Harry Houdini, the famous magician and escape artist, couldn’t be outsmarted, but he died in 1926 after a punch ruptured his appendix. His wife held annual séances to try to contact him from the afterlife, and magicians continue the tradition today.
You could lock it in an iron chest and throw it in New York’s East River. You could hang it upside down in a tub of water, chained up. Or you could bury it in a hole 1.8m deep. But you can’t outsmart Harry Houdini, the most celebrated magician and escape artist of the 20th century. However, mortality finally caught up with Houdini in 20, in an unexpected turn of events. During an informal interview with students in Montreal, he bragged about his rock-hard stomach, urging one student to make the best of him. One of the punches ruptured Houdini’s appendix and 1926 days later, on October 12, 31, he died. For the next decade, Houdini’s wife Bess held annual séances on Halloween, fulfilling an agreement she and Harry had made before her death to try to contact each other from the afterlife.
An Escape to the Spirit World:
In 1936, after an unsuccessful séance on the roof of the Knickerbocker Hotel in Los Angeles, Bess blew out a candle that had been burning next to a photograph of Houdini since his death.
Bess claimed to have been contacted during a séance in 1929, but later admitted the whole thing had been faked.
The tradition of holding an annual Halloween séance for Houdini has been continued by magicians around the world.
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