MarshallThursday, November 5
Houdini skips his 100th anniversary séance at Marshall's American Museum of Magic
The Daily Battle Creek team
If you're wondering whether Houdini showed up, he didn't. The American Museum of Magic in Marshall held a séance to reach him 100 years after his death, and no manifestation came.
Houdini's last days led to a Marshall séance 100 years later
- 1926Houdini takes a punch to the gut after a show in Montreal.
- Oct. 1926Houdini dies at Grace Hospital in Detroit.
- Oct. 31The museum holds its séance for a sold-out group of ticket holders.
FOX 17 reported ahead of the event that magician Phillip Haggerty would lead it. The museum's John Sherwood joked that Houdini's "greatest feat of publicity was dying on Halloween." He also said: "He was a skeptic, and I'm afraid so are we, but we want to take that scientific approach and give Houdini every possible chance to amaze us one more time."
- Leader: magician Phillip Haggerty
- Crowd: a sold-out group of ticket holders
- Where Houdini died: Grace Hospital in Detroit
- Cause: a ruptured appendix, after a punch in Montreal
100years since Houdini's death, marked by the Marshall séance
Every Halloween since 1926, people have held séances to try to reach him.
Source: FOX 17 West Michigan News (WXMI)