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 ...

Escape artist Harry Houdini is shown before being lowered in a packing crate into the ice-covered Detroit River in 1907. (AP Photo) (1907 AP ) DETROIT – There’s an urban legend that Harry Houdini died ...

We know that escape artist Harry Houdini died on Halloween in 1926. Still, exactly how the master illusionist met his demise remains a mystery almost a full century later. Was it a punch to the ...

Minutes before you’re released into the cell, your feet have been tightly manacled and locked into a stock. A steel frame is passed over your body as you hang upside down in the air. Your feet are ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the summer of 1926, famous escapologist Harry Houdini began to suffer from mysterious stomach ailments. Was it food poisoning as he claimed, appendicitis, or something more sinister? From 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 ...