The Freak-of-Nature Egg

Fun post Diana, you know here where I live they also raise chickens to have eggs that have 2 yolks. Would you believe we actually have small, medium and large eggs LOL.. But can you just imagine the cholesterol it contains ha ha. Love the post thanks for sharing fun stuff!!

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Hi Diana! I watched the video several times! I was suspicious because the video doesn’t actually show the second egg coming out of the larger egg. His hand is in the way and the smaller egg is just there after he cracks it. I was looking to see if there were any blips in the footage to look like it had been edited. That’s pretty weird in a freaky kind of way!

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Hey Diana..
Grew chickens in Puerto Rico 30 yrs ago.
No growth hormones of funny feed or anything like that.
Umm, that has happened before. Juss Sayin..

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I have also seen this before. And I also feel this may not be real due to their lack of surprise when it opened. Imagine your own reaction. I know I’d say something like “Wow! Wasn’t expecting that.” This guy just seems totally unphased and his statement seems very rehearsed. And very conveniently the hand comes right towards the camera as the egg is cracked. People will do anything to get at the top of YouTube.

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Pretty clever close-up slight of hand, and definitely an illusion. The story was definitely rehearsed as the practiced patter builds excitement and drama, and draws focus away from the actions. Remember that magic requires both slight of hand and special props that appear to be one thing, but are actually something entirely different.

I too played the video back a dozen times and believe that the large egg is a prop and that the smaller one inside it is real. Notice that after breaking the larger egg and pulling it apart it was pure shell.

A reall egg has a cell membrane surrounding it that sticks to the inside of the shell and when you pull it apart you can see it (as you do when he cracks the smaller egg). Second, notice that the egg yolk itself is surrounded by only a clear gooey substance that appears to be egg white, but not the slightly thicker darker egg white surrounding the second egg that was inside the bigger one.

Magic uses props, and fake eggs made of resin are sold in magic shops. In the beginning of the video, just seconds before he compares the big egg to the small one you can see a fairly large slight abnormality on the shell of the big egg (clear at 17 seconds and 27 seconds into the video). Notice also that he has well manicured slightly buffed nails – a trademark of good professional magicians.

Freshly laid eggs are not completely hard when laid and only harden when exposed to air (otherwise mother hens would be in big trouble trying to lay two or three eggs one after the other, with them pushing against one another inside her and cracking inside her body). The outside egg cracked as it should have, but the inside egg sounded equally hard when he cracked it even though (supposedly) it had never been exposed to air. It should have made a duller thud.

This is a well performed illusion. Obviously the child was amazed, the woman filming it may not have been aware that it was an illusion either. But (just to make you keep thinking), the voice of the child could also have been an illusion. A recording or an accomplice. The second egg could have been a sponge egg inserted into the larger egg – or even palmed and released into the bowl. If you don’t think the second egg could have been a sponge egg, notice how when he picks up the smaller egg his thumb and finger tips seem to indent it slightly at 47-48 seconds into the video. Notice also that immediately after he picks up the smaller egg it leaves the top of the frame completely for a second – and notice that when it returns it appears to be slightly darker in color. Many good professional magicians also have the materials to manufacture their own props, or alter purchased ones. A resin egg is the most likely answer.

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As a dyed-in-the-wool hillbilly boy, I can say, this isn’t that unusual.

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