
363 - Landed In Marshmallows
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
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The Death of Harry Houdini
There was a huge resurgence in spiritualism, which is often called the pseudo religious movement. It got very popular at that time because so many people were reeling from the mass death of World War I. Harry Houdini detests mediums as con artists who are capitalizing on people's trauma. At the height of his fame, he devotes his free time to exposing her as a fraud. But in the end, Marjorie arguably has the last laugh because in 1926, she claims that during a seance, she's learned some terrible news thatHarry Houdini will be gone by November.
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