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 ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Halloween is all about the horrifying and the haunting, the wicked and the wacky, embracing all things spooky and mysterious. In the early 20th century, no one was more ...

In the world of magic, it isn’t enough to simply come up with an innovative trick — you also need to be capable of pulling off the definitive version of it. The history of magic abounds with instances ...

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 ...

In the bowels of the historic bank building at W. 25 th and Lorain, magicians from all over the country set up a séance to channel the spirit of the Great Houdini. They called on Cleveland medium ...

Pick a card ... any card! One of the first decks of cards ever used by Harry Houdini sold for $43,410 Sunday night at Goldin Auctions. The cards were passed to Houdini's wife, Bess, after his death in ...

The Halloween magic was pure Harry Houdini, as inspired admirers gathered with state Assemblywoman Rebecca Seawright to dedicate the legendary escape artist’s Upper East Side childhood home on the ...

NEW YORK CITY -- The Houdini Museum of New York in Manhattan unlocks the life of the greatest magician and escape artist who ever lived. Harry Houdini, whose real name was Erich Weiss, was most ...