Levitation (paranormal)

Levitation or transvection, in the paranormal or religious context, is the claimed ability to raise a human body or other object into the air by mystical means.

[29] The researchers Joseph McCabe and Trevor H. Hall exposed the "levitation" of Home as nothing more than him moving across a connecting ledge between two iron balconies.

[30] The magician Joseph Rinn gave a full account of fraudulent behavior observed in a séance of Eusapia Palladino and explained how her levitation trick had been performed.

Milbourne Christopher summarized the exposure: The levitation trick of the medium Jack Webber was exposed by the magician Julien Proskauer.

Usually telltale signs can be found in the photography indicating that the subject was in the act of bouncing, like blurry body parts, a flailing scarf, hair being suspended in the air, etc.

Levitation trick performed by street artists in Romania
Colin Evans , who claimed spirits levitated him into the air, was exposed as a fraud.
Spiritualist medium Stanisława Tomczyk (left) and the magician William Marriott (right) who exposed her deceptive trickery