Illusionist and escape artist Harry Houdini the day he performed his famous stunt in which he was submerged in the East River in a crate and escaped in just under a minute on July 7th 1912 in New York ...

APPLETON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Houdini experts and magic historians will convene in Charleston, South Carolina for the Official Houdini Séance® on the evening of October 31, 2023. The event has been ...

Doors at 7:30pm, Shows at 8:00pm. Performances will take place at Flower Hill Foundation 1316 W 6th Street. Please enter through the front gate on W 6th Street. We will have folks on site to check you ...

The legendary illusionist spent his final years pulling back the curtain on people who claimed to speak with spirits. It ended with one last death-defying act. Illusionist Harry Houdini believed every ...

On Halloween night in 1936, the tiny, white-haired widow of Harry Houdini made her final attempt to contact him from beyond the grave. Beatrice "Bess" Houdini fell hard in love with the escapologist ...

The spookiest time of the year is upon us once more as our attention turns to jack-o’-lanterns, black cats and things that go bump in the night. This was once the time when the widow of one of the ...

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.

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 ...