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 ...

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Houdini's 100th anniversary fuels an Austin surge, from a UT Ransom Center exhibit to a séance play and new book release.

His family immigrated to the U.S. in 1878, when Houdini was 4 years old, and he cherished his childhood memories of Appleton.

APPLETON, Wis. (WLUK) -- Thursday marked 98 years since the death of local legend Harry Houdini, and ever since then, there's been attempts to contact the illusionist from beyond the grave. The famous ...

Harry Houdini was the world’s greatest escape artist, famous for breaking free from handcuffs, prison cells, and seemingly impossible restraints. But before his death in 1926, he made one final ...

The water torture cell escape was arguably Houdini’s most memorable stunt. So much so that many people wrongly assume it killed him–a myth invented by the 1953 movie about his life, starring Tony ...

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 is shown before being lowered in a packing crate into the ice-covered Detroit River in 1907. (AP Photo) (1907 AP ) DETROIT – There’s an urban legend that Harry Houdini died ...

Harry Houdini, the famed magician, escape artist and figure of popular imagination who died in 1926, pops up all over the place these days. Three of those appearances are tied to events at the ...