Why Famous Illusionist Attempted To Reanimate Human Corpse (VIDEO)

Christopher Nicholas Sarantakos (born December 19, 1967), better known by the stage name Criss Angel, is an American magician and illusionist. In his latest stunt, he attempted to raise the dead.

While the performer is well-known for his often death-defying tricks, but has he gone too far this time, acquiring a real corpse for his televised experiment?

"People have died many times, and they're clinically dead, then somehow they're revived back... and it's inexplicable," Angel says. "It's an interesting phenomenon, so I wanted to explore it."

To begin the process of trying to revive someone who's already dead, Angel had to overcome some obstacles.

"There were two things that were hard: First, to get a body -- a cadaver -- was the most difficult thing, and we needed to find somebody who wasn't dead for a long period of time. The other thing was to find a facility that would allow us to do it because no facility wants to get involved because they feel that it can come off as disrespectful.

"We got a facility that said we could use them, but we had to sign an agreement that we weren't allowed to name the place, location or the owner. As a matter of fact, everybody had to be blindfolded to go there."

Angel said there were more than 80 bodies in freezers at the unnamed location.

"It was a very eerie and uneasy kind of environment, but we came away with a greater appreciation of how fortunate we are to have life and how we can't take it for granted."

For those who assume that Angel, as a magician, will probably just be working with some sort of Hollywood-type of body created for this "trick," he says, "No way!"

"I was given the death certificate and his name and we acquired previous home footage of this man, which we will broadcast on the show. It's going to make people's hair raise, and is something that I hope people will tune in to watch this very provocative demonstration."

Historically, there are many examples of religious accounts and beliefs in the resurrection of the human body. And the wildly popular current cultural obsession with all things related to zombies points to the public lure of things once alive, then dead, then somehow reactivated to life.

"People are fascinated with death," Angel said. "That's why they stop and stare at a car accident, because their curiosity is provoked. I put my religious faith aside to explore the possibility to look at this phenomenon of people that are dead and are able to be revived.

"I ask people who deal with this subject matter all the time who perform thousands of surgeries, to see if they experience anything like that or can give us insight to it. We explore [the idea of] me being a conduit between life and death -- if we can bring somebody back for just another breath. Some people may think this is just morbid, but to me, it really shows when you stare death in the face -- inevitable for all of us -- it gives you a much greater appreciation and value for life, how fragile and important it is, and how you can't take any breath for granted."
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