Magician Teller Once Performed a Seance That Had Some Convinced He Could Read Minds
The silent partner of the iconic Penn & Teller magic duo says his work in horror first began with some convincingly staged seances.
Teller, the silent half of the famed magic duo Penn & Teller, has long nurtured a healthy relationship with horror. Like many illusionists, his work has much in common with the FX wizardry of great horror films, and he traces his fascination with the genre back to his early performances with Penn one of which convinced a participant that they could read minds.
“In our early days, Penn and I did a couple of seances where we’d go to people’s homes and do an hour’s worth of very creepy stuff,” Teller says on the latest episode of