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       Film-maker Escapes From Chains

Gary Lester performing table magic at the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not Museum in St. Augustine, Florida. 

Gary watches over a can of lethal cat food from Ted V. Mikels' 1969 horror classic, The Corpse Grinders, part of the Blue Heron display at Ripley's.

Veteran FX make-up artist Barry Anderson, whose zombies  appeared in George Romero's classic film Day of the Dead, shows no fear and ignores all warnings, as he touches Blue Heron's famous haunted brick. 

  Gary Lester Performs His Great Escape

“I was wrapped straight-jacket style in chains fastened by four hefty padlocks,” said Lester. “Then they placed me in a giant burlap bag and told me I had three minutes to escape before the air ran out.” 

 Celebrity Al Gliniecki, (Guiness Book of World Records), fastened the first padlock. Gliniecki holds four world records for tying cherry stems with his tongue. Here he ties Gary in chains. 

Smiles and laughter greeted Lester, as he finally made his way out of his baggy prison – leaving his chains behind in the burlap sack -- still securely padlocked.

                        Houdini would have been proud.

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