Before Houdini died the couple had agreed upon a code he would whisper in her ear should he ever return to her after death. The séance tradition was begun by Houdini’s widow, Bess. I am certain, however, of at least four very hard and severe body blows, because at the end of the second or third blow I verbally protested against this sudden onslaught.” “I do not remember exactly how many blows were struck. “These blows fell on that part of the stomach to the right of the navel,” said another student who had witnessed the event. But when a McGill University student named Joselyn Gordon Whitehead punched him in the gut while supine on a couch posing for a sketch, Houdini doubled up in pain and died several days later, on October 31, 1926.
The Hungarian-American magician slipped out of straitjackets while suspended upside down 30 stories above the street, made elephants disappear and was buried alive, twice once in a pit in Santa Ana, California, in 1917 and nine years later in a sealed coffin at the bottom of the swimming pool at New York’s Hotel Shelton. No kooks please, this is a serious Halloween test and tribute.” “Email us with any results and lack of results. “We are asking everyone to attempt to contact Harry Houdini sometime during Halloween for the 24 hours of October 31st,” reads a banner on the website of the Harry Houdini Museum, which is located in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Both magicians and the non-magical have patiently awaited Harry Houdini to return from the grave every Halloween since his death on October 31, 1926.
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