Hans Holzer - Ghosts of the Golden West: The Hans Holzer Digital Collection

By Hans Holzer

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Born: January 26, 1920,Vienna, Austria

Died: April 26, 2009, New York City, NY

1920: An Austrian-Born Ghost Hunterwas in the making. Professor Dr. Hans Holzer, best known for hisplethora of hundreds of cases worldwide dealing with the paranormaland the occult, deeming him The Father of the Paranormal. In 1935,at the age of fifteen, Hans became an avid collector of antiquesand coins and was an ardent bibliophile.

The 1928 book, Occultism in This ModernAge by Dr. T.K. Oesterreich, a professor at the University ofTubingen in Germany, began Hans' interest in ghosts. His was anidle curiosity, mixed with a show-me kind of skepticism. He took acourse in journalism and began selling articles to local papers. In1949, he returned to Europe as an accredited foreign correspondent,with the intent to write articles on cultural activities, thetheater, and human interest stories. He also began to compose musicand write scores in New York, which later led the way to OffBroadway success in Manhattan.

One year later, Hans returned to Europevisiting many cities including London, and was invited backstage atThe Hippodrome Theater where comedian Michael Bentine, wasappearing. After Mr. Bentine offered Hans a home-grown tomatoinstead of a drink, the two hit off, as Hans was a vegan.

Through mutual friends back in Manhattan, hebegan work on a television series based on actual hauntings. He metregularly with others at the Edgar Cayce Foundation in New York.The purpose was to enter into a quest for truth in the vast realmof extrasensory perception.

From then on, he devoted more and more timeto the field. One of the great mediums, Eileen Garret, president ofthe Parapsychology Foundation in New York, in 1946, worked withHans and encouraged him to write about his work.

1963, his first book was born, titled, 'GhostHunter' and went into an unheard of eleven printings. 145 morebooks would follow. Hans stated that sometimes an "ordinary" persondoes manage to see or hear a ghost in an allegedly hauntedlocation, be it a building or even an open space. Such a personcould be sensitive or mediumistic, without knowing it and is lessunusual then one might think. The Holzer Method was born before the1950's, where combining the work of those with sight and that ofthe academic and science stance to the field, would yield farbetter results in obtaining data to help us further understand whathappens when we die.

Even though Hans was artistic and thereforesensitive person, he did not profess to mediumship and certainlywould not be satisfied with the meager impressions he may havegarnered himself, physically. He knew that a more advanced psychictalent would be needed for better results. So he took his"sensitive" with him, or what became affectionately known as hismedium-in-tow, on cases to try and solve them for all thoseinvolved.

His career was a unique whirl wind of books,research, lectures, teaching, hundreds of national and regionaltalk show appearances, co-hosting/hosting programs such as GhostHunter on Boston's Channel 2, NBC's In Search Of withLeonard Nimoy (an Alan Landsburg production), Beyond the FiveSenses in Louisville, KY, Explorations with BrownvilleProductions in Ohio. In radio, he had a continuous segment with NewYork City's WOR station with famed radio personality Joe Franklinwho still remains a family friend. Some books and case work yieldedfilms such as Amityville II: The Possession, the adaptationfrom his best-selling novel Murder in Amityville, based onhis work on the case in Amityville, Long Island and TheAmityville Curse, which also became a film in 1989 that went toSweden, the US in 1990 and then in 1991, was released inJapan.

Holzer became and still is considered aleading authority in the field of the paranormal, having earned hisPhD from the London College of Applied Science. He spent over sixdecades traveling the world to obtain first-hand accounts ofparanormal experiences, interviewing expert researchers, anddeveloping para-psychological protocols and terminology such as'sensitive' and 'beings of light.' He taught a class inparapsychology at the New York Institute of Technology for nearly adecade.

One of his favorite quotes comes from T.S.Elliot's Confidential Clerk saying blandly, "I don't believe infacts." Hans did. "Facts," he said, "come to think of itare theonly thingsI really do believe in."

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A uthor andScientific Paranormal Researcher Alexandra Holzer, is no strangerto the world of the supernatural, publishing or art. She attendedThe Fashion Institute of Technology earning two degrees in FineArts and Advertising, following her mother Countess CatherineBuxhoeveden, who also attended the art school.

Stepping into her late fathers (Dr. HansHolzer) ghostly footsteps, she is a published author and writes fordifferent organizations from AOLs Huffington Post to Canadas UFODigest and the popular holistic green zine, OM Times, in Asheville,North Carolina. Her fresh, journalistic approach has a dont holdback feel and an openness welcoming in all types of stories.

Her Parisian grandmother, Rosine Claire,married The Count of Russia which had relations to Catherine theGreat. Rosine affectionately known as Nana also authored titlesFrench Gourmet Vegetarian, New French GourmetVegetarian and French Vegetarian Cosmetics. TheBuxhoeveden Family has a published family book written in Germanentitled, Riga 1201 Buxhoeveden, 2001. They also onceproduced a Red and Black Label Vodka difficult to get it into thestates.

Holzer has appeared in several filmdocumentaries associated with the paranormal field and has donehundreds of national talk radio shows including hosting. She'spublished a few books, one of which, Growing up Haunted, wasoptioned for TV and film rights with award winning producers inHollywood, Marilyn and Gregg Vance. With a comic book series calledGhost Gal in the works through Ravens Head Press, books andscreenplays, her plate is full but she has goals for television aswell.