Does anyone remember an illusion called the Bermuda Triangle Illusion? It was marketed by Mak or Abbott's and I think it was a production of an assistant. I remember a magician doing this illusion and telling me about it when I was a youngster breaking into magic. I can't even remember if it was good or not. This has been bugging me for over 25 years now, any help?

One thing that does comes to mind when I hear you say Bermuda Triangle Illusion is an effect called 'voodoo zone'. It's the effect where you take two playing cards and bend them in half and place them together and weird things happen to the cards. In the middle of the trick you tell the spectator that inside of one of the cards is like the Bermuda triangle and that weird things take place inside there. I'm not sure if this will help you or not. http://www.ellusionist.com has a cd called Street Magic that contains the performance of this trick as well as the learning of it. Good luck and I hope this jogs your memory some.

I'm going back to my own childhood too, but I'm sure I remember David Copperfield perform a Bermuda Triangle Illusion on one of his specials.

The illusion sounds familiar, but I might very well be thinking of something else. You can't go wrong with calling Greg at Abbott's to see if he knows anything about it.

Andre Kole performs an original "Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle." He gets inside the triangle, back and front doors are put on and then lights are pushed in through the sides. When it is opened he has vanished. The doors are then put back on and the lights pulled back out. When reopened, he has reappeared.

He performed a variation to this for a year (early 1990's) or so where he reappeared in the audience.

Could this be what you are thinking of? You'd probably remember it because of the fog and flashing lights that add to the atmosphere.

Terry

I just saw this Bermuda Triangle illusion on Hank Lee's. It's actually renamed as Bermuda Mystery, added just today or yesterday. The item is like 36 bucks. A little spendy but it sounds like a killer effect.

Is it the same thing????

I do not think the thing you saw at Hank Lee's was Andre's original illusion. Andre's was very deceptive.

David Copperfield did a whole special with the hook being the vanish from the Bermuda Triangle I think a boat vanished on the radar screen.

Richard

Thanks Richard......

We're talking about different things here. When David Copperfield was doing his yearly TV specials, the 10th season I believe (1988) featured a Bermuda Triangle Illusion. That is way different than the piece of close-up magic featured in Hank's catalogue. I sort of remember as a kid some kind of pocket trick, marketed by Adams I presume, which included a match box, tooth picks which you put into a triangle, and a coin which disappeared from the "bermuda triangle" and ended up in the matchbox.

It must have worked and disappeared...I can't find it now!

And, of course, there's "Understanding the Bermuda Triangle" in Jim Steinmeyer's Impuzzibilities, in which a triangular arrangement of coins seemingly has strange properties.

I'd like to hear from someone who actually purchase the Bermuda Mystery from Hank Lee

Mak's had an illusion called the "devils bride" and it was also known as the "bermuda triangle". As the first post stated it was the vanish or appearance of an assistant behind a giant V shaped set of plexiglass. It had three buring fire bowls on the floor of the stage.