Haunted Deck

Haunted Deck (also known as "Self-cutting Cards") is a classic plot in card magic developed by Al Baker where a selected card placed back into the deck and usually held in the palm of the hand, eerily moves by itself back out of the deck.

Some Rising Cards effects were also marketed as "Haunted Pack".

Variations

• The Pack that Cuts Itself in Al Baker's Book One (1933), reprint in The Secret Ways of Al Baker
• Bruce Elliott in Magic As A Hobby (1948) - a version that leaves the deck clean and examinable. ?????
• Esoteric by Finn Jon - one or more cards "move" out of the deck. Marketed in 1965.
• Harry Lorayne's Double Saltless in Apocalypse, Vol. 1, N° 5, may 1980, page 340.
• Danny Korem's Impromptu Haunted Deck in Korem Without Limit - the deck cuts itself and turns the selected card face up. It is also repeatable (1985).
• The Haunted Pack by Eugene Burger in The Performance of Close-Up Magic (1987)
• Karl Fulves' Haunted in Riffle Shuffle Methods (1987)
• The Poltergeist Pack by Tommy Wonder in The Books of Wonder, Vol. 1 written by Stephen Minch (1996).
• Euan Bingham's The Ghost Cut in Free From Filler (2003)

• Eugene Burger's handling in the video Eugene Goes Bizarre.