Folks, Much like Randi I enjoy the art of magic and debunking the paranormal. This evening I was doing the old "needle through the arm" magic trick. It reminded me that a fellow named Jack Schwartz did the same thing on TV with a sailor's needle. However he was not a performer but an author...

Hi, My girlfriend is seeing a hypnotist to assist her giving up smoking. During the first session the hypnotist put a needle clean through the skin on the back of her hand without pain to prove she was 'under'. Now this sounds like a trick to me but I can't find any reference to it on the...