Before becoming the legendary Harry Houdini, the fledgling magician was simply known as Erik Weisz. Hailing from Budapest, Hungary, Erik and his family immigrated to the US in the hopes of ...

Harry Houdini had issued a challenge to every magician, illusionist and escapologist in the world — perform any trick for him three ... He became famous for escaping from handcuffs, cells ...

A magician’s magician, his close-up magic and card trick techniques even managed to fool the great Harry Houdini ... “The Man Who Fooled Houdini.” Aside from the famous aforementioned ...

Ehrich Weiss (Harry Houdini ... magazine pronounces it "one of the most remarkable tricks ever performed." In September, Houdini debuts his famous Chinese Water Torture Cell escape at the Circus ...

When vaudeville impresario Martin Beck "discovered" a struggling Harry Houdini in 1899 ... fastened at the knee under his trousers. Houdini also used tricks that didn't involve opening locks.

An Indian magician who was lowered into a river while shackled in a bid to recreate Harry Houdini's world-famous trick has drowned, police confirmed. Chanchal Lahiri was meant to escape and swim ...