Magician Lee Terbosic will recreate Harry Houdini's suspended straightjacket escape on the 100th anniversary of the original act on Nov. 6, 2016, in downtown Pittsburgh. (Courtesy of Lee Terbosic) ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- Canadian magician Zack Mirza pulled off (literally) the classic, death-defying Houdini upside-down straight jacket escape while dangling from a 100 foot crane over Justin ...

Harry Houdini, who died on Halloween of 1926, will be celebrated by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! on October 31st. At 1:26 p.m. (the exact moment Houdini died 86 years ago) sideshow performer Albert ...

-- Sunday attendees at the 43rd Annual National Shrimp Festival were treated to some old-school street entertainment, as street performer Nicktorious performed a Harry Houdini-esque escape from a ...

WEBVTT HEIGHTS. >> WATCH THE X. I'M GOING TO TRY TO GRAB THE X ON MY HANDS. I'M GOING TO PULL IT O. [LAUGHTER] MIKE C: THEY SAY IMITATION IS THE INCH SEARESS FORM OF FLATTERY. HE IS FROM PITTSBURGH, ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA/CNN Newsource) - A man wants to replicate one of Harry Houdini's most famous stunts. Magician Lee Terbosic, of Pittsburgh, plans to hang upside down 50 feet above the street and ...

SPOKANE, Wash. -- Illusionist Jay Owenhouse's attempt to break a decades-old escape record held by the legendary Harry Houdini fell just short Saturday. Houdini died 87 years ago, but still holds the ...

When vaudeville impresario Martin Beck "discovered" a struggling Harry Houdini in 1899, it was Houdini's ability to escape from handcuffs which caught his attention. Although Houdini was hardly the ...

HUNTINGTON BEACH A mid-afternoon event dubbed Houdini’s Great Escape in downtown Huntington Beach became something of a disappearing act instead. Through a miscommunication, when street performer John ...