The real story of P.T. Selbit's 1921 sawing illusion — the closed crate, the ropes, the rival named Horace Goldin, and the courtroom fight that followed after ...

The real story of Robert Harbin's Zig-Zag Girl — a 1965 illusion so tightly guarded he destroyed the printing plates, yet still became the most bootlegged ...

The real story behind Jim Steinmeyer's Modern Art illusion — born in a basement in 1974, refined through five revisions, and built as an answer to Robert ...