Now you see it! A rare collection of tools and tricks used by legendary magician Harry Houdini for seemingly inexplicable ...

When vaudeville impresario Martin Beck "discovered" a struggling Harry Houdini in 1899, it was Houdini's ability to escape from handcuffs which caught his attention. Although Houdini was hardly the ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Harry Houdini was born 136 years ago today. To mark the day, Susan King ...

Making magic compelling on-screen is a really difficult trick. Sorry magicians, it’s not that you’re uninteresting—it’s that what you do is just really hard to dramatize. Tricks—sorry, illusions—are ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - It was just after Thanksgiving, and Grand Rapids locals were preparing to converge on Nov. 29, 1916, to watch escape artist Harry Houdini attempt to free himself while dangling from ...

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 ...

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 1899, the world-famous escape artist Harry Houdini issued a bold challenge, claiming that no magic trick could fool him if ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Once upon a time, Harry Houdini, the famed magician and escape artist, hung upside down from a downtown building in Salt Lake City. Houdini started his career in entertainment at an ...

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.