The Science Behind Invisible Danger Pranks

Here’s the science behind one of the greatest pranks anyone can pull.

Nam Tran
3 min readSep 12, 2023

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Have you seen any of those invisible danger prank videos online?

I came across one the other day and these pranks are hilarious. Essentially, someone (the pranker) would pretend that something scary or dangerous was around them by frantically acting out and thus, making their victim scared as well.

One of the reasons why these are so funny is because of how the person getting pranked reacts. They’re just in a frenzy for no reason.

The other reason is because I do these pranks all of the time to my family and friends. And my main victim as of late has been my niece and nephew (moreso my niece).

We were walking to get lunch and on the way to the fast food restaurant, there’s this corner that leads down an alleyway.

We were just walking and talking as we normally do and as we passed it, I jumped to the side, screamed, and started punching the air as if someone was hiding…

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Nam Tran

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