to say, this would definitely help out his career as a stage magician.The only problem was that he had  

no control over it, and he didn't evan know it was happening whenever it did.  One time that he vanished  

was while he was doing a show in Chicago, then another time it happened in front of his wife (who was  

terrified) and the third time was witnessed by a broadcaster named Long John Knebel.  John Knebel  

was skeptical himself but described what he seen in his book entitled The Way Out World. He was at  

one of Neff's performances at the Paramount Theatre in New York City, when "it seemed that Neff's  

body was becoming minutely translucent" until "you could see the traveler curtain clearly behind his  

transparent figure."  Knebel said that evan though Neff was fading from view his voice was still perfectly  

audible.  Then as he started to reappear Knebel  wrote "Gradually a rather faint outline, like a very faint  

pencil sketch of Neff, appeared again."  Neff claimed to not have been aware of anything ever  

happening.  Kind of makes you wonder, doesn't it?? .