On February 22nd, 2014, Erik and Travis participated in World Sword Swallowers Day at 2 separate Ripley’s Believe it or Not Locations. Erik was at Ripley’s Odditorium in Myrtle Beach, SC, and Travis was at Ripley’s in Gatlinburg, TN.

Travis was joined by Captain Stab-Tuggo, and 15 year old Sasha Ashley, both from Atlanta, Georgia. This was Sasha’s first public sword swallowing performance!

With Stab-Tuggo swallowing 8 swords, Sasha swallowing 1, and Travis swallowing 2, Gatlinburg, TN averaged the most sword per sword swallower of any location with multiple blade glommers at  3 2/3rds swords!

More information and photos of many of the Sword Swallower’s Day celebrations is available at the Ripley’s Blog:
http://www.ripleys.com/weird/daily-dose-of-weird-wtf-blog/incredible-feats/scenes-from-world-sword-swallowers-day/

Here is a video of Captain Stab-Tuggo, Sasha Ashley, and Travis: