The crews put another three feet of dirt into the hole and then began covering that with three feet of cement. After he got that done, he wanted the locks back on and asked us to start burying him again,” Henderson said. “We gave him time to slip the chain from his neck. Burrus was staging the stunt as a benefit for the clinic. “He said the chain was too tight (around his neck) and was choking him,” said Sean Henderson, a resident of the Third Floor drug recovery clinic. You have 60 minutes to complete the seance and contact Harry Houdini.Wednesday night, wearing a white tuxedo, Burrus was handcuffed, wrapped in chains, locked inside the see-through coffin and then lowered into a seven-foot-deep hole.Ĭrews started pouring wet cement into the hole from a cement truck until Burrus knocked on the casket lid asking them to stop. Will you succeed in helping Bess to contact her beloved husband one last time or will Houdini rest in silence forever? You have come to her aid in an attempt to help her succeed before she puts out the lights on Harry’s shrine for good. Bess has decided that this will be her final attempt before she will give up on trying to contact Houdini forever. Ten years since the death of Harry Houdini. Unfortunately, each year has been met with the same result – failure to contact Harry. On the anniversary of his death every year since his passing, Bess has performed a seance at The Knickerbocker hotel in hopes of contacting Houdini. If she was successful, Harry was to reveal the phrase “Rosabel, Believe”, a reference to their favorite musical tune. Prior to his death, he and his beloved wife, Bess, had discussed her trying to contact him in the afterlife. Come join Harry & Bess as they transport you back to the 1920's.įamed illusionist Harry Houdini passed away on October 31, 1926.
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