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The Ghost Hunter's Strangest Cases Kindle Edition

by Hans Holzer (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
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A famed ghost hunter shares real-life stories of people across America sharing their homes with ghosts and other supernatural encounters.

This fascinating collection contains more than twenty astounding yet true stories about psychic occurrences and uncanny phenomena. With the aid of reputable psychics, famed “ghost hunter” Hans Holzer has researched these cases, interviewing numerous ordinary people who share their days and nights with spectral visitors, both friendly and hostile.

In The Ghost Hunter’s Strangest Cases, Dr. Holzer reopens his files to unfold the most striking cases of people in various walks of life who suddenly, without warning, crossed paths with the Unknown. Before their paranormal encounters, most of the witnesses interviewed herein knew little or nothing about ghosts; none of them sought out these strange visitations. The true stories in this book come from all corners of this country—from New England, to our nation’s capital, to deep in the heart of the South, and all the way to California—these inquiring people went to Holzer for advice, often because they could not obtain satisfactory counsel from ordinary sources, such as psychologists or psychiatrists.
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    February 21, 2012
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0751HSY1R
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fall River Press (February 21, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 21, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1787 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 38 ratings

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Hans Holzer

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Hans Holzer, whose investigations into the paranormal took him to haunted houses and other sites all over the world, wrote more than 140 books on ghosts, the afterlife, witchcraft, extraterrestrial beings, and other phenomena associated with the realm he called “the other side.” Among his famous subjects was the Long Island house that inspired The Amityville Horror book and film adaptations. Holzer studied at the University of Vienna, Austria, and at Columbia University, New York, earning a master’s degree in comparative religion. He taught parapsychology at the New York Institute of Technology. Holzer died in 2009.

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Christa R. Damron
1.0 out of 5 stars Sleep Aid
Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2021
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This book is like reading children’s stories. Boring, boring, boring and uninteresting at every page. Watch The Fog, the
John Carpenter version, for a great campfire ghost story to get this bad taste out of your mouth.
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michilimack
1.0 out of 5 stars Boring, repetitive & poorly written. Life is too short.
Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2011
This is only the second book that I can remember abandoning in my entire life. I threw in the towel around page 220, but to be fair, I had strong misgivings much earlier in the book, having mentioned to my husband several times "This is so stupid!" He told me to stop reading it, but he always wants me to stop reading ghost stories, so I think I kept at it just to show him I could get through it.

These stories all seem to have taken place in the 60's and possibly as late as '71. Most of the main players are housewives from the sixties who have creepy things happen to them but are too afraid to mention it to their husbands because(choose any one of these reasons): he was sleeping, she didn't want to disturb him, she didn't want to worry him, he would never believe her. I was alive in the 60's, were people so much different back then, husbands and wives never communicating? The entire first part of the book is like this, and all are secondhand tales. These tales do not have a ring of truth, and they aren't scary. In the later tales, where he is actually traveling to visit homes and landmarks, he is accompanied by a medium. This section also does not ring true, and has way too much historical data thrown into the mix, which makes it even more boring.

Honestly - I'm not a total skeptic, and I very much enjoy a good ghost story, but this is just repetitive drivel that I refuse to try to work my way through just to be able to say that I have. Life is too short.

One recommendation that I have for ghost story addicts is Haunted Michigan: Recent Encounters with Active Spirits by Gerald S. Hunter. He has traveled to each location and talked to the people who have claimed to have these paranormal experiences. You can make up your own mind as to whether or not you believe the tales, but in any case you'll find them interesting, well-written and scary.
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Rick
1.0 out of 5 stars Not very interesting
Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2013
I have to admit I've never been a fan of Holzer's writing, because frankly he's a terrible writer. He seems to have a good reputation in parapsychology - I'm not criticizing that, or his intellect, etc. He's just a really, REALLY bad writer.

Specifically, he's repetitive, he mentions intriguing things just to abandon them, he's hard to follow, and is in serious need of a (no pun intended) ghost writer since English isn't his first language. The arrangement is also really bad; so far, each story has been separated by nothing more than an extra blank line or two. No titles, no headings within the section. It's - jarring.

This book is really more anecdotes he's familiar with than case descriptions - there's no good information (so far as I've read, just through Section 1), it's just "This person said this happened." There's no MEAT to any of it.

This may just be my perspective, but since he's a scientist, I was hoping for far more information about actual CASES - it is titled "The Ghost Hunters Strangest Cases," after all. Everything here, as I said, has been presented as an anecdote with little to no background information or context.

I'm quite disappointed.
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Pandora Spox
1.0 out of 5 stars The strange case of the unaccountably successful hack
Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2013
Most of the material seems to come from hastily jotted notes Holzer took in the 1960s while talking to various housewives. And he's more than happy to end multiple accounts with "it never appeared again, and they never did find out what it was"-type non-resolutions. For all the Holzer books out there, he doesn't know how to tell a story - or pick one.
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