Earlier this month, Lucas Wilson of Port Dover, Ontario, Canada achieved a new Guinness World Record for the fastest escape from a straitjacket and chains while hanging upside down. Performing at the ...

Magicians gathered in Appleton to perform dangerous escapes, honoring Harry Houdini on the centennial anniversary of his ...

Criss Angel is opening up about that scary stunt. The 49-year-old magician spoke out on Monday after recovering from a scary incident at Friday night's Mindfreak Live! performance. During the show, ...

African American magician and escape artist Houdini II will perform at the Society of American Magicians Convention in Appleton, Wisconsin, on Thursday, July 2, 2026, in a history-making live escape ...

Like Harry Houdini, I'm performing my straitjacket escape without a curtain. (He found that audiences preferred watching him struggle.) Unlike Harry Houdini, I'm not escaping (although I'm doing fine ...

For a certain brand of magician, cheating death is part of the job. As we learned from David Blaine nearly killing himself with a bullet in a feat gone awry, death isn’t always happy to take a clean L ...

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Even though he’s been performing for three decades, Curt Anderson will dangle from new heights on Wednesday night at the West Alabama State Fair and Expo. The Tuscaloosa magician calls Hanging By a ...

Oroville >> Necks craned and people held their breath Saturday as 13-year-old Victor Kent Jr. wriggled in a straitjacket, suspended upside-down, several stories in the air near the Feather River in ...