As Harry Houdini, the Budapest born American by adoption stunt performer who is best remembered for his sensational escape acts, lay dying in November 1926, he made a deathbed pact with his wife Bess. He told Bess that he would try to reach her from the other world. For ten years, Bess kept a candle burning below Harry's picture in their home. Each year on the anniversary of his death, Bess gathered in some friends and held a séance hoping she would hear from her late husband. Needless to say, she never once heard a word from him. In 1936, she snuffed out the candle and declared, "That's it! Death is the end. There is nothing more. I now know that for sure because my Harry didn't speak."

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