![]() ![]() He died on October 31st, 1926 from a ruptured appendix.Īs they had agreed, Bess held a seance on Halloween night every year for the next ten years hoping to reach Harry in the spirit world. They agreed upon a coded message only the two of them would know, to prevent fraudulent mediums from making false claims. Houdini made a pact with his wife, Bess, that if one of them died, the other would use all known means to contact them in the afterlife. He felt spiritualists, who claimed to be able to communicate with the dead, were doing nothing more than taking advantage of grieving family members. ![]() Later in life, Houdini became devoted to discrediting the rising belief in spiritualism. The famed illusionist could escape from anything, including straight jackets and prison cells. It was said somewhere that if anyone could have escaped the afterlife, it would have been Harry Houdini.
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