In the 10 years after Houdini’s death, Bess held annual séances, but she never heard that phrase. “Before her 1943 death,” Biography notes, “Bess Houdini declared the experiment a failure.” ...

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 ...

The official cause of Houdini's death was diffuse peritonitis, which is when a burst appendix spills bacteria into the abdominal cavity. Because antibiotics were not available in the early 20th ...

Harry Houdini may have been one of the greatest magicians of all time and survived death-defying acts. It seems odd then that Houdini would die from something so mundane. Over the years, many ...

Houdini’s death shocked the nation, making headlines in some of the world’s biggest newspapers. His body was brought back to New York City and was laid to rest Nov. 4 at Machpelah Cemetery in ...

Nearly a century after his death, that same aura of the supernatural still clings to Harry Houdini. ( ‘I hear dead people’: How the world went wild for talking to spirits 100 years ago.

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.

Illusionist Harry Houdini, who stunned audiences with his death-defying escape act, died on this date in history, Oct. 31, 1926. The cause of death was peritonitis, caused by a ruptured appendix.

Houdini’s friend Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, was one of them. Spiritualism comforted him after the death of his son Kingsley, who died just weeks before the war’s end.

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 ...

Houdini’s death shocked the nation, making headlines in some of the world’s biggest newspapers. His body was brought back to New York City and was laid to rest Nov. 4 at Machpelah Cemetery in ...