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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illusionist and escape artist Harry Houdini the day he performed his famous stunt in which he was submerged in the East River in a ...

NEW YORK • In an old cemetery in New York City lie the remains of America’s most legendary magician, interred under a granite monument that bears his stage name in bold letters: Houdini. Get up-to-the ...

One hundred and fifty years ago this month, on April 6, 1874, the legendary illusionist Harry Houdini was born in Appleton, Wisconsin. Or so he claimed. The man we call Houdini was actually born Erich ...

Harry Houdini was the world’s greatest escape artist, famous for breaking free from handcuffs, prison cells, and seemingly impossible restraints. But before his death in 1926, he made one final ...

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 ...