Nice try with the explanations, but this guy is legit. I talked with him after his show once. He swallowed a guy's cell phone, someone called it. We heard it ring and felt it buzz in his stomach. Then he brought it back up bone dry. That made me believe that everything we saw in the show was for real... just amazing.

BTW Alex, I used to work with developmentally disabled people and there is a common behavior among many to compulsively swallow items (not regurgitating them back up). It is called Pica. One woman would swallow any string she could find. It is was very common for some to eat cigarette butts they found, as they saw people bringing them to their mouths on a regular basis. One guy swallowed a tack. Sadly, he died from it. I saw far grosser things than that, but thought I'd let you know it is a legit and varied condition.

hi everyone, we saw this guy on tv a couple of months ago . totally amazing . he swallowed a lock then a key . coughed n spluttered and brought the whole lot back up . he had inserted the key , unlocked the lock . put the lock thru the keys hole and relocked it . im usually bloody good at spotting magic "tricks" as my late father in law was a member of the circle and passed many on to me . this guy though had me sat here with my mouth hanging open . totally amazing .

people just dont want to admit that some people may an actual talent. there may be some slight of hand somewhere but not every time.. he can regugitate things without a doubt. watch the video its very entertaining

Just can't believe how na

Watch carefully the "baloon trick". You can see, that he actually bites that baloon on the left side of his mouth (right chick for viewers, but his left).

I have to chime in and agree with Phitz from Canada. I saw this guy at Clark University in Worcester, MA in the late 90's. (Somewhere around 1997). I was in the front row.

Now I'm not saying there isn't any slight of hand going on here, but there is a little bit that I can add.

1. He did the padlock + an audience member's wedding ring trick at this show.
2. He did the smoke trick. An entire cig worth of smoke that disappeared while we watched him smoke it, without using his hands. Which he then blew into a bubble.
3. He did the rubick's cube trick, but I guess that could've bene staged. However, given the padlock trick I think its possible.
4. There may be some slight of hand going on, but 1 thing is absolutely certain. He was swallowing and regurgitating large objects.
5. He did some other trick, not a cell phone, that involved putting a microphone up to his stomach...

Oh, he was also a miserable SOB after the show. I imagine its not terribly pleasant doing all of this and he wasn't in the mood to talk with anyone afterwards.

Just my $.02

They clearly are not going into his stomach. He is vocalizing when the objects go in, meaning his epiglottis is open and any object would go into his lungs. He must be storing the items in his nasopharynx.

It is possible to swallow and hark back up small objects, though I suspect he is tucking some of those things away in his mouth. His accent helps mask any distortion from having them under the tongue and so forth, though I'm sure a Scot would disagree with me.

When I was an undergrad, Stevie Starr came to my college and did a show. I was part of the University Program Council and we sponsored the show. Part of our responsibility was taking him out to dinner at a local retaurant here in Warrensburg, MO. I assure you, there is no sleight of hand involved, as I sat right next to him as he repeated the sugar trick, and really managed to amaze (and disguist) our waitress and many customers who sat around us. Unfortunately, he won't answer questions about why he can do it, but I assume it is some strange physical condition that allows it. I think there is some trickery to it, but that night, I sure couldn't figure it out.

If you go here: http://www.steviestarr.com/media/stevie_starr_regurgitation.wmv and watch at half speed I see the billiard ball go under and come back from under the tongue. Also with the lightbulb at the beginning watch the hands pick things up under the counter. I know the hand to the fish tail going down is key, but can't catch that on the video. Very polished act and well done.

It is possible to swallow and hark back up small objects, though I suspect he is tucking some of those things away in his mouth. His accent helps mask any distortion from having them under the tongue and so forth, though I'm sure a Scot would disagree with me.
Posted by Krystofer Robin on Sun Jun 25, 2006 at 03:27 AM
I'm a Scot 😉 and his accent does seem strange to me at certain points in the video.

You left out The Great Waldo, perhaps the greatest regurgitating geek of the past century. He worked mostly with live animals. His trademark was swallowing white mice and rats. I wrote a recent article on Waldo on July 30th, 2006 over on my site at http://www.thehumanmarvels.com.

Just a note to say that I've known Stevie most of my life. Brought up in the same place, which as a matter of fact was NOT Glasgow, but Glenavon Childrens home in Strathaven Scotland. We had the same mentors, Mr Jim Dey and Mr Sandy Murray and we spent many funny times with Stevie showing his stunts.
I've read the posts and all I can say is that this guy is gen! Some of the solutions that you come up with made me laugh just as much as Stevie does. When he was around 14-16yrs old he was entertaining the whole village with his pool ball and sugar tricks. Some say slight of hand???? a bit hard when all you're wearing is Swim shorts!

Stevie is a wonderful guy, and although there is some sleight of hand and trickery in selling the tricks, *he is really swallowing everything he says he swallows, including hte pool ball*. Since this is not a hoax, and Stevie is not a huxter, can I ask why he is on your site?

Since this is not a hoax, and Stevie is not a huxter, can I ask why he is on your site?

Because Alex actually goes into more than just hoaxes and covers all sorts of unusual things. As his tag-line on the homepage says "Examining dubious claims and mischief of all kinds"

If he's not using sleight of hand, he should consider changing some of his movements. Some of them were classic sleight-of-hand gestures (for example, the way he momentarily swings the hand holding the lightbulb out of sight just long enough to be able to switch it).

Also, in the billiard ball trick, you can plainly see the ball goes to the side of his mouth when he's giving the impression he's just sucked it straight down his throat.

Maybe he does have some regurgitation talent, but if so, he's mixing it with illusion and sleight of hand.

I might believe most of his act, but people on this thread trying to find an explanation... sleight of hands... you guys are pathetic. First of all, for those of you that claim the pool ball isn't swallowed or underneath this tongue, you're full of it. When you swallow of course you have to move your tongue in a way to move it to the back of your throat. When it comes back out, the tongue lifts up so that when something comes out of your throat, you simply try to deccelerate how fast it's coming out. It's a way to control it basically. I just don't believe that he stuck it underneath or on the side of his mouth... He might have a big mouth, but not big enough to camouflage a billiard ball. Come on people. For most of what he's doing... we haven't seen any precedent yet. Give the guy most of the credit and enjoy it!

While there is some basic slight of hand going on, the basics of his feats are legit. He is swallowing all of the items and regurgitating them.

There have been precedents, by the way. The Human Ostrich was a fairly common working act in the early days of sideshow.

Starr's act very much like The Great Waldo's feats of regurgitation.

~ J. Tithonus Pednaud
http://www.thehumanmarvels.com

Everyone's explanations on this are way more complicated than how he actually performs the tricks. It is way more complicated to have a "fake" ball and make a switch than it is to simply swallow a billiard ball and regurgitate it. Regurgitators are real, and have been for centuries. Stop trying to figure out the "trickery". Choose the simple solution, he swallows things and brings them back up. That's the "trick". People have been doing it legitimately for centuries, and it's easier to learn how to regurgitate or to sword swallow or to eat fire than it is to try to figure out some way to fake it. It's all training and a willingness to do something that might at first seem dangerous.

I was involved in booking his act 9 years ago and took him and his agent out to dinner afterwards. He told me his whole story about being an orphan and that when he was little he even swallowed live bumble bees. I am always a skeptic so I asked him to perform impromtu at the dinner table, He swallowed a whole pile of coins and brought them up one by one. Ate his food without chewing it .. like he would take a muffin and put it in his mouth and suck it down. We also had him play a joke on some table of old people next to us, he swallowed a bunch of coins and a set of keys and he went near their table and said "where are my keys" and then looked in his pockets, and he asked the table for some coins to make a call because he lost his keys, then all of a sudden he starts vometing up coins all over the floor and then pulls a set of keys out of his mouth.. It was so funny and totally impromptu. I interupted him a couple times and asked him to bring back up items he had swallowed and he was able to bring them up. this guy is just a biological freak, he is also a freaky person, not in the "david blane" sort of way, this guy is like a big baby, he even has his agent manage all of his personal money, kind of like a father. He is a really nice guy but you can see he just does not have the people skills or wits to be a magician, he is just doing stuff he can do. He has even done this under x-ray on Japanese TV with one of his tricks involving a key and a lock and a borrowed ring from the audiance within his stomach, and you can see his muslces using the key in the lock and putting the ring in the lock. I think it is possible that he swallows some things beforehand (like the rubix cube because I dont see how you can solve that blindfolded).. but the sugar is real no plastic bag (I tested him on that during our meal), also he kept a live fish partitioned of in his stomach throughout the whole show he did for us and then brought it up at the end.

I am so surprised he is still availiable after more than 10 years, his throat must be really tough.
Anyhow if you are from a college student government he is the best show we ever had (and we had some amazing ones), I cant reccomend him enough.. and be sure to take him out to dinner someplace with fun stuff to swallow.

I just heard about Stevie through a mutual friend. She's known him for 20 years and has no idea how he does what he does. But she stopped having him stay at her house because he is an overgrown kid and is constantly doing his regurgitation stuff (like with her food and any small objects in the house). She says it is absolutely real and he has been examined at length by doctors who have no idea how he does it. She did tell me an interesting story about him growing up in the orphanage. She has no idea how he does any of this but has seen him do it many, many times at her house while she was standing right there and watched him.

I just got back from his 2nd live show here at the University of South Alabama.. HE SWALLOWED MY RING along w/ about 10 others. It was so funny. Eveyone was hiding their stuff so that he wouldn't ask to swallow it! I have seen the show live twice, and it is so entertaining. The show was nearly exactly the same, but still just as fascinating and exciting as the first viewing. If you have the opportunity to see this man, DO!!! You will not be sorry. It is probably a con, especially since he says "you may be asking, is this a con? .... Of course it is.. But it's fun! (or funny. I cannot remember, due to the still-flowing adrenaline from the show)" but it is truly entertaining. At least you will get a good laugh out of it if nothing else!

i actually met steve in a bar while i was visiting family in scotland and we got to drinking he soon told me that he can make "pockets" in his stomach and that the sugar trick is done by putting the sugar into one of those pockets and then guiding the water past the sugar then end up coughing the sugar back up again...

I've actually seen Stevie perform in Australia a few years back. I was standing 5 feet away from him for the entire show and from everything I saw he was swallowing the objects. I could see his throat move as a billiard ball went down or came back up, etc. I would agree that the rubix cube trick was probably done with two cubes. The one that isn't getting talked about too much is how he swallows an audience member's ring a locked lock and a key he then unlocks the lock puts the ring on the lock and locks it back up, bringing these items back up with him. For the show I watched he lifted his shirt up and you could see his stomach doing all this.

I have no idea how he does everything but I'd certainly recommend going to see him.

At least for the light bulb in the beginning it's very obvious that her replace it behind the table before putting it in his mouth. With what, or for what reason I can't tell, but it's not the same object he knocks in the table that goes in his mouth.

He he - I must say.. Stevie is gooood. Just watched him live today and was quite amazed - hoax or not.... damn good entertainment :o)

Hello all ,
what you see in the video is totally for real. When i was studying in uk, he came to visit my university on a show. Because I couldn't believe it I went back stage and I met the guy. he did it in front of me, he was wearing no clothes from his trousers and upwards so there was no way he could have tricked me. I still have the coin I asked him to swallow and bring back up again. Believe it or not, the guy is for real. I know what I've seen.

I saw him last night doing his show, I've seen him before and it was still great and I do recommend it to everyone to see.

After the show a few of us went and spoke to him and he did a few other things for us (he was bribed with a few card tricks), one thing he did was swallow one of my friends mobile (or cell) phone and we rang it and could feel it vibrate inside him.

All those people that think he is doing some sort of illusion have no idea! He is 100% real and he does swallow things and bring them back!

He told us about when he was in school. He would swallow bees before he went to school and then release them in class to show his friends (as well as scare the teachers).

If anyone knows where I can see a video of him swallowing things with an x-ray please post it, also post links for his adverts as I would love to see them!

Obviously Starr has a parasitic twin still living in his stomach, whom he has trained to juggle all the things he throws down there and then toss them back up.

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