Harry Houdini is still considered one of the greatest illusionists and magicians in history. In addition to his fantastic escapes and stunts, he was also well known in the 1920s for his debunking of fraudulent Spiritualist mediums.
In this, modern information about Houdini tends to be skewed. Today many skeptic organizations have claimed Houdini as one of their own, but this is far from the truth. Unlike these groups, Houdini didn’t start out attacking fake mediums because he didn’t believe in the supernatural; in fact, he had gone to them in an attempt to contact his dead mother, but he found that the mediums he met were often frauds.
This was when he turned to exposing them, still searching for the truth. Before his death, Houdini stated that should it be possible to contact the living from the other side, he would do so.
The question remains as to whether or not he actually succeeded…
Read the entire (long but intriguing!) article at PrairieGhosts.com.