Hans Holzer

1920, An Austrian-Born Ghost Hunter was in the making. Professor Dr. Hans Holzer, best known for his plethora of hundreds of cases worldwide dealing with the paranormal and the occult, deeming him the given phrase of The Father of the Paranormal. In 1935, at the age of fifteen, Hans became an avid collector of antiques and coins and was an ardent bibliophile. The 1928 book, Occultism in This Modern Age by Dr. T.K. Oesterreich, a professor at the University of Tubingen in Germany, began Hans' approach to ghosts. His was of an idle curiosity mixed with a show me kind of skepticism. He took a course in journalism and began selling articles to local papers. In 1949, he went back to Europe as an accredited foreign correspondent, with the intent to write articles on cultural activities, the theater, and human interest stories. He began to compose music and write scores in New York, which later lent it's way to Off Broadway success in Manhattan. One year later, Hans returned to Europe visitin