On Halloween night in 1936, the tiny, white-haired widow of Harry Houdini made her final attempt to contact him from beyond ...

Alongside the famous magician, Mackenberg helped debunk hundreds of spiritualists during a period of intense mourning in the ...

Even the greatest escape artists find there is one thing from which they cannot escape: death. Harry Houdini was no different. But what started as a seemingly clear-cut case of appendicitis evolved ...

In 1862, jewelry engraver and amateur photographer William H. Mumler was developing a self-portrait in his Boston studio when a ghostly image began to surface. Just below his own image in the photo ...

There were almost a dozen spiritualist churches in Erie in the 1920s. The city also boasted spiritualist societies and hosted ...

A cabby shares the secret to playing trumpet, an empty car on the F and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.

Meanwhile, Amanda Holden's latest BGT outfit is guaranteed to cause a flood of Ofcom complaints STEVEN FRAYNE, the magician formerly known as Dynamo, is making a spectacular show to mark 100 years ...

How did a 2,000-year-old Roman tombstone end up in a New Orleans yard? For the past six months, this has been a question pursued by an archaeologist, an anthropologist, and a pair of classicists. As ...

Stories of ancient Roman artifacts and ruins being dug up in back gardens or disrupting construction projects are common. It seems that a British pensioner can hardly dig a new plot for potatoes, nor ...

Like most things in Tunic, the Hero's Grave is more than meets the eye. Praying at this gravesite will transport you to a different world where you're surrounded by clouds and pedestals that are just ...

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 ...

How does a 1900-year-old Roman tombstone end up in New Orleans? That’s what one couple set to find out after discovering just that while weeding their backyard. Daniella Santoro, an anthropologist at ...