Have you been watching The Holzer Files on Travel Channel? I don’t have cable so I haven’t had the chance to see it, but I do have the chance to talk with someone connected to the show: Hans Holzer’s daughter, Alexandra.
Which, can I just say, blows me away.
Hans Holzer has always been this mythic person in my mind. A paranormal pioneer. Someone who wrote a book (Ghost Hunter) that inspired Dan Akroyd to create one of my favorite movies (Ghostbusters).
I have to admit that, up until a few years ago, I didn’t even know he had a daughter. I never considered he might have family still living –or following in his footsteps.
Everything I’d ever read about him had been about his work, not his family –or at least I’d never paid attention to that. I focused on the cases he had worked on. The most familiar one to me being the Amityville Horror.
But he had two daughters and one of them, Alexandra, is in the ghost “business” (so to speak) too. She investigates and has even written a book called Growing up Haunted: A Ghostly Memoir.
But she has all sorts of things going on, including:
- She gives intuitive readings.
- Her event company, Hunt with Holzer.
- She’s the inspiration for a comic book, Ghost Gal by Bobby Nash.
Now I have the chance to talk with her?
Questions, Questions
But where do I start? I have so many questions, such as:
- How does she juggle her work and family?
- Have any of her children inherited her abilities or expressed interest in following in her and her father’s footsteps?
- Does she still play tennis?
- Has she ever met any ghosts on the tennis court? (The last two are inspired by my love of tennis and a photo I saw of her family with tennis racquets in hand on her Interviews page.)
- Her dad investigated the Whaley House, often called the most haunted house in America. How does she feel about “the most haunted” labels? What are some places she considers the most haunted? (In addition to the Haunt Jaunts podcast, my friends Sara, Deedee and I have a podcast, A Haunt Mess. We recently discussed haunted places of the paranormal, so this topic is fresh in my mind,)
- Does she feel dark entities are more prevalent now, or does it just seem that way thanks to TV shows hyping sensational stories of demons and such?
- Which of her father’s cases intrigues her most?
Check-In
What about you? What kind of questions would you have for her?
For More Information
Visit her website: https://www.alexandraholzer.com/
Follow her on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Alexandra-Holzer-45302129522/?ref=hl
Follow her on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlexandraHolzer
Courtney Mroch is a globe-trotting restless spirit who’s both possessed by wanderlust and the spirit of adventure, and obsessed with true crime, horror, the paranormal, and weird days. Perhaps it has something to do with her genes? She is related to occult royalty, after all. Marie Laveau, the famous Voodoo practitioner of New Orleans, is one of her ancestors. (Yes, really! As explained here.) That could also explain her infatuation with skeletons.
Speaking of mystical, to learn how Courtney channeled her battle with cancer to conjure up this site, check out HJ’s Origin Story.
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I would ask her how old she was when she first became aware of the paranormal. And I’d ask her if she has experienced any poltergeist activities (as opposed to spirits).
Great questions! Thank you!
I would ask her if her father’s work ever came home with him–spirits that may have and of so, how did her mother and even she as a young girl handle it? .