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Illusionist Harry Houdini died on Halloween in 1926. Multiple theories about what actually happened persist a century later.
In 1862, jewelry engraver and amateur photographer William H. Mumler was developing a self-portrait in his Boston studio when a ghostly image began to surface. Just below his own image in the photo ...