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Harry Houdini's Body To Be Exhumed, To See if He Was Murded
guardian.co.uk — For all of his death-defying stunts, Harry Houdini couldn't escape the Grim Reaper: the unparalleled performer, age 52, expired on Halloween 1926. Many of his trade secrets went with him to the grave - but rumors that Houdini was murdered soon took on a life of their own.
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- mortigon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+91It'd be kinda freaky if his body wasn't there when they dig him up...
- StellarlyAstral, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32Like a post realization of one of his most anticipated stunts?
- FTLJohnson, on 10/12/2007, -14/+5No, it'd be freakier if when they went to dig him up, if he was not only 6 feet underground, but wrapped in a straitjacket, locked with chains, and in a box upside down, in water... Yup... That would be much freakier.
1. It'd mean that was the one he didn't get away from....
2. It'd mean that by now the "water" would actually be soup. - thehuntedpossum, on 10/12/2007, -5/+22its kinda freaky if he really was "murded". i don't even know what that means...
- lincr3, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1hes gonna say "Voila!" then disappear
- havokzero, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2Naw... it would be WAY more freaky if they found his maggot-infested corpse in a subway station with a saw stuck in his rotting neck.... and a creepy little tricycle sitting next to him...
- jobenly, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It would be freakier if is casket actually turned out to be a hidden portal into John Malkovich's brain.
And Malkovich has really been the future vessel for a reincarnated Houdini this entire time! - terranaut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6And even freakier if after they open the casket to find it empty, they turn around to find him standing behind them.
- floorman56, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3With a note " Nothing can hold me"
- PopcornDave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It'd be even freakier if they open the casket and Janet Leigh or Tony Curtis were in there. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045886/)
- macmcrae, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Talk about "out of the box marketing". Jeesh - people will do anything for a little money.
- Toon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+45I say he's not actually dead. He made the "er" in the title disappear.
- brihar73, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3...and added another "g" in "dig" before that.
- rickbauls, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Ha, I didn't even notice it. Murded.
- roflroflomg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0lmao
- tomfraser2LOL, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1lmfao
- mindsnare, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22Murded eh?
- Phyltre, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23I hear it's quite painful, and often lethal.
- infimprob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11It comes from the Latin for the murdering of a magician by jealous and homicidal compatriots.
- SwissCamel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16I don't know about any of this poisoning business, but when my great-grandfather nailed him with that punch in the stomach, man that was funny!
- inarguable, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Give Great-Grandad some props for that blow, though Houdini was asking for it. That is what you get when you walk around telling people "Go ahead, hit me as hard as you can in the stomach". Eventually, someone ain't gonna wait for you to tense those abs up and ask them to crack you one, and are just gonna sucker-punch your ass and implode your appendix.
- thehuntedpossum, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8was that supposed to be some sort of bragging, cause your great-grandfather might have made one of the dickest moves in history with that punch.
- VaporBro, on 10/26/2007, -0/+8My great grandfather can beat up your great grandfather. Bitch.
- illegalcortex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Mandelbaum! Mandelbaum!
- roflroflomg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Oh yea! my great-grandfather punched him too!!! wtf?
- inarguable, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Give Great-Grandad some props for that blow, though Houdini was asking for it. That is what you get when you walk around telling people "Go ahead, hit me as hard as you can in the stomach". Eventually, someone ain't gonna wait for you to tense those abs up and ask them to crack you one, and are just gonna sucker-punch your ass and implode your appendix.
- x788, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5i heard about this today, somebody told me that it was a heart attack that occured due to an unexpected punch that killed him. however, i'm all for exhuming his body to actually figure out what happened.
edit: apparently beaten to it by inarguable. - Procure, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Whether or not he got murdered, the fact is that he is still dead either way.
- Octanum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4But they might be able to catch his murderer from 1926.
:P - 1qazxsw2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Shouldn't that read , "...his murder...?"
He was apparently murded therefore the person who committed the act of murd would be his murder?
- Octanum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4But they might be able to catch his murderer from 1926.
- luckyink, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Oh the irony that this is on a site called Digg...
- reckless8594, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that's coincidence.
It's still pretty funny.
- reckless8594, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that's coincidence.
- cyks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17First to say to leave his body be?
- KnytFyre, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I concure with you. It's more than 80 years since it happened, there is no one left to bring to justice, let the man lie in peace.
- roflroflomg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I know, but it would be interesting to see what the hell actually happened to him...
- lowfalls, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Everybody knows that Harry Houdini was resurrected on the third day and ascended to Heaven...
- mrgeekguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Micheal Jackson and David Copperfield are totally going to get into a bidding war for them bones!!
- rwren, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1GOD let this end up on you tube!
- neio, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I find it strange that people have this fascination with somebody who's been dead for such a long time, its like the Russian obsession with Lenin all over again.
- Rizmaster, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1MURDED! My GOD!
- rickbauls, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Digg Houdini up!
- noah45, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4So if they find his silver tongue that proves he really was a murderous pirate?
- Majorkerina, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Seems rather anecdotal at this point.
- Cornedbeef, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0If Houdini was poisoned the person who killed him died also. I don't see what his great nephew has to gain by exhuming the body.
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Maybe John Edward can summon up the spirit of Houdini and we can get the story straight.
- Jergens, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I don't get it. Was he kiled? Or was he manslaughtd?
- Jergens, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Was he kiled? Or was he manslaughtd?
- p51d007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What difference does it make? He's still dead, and, if he "was" murdered, the person(s) who did it are
also dead? What are they going to do? Arrest his decedents? That's like having the decedents of
(insert your favorite cause, person) sue for something that happened 200 years ago. Geez!
Let the poor man rest in peace.- salinemist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reparations_for_slavery
- ShaunOlsen, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Hey guys, did anyone noticed the typo in the title? "Murded"? Anyone?
- Firemanjoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Let the man rest! I seriously don't believe that he was murdered!
- kw69, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Murded. Kild. Poisnd. What's the difference?
- bnitro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i can see it now "this halloween hes.....baaaaaaack Houdini is back and hes got some new magic tricks to show you...mwahahah.....mwahahah.....mwahahhahaha"
- RainKing101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1He was actually punched. A punched that caused internal damage which led to his death, that is the true story. He used to do a trick on stage where he invited audience members, the stronger the better, to punch him in the stomach as hard as they could. He took all of them standing and without a flinch. Until a body builder recognized him on the street. Without giving the magician time to prepare the muscular monster walked up to him and delivered (what would be) a fatal punch...
Sometimes the truth isn't so elaborate.- bitORlogic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Until a body builder recognized him on the street ..."
Please cease posting until you learn something about what you wish to talk about. I highly recommend the new biography, "The Secret Life of Houdini".
It is by no means certain that Houdini was murdered, but it's also not so bizarre an idea when you realize how it happened and the context in which it happened.
- bitORlogic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Until a body builder recognized him on the street ..."
- pennvneff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yes sometimes the truth isn't so elaborate. Also it helps if you actually read the article, because you would have read there was no autopsy performed. So there's no way you or I can know for sure that's what killed him.
- skatterbrainz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1You're all wrong. He's living in south Jersey with Elvis.
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