![]() ![]() Houdini died days later in Room 401 at Grace Hospital in Detroit, his aura of invincibility over.īorn Ehrich Weiss, the son of a Hungarian rabbi, Houdini came to the U.S. Kalush and Sloman's book suggests the spiritualists may have arranged the attacks. In October 1926, Houdini was punched in the stomach by a student in his dressing room, and later by a stranger in a hotel lobby. However, after his death in October 1926 Bess continued to attend séances, hoping to contact him. In an article Houdini wrote, 'In the twenty-five years of my investigation and the hundreds of séances which I have attended, I have never seen or heard anything that could convince me that there is a possibility of communications with the loved ones who have gone beyond.' Houdini was also became fascinated by spiritualism after the death of his mother.Īt the turn of the century, he joined his wife Bess in a trumped-up act in which she worked as the medium.īut he had a change of heart, and went out of his way to expose phoney mediums which angered the spiritualist movement.
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