This Halloween marks 99 years since the death of legendary magician Harry Houdini. Preparations are underway for a yearlong ...

On Halloween night in 1936, the tiny, white-haired widow of Harry Houdini made her final attempt to contact him from beyond ...

The spookiest time of the year is upon us once more as our attention turns to jack-o’-lanterns, black cats and things that go ...

On a Friday evening in July 1925, about 30 people crowded into a basement on West 88th Street in Manhattan for a presentation ...

The Halloween Death That's Haunted History for Nearly a Century held a séance idea Sugary sodas cause deadly diseases.

Bess Houdini's quest to communicate with her late husband, famed magician Harry Houdini, is a tale of love, loss and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ferraby Lionheart. Today's Top Tune is from the release, The Jack of Hearts, and it is a song about Harry Houdini and his wife Bess, who after an hour of watching her mate struggling at a widely ...

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.