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The famous Indian rope trick was a newspaper hoax
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The holy grail of magic—where a boy climbs a levitating rope and disappears—never actually happened. In 1890, a frustrated journalist for the Chicago Tribune completely fabricated the story as a joke, only to watch the entire world believe it as unquestionable fact. For decades, magicians fruitlessly chased a myth born entirely from a slow news day.
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