Harry Houdini children: Did Harry Houdini have kids?

American escape artist, and magic man, Harry Houdini was born in Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary to a Jewish family.

Houdini first attracted notice in vaudeville in the United States and then as “Harry ‘Handcuff’ Houdini” on a tour of Europe, where he challenged police forces to keep him locked up.

Harry Houdini’s children: Did Harry Houdini have kids?

Houdini and his wife, Bess, had no children. Houdini’s brother, Theodore Hardeen, who returned to performing after Houdini’s death, inherited his brother’s effects and props. Houdini’s will stipulated that all the effects should be “burned and destroyed” upon Hardeen’s death.

Houdini’s training in magic allowed him to expose frauds who had successfully fooled many scientists and academics. He was a member of a Scientific American committee that offered a cash prize to any medium whthatould successfully demonstrate supernatural abilities.

None were able to do so, and the prize was never collected. The first to be tested was medium George Valiantine of Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. As his fame as a “medium-buster” grew, Houdini took to attending séances in disguise, accompanied by a reporter and a police officer. Possibly the most famous medium who he debunked was Mina Crandon, also known as “Margery”

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