![]() ![]() “I’m not a traditional trance medium, but have had great results, using sweet grass and prayer to open doorways,” he says. The line to the Other Side remained dead. In 2001, I had the honor of sitting at the séance table in Milwaukee, the first journalist to do so. He had them modified so only he would know how to unlock them. The handcuffs Houdini said he would open from the afterlife. ![]() It’s a privilege to be asked to be part of the séance.” “I like to have no preconceived information but to begin all endeavors with spirit dialogs from Ground Zero status. “I don’t know much about Houdini any more than the casual observer interested in magicians,” he says. He claims to have spoken with victims of the Titanic disaster buried in Halifax’s Fairview Cemetery. The medium charged with getting through to Houdini is Alan Hatfield of Pictou Landing First Nation.Ī former truck driver, Hatfield has been a professional psychic since 1988 and has helped on several missing persons inquiries. Guests this year include escape artist Lucas Wilson, holder of three Guinness World Records, and the daughter of Jacques Price, one of the three men in the dressing room when Houdini received the fateful punches to his stomach. Some proceeds will go to the “Feed Nova Scotia” initiative, a province-wide food bank. The séance will feature performances by local magicians. Houdini played Nova Scotia and toured the Canadian Maritimes in 1896. This year’s séance will be held at the Halifax Citadel National Historic Site. He hasn’t spoken to anyone for 87 years – since he died.Įvery Halloween, Harry Houdini fans try to prize a few words out of the world’s greatest escapologist.īefore he died, Houdini promised to send a message back from the Other Side.Īfter his death in Detroit on October 31, 1926, his wife, Bess, inaugurated the official Houdini séance. ![]()
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