Most were about ghosts and ghostly phenomena, sporting titles like Famous Ghosts, Ghosts That Aren’t, Haunted Places, Poltergeists, and Stay-Behinds, a term that Holzer may, indeed, have coined to describe individuals who didn’t pass on when they died and were “confused as to their real status.” Whatever the case may be, Holzer followed up Ghost Hunter with a dizzying array of more than a hundred other books on the subject. It was called Ghost Hunter, a phrase that some say Holzer claimed to have invented, though another famous paranormal researcher, Harry Price, had already used the term in the title of his own 1936 book, Confessions of a Ghost-hunter. He published the first of his many, many, many books on the subject in 1963. After arriving in the States, Holzer studied Japanese at Columbia University, dabbled in theater where he wrote reviews and even a musical called Hotel Excelsior, and claimed to have obtained a master’s degree in comparative religion and a doctorate in parapsychology from the London College of Applied Science, before finding his ultimate calling hunting ghosts.
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