[QCWA] Harry Houdini and Halloween Radio

[Pete Kemp]

Legendary magician Harry Houdini has had a long association with Halloween.

The following link will take you to a very 
interesting article Houdini wrote for Popular 
Radio, October, 1922, pages 
100-107.  http://earlyradiohistory.us/1922hou.htm

The article is titled: Ghosts  that  Talk--by  Radio

An Exposé of Some of the "Spiritualistic 
Phenomena" Perpetrated by Fraudulent Mediums for 
Getting Money from Their Credulous Followers

By
HOUDINI

The author of this article is the president of 
the Society of American Magicians. All the 
members of that exclusive organization are 
pledged to keep inviolate the tricks of their 
profession--except when those tricks are used for 
dishonest purposes. Houdini (who in order to 
study "spiritualistic phenomena" once entered the 
ranks of the professional mediums himself) 
properly considers those mediums dishonest who 
claim that voices transmitted by confederates by 
low frequency induction or "inductive radio" are 
the voices from the dead. He is, accordingly, as 
a public duty, disclosing in this article how these tricks are performed.

In an odd way Harry Houdini was an "amateur radio operator."

73,
Pete, KZ1Z