GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Halloween is all about the horrifying and the haunting, the wicked and the wacky, embracing all things spooky and mysterious. In the early 20th century, no one was more ...

Scare yourself silly Saturday, when the Catalina Island Silent Film Festival screens the 1920 movie “Terror Island,” featuring escape artist Harry Houdini. The ...

In a recent New York Times Magazine profile, Laura Hillenbrand, the best-selling author of “Seabiscuit” and “Unbroken,” revealed that she actually buys old newspapers to do her research. This allows ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Adrien Brody, wrapped in chains and canvas straightjackets, dives deep into the stormy waters of illusionist and escape artist Harry Houdini's personal life and public crusades ...

After breaking onto the scene with his 2013 horror film Mama, director Andrés Muschietti has been attached to a number of high-profile projects, but we've yet to see any of them realized on the big ...

APPLETON, Wis. — Harry Houdini, if you're out there, Tom Boldt wants to talk to you. Boldt will be one of a dozen or so people gathered around a table Halloween night at a séance in a dimly lit ...

The traditional story of Harry Houdini's death is that the most famous escape artist of all time couldn't run from a ruptured appendix. Supposedly, a college student punched him in the stomach before ...

Things were starting to go bump in the night in the Houdini Seance Chamber at the Magic Castle, the private club in Hollywood that is the headquarters of the Academy of Magical Arts. Medium Misty Lee, ...