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 ...

There’s an urban legend that Harry Houdini died in Detroit on Halloween after performing at the Majestic Theater.

Illusionist Harry Houdini died on Halloween in 1926. Multiple theories about what actually happened persist a century later.

Harry Houdini made two appearances in Fort Worth, one in 1916 and again in 1924. Max Faulkner Star-Telegram/Max Faulkner Harry Houdini (1874-1926) was the stage name of Ehrich Weiss, arguably the ...

One of the most well-known stunts of famed illusionist Harry Houdini, remembered for his escape acts, was the milk can escape, first performed in 1908 at the Columbia Theater in St. Louis. Houdini, ...

On a frigid afternoon last week, I found myself at Machpela Cemetery, visiting the grave of perhaps the greatest celebrity of the early 20th century – Harry Houdini. Houdini was a stage magician, an ...

As we celebrate Halloween this year, we look back to Oct. 31, 1926, when famous magician and escape artist Harry Houdini died at Grace Hospital, days after he performed his last show in Detroit.

Master escape artist Harry Houdini, most famous for his death-defying escapes suspended upside down in a straitjacket or submerged in a tank of water, died on Halloween 96 years ago from appendicitis.

NEW YORK _ The family of Harry Houdini's widow wants to block a plan to dig up the remains of the escape artist. They say the whole thing smacks of a publicity stunt. Houdini's grandnephew announced ...