![]() ![]() During tours, shows, and personal appearances to promote his films, Houdini projected visual presentations-PowerPoint before it was PowerPoint-breaking down how he believed mediums were using trickery disguised as mystic gifts. Houdini used his platform to publicly denounce Spiritualism. Doyle wrote that Houdini “was a very conceited and self-opinionated man.” Houdini retaliated by writing, “Doyle is a bit senile and easily bamboozled.” A feud developed between the two celebrities. Houdini replied to the press that Spiritualism was a sham and its practitioners were fraudsters. ![]() Perhaps Houdini’s mother learned English in Heaven? The Doyles walked away feeling that Houdini was deeply moved by the experience-publicly proclaiming that Houdini was a Spiritualist believer. Lastly, the séance was held on her birthday, which never came up…ĭoyle became defensive, explaining that the rules of our earthly world do not apply on the other side. She also managed to say “Merry Christmas.” Cecilia was the wife of a rabbi and devoutly Jewish-this simply did not make sense. Additionally, at the top of each page was a cross. His mother could not write English, let alone speak it from the other side. ![]() One read, “Thank God! At last, I’m through!” But Houdini wasn’t buying it. In the séance, Jean delivered pages upon pages of hand-written messages from Cecilia. Houdini accepted and one Sunday afternoon in June, met Doyle and his wife Jean, a self-proclaimed medium, at the Ambassador Hotel in Atlantic City. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Photography Collection via In 1922, Doyle suggested Houdini join him in trying to contact his mother, Cecilia. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini in America, 1923. ![]()
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