13 Facts About Hans Holzer

Hans Holzer was an American writer and parapsychologist.

Hans Holzer 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.

Hans Holzer 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.

Hans Holzer studied Japanese at Columbia University and, after studying comparative religion and parapsychology, claimed to have obtained a Ph.

Hans Holzer went on to teach parapsychology at the New York Institute of Technology.

Hans Holzer wrote more than 120 books on ghosts and the afterlife.

Hans Holzer worked with well-known trance mediums such as Ethel Johnson-Meyers, Sybil Leek, and Marisa Anderson.

Hans Holzer has been credited with creating the term "The Other Side" or in full "The Other Side of Life".

Hans Holzer 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.

Hans Holzer believed in life after death and the existence of ghosts, spirits, and "stay behinds".

Hans Holzer believed in reincarnation and the existence of "levels of consciousness".

Hans Holzer went on to write several books about the subject, both fiction and non-fiction.

Skeptical investigator Joe Nickell has written that Hans Holzer did not provide verification for some of his claims and he credulously accepted spirit photographs, anecdotal reports, and other doubtful evidence.