Harry Houdini made a career out of defying death — and yet it wasn't his thrilling escapes from water-filled vessels or ...

Thursday marks 98 years since the death of local legend Harry Houdini and ever since then there's been attempts to contact ...

"What did you do that for, Houdini? You--! Putting up a plant like that on a girl. There is a ruler in that cabinet." During the seance the "teleplasmic" arm appeared, stretched forth a "cold ...

Ehrich Weiss (Harry Houdini) born to Rabbi Mayer Samuel Weiss and his wife Cecelia on March 24 in Budapest, Hungary. At age nine, Ehrich and some neighborhood friends establish a five-cent circus.

Here are a few notable times mediums have tried to contact the dead. Before magician and famous skeptic Harry Houdini died on ...

In the last years of his life, Harry Houdini became, to borrow the title from one of his books, "A Magician among the Spirits." As the most famous illusionist in the world, Houdini was naturally ...

Every year since the 1930s, fans have held Houdini seances on All Hallow’s Eve to attempt to connect with the magician’s ghost, and who knows, maybe this will be the year they finally hear back.

Escape artist Harry Houdini died on Halloween in 1926 at age 52 Emily Blackwood is a writer and editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously appeared in ...

Harry Houdini made a career out of defying death — and yet it wasn't his thrilling escapes from water-filled vessels or skyscraper ledges that caused his untimely demise. According to the Yale ...

Escape artist Harry Houdini died on Halloween in 1926 at age 52 Getty Illusionist and escape artist Harry Houdini the day he performed his famous stunt in which he was submerged in the East River ...

Escape artist Harry Houdini died on Halloween in 1926 at age 52 Getty Illusionist and escape artist Harry Houdini the day he performed his famous stunt in which he was submerged in the East River in a ...