For years , every sentence we so much as match a toe out of country , I ’ve put cemeteries on our travel path . From garden - alike cemeteries to boot hills , whether they ’re the final resting position of the well - known but not that important or the important but not that well - get laid , I sleep with them all . After realizing that there are a pot of taphophiles ( cemetery and/or tombstone partisan ) out there , I ’m last couch my photo depository library of interesting headstone to upright use .
OK , I ’m cheating a little second for today ’s Grave Sightings . I have n’t actually chatter this grave , but it ’s too timely to let this one pass .
Ehrich Weiss , well screw to most as world - famous illusionist Harry Houdini , give way on October 31 , 1926 . On October 22 , Houdini was in his fertilization way at a theatre of operations in Montreal when a few college kids throw off in . One of them mentioned that he had heard that one of the great enigma of Houdini was his Fe stomach — that no slug could harm him . Though he had broken his ankle a few days earlier and was really in no shape to hold a lacing , Houdini , perhaps eager to perpetuate the aura of intrigue fence in his theatrical role , gibe to let one of the educatee deport a few blows to his gut .
The scholarly person certainly did n’t go easy on the 52 - year - previous Erik Weisz , and the penalize slug may have been the illusionist ’s undoing . After his show that dark , Houdini was in such pain that he needed aid undressing . By October 24 , his temperature was up to 104 degrees Fahrenheit ; he collapsed in the middle of a show . After recovering and powering through the performance , he lead out again shortly thereafter . Houdini was finally admitted to a infirmary the next day , where physician diagnose appendicitis . When they get at bottom , surgeons discovered that the appendix had already snap , resulting in what would end up being a fatal slip of peritoneal inflammation . Whether the ruptured appendix was stimulate by the punches or had already been festering is something that ’s still argue to this day .
On October 31 , 1926 , the great Houdini perform his very last fell act . But before he went , the sceptic predict his married woman that if the dead could pass on with the living — a exploit he did n’t believe was potential , and one he make 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 demise for 10 years , Bess Houdini never find out the code password . Sadly , the two were n’t reunited in decease — at least not on world . Though Erik Weisz ’s grave can be found at Machpelah Cemetery in Queens , N.Y. , the marker there brook Bess ’ name is just a cenotaph . Because she was put up Catholic and Machpelah is a Judaic cemetery , her remains residuum at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne , N.Y.
See all entries in our Grave Sightings serieshere .
