Before Houdini died he made a pact with his wife, Bess, to try to contact her from the dead, and she vowed to do the same if she passed from this world before him.
They had a secret code to use to prove the contact was legitimate, so no fakes could claim he or she had been contacted from the dead.
Houdini died on Halloween October 31st, 1926 at 1:26 pm, and Bess held seances every Halloween for ten years seeking contact with him.
But Houdini, the man who seemed like he could break out of anything in this life, was never able to break out of the afterlife to contact her.
This has always puzzled me. Reportedly, others have had contact with deceased people from the other side. And I don’t mean mediums or psychics. I mean regular people like you and me.
A woman I worked with for years, who was stable and trustworthy, said after her mother died she was cleaning her mother’s house when her mother’s perfume flooded the air all around her.
Unfortunately, the otherworldly encounter frightened her and she ran out of the house.
And scents are often a way those that have passed on make contact with the living.
Twice I’ve seen dead people in dreams, and as I believe sometimes dreams are more than dreams, I believe these contacts were 100% legitimate.
Here’s what I also believe: Empathy can be like a magnet to the deceased.
My point in sharing these accounts is many people have experienced ADC’s, After Death Contacts, often in dreams, which makes me wonder why Houdini who seemed like he could escape out of anything in life was never able to break out of death for even a moment to greet his wife and fulfill their pact they made before he died.
I will go to my death still puzzled by that.
Bob Boyd
