When vaudeville impresario Martin Beck "discovered" a struggling Harry Houdini in 1899, it was Houdini's ability to escape from handcuffs which caught his attention. Although Houdini was hardly the ...

Then there are escape artists like Alexanderia Purnell, who have to possess a number of skills to do what they do. Unlike magic, what she does is neither a trick nor an optical illusion. It's real — ...

Victoria Roze’s favorite stunt is watching her husband hanging upside down 1,000 feet in the air from a burning rope wearing a straitjacket “Trying to get out before the rope burns and he comes ...