Description

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Father of Paranormal Investigation and inspiration for The Holzer Files and Ghostbusters takes his readers through more than fifty famously haunted and chilling locations in the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain. He recounts his personal investigations of the ghosts as a renowned parapsychologist in eerily fascinating stories that will haunt readers long after they have finished.
 
“Hans Holzer understands the rules of ghostly behavior perhaps better than anyone else. It is his business to investigate hauntings.” 
—Leonard Nimoy
 
“I became obsessed by Hans Holzer, the greatest ghost hunter ever. That’s when the idea of my film Ghostbusters was born."
—Dan Aykroyd
 
Complete with photos and details about each spectral phenomenon as he has researched and discovered it as well as the stories of the ghosts themselves, this book tells who they were and why they are found in each location. Where the Ghosts Are explores both famous and little-known sites such as:

   • The California Whaley House
   • New Jersey’s “Spy House”
   • The Octagon in Washington, D.C.
   • Canada’s Most Haunted Locations
   • The U.S. Constellation in Baltimore Harbor
   • St. Marks-in-the-Bowery and the Merchant’s House in New York City
   • Longleat Palace, Bath, England
 
INCLUDES DOZENS OF HAUNTING PHOTOS AND A FOREWORD BY SECOND GENERATION GHOSTHUNTER ALEXANDRA HOLZER

“Hans Holzer is a marvelous ghost hunter, who has added countless discoveries to the paranormal fields.”
—Ghost Hunting Reviews

About the Author

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Hans Holzer (1920–2009) was born and raised in Vienna, Austria, before moving to the United States. He became fascinated by the supernatural at an early age through the stories his uncle told him. His research took him to haunted houses all over the world, including the notorious Long Island house that inspired the film The Amityville Horror. After earning a master’s degree in comparative religion and a doctorate in parapsychology at the London College of Applied Science, he went on to teach parapsychology at the New York Institute of Technology. He was a Wiccan high priest as well as a vegan. Known as “the Father of the Paranormal,” he wrote over 140 books on psychic phenomena, including Ghost Hunter, America’s Restless Ghosts, Ghosts I’ve Met, and Life Beyond. He wrote, produced, and appeared in a number of television documentaries, including NBC’s In Search Of. . . . He lived in New York City.
 
Second-generation ghost hunter and writer Alexandra Holzer attended the Fashion Institute of Technology, following the example of her mother, Artist Countess Catherine Buxhoeveden, who was related to Catherine the Great. She is co-founder of her global organization, Hunt with Holzer, through which her research continues into the unknown. She is a mother of six, happily married with five fur babies. For further details, please visit www.alexandraholzer.com.