

Like emerging from underwater coffins wriggling out of straitjackets while suspended upside down over swells of anxious, crowds and embedded. He was really more of an escape artist and his Heyday in the early. I’ve spent my life studying obsessively the life of Harry Houdini John says, while you might think of Houdini as a magician. That’s John Cox a self-described Houdini historian with a Blog called wild about Harry. He’s still the most famous name in Magic. This man was on a tortured lifelong quest to reckon with the forces who can’t see.Īsk someone to name a magician and they will tend to name Houdini. Not just the obvious question of whether a person can come back from the dead. Harry Houdini the master magician told her he’d return from the Beyond if he could.īut that if was a big one, see Houdini was out to prove something. Houdini held the last official seance for the love of her life. I’m Simone plannin on October 31st, 1936 85 years ago this week. We take a moment from that very same week in history.Īnd this October we’re telling you the stories that still haunt our world. This is not past it a show about the stories and the people, we can’t quite leave behind every episode. The Great Escape Artist, couldn’t escape the great beyond, but it wasn’t for lack of trying. Houdini The Magician’s wife, she calls it. Sobs Bello up from within the congregation, but after some time, nothing happens, So Bess. The sky above Los Angeles fills with angry clouds. Prince of are simply the greatest magician who ever lived as the crowd waits for the spirit of Houdini to appear. The great Harry Houdini the Handcuff King. Please manifest yourself in any way possible. Now, the time is at hand, make yourself known to next to these two Souls sits, a shrine consisting of a trumpet, a bell.īut the people aren’t just waiting for any old Spirit. The goateed man begins to speak now, let us bow our heads in meditations and prayers. The date is October, 31st Halloween at 8:00 p.m.

The old Hollywood Sign lights, up the Eerie night sky in front of them, sit, 300 star-studded guests. She a shock of white hair and a double strand of pearls they appear, ghostly withered, behind them. High atop the Knickerbocker Hotel in Los Angeles and the year 1936 stand, a man and a woman dressed to the nines and formal wear.
