JT Siems 10/27/19 JT Siems 10/27/19

STORICAL FOOTNOTES: HOUDINI'S FINAL SÉANCE

Today we whisper a final goodnight to Harry Houdini as we discuss the tradition of Houdini séances that have taken place continuously since his death on Halloween night of 1926. Tune in on Halloween for a special episode about the Blood Countess.

JT Siems 10/20/19 JT Siems 10/20/19

STORICAL FOOTNOTES: THE WITCH OF LIME STREET VS HOUDINI

Margery the Medium used the ghost of her dead brother Walter to conduct her séances. When Scientific American Magazine put forth a contest with a $2500 prize for any medium who could produce verifiable psychic phenomena , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle recommended her. Harry Houdini was not having it and made it his mission to expose Margery as a fraud.

JT Siems 10/13/19 JT Siems 10/13/19

STORICAL FOOTNOTES: MADAME BESS HOUDINI

In today’s episode, we’re going to give voice to Bess Houdini a performer and magician in her own right, who like many women was eclipsed by her husband’s ambition. Tune in to learn all the magical details about Bess’ life before and after Harry.

JT Siems 10/6/19 JT Siems 10/6/19

HARRY HOUDINI: THE MAGICIAN AMONG THE SPIRITS

If you hear the name Houdini and just think of the David Copperfield, David Blaine, Criss Angel school of magicians, that is to say campy and old fashioned, I’m here to blow your mind with espionage, Sherlock Holmes, the Romanovs, and more psychics than you can count! Buckle up dear listeners and imagine yourself in a dark room, hands clasped around the séance table as a series of unearthly raps starts tapping out a message from beyond the grave as we dive into the life of Harry Houdini, Master Mystifier.