Time Trippers The Nights of the Round Table

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I sat with Harry Houdini’s ‘magic wand’ in my hand and my two grandchildren at my side in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia. We were about to embark on the most amazing journey ever. The outcome of the Second World War and the undying fame of one of the greatest baseball players of all time were briefly in our hands, but we didn’t know it yet…

“Where are we?” Jonathan asked sleepily.

“The question is not where,” I answered as I got my bearings, “but when?!”

Fragments of the Diary of Hans Georg Prohmann, one of Houdini’s workshop assistants translated into English. I discovered these curious entries after our trip. Coincidence?

The Workshop, 278 West 113th Street NY, NY Aug. 7, 1926:

Wondrous event! Houdini has apparently conquered Time itself!

He had been working on actual dematerialization to escape from the bronze coffin he used in the underwater challenge recently. I myself, his most trusted assistant, witnessed this escape!

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