Harry Houdini Seances & Other Honored Halloween Traditions | This Is Halloween | Travel Channel

Halloween is a time to dwell out our wildest fantasies, top off on sweets, and take pleasure in scary actions; a kind of being seances. Famous magician Harry Houdini made a pact along with his spouse, Bess, that if he died first, he would attempt to talk together with her from the afterlife utilizing a secret code. After his loss of life on Halloween, Bess held annual séances for 10 years however by no means obtained the code. Although she finally gave up, the custom of holding séances to contact Houdini continues every Halloween, honoring his legacy of magic and skepticism. Other cherished Halloween traditions like pumpkin carving and bobbing for apples even have religious roots that ship a chill down the backbone.

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