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Hans Holzer (b. January
26, 1920 in Vienna) is one of the
most popular paranormal researcher
to date.
Hans Holzer has written
138 books on the supernatural and
occult for the popular market as well
as several plays, musicals, films,
and documentaries and has hosted a
television show. He is the most renowned
parapsychologist in the field today.
His extensive involvement in researching
the supernatural has included investigating
The Amityville Horror and some of
the most prominent haunted locations
around the world.
The God Father of the
Paranormal" Professor Hans Holzer,
Ph.D., Writer of 138 books on the
supernatural and occult for the popular
market as well as several plays, musicals,
films, and documentaries and has hosted
a television show. His extensive involvement
in researching the supernatural has
included investigating The Amityville
Horror and some of the most prominent
haunted locations around the world.
He has also worked with well-known
trance mediums such as Ethel Johnson-Meyers,
Sybil Leek, Trixie Allingham. Holzer,
is a leading authority in the field
of the paranormal. He has earned his
Ph.D. from the London College of Applied
Science. He was a writer/producer
and on camera personality on the popular
NBC series "In Search Of..."
as well as several other documentaries
on the paranormal over the years.
I had the privledge
of speaking to him once long ago.
Specifically on what at the time was
an intresting point about hitchiking
ghosts. Dr. Holzer was under the basic
belief at the time. That ghosts of
those that died on america's haunted
highways, just haunted the spot where
they died. I brought up the fact to
him that many ghosts from my findings
haunted the highways of the world.
Often on their way to track down their
families, migrating with the seasons,
or just out to see the world. Astounded
by my revelations Dr. Holzer actually
spoke of it on a Art Bell - Coast
To Coast AM - in the late 1990's.
In our meeting I spoke
to him intensley on what I personally
had uncovered as a Necormancer. Dr.
Holzer was a very personable man and
my information intriuged him very
much. I wish we had both had more
time to discuss real Ghosts and hauntings
but our meeting was very brief.
Dr. Holzer's extensive
involvement in researching all that
is the supernatural has included investigating
The Amityville Horror and some of
the most prominent haunted locations
around the world. Buyt he also has
stated many times that you don't have
to be psychic or a paranormal investigator
just to experience a real haunting.
Many do not realize
that he is a very dedicated researcher.
The man will not stop until every
stone is up turned. At Least two or
three times. He has been known to
go in and reinvestigate something
many times over the years just to
conform to himself that what he saw
in the firsst p[lace is or was the
correct assuption. He explained to
me that he is not Know all seen all
doone all that so many believe him
to be. He reflected for moment in
our meeting and said. "If all
that I personally experienced is supernatural,
and I believe my own experiences alone."
What of the many things that others
have had happen to them that I was
not present for?" Does that give
me the right just to believe them
for their word." "Or does
it make their experience unreal to
me alone?" " I ask this
he said to me, " just to test
your belief sysytem." Preparation
for dying and the after life is something
most of our worlds people, religions
teach." "They devote their
very existence to" " The
beliefs in what we experience and
hold a devotion to." "Real
Ghosts and hauntings are just proof
that their is a God in Heaven."
Bibliography
Novels
The Red Chindvit Conspiracy (1970)
Born Again (1970)
The Psychic World of Bishop Pike (1970)
Prophets Speak (1971)
The Alchemy Deception (1973)
Possessed! (1973)
The Habsburg Curse (1973)
The Clairvoyant (1976)
Psychic Detective: The Unicorn (1976)
Star of Destiny (1981)
The Entry (1981)
The Secret of Amityville (1985)
Prophecies (1995)
Anthologies
Tales at Midnight (1994)
Dr. Hans Holzers
Many wonderful Paranormal Books
Ghost Hunter (1963)
Ghosts I've Met (1965)
Yankee Ghosts (1966)
The Lively Ghosts Of Ireland (1967)
ESP and You (1968)
The Truth about Witchcraft (1969)
Window to the Past: Exploring History
Through ESP (1969)
The Aquarian Age: Is There Intelligent
Life on Earth? (1971)
The New Pagans: An Inside Report On
the Mystery Cults of Today (1972)
Beyond Medicine (1973)
Great British Ghost Hunt (1975)
The UFO-NAUTS: New Facts on Extraterrestrial
Landings (1976)
The Psychic Side of Dreams (1976)
Inside Witchcraft (1980)
Where the Ghosts Are: The Ultimate
Guide to Haunted Houses (Library of
the Mystic Arts) (1984)
Ghosts of New England: True Stories
of Encounters With the Phantoms of
New England and New York (1989)
Haunted House Album: A Ghostly Register
of the World's Most *Frightening Haunted
Houses (1992)
Americas Mysterious Places (1992)
Love Beyond the Grave (1992)
Life Beyond: Compelling Evidence for
Past Lives and Existence After Death
(1994)
The Directory of Psychics: How to
Find, Evaluate, and Communicate with
Professional Psychics and Mediums
(1995)
The Secret of Healing: The Healing
Powers of Ze'Ev Kolman (1996)
Ghosts: True Encounters with the World
beyond (1997)
Are You Psychic?: Unlocking the Power
Within (1997)
Hans Holzer's Travel Guide to Haunted
Houses (1998)
More Where The Ghosts Are: The Ultimate
Guide to Haunted Houses (2001)
Beyond Death (2001) (with Phillip
Solomon)
Hans Holzer's Psychic Yellow Pages:
The Very Best Psychics, Card Readers,
Mediums, Astrologers, and Numberologists
(2001)
Hans Holzer's The Supernatural: Explaining
The Unexplained (2003)
The Haunting Story
of Alexandra Holzer
By: Bill Knell
Alexandra Holzer had anything but
a normal childhood. One of two sisters,
she is the youngest born to Ghost
Hunter Hans Holzer and Countess Catherine
Buxhoeveden. She explained some of
the funny, offbeat and frightening
moments of her youth in Growing Up
Haunted: A Ghostly Memoir (Schiffer
Publishing Ltd., 2008). To understand
Alexandra, you really have to know
a bit about her parents, so we’ll
begin there.
Hans Holzer is generally considered
to be the father of modern spirit
investigation. The author of over
one hundred and forty-five books and
novels, Hans wrote Ghost Hunter in
1963 and established the methodology
that many within the field of paranormal
investigation use today. He received
his Ph.D from the London College of
Applied Science and has made appearances
on popular television programs such
as In Search Of and Murder in Amityville.
Countess Catherine Buxhoeveden, also
known as The Haunted Countess, is
a direct descendent of Catherine The
Great of Russia. Born at Castle Rovina
in Merano, Italy, she grew up and
eventually married Hans Holzer. Catherine
helped research many of the topics
for his books and added her own intuitive,
imaginative and inspired artwork to
those projects. The Countess lives
on Long Island and often shows her
art work in The Hamptons.
After reading almost all of her father’s
books, I was thrilled to speak with
Alexandra over the phone. She instantly
communicates a sincere interest in
spirit investigation. However, it
would be wrong to believe that she
is just some chip off the old block.
Alexandra makes it clear that she
and her father do not see eye to eye
on a number of issues. One of them
happens to be the subject of demons.
“My father doesn’t believe
in demons…he says spirits are
beings of light” she told me
matter-of-factly. Hans is not alone
in his assessment of evil spirits,
however, it does cut a swath across
research by others that do believe
in them including Ed and Lorraine
Warren, well-known ghost hunters and
authors in their own right, and his
own daughter. He also seems to find
fault with some of her conclusions
as evidenced by a recent debate over
a photo she showed to him and her
mother. Alexandra describes the situation:
“After rediscovering my ability
of sight and tapping into my sixth
sense, I began taking photo's around
my home. The results showed anomalies
which I concluded were not manmade
from the environment of my home such
as dirt, dust or in-door rain. I became
excited and had my mother take some
of her own photos. I explained to
her that the objects were probably
the physical manifestations of spirit
guides, family members that passed
over and so on. She was just as excited
and in her low-key mellow way, just
as astonished to see what appeared
on her bedroom curtains and floors.
Shapes taking form, an arm here, a
leg there… That began the topic
of our orb conversations. Sounds like
a bucket of chicken: You get the wing,
oh look here's the breast!”
“ I took it another step forward
by taking some photos during a function
at my sisters house in Riverdale,
New York. I wasn’t just interested
in preserving family moments, but
was searching for evidence of life
after life on film. What I believe
to be a face appeared in one of the
photos. It was just behind my sister
and seemed to come out of her curio.
After looking at the photo a couple
of times, she agreed that the anomaly
was a face. That’s when the
orb fight began.”
“My mother, sister and I went
to show the photo to my father. Well,
Mr. Ghost Hunter didn’t exactly
see eye to eye with us. He emphatically
stated, ‘That's not an orb!
I can't see what it is, BUT it's not
a person!’ That's all it took
to start a ten minute verbal battle
over the photo and its contents. I
said, ‘Look there is the head,’
and he'd reply, ‘That's not
a head, it's the light coming from
the room!’ I'd say, ‘It's
shaping here like a person,’
he'd reply, ‘That's not a person,
it's a bug of some sort perhaps, but
it's not a person!’ We ended
the argument by agreeing to disagree,
but I was still red-faced angry over
the whole thing and the argument was
far from over as far as I was concerned.”
That’s what is so terrific
about Alexandra. She has a passion
that rivals her father’s when
it comes to spirit investigation.
That passion came through during own
phone conversation and in her description
of her relationship, agreements, disagreements,
admirations and frustrations with
her dad. She says, “Life with
my father is difficult, confusing
and inspiring all rolled into one.”
Alexandra continued:
“As a child, he was there for
me to hold my hand crossing the busy
New York City streets. He was there
to take me to the pediatrician when
I was sick, but always felt uncomfortable
sitting in the waiting room. He complained
about the germs in those places. Despite
that eccentricity, he was entertaining
and very considerate of my likes and
dislikes. He once made the mistake
of bringing me toast with orange marmalade
when clearly, strawberry was my favorite.
I bellowed at him at the ripe old
age of seven and said, ‘Father,
that's NOT the right jam!’ Laughing,
he just smiled, left the room and
returned with a new batch of toast
and strawberry jam.”
“I long for those days and
wish for more, but my father never
allowed me into the paranormal side
of his life with the exception of
telling me stories from the past.
As old age set in, it was too late
to get involved with that. The man
I once knew had become more difficult
and less forthcoming of his business.
Today, all I can do is develop my
own path and try to carry on what
little he'll let me until he passes.
When he does, I will be able to continue
without walking on eggshells or being
fearful of insulting his ego. He'll
be in a better place, smiling again,
and devising a plan to haunt me I
am sure!”
I was nine years old when I became
aware that my father’s military
career and the friends he knew from
those days provided proof positive
that Extraterrestrials were visiting
our planet. That awareness became
the catalyst which launched my interest
in the paranormal. It caused me to
read books on the subject (including
Ghost Hunter) and watch people like
her dad on television. I wondered
when Alexandra first became aware
that her father was a famous Ghost
Hunter? She provided the following
answer:
“I was around the age of nine
or ten years old. It was Christmas
Time and my mother began wrapping
up some of my father's books as gifts
for the school teachers. I attended
prep school in Manhattan, so the environment
was quiet, proper and subtle. One
day before Christmas break, my class
sat watching our History teacher as
he opened up his gifts. I hadn't a
clue what we got him, but was excited
to watch him open the present. I picked
out the silver, shiny paper that apparently
left glitter all over any hands that
touched it. As he looked at his hands,
I felt very bad and sunk into my chair.
He laughed it off and with a smirk
continued to open the package.”
“When the paper fell to the
floor, a bunch of books appeared and
the look on his face went from a smirk
to a serious grin. ‘What could
it be?’ I wondered. ‘What
the heck did mother buy this poor
man?’ As the other kids and
I crowded around him to find out,
the teacher showed us the covers of
the books that emerged from the wrapping.
They were titles like ‘The Ghost
Hunter‘, ‘ESP and You,
‘Witches’ and ‘The
Lively Ghosts of Ireland’ by
Dr. Hans Holzer! Oh no...that is MY
father! I couldn't believe it. He
wrote those? What the heck does he
do for a living? I sank to the lowest
point in my chair at that moment.
As if to add insult to injury, I fell
off that chair to the ground with
a thunderous thud! It was at that
moment that I wondered if I should
switch schools right away or maybe
just leave the planet!”
As a Paranormal Researcher with more
years of experience than I care to
admit and children of my own, I can
understand how strange it must have
been for Alexandra to face her father’s
unusual claim to fame. My own kids
always enjoy listening to my radio
and television interviews, but it
can confuse them at times. After all,
I am not exactly dealing with conventional
topics. With that in mind, I wondered
what Alexandra’s earliest memory
of her father’s ghost hunting
might be? She told me:
“I was around the age of eleven
when my father came bursting into
my room announcing he would be on
television that evening. He gave me
the time, channel and show's name.
I shrugged my shoulders and said,
"Yeah, okay whatever." But
when the time came for the show to
air, I was not going to get off that
easily. He stormed back into my room
and announced it was on. My mother,
sister and I (and the cat) went into
the living room to watch my father
on television. He sat there smiling,
commenting and folding his arms. Although
it seemed really funny at the time,
I can now understand his sense of
accomplishment as I am now trying
to accomplish the same thing. I might
have been bored when I watched those
shows, but I was also impressed and
sensed his fame.”
My paranormal ‘awakening’
occurred at the age of nine. I wondered
how and when Alexandra became interested
in spirit investigation. Now thirty
seven years of age, she says that
a ghostly experience of her own at
the age of thirty two was what propelled
her into the world her father had
dominated for so long:
“I was folding laundry and
I heard my late aunt's whisper of
a voice in my ear. She passed from
a rare form of Lymphoma two years
before. I had experiences as a child
and never felt alone, but this was
something foreign to me that suddenly
became familiar. As I began to open
up and allow her in, the dreams came,
then the messages and soon, I was
able to read people naturally. I didn't
ask for this second sight or to be
a medium to help others. My aunt allowed
me to get back to my roots and chose
the right time for me. I could have
picked a better moment, like before
I had four children, but that is not
how it works.”
Alexandra Holzer has partnered with
Carly-Rose Singer and Shira Etzionis
to form a kind of Charlie’s
Angels threesome of east coast ghost
researchers called New York’s
Pretty Paranormals. Each one of them
brings something to the table of spirit
investigations including Alexandra’s
vision of what Ghost Hunting should
be. “I want to help people,”
she tells me. I can understand her
vision and admire the fact that she
and her partners want to do more than
just show up at someone’s house
with a bunch of gadgets and an emotional
detachment that is unhealthy for all
involved.
There is an honesty and sincerity
that comes across when you speak with
the youngest daughter of Hans Holzer.
She is motivated, enthusiastic and
with as many goals as she has talents,
she is so much more than just the
daughter of a famous Ghost Hunter.
You’ll be seeing a lot more
of Alexandra Holzer. She hopes to
create and host a television show
about the paranormal and I cannot
think of anyone better suited to do
that. She’s also a prolific
author with several books currently
available and more on the way.
Alexandra Holzer is available for
radio, internet and television guest
spots and print interviews. She is
also available for Speaking Engagements.
For more, visit http://AlexandraHolzer.GothicMoods.com
About
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Author: Bill Knell www.billknell.com
is a popular paranormal author, speaker
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Have
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The American Necromancer
The first lady of conjuring the Dead.
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Is a necromancer in the 21st century.
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in ceremonial robes, draws magical
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A professional Necromancer and founder
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Summoning the dead to communicate
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