I am Houdini, The greatest magician and escape artist who ever lived. I was a sleight-of-hand expert, and called myself the King of Cards. I made an elephant disappear on the stage of New York’s famous Hippodrome theater. I walked through walls. I escaped upside down from straightjackets 10 stories above the city. I challenged workmen in every city in which I performed to devise something from which I could not escape. They were never successful! I loved my mother, and challenged spirit mediums!