C incinnati was known throughout the 1800s and early 1900s as a stronghold of Spiritualism, the belief that dead folk are ...

He’s the most famous magician to ever live, but few realize that Harry Houdini (1874–1926) began life as Ehrich Weiss, a ...

With the average life expectancy of white people in 1850 being only 25.5 years, death was an ever-present shadow over society. People were confronted with smallpox, dysentery, cholera and all manner ...

For a long time, scientists couldn’t debunk séances with experiments. See how magicians rose to the task – and set a new standard for truth – at the Peabody Essex Museum. ByJonathon Keats, Contributor ...

Thousands gathered to see magician Harry Houdini perform on the streets and pools of Worcester. Little did they know it would ...

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.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Adrien Brody, wrapped in chains and canvas straightjackets, dives deep into the stormy waters of illusionist and escape artist Harry Houdini's personal life and public crusades ...

As Chanukah is celebrated in 2010, the Jewish Museum in NYC celebrates the brilliance and the significance of Harry Houdini. Houdini was born in Budapest, Hungary as Ehrich Weisz in 1874, but moved as ...