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胡迪尼揭发骗局
胡迪尼的事业是创建在戏法及幻象上 (自炼子的捆绑中脱逃及让大象消失) ，但他也对揭发骗局很有兴趣，他向大家展示人们是多么容易受到诱骗，进而相信不存在的事物。他特
别批评「灵异照片」这件事，也就是一个众所皆知的名人鬼魂与某人同时出现在相片中。为了证明他的论点，胡迪尼让他自己与亚伯拉罕林肯的鬼魂合照。当然啦，这不是真的林肯，这只是一种特殊拍摄手法
。您认为他还试着揭发什么骗局呢？
Houdini built his career on creating tricks and illusions--freeing himself from chains and making an elephant disappear. He was also interested in exposing fraud and showing how people could be tricked into believing something was real when it wasn't. He was especially critical of the production of "spirit photographs" in which the ghost of a well-known figure appeared to be present with someone. To demonstrate his point, Houdini had himself photographed with the ghost of Abraham Lincoln. Of course it wasn't really Lincoln--it was trick photography. What other kinds of things do you think he tried to expose?
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