One hundred and fifty years ago this month, on April 6, 1874, the legendary illusionist Harry Houdini was born in Appleton, Wisconsin. Or so he claimed. The man we call Houdini was actually born Erich ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illusionist and escape artist Harry Houdini the day he performed his famous stunt in which he was submerged in the East River in a ...

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 ...

Harry Houdini, the remarkable illusionist who stunned international audiences with his death-defying escape act, was shackled eternally by the Grim Reaper on this Halloween in history, Oct. 31, 1926. ...

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 ...

The epigraph of this novel, a fictionalized account of the love story between the escape artist Harry Houdini and his wife, Bess, is a quotation from W.B. Yeats: “The world is full of magic things, ...

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 ...

The startling true story of Harry Houdini’s beloved wife and her breakdown in the aftermath of his death. The world knew Bess as Houdini’s loyal partner, both on and off stage, his inspiration, his ...

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 ...

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 ...