We went back to read Houdini’s A Magician Among the Spirits and finally understood some of the passion we previously misinterpreted to be a strident, arrogant tone.
Read in context with the Spiritualism movement, Houdni’s A Magician Among the Spirits is the perfect, logical balance to the incredible claims of spiritualists.
While she later recanted her recantation, it is a sombering experience to hear the side of the woman (along with her younger sister, Katie, and older sister, Leah) started Spiritualism and all that it produced.
We know that the Jonathan Edward-esque medium has a tepid following. We thought he was an aberration.
We just assumed there was not a wide-spread support for such bunk.
We were wrong and it is kind of scary how the revisionist pen can keep alive long ago solved mysteries.
The we read of a new literary exhibition: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Beyond Sherlock Holmes, opens this weekend at Chicago’s prestigious Newberry Library.
Sir Arthur’s magazines, artworks, photographs and artifacts have been collected for presentation through July 12.
“Renowned magician and escapologist Franky Houdini” has been charged with 19 counts of “sexual offences against teenage girls” The Queensland Times reports
The magistrate court took evidence related to Mr. Houdini’s alleged indecent actions involving a 15-year-old.
Mr. Houdini is 35-years-old.
According to the Queensland Times, Mr. Houdini was previously charged with another 19 charges including: “12 of indecent treatment of a child under 16, two of carnal knowledge and one each of possessing child pornography, making child pornography, procuring a child for sexual acts by false pretence and common assault.”
Mr. Houdini will face these other charges in a separate trial.
Several news outlets are reporting the very disturbing news of Johnathan Pendragon’s arrest yesterday. The performer’s real name is Claude Douglas Yarbrough.
Charlotte Pendragon called 9-1-1 around 10:30 yesterday morning during an argument with Johnathan. Ms. Pendragon told the operator “her husband fired a bullet into the floor during an argument.”
The dispatcher instructed Ms. Pendragon to leave the home to avoid an armed confrontation.
Sheriff’s deputies arrested Mr. Pendragon at gun-point in the street outside his home. Mr. Pendragon was not armed at the time of the arrest.
Ms. Pendragon was not injured.
According to the Sheriff’s spokesperson, Mr. Pendragon complied immediately with the deputies’ orders and the arrest was conducted without incident.
This has become a passion and a time-suck all in one.
(Reprinted from April 12, 2003).
We received email word that German Magician Thorsten 
Several news outlets are reporting the very disturbing news of Johnathan Pendragon’s arrest yesterday. The performer’s real name is Claude 
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