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Hans Holzer

{{Short description|American writer and parapsychologist}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Hans Holzer

| image = Hans Holzer parapsychologist.jpg

| caption = Holzer in the 1960s

| birth_date = {{birth date|1920|01|26|df=y}}

| birth_place = Vienna, Austria

| death_date = {{death date and age|2009|04|26|1920|01|26|df=y}}

| death_place = Manhattan, New York City, U.S.

| education = University of Vienna
Columbia University

| occupation = Author
Parapsychologist

| spouse = {{marriage|Catherine Buxhoeveden|1962||end=div.}}

| children = 2

}}

Hans Holzer (26 January 1920 – 26 April 2009) was an American writer and parapsychologist.{{cite news|title=Hans Holzer, Ghost Hunter, Dies at 89|first=William|last=Grimes|date=April 29, 2009|access-date=April 30, 2009|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/books/30holzer.html}} He wrote more than 120 books on supernatural and occult subjects for the popular market as well as several plays, musicals, films, and documentaries, and hosted a television show, Ghost Hunter (not to be confused with Ghost Hunters).{{cite book|title=Dublin Urban Legends|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zAfCBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT70|page=70|author=Brendan Nolan|publisher=The History Press|date=4 May 2015|isbn = 9780750964630}}

Life and career

Holzer was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of Martha (Stransky) and Leo Holzer, a businessman.[https://books.google.com/books?id=L25ycEzuXxIC&dq=Martha+Stransky+Leo+Holzer&pg=PA942 Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature Vol 2, Volume 2] His interest in the supernatural was sparked at a young age by stories told to him by his uncle Henry. He went on to study archaeology and ancient history at the University of Vienna but as the family was Jewish, they decided it was unsafe to stay in Austria and left the country for New York City in 1938. He studied Japanese at Columbia University and, after studying comparative religion and parapsychology, claimed to have obtained a Ph.D. at a school called the London College of Applied Science which has never been validated.[https://skepticalinquirer.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2009/09/p05.pdf The Questionable Research of Hans Holzer, Dean of Ghost Hunters (1920–2009)] He went on to teach parapsychology at the New York Institute of Technology. Holzer wrote more than 120 books on ghosts and the afterlife.{{cite web |title=Hans Holzer |date=2009-06-17 |website=The Guardian |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230427091210/https://www.theguardian.com/global/2009/jun/18/obituary-hans-holzer |archive-date=2023-04-27 |url-status=live |url=https://www.theguardian.com/global/2009/jun/18/obituary-hans-holzer}}

His extensive involvement in researching the supernatural included investigating The Amityville Horror and some of the most prominent haunted locations around the world. He also worked with well-known trance mediums such as Ethel Johnson-Meyers, Sybil Leek, and Marisa Anderson. Holzer has been credited with creating the term "The Other Side" (already in use, however, in nineteenth-century spiritualism) or in full "The Other Side of Life". He is sometimes credited with having coined the term ghost hunter, which was the title of his first book on the paranormal published in 1963; however, an earlier book by Harry Price, published in 1936, was titled Confessions of a Ghost Hunter.

In 1970, Holzer published a study of spirit photography called Psychic Photography: Threshold of a New Science?. The book included photographs taken by the spirit photographer John Myers.

Holzer believed in life after death and the existence of ghosts, spirits, and "stay behinds". Ghosts were, according to him, imprints left in the environment which could be "picked up" by sensitive people. Spirits were intelligent beings who could interact with the living, while "stay behinds" were those who found themselves earth-bound after death. He also believed in reincarnation and the existence of "levels of consciousness".{{cite web |title=Hans Holzer |website=The Daily Telegraph |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511054037/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/film-obituaries/5258945/Hans-Holzer.html |archive-date=2021-05-11 |url-status=live |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/film-obituaries/5258945/Hans-Holzer.html}}

Holzer and his wife Countess Catherine Geneviève Buxhoeveden, a sixth-generation descendant of Russian Empress Catherine the Great, had two daughters. The marriage was eventually dissolved.They divorced in 1985. https://www.27east.com/arts/haunted-countess-painter-with-a-paranormal-legacy-1377636/

The Amityville Horror

Holzer's most famous investigation was into The Amityville Horror case. In January 1977, Holzer and spiritual medium Ethel Meyers entered 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York. Meyers claimed that the house had been built over an ancient Native American burial ground and the angry spirit of a Shinnecock Indian Chief, "Rolling Thunder", had possessed the previous occupant, Ronald Defeo Jr., driving him to murder his family.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UtCGDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT64|title=Haunted America FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Most Haunted Houses, Cemeteries, Battlefields, and More|page=64|author=Dave Thompson|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|date=1 January 2000|isbn=9781495046018}} Photographs taken at the scene revealed curious anomalies such as the halos which appeared in the supposed images of bullet marks made in the original 1974 murders. Holzer's claim that the house was built on Indian sacred land was, however, denied by the local Amityville Historical Society{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EenNDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA13|title=New Mexico's Most Haunted EXPOSED|page=13|author=Cody Polston|publisher=Cody Polston Publishing|date=29 December 2018|isbn=9781791603786}} and it was pointed out that it was the Montaukett Indians, and not the Shinnecocks, who had been the original settlers in the area.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fsilCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA10|title=Cursed in New York: Stories of the Damned in the Empire State|page=10|author=Randi Minetor|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|date=1 October 2015|isbn=9781493013777}} Holzer went on to write several books about the subject, both fiction and non-fiction.{{cite news|title=Hans Holzer, Ghost Hunter, Dies at 89|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/books/30holzer.html?|author=William Grimes|date=29 April 2009|work=The New York Times}}

Vegetarianism

Holzer was a vegetarian and teetotaler.Cacavas, John. (2003). It's More Than Do-re-mi: My Life in Music. Xlibris. p. 248. {{ISBN|9781413416985}} In 1973, he authored The Vegetarian Way of Life.{{citation |title= Psychic Archaeology: Theory, Method, and Mythology |author= McKusick, Marshall |journal= Journal of Field Archaeology |volume= 9 |issue= 1 |year= 1982 |pages= 99–118(20) |doi= 10.1179/009346982791974697}} In the book he stated that "I myself am a Lactarian: I eat cheeses and milk products but I do not eat eggs or egg products. Those who are Lactarians like myself find that their diet is well-balanced and generally there is enough of a variety of foods available to them so that no problem of nutrition exists."Holzer, Hans. (1973). The Vegetarian Way of Life. Pyramid Books. p. 31. {{ISBN|0-515-03234-4}}

Reception

Holzer's endorsement of psychics in ghost hunting was criticized in an article for the Journal for the Society for Psychical Research which "cast considerable doubt on the objectivity and reliability of his work as a whole."Berger, Arthur; Berger, Joyce. (1991). The Encyclopedia of Parapsychology and Psychical Research. New York: Paragon House. p. 183 Holzer was a proponent of psychic archaeology, which has been widely criticized as pseudoscience.McKusick, Marshall. (1984). Psychic Archaeology from Atlantis to Oz. Archaeology. Vol. 37, No. 5. pp. 48-52.

His book Patterns of Destiny from 1975 appeared as a noticeable prop in the movie Flatliners, standing next to the framed photograph of Julia Roberts character's dead father.

Skeptical investigator Joe Nickell has written that Holzer did not provide verification for some of his claims and he credulously accepted spirit photographs, anecdotal reports, and other doubtful evidence.Nickell, Joe. (2000). [http://www.csicop.org/si/show/haunted_inns_tales_of_spectral_guest/ "Haunted Inns: Tales of Spectral Guest"]. Skeptical Inquirer. Retrieved 14 May 2016.

Nickell also wrote that the mediums Holzer endorsed, Ethel Meyers and Sybil Leek, offered "unsubstantiated, even unverifiable claims, or information that can be gleaned from research sources or from knowledgeable persons by “cold reading” (an artful method of fishing for information)."Nickell, Joe. (2006). [http://www.csicop.org/si/show/ghost_hunters/ "Ghost Hunters"]. Skeptical Inquirer. Retrieved 14 May 2016.

Fellow ghost hunter Peter Underwood wrote an obituary for Holzer in The Guardian, in which he disputed Holzer's claim (made in his 1979 book Murder in Amityville) that the house on Ocean Avenue in Amityville was built on the site of a Shinnecock burial ground.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/global/2009/jun/18/obituary-hans-holzer|title=Hans Holzer|last=Underwood|first=Peter|date=2009-06-17|website=the Guardian|access-date=2016-05-13}}

Holzer's daughter, Alexandra Holzer, wrote a 2008 book titled Growing Up Haunted,{{Cite web|url=http://www.schifferbooks.com/growing-up-haunted-a-ghostly-memoir-3546.html|title=Growing Up Haunted: A Ghostly Memoir - $14.95 : Schiffer Publishing|website=www.schifferbooks.com|access-date=2016-12-26}} based on her life with her father and his paranormal quest. The book was optioned by Vance Entertainment to be developed as a potential feature film.{{cite web|title=Holzer movie|url=http://scifiandtvtalk.typepad.com/scifiandtvtalk/2013/08/growing-up-haunted-by-alexandra-holzer-optioned-as-potential-feature-film.html|publisher=SciFi Talks|access-date=8 January 2013}}

Travel Channel began a TV series in 2019, The Holzer Files, that returns current ghost hunters to some of Hans Holzer's documented cases.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10738706/ Retrieved 18 April 2021. {{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=March 2022}}

Bibliography

  • {{cite book|year=1963|title=Ghost Hunter|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1965|title=Ghosts I've Met|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1966|title=ESP and You|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1966|title=Yankee Ghosts|url=https://archive.org/details/yankeeghosts00holz|url-access=registration|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1967|title=The Lively Ghosts of Ireland|url=https://archive.org/details/livelyghostsofir0000holz|url-access=registration|author1=Holzer, Hans|publisher=Random House Value |isbn=9780517168080 |author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1968|title=Ghosts of the Golden West|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1968|title=Predictions: Fact or Fallacy?|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1968|title=Psychic Investigator|url=https://archive.org/details/psychicinvestiga00holz|url-access=registration|author1=Holzer, Hans|publisher=New York, Hawthorn Books |author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1968|title=Star in the East|url=https://archive.org/details/starineast00holz|url-access=registration|author1=Holzer, Hans|publisher=New York, Harper & Row |author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1969|title=The Truth About Witchcraft|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1969|title=Window to the Past: Exploring History Through ESP|url=https://archive.org/details/windowtopastexpl00holz|url-access=registration|author1=Holzer, Hans|publisher=Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday |author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1970|title=Born Again: The Truth About Reincarnation|url=https://archive.org/details/bornagain00holzrich|url-access=registration|author1=Holzer, Hans|publisher=Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday |author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1970|title=Life After Death: The Challenge and the Evidence|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1970|title=Psychic Photography: Threshold of a New Science?|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1970|title=The Psychic World of Bishop Pike|url=https://archive.org/details/psychicworldofbi00holz|url-access=registration|author1=Holzer, Hans|publisher=New York, Crown Publishers |author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1970|title=The Red Chindvit Conspiracy|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1970|title=The Zodiac Affairs|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1971|title=The Aquarian Age: Is There Intelligent Life on Earth?|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1971|title=Charismatics: How to Make Things Happen|url=https://archive.org/details/charismaticshowt00holz|url-access=registration|author1=Holzer, Hans|publisher=New York, Coward-McCann |author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1971|title=The Ghosts That Walk in Washington|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1971|title=Hans Holzer's Haunted Houses: A Pictorial Register of the World's Most Interesting Ghost Houses|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1971|title=The Prophets Speak|url=https://archive.org/details/prophetsspeakwha00holz|url-access=registration|author1=Holzer, Hans|publisher=Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill |author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1971|title=Psycho-ecstasy: How to Awaken the Secret Powers of Your Inner Self|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1972|title=Gothic Ghosts|url=https://archive.org/details/gothicghosts00holz|url-access=registration|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1972|title=The Handbook of Parapsychology|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1972|title=The New Pagans: An Inside Report On the Mystery Cults of Today|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1972|title=The Phantoms of Dixie|url=https://archive.org/details/phantomsofdixie00holz|url-access=registration|author1=Holzer, Hans|publisher=Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill |author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1973|title=The Alchemy Deception|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1973|title=The Habsburg Curse|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1973|title=Possessed!|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1973|title=The Power of Hypnosis: How Mind-to-Mind Communication Works|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1973|title=Victorian Ghosts|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1973|title=The Vegetarian Way of Life|author1=Holzer, Hans|publisher=Pyramid Books |isbn=9780515032345 |author-mask=1|url=https://archive.org/details/vegetarianwayofl00hans}}
  • {{cite book|year=1974|title=Beyond Medicine|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1974|title=Haunted Hollywood|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1974|title=Patterns of Destiny: A Primer on Reincarnation|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1974|title=The Truth About ESP: What It Is, How It Works and How You Develop It|url=https://archive.org/details/truthaboutespwha00holz|url-access=registration|author1=Holzer, Hans|publisher=Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday |isbn=9780385052535 |author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1975|title=Astrology: What It Can Do For You|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1975|title=The Great British Ghost Hunt|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1975|title=The Psychic World of Plants|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1976|title=The Clairvoyant|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1976|title=The Psychic Side of Dreams|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1976|title=The Spirits of '76|url=https://archive.org/details/spiritsof76psych0000holz|url-access=registration|author1=Holzer, Hans|publisher=Bobbs-Merrill |isbn=9780672518843 |author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1976|title=The UFO-NAUTS: New Facts on Extraterrestrial Landings|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1976|title=The Unicorn|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1977|title=Beyond This Life: A Factual Report on Survival After Death|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1979|title=Elvis Presley Speaks|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1979|title=Murder In Amityville|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1979|title=Psychic Healing: The Alternate Way to Well-being|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1979|title=Star Ghosts|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1979|title=White House Ghosts|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1979|title=Wicca: The Way of the Witches|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1980|title=How to Win at Life|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1980|title=Inside Witchcraft|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1980|title=Westghosts: The Psychic World of California|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1981|title=The Amityville Curse|url=https://archive.org/details/amityvillecurse00holz|url-access=registration|author1=Holzer, Hans|publisher=Tower Books |isbn=9780505516763 |author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1981|title=The Entry|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1981|title=Star of Destiny|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1982|title=Amityville II: The Possession|url=https://archive.org/details/amityvillecurse00holz|url-access=registration|author1=Holzer, Hans|publisher=Tower Books |isbn=9780505516763 |author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1984|title=Where the Ghosts Are: The Ultimate Guide to Haunted Houses|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1985|title=The Alchemist|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1985|title=Life Beyond Life: The Evidence of Reincarnation|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1985|title=The Secret of Amityville|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1989|title=Ghosts of New England: True Stories of Encounters With the Phantoms of New England and New York|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1990|title=Great American Ghost Stories|url=https://archive.org/details/greatamericangho00holz|url-access=registration|author1=Holzer, Hans|publisher=Dorset Press |isbn=9780880295567 |author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1991|title=America's Haunted Houses: Public and Private|url=https://archive.org/details/americashauntedh0000holz|url-access=registration|author1=Holzer, Hans|publisher=Longmeadow Press |isbn=9780681411258 |author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1992|title=America's Mysterious Places|url=https://archive.org/details/americasmysterio0000holz|url-access=registration|author1=Holzer, Hans|publisher=Longmeadow Press |isbn=9780681415713 |author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1992|title=Ghosts of Old Europe|url=https://archive.org/details/ghostsofoldeurop0000holz|url-access=registration|author1=Holzer, Hans|publisher=Dorset Press |isbn=9780880297189 |author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1992|title=Hans Holzer's Haunted House Album: A Ghostly Register of the World's Most Frightening Haunted Houses|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1993|title=Elvis Speaks From the Beyond|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1993|title=In Quest of Ghosts|url=https://archive.org/details/inquestofghosts00holz|url-access=registration|author1=Holzer, Hans|publisher=Scholastic Incorporated |isbn=9780590473460 |author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1993|title=Love Beyond the Grave: True Cases of Ghostly Lovers|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1994|title=Life Beyond: Compelling Evidence for Past Lives and Existence After Death|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1994|title=Tales at Midnight|url=https://archive.org/details/talesatmidnightt00holz|url-access=registration|author1=Holzer, Hans|publisher=Courage Books |isbn=9781561383917 |author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1995|title=The Directory of Psychics: How to Find, Evaluate, and Communicate with Professional Psychics and Mediums|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1995|title=Prophecies: Visions of the World's Fate- Truths, Possibilities, or Fallacies?|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1996|title=The Secret of Healing: The Healing Powers of Ze'ev Kolman|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1997|title=Are You Psychic? Unlocking the Power Within|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1997|title=Ghosts: True Encounters with the World beyond|url=https://archive.org/details/ghoststrueencoun0000holz|url-access=registration|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1997|title=Southern Ghosts|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1999|title=Hans Holzer's Travel Guide to Haunted Houses|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=1999|title=Psychic: True Paranormal Experiences|url=https://archive.org/details/psychictrueparan0000holz|url-access=registration|author1=Holzer, Hans|publisher=Smithmark Publishers |isbn=9780765109538 |author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=2000|title=The Psychic Yellow Pages|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=2001|title=Beyond Death: Conditions in the Afterlife|url=https://archive.org/details/beyonddeathcondi00solo|url-access=registration|author1=Holzer, Hans|publisher=Hampton Roads Publishing Company |isbn=9781571742025 |author-mask=1}} (co-written with Philip Solomon)
  • {{cite book|year=2001|title=Hans Holzer's Psychic Yellow Pages: The Very Best Psychics, Card Readers, Mediums, Astrologers, and Numerologists|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=2001|title=True Ghost Stories|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=2002|title=More Where The Ghosts Are: The Ultimate Guide to Haunted Houses|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=2002|title=Real Hauntings: True American Ghost Stories|url=https://archive.org/details/realhauntingstru0000holz|url-access=registration|author1=Holzer, Hans|publisher=Michael Friedman Publishing Group, Incorporated |isbn=9781586635640 |author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=2002|title=Witches: True Encounters with Wicca, Wizards, Covens, Cults and Magick|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=2005|title=The Journey of the Magi|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=2006|title=The Ghost Hunter's Strangest Cases|url=https://archive.org/details/ghosthuntersstra0000holz_o9p9|url-access=registration|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=2008|title=The Spirit Connection: How the Other Side Intervenes in Our Lives|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=2008|title=Commanding the Light: A Conversation about Paranormal Healing Between Antonio Silva and Hans Holzer|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}} (co-written with Antonio Silva)
  • {{cite book|year=2012|title=Famous Ghosts: True Encounters with the World Beyond|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=2012|title=Ghosts That Aren't: True Encounters with the World Beyond|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=2012|title=Haunted People: True Encounters with the World Beyond|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=2012|title=Haunted Places: True Encounters with the World Beyond|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=2012|title=Hypnosis: Controlling the Inner You|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=2012|title=An Introduction to Ghosts: True Encounters with the World Beyond|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=2012|title=Poltergeists: True Encounters with the World Beyond|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=2012|title=Stay-Behinds: True Encounters with the World Beyond |author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite book|year=2012|title=This House Is Haunted: True Encounters with the World Beyond|author1=Holzer, Hans|author-mask=1}}

References

External links

  • [http://www.ghostvillage.com/legends/2005/legends35_02072005.shtml Interview with Holzer] (ghostvillage.com).
  • [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/film-obituaries/5258945/Hans-Holzer.html Hans Holzer] - Daily Telegraph obituary, 1 May 2009.
  • [https://www.theguardian.com/global/2009/jun/18/obituary-hans-holzer Obituary] in The Guardian by Peter Underwood, 18 June 2009.
  • [http://www.economist.com/node/13606055 Obituary] in The Economist, 7 May 2009.
  • [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/books/30holzer.html?_r=0 Obituary] in The New York Times by William Grimes (journalist), 29 April 2009.
  • [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/hans-holzer/ Bibliography] (fantasticfiction.co.uk).
  • [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36607673/hans-holzer Findagrave Memorial]

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