The body of a famous Indian magician was found in the Hooghly River in Kolkata one day after he attempted to recreate one of late icon Harry Houdini's most famous stunts. Chanchal Lahiri, who goes by ...
In 1898, Harry Houdini considered quitting magic. At that point — more than a decade before his infamous underwater box escapes — the profession seemed like a financial dead-end; he’d do 20 shows a ...
Police arrested an escape artist Wednesday after he led them on a fruitless underwater search for his body when he jumped into the Gulf of Mexico, clad in a straitjacket, on Halloween — the 80th ...