On a Friday evening in July 1925, about 30 people crowded into a basement on West 88th Street in Manhattan for a presentation by Mrs. Cecil Cook, a spirit medium. A pan of water and two silver ...
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Even the greatest escape artists find there is one thing from which they cannot escape: death. Harry Houdini was no different ...
To the world, Harry Houdini was the greatest magic man that ever lived. He escaped water torture cells and straightjackets in locked metal handcuffs and shackles. But, to his wife Wilhelmina Beatrice ...
NEW YORK – The family of Harry Houdini's widow hopes to stop plans for exhuming the escape artist's remains, saying they are worried a disinterment to determine if he was murdered smacked of ...
handcuff plans for exhuming the escape artist’s remains, saying they’re worried a disinterment to determine if he was murdered smacked of sensationalism. “It is our firm belief that Bess Houdini would ...
As the title indicates, the focus of History’s Labor Day miniseries Houdini is legendary magician Harry Houdini, including revelations about the secrets behind some of his best-known performances.
It was during his dime-museum days that Houdini first began to seek professional mediums. In séances attended with his grieving mother, he attempted to contact the spirit of Mayer Samuel, who had once ...
The photo postcard, showing Harry Houdini and his wife, Bess, didn’t have the heft of some of the other items in Saturday’s Houdini auction in Chicago. There were one-of-a-kind stage props, scrapbooks ...
This Labor Day, the History Channel presents Houdini, a miniseries about the renowned magician. SheKnows spoke exclusively with Kristen Connolly, who plays the woman behind the magic. There’s always ...
HOUDINI was the stage name of a magician and escape artist who died on Halloween in 1926. It was the one rendezvous with mortality even he couldn't escape. With Martha Teichner we'll now try to unlock ...
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