Bewildering

In the mid-’80s, magic inventor Doug Bennett was turning out one great trick after another. Business Merger was a visual restoration of a torn business card. Fire Trap sent a signed coin inside the cardboard layers of a matchbook. But it was Bewildering, performed by Doug Henning on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show, that made magicians’ jaws drop. No one had seen anything like it. And to be honest, nothing similar has appeared since.