Minutes before you’re released into the cell, your feet have been tightly manacled and locked into a stock. A steel frame is passed over your body as you hang upside down in the air. Your feet are ...

We know that escape artist Harry Houdini died on Halloween in 1926. Still, exactly how the master illusionist met his demise remains a mystery almost a full century later. Was it a punch to 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 ...