The ghost-busting duo: Harry Houdini and Rose Mackenberg's crusade against fake psychics and spiritualists

Harry Houdini is famous today as an escape artist, but his real passion in the 1920s was ghost busting. Or, rather, busting phony psychics who claimed to communicate with the dead. Spiritualism was extremely popular after the horrors of World War I, but Houdini, who had worked as a mentalist in his early years, was on to the tricks of the trade. — Read the rest
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