When vaudeville impresario Martin Beck "discovered" a struggling Harry Houdini in 1899, it was Houdini's ability to escape from handcuffs which caught his attention. Although Houdini was hardly the ...
Victoria Roze’s favorite stunt is watching her husband hanging upside down 1,000 feet in the air from a burning rope wearing a straitjacket “Trying to get out before the rope burns and he comes ...
GRAND RAPIDS, MI - It was just after Thanksgiving, and Grand Rapids locals were preparing to converge on Nov. 29, 1916, to watch escape artist Harry Houdini attempt to free himself while dangling from ...
Incredible images of legendary escape artist Harry Houdini performing a series of death-defying stunts have emerged on the anniversary of his death 91 years ago. New video shows him being strung up by ...
Erich Weisz was born to a Jewish rabbi on March 24, 1874 in Budapest, Hungary. He moved to Wisconsin, USA with his family at a very early age, and later moved to New York with his father at age 13, ...
A DARING Irish stuntman is bidding to carry out the world’s toughest ever underwater escape. Ireland’s answer to Harry Houdini, Dean Jacob, 26, plans to wrestle his way free from a complex series of ...
Key West, Florida: Police have arrested an escape artist after he led them on a fruitless underwater search for his body when he jumped into the Gulf of Mexico, clad in a straitjacket, on Halloween ...
Like Harry Houdini, I'm performing my straitjacket escape without a curtain. (He found that audiences preferred watching him struggle.) Unlike Harry Houdini, I'm not escaping (although I'm doing fine ...
When vaudeville impresario Martin Beck "discovered" a struggling Harry Houdini in 1899, it was Houdini's ability to escape from handcuffs which caught his attention. Although Houdini was hardly the ...
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