Dead Famous

Searching for the ghost of Harry Houdini has become something of a national pastime in the United States with an annual sance at which, for 78 years, he has failed to make an appearance. So Gail and Chris have their work cut out to track down the ghost of the world's most famous escapologist. Will the great man get away from them, too? Their search takes them from the Eastern State Penitentiary, the blueprint for modern escape-proof prisons, where the man known as The Jailbreak King might still be tampering with the locks, to the 103-ghost Palace Theatre on Broadway where Houdini performed in the vaudeville era, to the Houdini Museum in Scranton, and Coney Island, where Houdini met his wife, performed, and took an interest in the freak shows. But could the man no jail could hold be captured by our cameras?