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 from shackles and a straightjacket ...

Crash-landing into life was certainly not the gentlest of starts. But this duckling, named Houdini, is flourishing despite its bumpy beginning. It was still snugly inside its egg when a greedy seagull ...

A daredevil performed a spectacular Houdini-like stunt 200ft above the ground on the London Eye today in front of crowds of people on their way to work. Death-defying escapologist Jonathan Goodwin was ...

Like magic, a marble bust of Harry Houdini marking the legendary escape artist's gravesite has been resurrected — nearly two decades after it smashed to the ground. In a secret operation on Sept. 27, ...

Harry Houdini is the immortal alter ego of the late Hungarian-Jewish immigrant Ehrich Weiss, the son of a rabbi and an incomparable mama’s boy. Many of the marvels of Houdini’s life, due in part to ...