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 ...
Even the world’s greatest escape artist had one weakness: the human mind. In 1899, Harry Houdini declared no illusion could fool him if he saw it three times. He was wrong. One man — a quiet, ...
SALT LAKE CITY — Once upon a time, Harry Houdini, the famed magician and escape artist, hung upside down from a downtown building in Salt Lake City. Houdini started his career in entertainment at an ...