He did not focus so much on ghosts and séances as on the apparitions of elves and nature beings. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator, and writer of the most famous detective of all time, was almost obsessed with occultism. Houdini was not alone in his penchant for the occult. And with his own experiences under his belt, he turned out to be one of the best researchers at exposing occult impostors. But at the same time, he wanted to purify the spiritualism movement of all charlatans. He was convinced that the living could gain access to the realm of the dead.
He considered real mediums very important. But at the same time, the occult continued to have a great attraction to Harry. While he achieved world fame as an escape artist, he left occult shows behind. Harry and Theo belonged to the latter category but had decided for their own séance show to understand all the tricks so well that they could not be caught. It caused a boom in new mediums but also an avalanche of charlatans. In the late 1800s, spiritualism was a hot item in the United States. Together with his brother, he had already organized a show where they supposedly fell into a trance as mediums and passed on messages from the dead. One of the things that always kept pulling Harry Houdini was the occult. Ehrich also decided to change his first name and from that moment on he made world fame as Harry Houdini. In a very short time, Beatrice took Theo’s place on the traveling show.
New Yorkers came to know them as the Houdini Brothers.ġ894 marked the end of their collaboration. They bound each other with heavy handcuffs and chains and escaped from boxes and cages on wheels. They had found they could attract larger crowds if they focused on impossible escapes. It was spring in the year 1894 when Ehrich and Theodore, two sons of an immigrant Hungarian rabbi, performed magic tricks in New York.
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