Talk:Hans Holzer/Archive 1

Doctorate?
Doctor Hans Holzer? Doctorate in what subject? Conferred by what institution? I'm going to "be bold" and delete the title until such time as it's confirmed. -- Davidkevin (talk) 22:27, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

He earned his Ph.D. from the London College of Applied Science —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.244.122.243 (talk) 19:37, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

http://ukdata.com/company/06081433/LONDON-COLLEGE-OF-APPLIED-SCIENCES-LTD This college at one time did exist

However, without a reference, I believe the line relating to this alleged PHD should be removed — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.44.52.0 (talk) 15:17, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Yeah multiple media organization have been unable to locate this school. It simple doesn't exist. Noted it in the appropriate place and removed it from his education summary in his bio box. It's silly to have non existent entities in that box. Mindme (talk) 17:48, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

Novels

 * The Red Chindvit Conspiracy (1970)
 * Born Again (1970)
 * The Psychic World of Bishop Pike (1970)
 * Prophets Speak (1971)
 * The Alchemy Deception (1973)
 * Possessed! (1973)
 * The Habsburg Curse (1973)
 * The Clairvoyant (1976)
 * Psychic Detective: The Unicorn (1976)
 * Star of Destiny (1981)
 * The Entry (1981)
 * The Secret of Amityville (1985)
 * Prophecies (1995)

Anthologies edited

 * Tales at Midnight (1994)

Non fiction

 * Ghost Hunter (1963)
 * Ghosts I've Met (1965)
 * Yankee Ghosts (1966)
 * The Lively Ghosts of Ireland (1967)
 * ESP and You (1968)
 * The Truth about Witchcraft (1969)
 * Window to the Past: Exploring History Through ESP (1969)
 * The Aquarian Age: Is There Intelligent Life on Earth? (1971)
 * The New Pagans: An Inside Report On the Mystery Cults of Today (1972)
 * Beyond Medicine (1973)
 * Great British Ghost Hunt (1975)
 * The UFO-NAUTS: New Facts on Extraterrestrial Landings (1976)
 * The Psychic Side of Dreams (1976)
 * Inside Witchcraft (1980)
 * In the Terrifying Tradition of the Amityville Horror: Houses of Horror (1983)
 * Where the Ghosts Are: The Ultimate Guide to Haunted Houses (Library of the Mystic Arts) (1984)
 * Ghosts of New England: True Stories of Encounters With the Phantoms of New England and New York (1989)
 * Haunted House Album: A Ghostly Register of the World's Most *Frightening Haunted Houses (1992)
 * Americas Mysterious Places (1992)
 * Love Beyond the Grave (1992)
 * Life Beyond: Compelling Evidence for Past Lives and Existence After Death (1994)
 * The Directory of Psychics: How to Find, Evaluate, and Communicate with Professional Psychics and Mediums (1995)
 * The Secret of Healing: The Healing Powers of Ze'Ev Kolman (1996)
 * Ghosts: True Encounters with the World beyond (1997)
 * Are You Psychic?: Unlocking the Power Within (1997)
 * Hans Holzer's Travel Guide to Haunted Houses (1998)
 * More Where The Ghosts Are: The Ultimate Guide to Haunted Houses (2001)
 * Beyond Death (2001) (with Phillip Solomon)
 * Hans Holzer's Psychic Yellow Pages: The Very Best Psychics, Card Readers, Mediums, Astrologers, and Numberologists (2001)
 * Hans Holzer's The Supernatural: Explaining The Unexplained (2003)
 * Hypnosis: Controlling the Inner You (2007)

1st sentence
hi. i think the 1st sentence would probably read better as, ""Hans Holzer (26 January 1920 – 26 April 2009) was a pioneering Austrian-born American paranormal researcher and author." 63.142.146.194 (talk) 04:24, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

False PhD claims
Apparently Holzer pretended he had PhD. I have just found this paper, it says:

"Mr Hans Holzer has no Ph. D. from the university of London, a fact readily established from British reference books that publish dissertation titles. His information supplied to Contemporary Authors and other publications correctly omits any reference to that university. Who's Who in America accepted his Ph.D. on his words. He currently holds no academic professorship listed in the National Faculty Directory."

Holzer was a proponent of the pseudoscientific belief of psychic archaeology. The paper criticizes some of his ideas.

Marshall McKusick. Psychic Archaeology: Theory, Method, and Mythology. Journal of Field Archaeology. Vol. 9, No. 1 (Spring, 1982), pp. 99-118.


 * I think this is already covered in the article as best we really can, quoting: "claimed to have obtained a Ph.D. at a school called the London College of Applied Science." There was an earlier discussion (see above) where some other text was removed because there was no proof of his Ph.D. --Krelnik (talk) 20:27, 13 May 2016 (UTC)


 * I can't find any other information about his alleged PhD. I have tried to improve the article but won't be working on it any longer, I probably will add the above source just for clarification. HealthyGirl (talk) 15:49, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

Leaving Vienna for the USA
Hello, My dad was friends with Hans Holzer in Vienna. They were apparently the only two teens in the city's formal stamp collection club. My dad stayed in touch with Holzer for most of his life and I met him as well. My father says that the Holzers were Jewish and left Vienna in 1938 because they recognized that they were in danger. - Susan Subak — Preceding unsigned comment added by Greenhistoria (talk • contribs) 05:39, 10 January 2021 (UTC)