STX Entertainment acquired the book about Harry Houdini's rivalry with spirit medium Margery Crandon. By Rebecca Ford STX Entertainment has acquired film rights to David Jaher’s book The Witch ...

Houdini’s longest and most publicized confrontation with a spirit medium began in 1924, when he took on a formidable Boston woman named Mina Crandon, known publicly as "Margery." The thirty-six ...

Ultimately the film leads to an epic showdown and otherworldly confrontation as the world renowned occult master Harry Houdini takes on the world’s greatest psychic Margery Crandon.” ...

Ultimately the film leads to an epic showdown and otherworldly confrontation as the world renowned occult master Harry Houdini takes on the world’s greatest psychic Margery Crandon.” ...

Medium Margery Crandon (left) undergoing one of Houdini's (right) tests during the Scientific American investigation Public domain via Wikimedia Commons After dismissing several contestants ...

STX Entertainment is developing a movie about the rivalry between Harry Houdini and psychic Margery Crandon, better known as “The Witch of Lime Street.” The studio has acquired motion picture ...

Another chapter came to light in the exoteric history of “Margery” (Mrs. L. R. G. Crandon), Boston medium. Having tried out (unsuccessfully) for the $2,500 prize of The Scientific American ...

But rather than being some spiritual substance, the so-called ectoplasm was usually gauze, muslin, chiffon or, in the case of Mina "Margery" Crandon, sheep's lung. Beraud was the first medium to ...