If being buried alive is your biggest fear, you might want to stop reading now.
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In 1915, Harry Houdini performed a trick in Santa Ana, California, that saw him buried beneath six feet of earth. It didn’t exactly go off without a hitch, however: He clawed his way out—but it nearly killed him.
Stunt expert Steve Wolf considers the buried alive illusion Houdini’s most daring trick. Wolf is one of the stars of the new Science Channel show Houdini’s Last Secrets, alongside Houdini’s grand-nephew George Hardeen and magician Lee Terbosic. In each episode, the trio explores how the notoriously secretive Houdini may have performed his most famous tricks, as well as some of the many mysteries of his life—including whether the magician may have served as a spy, and whether his sad death on Halloween in 1926 was truly an accident.
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