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FSU Students Experience the Extraordinary

Mentalist Craig Karges performed at Williams Auditorium

by Published: Sep 7, 2011

Mesmerizing Performance: Craig Karges, a mentalist, shows off his skills during a performance at Ferris State. Karges acts included levitating, moving objects, reading minds and writing without using his hands. Photos By: Brock Copus | Web Editor

Mesmerizing Performance: Craig Karges, a men­tal­ist, shows off his skills dur­ing a per­for­mance at Ferris State. Karges acts included lev­i­tat­ing, mov­ing objects, read­ing minds and writ­ing with­out using his hands. Photos By: Brock Copus | Web Editor

The audi­to­rium was silent as every­one waited to see what he would say.

“Photographer.” The student’s eyes widened with dis­be­lief. Craig Karges had just read his mind.

Moments later, with the help of ran­domly selected mem­bers of the audi­ence, Karges made a table lev­i­tate, moved a block of wood with his mind, and wrote on a chalk­board with­out touch­ing it.

Entertainment Unlimited kicked off its event sched­ule with the “Experience the Extraordinary” show by the best­selling author and Top 5 Speaker, Karges.

The men­tal­ist has per­formed in over 150 cities world­wide and CNN has named him the “king of col­lege cam­pus enter­tain­ment.” Those who wit­nessed the Sept. 1 show were impressed.

“I was speech­less,” said Krystle Karnofsky, a junior in the music indus­try man­age­ment program.

“Absolutely mes­mer­iz­ing,” remarked Kate Schwartz, a senior in the busi­ness admin­is­tra­tion program.

Students and com­mu­nity mem­bers started lin­ing up out­side Williams Auditorium over an hour before the show was to begin. Some peo­ple were skep­ti­cal while oth­ers had high hopes.

“I expect to have my mind blown,” said Jessica Femminineo, a junior in the hotel and restau­rant man­age­ment pro­gram. The show lived up to her expec­ta­tions, as a wide-eyed Femminineo stared mes­mer­ized in jaw dropped disbelief.

An Entertainment Unlimited mem­ber reported an esti­mate of 1100 peo­ple in atten­dance. The next Entertainment Unlimited event is sched­uled for
Sept. 15.