He’s the most famous magician to ever live, but few realize that Harry Houdini (1874–1926) began life as Ehrich Weiss, a ...

Considered one of the most influential people in the history of magic, Larsen turned a mansion in the heart of Hollywood into a global center for illusion and trickery in 1963, when he created The ...

Penn Jillette and Raymond Teller initially started off with Wier Chrisimer as a trio of magicians in 1975. Chrisimer, however, called it quits in the early 1980s reducing the group down to two, which ...

Magicians from the famous Magic Castle in Hollywood are popping out of the curtains of the private club to perform their tricks for the general public at the annual Millennium Magic festival. The ...

The Fox sisters, often credited as the founders of the Spiritualism movement, became famous after hearing knocking sounds in their house and eventually claiming the sounds were spirits communicating ...

Deception, disguise and finally a disappearance. This might sound like the premise of a magic trick, but it’s actually the story of a woman who managed to fool a male-only, world-famous magic society ...

A Harry Houdini poster from Dr. Timothy Moore's collection. Dr. Timothy Moore, a Columbus dentist, may have one of the largest magic collections in the country. It includes posters and props that ...

Tig Notaro, Whose Line is It Anyway, Jake Shimabukuro, Spiderman into the Spiderverse, and magicians Penn and Teller live in Whatcom County. Staff The Bellingham Herald file photo Bellingham’s beloved ...