In 1911, Harry Houdini was manacled and slipped inside the carcass of a "sea monster" that had washed up on a beach on Cape Cod. The unidentified corpse was then sewn shut corset-style with metal eyelets that had been affixed, and chain was wrapped around it. Houdini escaped, although the fumes of the rotting beast mixed with arsenic (which was
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