Harry Houdini

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Bess Houdini

Houdini jumps from Harvard Bridge, 1908

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Houdini performing his water torture cell stunt

Karen:

The life and mysterious death of Harry Houdini

Episode sources:

1. “Harry Houdini, Master Mystifier” (Stuff You Missed in History Class podcast)

2.  “The Life and Magic of the Real Harry Houdini” (Timeline World History Documentaries)

3.  “EP26: Harry Houdini’s Campaign Against Spiritualism” (Rituals podcast)

4. “For Harry Houdini, Séances and Spiritualism Were Just an Illusion” by Bryan Greene (Smithsonian Magazine) 2021

5. “Harry Houdini (1874-1926)” (PBS/American Experience)

6.  “One final trick for Houdini: exhumation” (Associated Press) 2007

7.  “What Killed Harry Houdini?” by Evan Andrews (History) 2021

8. “10 Things You May Not Know About Harry Houdini” by Evan Andrews (History) 2008

9.  “HARRY HOUDINI VS. THE WITCH OF LIME STREET” by Christine Schiefer and Em Schultz (CrimeReads) 2022

10.  “Harry Houdini Dies After Operations; Magician, Conscious to Last, Loses Fight for Life in Detroit Hospital.” (New York Times) 1926

11.  “Mama's death and the birth of a myth” (Wild About Harry) 2013

12.  “The Davenport Brothers: The act that divided Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Houdini” by Heather Joinville (Readex) 2021

13.  “Winning Houdini's $10,000 Challenge” (Wild About Harry) 2013

14. “Mina Crandon a.k.a. Margery” (Wild About Houdini)

15.  “MARGERY' IS DEAD; NOTED AS MEDIUM; Widow of Dr. Le Roi Crandon of Boston Internationally Known for Seances” (New York Times) 1941

16.  “Was Houdini a chauvinist?” (Wild About Houdini) 2019

17.  “In 1926, Houdini Spent 4 Days Shaming Congress for Being in Thrall to Fortune-Tellers” (Atlas Obscura) 2016

18.  “What caused Harry Houdini’s mysterious death?” by Dr. Howard Markel (PBS) 2019

19.  “Who'd Want to Murder Harry Houdini?” by Jennifer Latson (Time Magazine) 2014

20. “Spiritualism” (Wikipedia page)

21. “Margery: Mina Stinson Crandon” by Michael Tymn, KM Wehrstein and Robert McLuhan (PSI Encyclopedia) 2022

22.  “Did Houdini Die from a Punch to the Stomach?” by David Mikkelson (Snopes) 2001

23.  “Margery Pamphlet” (PBS)

Georgia:

The puzzling story of Brandon Swanson's disappearance

Episode sources:

1. “Brandon Swanson” (International Missing Persons Wiki)

2.  “Hypothermia” (Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

3. “Missing Person Bulletin” (Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension)

4. “Missing Since 2008: Brandon Swanson” by Michelle Short (The Crime Wire)

5. “Rural roads of Minnesota remain last known location of 19-year-old Brandon Swanson” by Trisha Taurinskas (InForum)

6. “Swanson case still unsolved” by Jenny Kirk (The Marshall Independent)

7. “Teen drove into ditch, vanished as parents searched” by Alexis Weed (Nancy Grace’s Cold Cases, CNN)

8. “The Disappearance of Brandon Swanson” (Wikipedia)

9. “The Disappearance of Brandon Swanson” by Debbie Buck (The True Crime Files)

10.  “The Mysterious Disappearance Of Minnesota College Student Brandon Swanson” by Neil Patmore (All That’s Interesting)

11. “The Search for Brandon Swanson”

12. “ViCAP Alert–Missing Person Poster” (Federal Bureau of Investigation)

13. “Where is Brandon Swanson? Parts 1 and 2” (Morbid Podcast)

Brandon Swanson Missing Person poster (FBI)