Illusionist and escape artist Harry Houdini the day he performed his famous stunt in which he was submerged in the East River in a crate and escaped in just under a minute on July 7th 1912 in New York ...

LISBON — International magician and escapologist Michael Griffin — an escape artist that has been featured on America’s Got Talent, Penn & Teller: Fool Us, Masters of Illusion, and numerous other TV ...

When the great escape artist Harry Houdini announced plans to perform at the Orpheum Theatre in 1923, The Vancouver Sun issued a challenge to him: perform a death-defying escape in public outside the ...

Escape artist Harry Houdini died on Halloween in 1926 at age 52 Emily Blackwood is a writer and editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously appeared in ...