Episode 125 - He Promised His Wife He'd Come Back From the Dead: She Waited 10 Years
Harry Houdini died on Halloween 1926, and he promised his wife that if the dead could talk, he'd find a way to reach her. A hundred years later, people are still holding séances waiting for him to show up. Pete and Amanda use the Houdini centennial to dig into a bigger question: why do we want so badly to believe in things we can't explain? We get into the man who escaped everything except death, the creator of Sherlock Holmes who believed in fairies and ghosts, the Boston medium who nearly won a Scientific American prize, and the psychology that makes your own brain the magician's best…
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