When Travel Channel first began announcing its 2019 Ghostober lineup, it announced a 10-part series titled “The Holzer Files,” which features a dedicated paranormal team as they re-open the case files of America’s first ghost hunter Dr. Hans Holzer. The files were recently re-opened thanks to Holzer’s daughter, Alexandra Holzer, a renowned author, journalist, and Paranormal Investigator in her own right, who will also be featured in the series.
“Over 50 years ago, my father, Dr. Hans Holzer, gave life to the global fascination with ‘the other side’ as America’s first paranormal investigator,” said Alexandra Holzer in regards to the series. “Now, 10 years after his passing, I’ve reopened my father’s case files for the very first time! Together with the producers of this new series, we’ve pulled together a team of paranormal experts to take a second look at many of my father’s cases, so they can re-investigate these remarkable hauntings. I’m thrilled and truly excited to welcome the launch of ‘The Holzer Files.’”
Recognized as the “Father of the Paranormal,” Dr. Holzer’s legendary four-decade exploration into disturbing hauntings like the “Amityville Horror” house helped spawn legions of supernatural enthusiasts. The author of more than 150 books, his first book “Ghost Hunter,” was released in 1963 and is credited for having coined the phrase “Ghost Hunter.” Dr. Holzer authored books on virtually every topic imaginable within the realm of the supernatural and would inspire Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis to write “Ghostbusters.” During his lifetime, Dr. Holzer became America’s foremost authority on paranormal events, research, and investigation, appearing on countless television and radio programs around the globe.
Today, Dr. Holzer’s daughter has made a nationally recognized name for herself, not only for keeping the Holzer Legacy alive, but for having proven and established herself as one of the preeminent female paranormal investigators and intuitive psychics in the United States.
Holzer credits her father with having been the first person – ever—to have bestowed legitimacy to the field of paranormal research, allowing it to eventually become a real science by pioneering protocols using noetic philosophies, combining inner wisdom, spirituality, and science.
Despite his passing in 2009, Alexandra says her father continues to aid her in her paranormal investigations. “My father continues to help me –even today– to investigate Paranormal cases from the afterlife,” says Alexandra. “My family is a uniquely supernatural one, filled with haunted legacies and everyday family chaos. My father had psychic abilities, and I inherited those abilities as well.”
Emerging publicly onto the Paranormal scene in early 2005 as a writer, Alexandra has, since that time, also appeared in numerous feature film documentaries, including the “25th Anniversary of Poltergeist” and filmmaker Ryan Katzenbach’s four-part investigative series “Shattered Hopes: The True Story of the Amityville Murders.” Alexandra has also appeared on television numerous times discussing various Paranormal issues, including on the Travel Channel show “Paranormal Challenge,” where she served as a “celebrity guest judge” for young paranormal teams investigating the haunted Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. She has been interviewed on hundreds of national and/or regional radio talk shows, even serving as host for a radio program on WY102 FM in the greater Philadelphia area.
Alexandra has published several books, including one about her life story entitled “Growing up Haunted.” Literally growing up in the most “haunted environment” imaginable, she has known nothing else her entire life. As a child, Alexandra’s home featured Dr. Holzer’s living room/museum filled with voodoo masks, mummies, vampires, mementos from witchcraft and the occult, folklore books, UFO artifacts, aliens, and tales of things going bump in the night.
“The dead living amongst us was the norm,” she says today, “while celebrities from movies and TV shows, along with gypsies, psychics and an assortment of other weirdo’s flocked to our Upper West Side Manhattan apartment. We all sat around a modern-day campfire — my living room—to hear one of Hans’ ghost stories while drinking a nice cup of tea.”
A past contributor to The Huffington Post and a current columnist with OM Times online magazine, she has often gone on Paranormal investigations with local police departments, helping to solve cold-case crimes.
Alexandra investigates in the areas surrounding her residence in Chester, New York, as well as helping others abroad with their ghostly claims, mediumship, the occult, and other needs in the field. Alexandra’s expertise lies not only with haunted homes, places, or people but in getting impressions’ and being ‘sensitive’ to her surroundings.
Referring to herself as a Psychic Paranormal Investigator, Alexandra is, as far as can be ascertained, the only second-generation paranormal investigator in the world. Her ghostly pedigree from the past has prepared her for a future in science, metaphysics, the occult and the supernatural.
“The Holzer Files” will premiere on Travel Channel on Thursday, October 3 at 10 PM ET/PT. For more information on Alexandra Holzer and her work visit AlexandraHolzer.com.
