NEW YORK — Legendary escape artist Harry Houdini mystified audiences with his daring stunts, but his death on Halloween 1926 was even more mysterious. Houdini, buried in Machpelah Cemetery in Queens, ...

Illusionist and escape artist Harry Houdini the day he performed his famous stunt in which he was submerged in the East River in a crate and escaped in just under a minute on July 7th 1912 in New York ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Harry Houdini may not have escaped death — but the legendary magician is still remembered for his daring acts. The Hungarian-born American illusionist died at 52 on Halloween day in 1926 — not from a ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) - Award-winning magician Dennis Watkins takes on the lead role of the master magician in " Death and Harry Houdini" now at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. "It's the ...

The great magician Harry Houdini left this life nearly 80 years ago on Halloween. Some say Houdini's premature death was caused in part by his reputation for bravado and superhuman strength. Born in ...

Before Criss Angel, David Copperfield, Penn & Teller, David Blaine and most of the other famous magicians you could name, there was master illusionist and escape artist Harry Houdini. And for ...

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 ...