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 ...

He was the most famous magician of the 20th century. Yet Harry Houdini’s peers were often scathing about him. His tricks were “awful stuff” and “a bunch of junk”, they sniffed. “Watching him play the ...

Growing up, Katrina Kroetch didn’t know girls could be magicians. She watched David Copperfield and Criss Angel but never saw a woman in a magic show except as an assistant. When she was 18, she was a ...

The Amazing Kreskin has died. The famous magician who dazzled audiences with his mind-reading skills died yesterday in an assisted-living facility in Wayne, New Jersey. He was 89. NPR's Chloe Veltman ...

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 ...

Louisville's best-known magician Lance Burton reappears this week in the city where he learned magic as he takes part in Louisville's International Festival of Film. Fans of the master magician won't ...

THANK YOU FOR THAT REPORT. THE OMAHA MAGICAL SOCIETY IS BRINGING A HISTORICAL HOUSE BACK TO LIFE, AND IT’S ALL THANKS TO A RATHER FAMOUS MAGICIAN. THE SOCIETY HAS BEEN WORKING TO PRESERVE AND PROMOTE ...