Exhumation of Houdini sought

[snopes]

Eighty-one years after Houdini died on Halloween 1926, his great-nephew wants to exhume the magician's body to determine if enemies poisoned him for debunking their bogus claims of contact with the dead.

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/art...tion23-ON.html

[carter108]

I could see doing that just so people will stop talking about it. Just to put an end to the various rumors but would if affect the mystic of Houdini if it is learned that it was just really his appendix?

[Sylvanz]

The first thing I thought when I read the OP was, "Why, did they think he got out?"

Seriously though, I didn't know there was a conspiracy of any sort. All I had ever heard was his being punched and his appendix bursting.

P&LL, Syl

[Mouse]

What exactly will this accomplish given that everyone likely involved in his death is now dead? Are they going to dig up the guilty party's bones and put them on trial?

Mouse the "I have the same question about the Jack the Ripper conundrum." Louse

[Moon]

Originally Posted by Mouse

What exactly will this accomplish given that everyone likely involved in his death is now dead? Are they going to dig up the guilty party's bones and put them on trial?

Mouse the "I have the same question about the Jack the Ripper conundrum." Louse

Thank you. This is my thought exactly. Now I know what that tickle was, you inside my head.

He's dead, let's leave his remains alone.

[snopes]

his great-nephew wants to exhume the magician's body to determine if enemies poisoned him for debunking their bogus claims of contact with the dead.

I wonder if they're the same enemies who didn't poison Zachary Taylor.

- snopes

[DawnStorm]

Why don't we just try to contact Houdini and find out first hand?

[Ramblin' Dave]

We could always send Marty and Doc Brown back to either save Houdini or bring the killers to justice if there are any. Just go with whichever will wreak less havoc with the space-time continuum.

[White Canvas]

Originally Posted by Sylvanz

The first thing I thought when I read the OP was, "Why, did they think he got out?"

P&LL, Syl

Well, my evil little mind didn't think of this, so YOMANK!


White "still giggling" Canvas

[Lainie]

Originally Posted by snopes

I wonder if they're the same enemies who didn't poison Zachary Taylor.

- snopes

And Napoleon.

[Don Enrico]

Originally Posted by Sylvanz

The first thing I thought when I read the OP was, "Why, did they think he got out?"

P&LL, Syl

My first though was the headline "Eighty-one Years after Death: Houdini Escapes Grave!"

, too.

Don Enrico

[DawnStorm]

The authors of a Houdini bio may be behind all this.

[Floater]

Originally Posted by DawnStorm

The authors of a Houdini bio may be behind all this.

You mean that people can do this just to boost the sale of a book that nobody has heard of? Outrageous!

[Lainie]

Originally Posted by Floater

You mean that people can do this just to boost the sale of a book that nobody has heard of?

They can try. Whether they succeed or not is up to the court.

[Jonny T]

Originally Posted by Mouse

What exactly will this accomplish given that everyone likely involved in his death is now dead? Are they going to dig up the guilty party's bones and put them on trial?

eh, it's been tried before...