Supernatural Science: Secrets of Levitation
Levitation claims run from Indian yogis said to rise into meditation to modern stage performers who make the same claim under studio lights, and this film asks which of them are physically real. It walks through the historical record of supernatural strongman and levitation acts, then turns to the mechanics: wires, magnets, optical illusion, and the staged photography that has produced convincing levitation images for over a century. Physicists and skeptics weigh in on what the human body can and cannot do against gravity, while believers and practitioners describe what they experience during claimed episodes. The film keeps returning to a small set of famous cases, testing each one against what can be demonstrated on camera versus what depends on eyewitness testimony alone. It does not resolve every case, but it separates the ones with a known trick from the ones nobody has explained.