

Houdini did not have time to prepare himself for the attack, as he was lying on a couch at that moment.The performer known worldwide as Harry Houdini was born on Main Budapest. According to the other students who were in the room that night, Whitehead dealt several excessively heavy blows to Houdini’s abdomen. The lecture was about fraudulent spiritualists and the tricks they use. The students met Houdini after a lecture given by him at the McGill union. Although there were three students in Houdini’s dressing room that night, the main suspect was Whitehead. Immediately after the illusionist’s death, people began suspecting that he was murdered.


Nine days before Houdini’s death, he challenged Houdini to withstand several punches to his abdomen, knowing that this was a trick that Houdini often performed. Whitehead was a student at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and his connection with the illusionist is unknown. The cause of this is quite unknown, but suspicion fell upon Jocelyn Gordon Whitehead. Still widely known for being the fittest man alive, who could definitely take a few punches, officially, Houdini died from an abdominal infection called peritonitis, caused by a ruptured appendix.

The legendary Harry Houdini died in rather mysterious circumstances on Halloween, in 1926. Mystery of a Legendary Magician Harry Houdini’s Death In 1926, he remained locked in a casket, underwater, for 90 minutes, claiming that the secret was not any God-given gift, but only controlled breathing. After being locked in a sealed casket for 60 minutes, the Egyptian performer claimed that he had used supernatural powers to survive, but Houdini did not buy it. Presenting himself as the scourge of fake spiritualists, Houdini once performed the buried alive stunt with the objective to expose Rahman Bey. While trying to dig his way up, the weight of the earth, which he described as “killing”, made him panic and, by the time his hand reached the surface, he fell unconscious and had to be pulled out by his assistants. The first time he performed this stunt was in 1915 when he was buried in six feet deep pit, without even a casket. Risking his life many times, Houdini managed to pull off incredible acts, such as being buried alive. He also worked for a circus as “The Wild Man” and only after did he start experimenting with escape acts. He started with traditional card tricks, and for a while, he was calling himself“King of Cards”. At first, Houdini’s magic career was not very successful.
