Sword-Swallower Under The Glow of X-ray

Some people think of sword swallowing as a magic trick. After all, as with most magic tricks, sword swallowing doesn’t seem like something that should be possible. It can be a little easier to accept the idea that it’s all an illusion than to believe that a person can guide a long piece of metal all the way into his stomach. If you’ve ever watched a sword-swallowing performance, you may have also gotten the impression that the performer is trying to gain the audience’s trust, just like a magician does. He might invite members of the audience to join him on stage to inspect the swords or even to pull them from his mouth.
Several sources support the idea that there’s a trick to sword swallowing. Famed magician and escape artist Harry Houdini wrote about sword swallowing in “The Miracle Mongers, an Expose.” According to Houdini, some of the sword swallowers of his time swallowed metal sheaths before their performances “Encyclopedia Britannica” online reiterates this idea. It defines sword swallowing as a magic trick and claims that most performers prepare for the event by swallowing a metal tube that’s 17.7-19.7 inches (45-50 centimeters) long and about an inch (25 millimeters) wide.
So we tried this experiment with a x-rays to verify are they really stick a sword up to the stomach? You can verify this by looking at X-ray pictures under the cut

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