Where is houdinis grave

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A magic place and a place of magic. The numerous cemeteries grouped near Queens, New York, occupy an area so vast that it is said to be visible from outer space. Among them is the small Jewish Machpelah Cemetery, the final resting place of the great escape artist Houdini and his family.

Thousands come here every year to pay their respects to the master, many of them magicians or aspiring magicians, who leave not flowers near his grave, but playing cards. A statue of his grief-stricken widow Wilhelmina is sprawled at the foot of his headstone; a handsome white marble bust of the master, wearing a dapper bow tie, gazes down at the graves of his family, including Wilhelmina. It is an enchanting, dare I say magic, place, although it must be spooky at night, particularly on Halloween, the anniversary of his death.

Houdini seems to have planned even the timing of his departure from the world meticulously. And, yes, you do wonder if he is buried here at all, having stage-managed his final escape to another cemetery. You may wonder what took me to Machpelah, which is some way off the usual New York tourist trail.

It was an experience like no other. Machpelah is located at Cypress Hills Street, Ridgewood, which sounds easy to find. But Cypress Hills is a long dual carriageway surrounded by cemeteries, with no numbering and nothing to indicate the entrance to Machpelah.

If magic is your thing, take a couple of playing cards and leave them there. Read more. Last greatest act of Houdini aka Weiss. I'm by no way a magician aficionado but always been fascinated that Houdini could be a world known magician, a celebrity superstar before the world knew of TV and dare I say of social media. A dual carriageway surrounded by cemeteries, with no numbering and nothing to indicate the entrance to Machpelah.

It's worth the effort. On October 31, , the great Houdini performed his very last vanishing act. But before he went, the skeptic promised his wife that if the dead could communicate with the living—a feat he didn't believe was possible, and one he worked to debunk—he would find his way back to her, and they established a coded message that would prove it. Though she held seances annually on the anniversary of his death for 10 years, Bess Houdini never heard the code word.

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