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SYMHC Classics: Harry Houdini, Master Mystifier

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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The Stuff They Don't Want You to Know Podcast

He did a mannequin jump from harvard bridge in boston In paris he jumped handcuffed from the roof of the morgue into the sun. He also jumps off queens bridge in australia is one of the best ones so gross It's over kind of a nasty muddy river and when he came up from his jump There were two figures and the crowd is sitting there looking at it Is that part of the trick? Exactly, but it was a corpse that he dislodged from the river mud And he described that water is not particularly toothsome No, and he makes a challenge to his fans of a thousand dollars for a device that would hold him Which even continues to further his

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