Read more: The Holzer Files Season 2 Confirmed Rather than using “belief”-which he called the “uncritical acceptance of something you can’t prove”-he said he focused on evidence. He eschewed words such as “supernatural” because it suggested phenomena was outside of scientific definition. Most notably, the way he spoke about it was thoughtful and scholarly. Holzer’s work impacted the paranormal field in significant ways. In his personal life, Holzer married the Countess Catherine Buxhoeveden in 1962, and had two daughters, Alexandra and Nadine Widener, before the marriage ended. Re-settling in New York City, he continued studies at Columbia University, eventually earned a master’s degree in comparative religion, and a PhD in parapsychology from the (rather dubious) London College of Applied Science. His status exploring “the other side” (a phrase he claimed to have coined, and did help popularize) was an impressive development considering he left Austria-and his studies of archaeology and history at the University of Vienna-with his family in 1938 before the annexation of the country into Nazi Germany. “He also could write fiction, poetry, sheet music and compose he wrote, produced and directed some of his own projects, and even recorded two songs on a ‘45 record entitled ‘Ghost Hunter’ (of course).” “He was one of the very few here in the States to have been able to publish most of his findings into digestible books,” says daughter Alexandra Holzer, who authored the 2008 book Growing Up Haunted. “He had the personality for it he had the storytelling ability, and he was putting himself out there at a time when no one else was.”
“He became our first multi-media spokesperson for the paranormal,” says Jeff Belanger, author of more than a dozen books on the paranormal, co-host/producer of New England Legends podcast, and longtime writer/researcher on Travel’s Ghost Adventures.
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