Episode 688: Hans Holzer - Ghost Hunter

There's no place to escape to, this is the last stop on the left. That's one of the cannibalism started in the start. Whoa, that's not the sound of me slipping out of the bathtub, that's the sound of ghosts! No, that's screaming about you naked, stepping out of the bathtub. That's what it was screaming about, yeah, so it was falling out of the bathtub, and it was different. So, yes, welcome to a ghost town. Actually, I bet you'd be kind of funny falling out of the bathtub, just rolling around mad and all naked and shit. Just like, "I can't reach to it." Well, good last block, guys. I love ladies and gentlemen, my name is Marcus Parks. You're not charged in this episode. Oh, I'm not. That's the lead. That's a great thing. I still have to tell people the name of the show, which you seem to be against. Whoa, that's me falling into the role of hosts. It's Halloween in two days, and you're wearing your St. Patrick's Day clothes. No, it's not. It's Leopardcon in the fucking space. Space has nothing to do with Halloween, either. Weird, new weird, mad Leopardcon is cross-generational welcome. I'm sitting here with the- I guess not as friendly to the Irish Ed Larson. That's right. Do you remember that, you fuckers? God damn it. And I'm also sitting here with our house skeleton, Marcus Parks. Yeah, I mean, I'm here to be a skeleton. I got my egg. I'm good. I got everything I need. You received that egg from the slow-man? The slow-mancer sent me an egg. I have accepted the egg. So, please, so cool. Please watch last stream on the left for more on that. Today's episode. I decided to cover something. This is all me now. Yeah, yeah. I had no researchers. Rachel's out. Mark just gave me the book. I watched Marcus gave me the book. This was a book that I bought in Oklahoma City at a half-priced books where a dog bit me. He's like, yes, and that's the sign. You're about to get lucky. He had a bookstore. Yeah, that's the dog's book. Yeah, when a woman brings in a blue healer that she has absolutely no business owning and less business bringing it into public where it bites strangers in a bookstore. But it got you out of there, though. It did. That's important because today, because you gave me that book, it inspired a whole thing because then I got deep into the world of the man that we're covering today. Now, this is this whole story. A lot of his very interesting hunts, Holtzer, as you will see, is a man that has showed up many times throughout the history of last podcast on the left. I feel like I've heard the name. He has been around. Yeah, we talked about Battersea. He showed up various. He's just one of those guys in the 70s to 80s. He's like, he just showed up at every legitimate goat or every ghost hunting that seemed legitimate. How does he seem compared to the warrants? You will see. I actually find him a little bit more refreshing. He's more like Maurice from the poltergeist, the infield poltergeist. He's more in that realm. Okay, cool. I find Hunts, Holtzer, both more and less serious than the warrants. He is a flare about him, he is a style and they're in a single bit of Christ in this and that's the only thing that really matters to me. And what was it? Please tell the people the name of the book because I bought this book based on the name of the book alone. Go Sive Met! You'll see. Let's all get into it now. And now it's time. We're going to be getting into some of the very, very spooky tales of ghost hunter extraordinaire, Hans Holtzer. That's me trying to read. In today's episode, we'll be covering some of the favorite tales of ghost hunter author, TV presenter, producer and psychic researcher, professor doctor, Hans Holtzer. Is that real? Yes. No. And yes. You will be disappointed to learn as I was that he does not have a very elaborate and stereotypical German accent. I mean, we're very sad. He sadly is extremely boring sounding. So even as we read through his words today, they're going to give him, we're going to give him a little bit more spice. I've heard that his character on the page is more extravagant than the man. Okay. So it's more just a yes. I am the ghost hunter. No, no, no, no, no, no, I'm Hans Holtzer. He's literally just got nothing. No stake. Wow. Wow. He's a true psychic scientist. All right. He wrote over 120 books spanning the spectrum of the capital P phenomena. He claims to have coined both the terms the other side and the term ghost hunter. Okay. Because his first his first book was ghost hunter. But ghost hunter definitely was used before. And the other side was probably used somewhere in the 1800s as well. But he was the first one to claim that he was the first one. Yeah. To say those things. They also coined the less popular phrase ghost lyncher. Very, very controversial. Very controversial. Because it's so hard to tell which ghosts are black. Is that one? Can we start calling priests ghost lynchers like exorcists to ghost lynchers? Yes. God. It's hard. It's a hard out. Really is. Hans is definitely the architect of his own mythos. But he does have a lot of cool shit under his belt to support his legendary status. We would for certain not have the ghost busters or unsolved mysteries. If not for this man, which is more important ghost busters. He is it's easy. No doubt. No, I agree. Yeah. He's of the old school self-taught obsessed and is dramatic as the Phantom of the Opera himself. He definitely has a storyteller vibe to him as the and as you can see, and as the quotes from his first book ghost hunter that I've sprinkled in, you could see that he truly loved to spin a yarn from the get. You know what I learned about the Phantom of the Opera recently? He also had a tiny little half mask for his penis that was half deformed as well. I'm upset you were going against him. The Phantom of the Opera's penis is the only thing it worked on. As the only thing I wanted him to say and it didn't work. He's the pornist frogger that ever was. I mean, if I will say what I know worked on the Phantom of the Opera. When I saw Phantom on Broadway, finally, the thing that worked on that Phantom was his salivary glands. I have never seen an actor spit and throw. I mean, it was the people in the front row were seriously wiping it off their faces. It was so much spittle. That's a real actor. Yeah. Born in Vienna, his family left Europe for New York City right after the invasion of the Nazis. Not. According to Holzer, at the age of three in my native Vienna, my kindergarten teacher threatened me with expulsion from the class for telling ghost stories to my wide-eyed classmates. These, however, were the non-evidential kind of stories that I made out of old cloth. Still, it showed I was out on the subject even then. Apparently, he annoyed his parents so much with his prolific creative output that they bribed in elementary school to let him start kindergarten at the age of five. But, isn't that the age that started to start kindergarten? I think that depends on the bus. Not in Vienna, or nowhere. He's in New York. He's in New York. I think I started early too because I was an early baby. I was like in the year I was early. Yeah, May. I have no idea, man. This is according to the book. Okay. It took hundreds of dollars and a special ukase by the Minister of Education to get me in at that early age of five, but it was well with it to my suffering parents. Maybe in the 40s it was different. Who knows. I think it was like 10. I think he worked until 10. Yeah. And then he got school. He compulsively wrote poems, little theater scripts, and many a ghost story throughout his childhood into adolescence. My quaint writings earned me the reputation of being special, without giving me any compensation of fame or fortune. Gradually, girls began to enter my world. I'm Jesus. This fact did not shatter my imaginative faculties. Oh, no. It simply helped populate my ghost stories with more luring. Female ghosts. Hey, Shirley, I wrote a ghost story. You're in it. You're in it. You want to be the ghost of my ghost story? Get away from it. Oh, there's a shatter my invention faculties. I will simply draw boobies in the margin. He would eventually spend summers with his also, quote unquote, "special uncle" who indulged his young nephews' interest in the occult. Oh, that kind of special. That kind of special. He performed little rituals with him like the raising of the spirits, and they would read through his collection of books on the history of witchcraft and ghost stories. He went onto and still enhanced the view that there is another world across the veil. And that is a nice, innocent uncle story. It's nice to finally have one. It's not like, yeah, my uncle took me behind a shed and he showed me pictures of the heads of the girls that he killed and Vietnam. I think this uncle had a wife. Or he didn't have a wife creating all this pressure to fuck her all the time. Now, Hans studied religious studies in parapsychology at Columbia, which is real. That is real. Yeah, yeah. But he was, then he did claim to have earned a PhD from a fake school called the London College of Applied Science. Oh, Applied Science. Yes, and he has set this for a law time throughout this whole life that's where professor doctor comes from so he did he was a professor and he got a professor ship and he taught all over the world and he taught in colleges and high schools all it's kind of shit but he definitely wasn't a doctor okay but he loved to say he was a doctor of what coast applied science it was ghosts this guy also truly is one of the biggest largest proponents of like it's kind of why ghost busters specifically based on him and and Dan ackroyd had an obsession with him where he legitimately helped develop parapsychology as a legit college course okay so like in ghost busters when Bill Murray's walking around danes of parvin for the first time and he's got the thing and he's like oh dumb shit oh just one of my little toys Hans holzer was one of the guys that developed those little toys yes he was the guy would first use those toys yeah and they were all like look how amazing this is so he's egon he's oh yeah he's egon and race dance okay I don't know I would say the two of them together because he definitely like the ladies Hans maintain a pole that's better bank that is better bank man that way stands could have made love so is everyone but Ernie Hudson yeah he's as powerful a black man as one could be I'm pretty certain I think the only person who's farther from being a black man is French Stewart yeah I saw a raise you'd think he was a sexual but then I remember the ghost blow job yeah I think more sexually frustrated I think Ray could have used a helping hand I feel like Ray needed like an older like Cougar yeah ghost wow big sensual ghost more learning god I'd be so mad if like he had sex with a ghost and then you went to go grab their boobies in your hands just went right through you're like what's the point of all yeah why you even have big boobies just kill me now send me to hell so you're saying that he needed a woman to like bring him into the room and you know take off her pants point to her crotch and say get her get her yeah eventually so he Hans maintained a plethora of different freelance writing and journalism gigs obviously the only regular job he could hold was as a writer and reviewer for magazine's dedicated to doom is Max new mathematics collecting old coins oh right he collected old coins and antiques in boyhood and he made his hyperfocus subject to career eventually he began working with famous transmedium Ethel Johnson Myers Hans would always use the talents of mediums in his paranormal investigations he felt that there were necessary recording instruments for the left behind or spirits found in every type of residence office space or worship house here is a little example of Ethel's work channeling the late Harry Houdini would you please give your full attention now to our distinguished medium Mrs Ethel Myers uh hello I am here that's myself in the tangle here huh can't get out of it's never the last they'll got the powers of freedom but nobody says hello to me hello hurry hey Harry yeah I ask you a question yeah how is your friend Giovanni banana I tell you he's there he's looking at you poking you would you please give your full attention now and it sounds like an old lady with all simmers lost in the forest that's Harry Houdini and it's inside Ethel as you'll see you see the pop as I couldn't find anything any recordings of it but Ethel does a lot of character work of Django here she uh she definitely can't hold all every type of spirit across all ghost races oh yeah okay so when you say all ghost races and channeled every type of spirit so you're saying she made the American ocean wow so human race yeah no ghost races it will because once they're ghosts they can become Ethel they're all right Ethel then yes exactly that Ethel she's just doing characters man but the thing is that when she did a Harry Houdini she just sounded like like a drunk old lady so but when she does other races then she puts on the voice hardcore and I couldn't find the recording of there's one recording of her doing running cloud and I just couldn't get an isolated version of it that wasn't surrounded by a bunch of talking head shit that was really that is it is let's say a bit of a throwback got it so she did it in broken English yes she's in the style of a grand Indian chieftain ah perhaps a little bit like the early work of Paul Rubin yes very similar very simple got a fucking lover now by this point he quit the high octane world of antique coin journalism and he sought a career as a professional paranormal investigator of course it's a lateral move yeah yeah high mortality rate amongst antique coin journalists big turnover it's all the fucking suicides and they realize someone gives a fucking shit yeah but their whole lives yeah the thing is doing both is the ghosts keep stealing the coins yeah and then he's just like what the fucking they fall down from the ceiling and he's like you dinged him I had him all organized by year you did all Hitler nickel they only made five of those I don't know what there is is something funny about a Hitler nickel I just tried some out up here down here everything every here at the coronary we're just trying some now Hans wrote many books about his encounters and according to Holzer there are thousands of houses have not hundreds of thousands all of the world was stay behind ghosts and memories that won't fade keep sharing the apartments with flesh and blood occupants and today we will read transcripts from some of his first books ghost hunter and ghosts I've met what I love about all of these stories is that they read like it's an old time e gossip column but it's about ghosts the polter guys wonderful so it's easy yes it's easy it's easier yeah it's easier so we'll begin with this first one the Riverside Ghost please help me find out what this is all about pleaded the stranger on the telephone I'm being attacked by a ghost the color turned out to be a young jeweler Edward Carolinian of Paris now living in an old apartment building on Riverside dry that's right down the street oh wow for the past two years he lived there with his mother occasionally he had heard footsteps where no one could have walked five or six times he would wake up in the middle of the night to find several strangers in his room they seemed to him people in conversation and disappeared as he challenged them on fully awakening I know everything about vaccine in one case he saw a man coming towards him and threw a pillow at the invader to his horror the pillow did not go through the ghostly form but slid off it and fell to the floor as the spook banish covered in a cub yes a slippery pillow is always a bad thing that's my side pillow the man obviously wanted to attack there was murder in his eyes and mr. Carolinian was frightened by it all although his mother could see nothing he was able to describe the intruder as a man wearing a white uniform like a cook with a hat like a cook and that his face was mean and cruel like a cook like a chef on March 9th I organized a say-ons at the apartment at which a teacher at a Delphi college mr. Der sar kisian and three young like you can definitely tell which neighborhood in Los Angeles he sang and three young ladies were also present Mrs. Ethel Myers was the medium yes although she knew nothing of the case Mrs. Myers immediately described a man and woman arguing in the apartment and said there were structural changes which mr. Carolinian confirmed something is being strangled the man goes away now a woman falls and her head is crushed they want to hide something from the family Mrs. Myers then stated that someone had gone out through the 12th floor window after being strangled and that the year was about 1910 in trance the discarnate victim Lizzie took over her voice and cried pitifully for help great impression markers Albert Mrs. Myers control added that this was a maid who had been killed by a hired man on the wife's orders apparently the girl had had an affair with the husband named Henry the murderer was a laborer working in a butcher shop by the name of mageo the family's name was Brady or oh Brady the wife was Ann after the say-ons I investigated these data and found to my amazement that the 1812 city directory listed in And A Magio, poultry, and both an Anne Brady, and Anne O'Grady, the first name was listed as living only one block away from the house. Oh, yes, Carolinian found out that a young girl, accused of stealing, had killed herself by jumping from that very room. It's real interesting cooperation. But if she jumped from there, wouldn't she be haunting the sidewalk? You think read your story and read your fucking story and know stuff at time. Oh, yes, the haunted chair Henry gave me the gun wrenching story of the haunted chair. Bernard Simon is a young writer with a great interest in the occult and very definitely a budding trans medium. Thank you. He has done a highly evidential trans work in the strange language that turned out on later investigation to be authentic medieval Inca speech of Peru. And he has a number of astral projections as well as clairvoyant dreams. You're going to blow me later. I had a dream. You know the Incans how they are. Yeah, I'm always playing with corn. I'm not going to have to speak Incan, am I? We'll see. Just take a whack at it. His wife, Joan, who was known professionally on the stage name under Joan Lowe. You know, she got that name. Oh, low jobs. Thank you. And is the niece. Oh no, of the screen luminary Joan Crawford. Oh, whom she greatly resembles. Oh, also had psychic talents in addition to her artistic ones. Over the past two years, we have shared a number of saiyans experiences. Hans loves to share saiyans experience with one of his friends wives. I own 51% of his saiyans. A few weeks ago, the Simon's moved into a brand new building on West 12th Street. Shortly after their arrival, Bernard found himself drawn to a certain neighborhood antique shop where he saw a peculiar shaped wooden chair. He immediately felt like he must buy this chair, which is said to be of Mexican Indian workmanship. Give me the chair. I want the chair. Are you sure? Are you sure this is Mexican Indian workmanship? Oh my God, I need two of them. Okay. Oh, then good. He brought the chair of thrown like seat with a round back arm pieces and a strange base of cross staves to his newly furnished apartment and thought no more of the peculiar force that made him acquire this unusual chair. Mexican Indian. A few days later, Bernard. A few days later, Bernard awoke rather suddenly in the middle of the night from a deep sleep. There was enough light in this small apartment to distinguish solid objects from each other. Thank God. Sacket could use that. Help us all. Only hunts holster at Metbom Sacket. You get it taught them all sorts of jokes about pussies. His eyes were drawn to the chair and it sat an extremely tall man. His back was turned to the observer, but it was clear to Bernard that the man was unusually tall before he could get up and challenge the intruder he had vanished into thin air. We're like tall air. Yes, right. You're right. It is more like tall air, but tall guys are also thin. Yeah. I know that where kind of air you have. It's fat. I see you more disappearing into curdled air. It's settled. That's fine. A woman described me a shape like a shallot. Yeah. I'm still haunted by that. Very lovely woman. Both Bernard and Joan Simon continually felt a presence and told me about their strange guests. I promised I arranged for a say out soon and invited Ethel Johnson Myers to come down with me. Without, however, telling her any of the details of the case, on the morning of November 12th, I got an urgent telephone call from Joan, something startling had just happened before her very eyes, her husband, laughingly and tongue and cheek had remarked that he didn't believe in ghosts and there was nothing to their visitor. With that, he got up and went to the kitchen, leaving Joan in the room. There was a small, but fairly heavy metal figurine, a pagoda. It was placed in the middle of the small table near one of the walls. As Joan looked on, the figurine flew off the table and onto the floor with such violence that it broke into. Not my pagoda. Three days later, the say-outs took place. Mrs. Myers took the chair and within moments was in a deep trance. Suddenly, sat bolt upright and the Indian words came out of her mouth. And that sounded like what? Hey, how you doing? What's going on? Wow. Words that Bernard immediately recognized as a couture language. Definitely. The dialects spoke it in ancient Peru. That ancient Peruvian. I know that for a fact. Couture. And couture. And couture is bad. Yeah. First you could chew it. Having learned a few words and couture and prayer formulas themselves, he managed to quiet the ghost. God, I would love to have gotten a recording of Ethel Du and the couture. Oh, yeah. That's all I wanted. It appeared that the man was who was Saka, right? Wasca, wasca. It appeared that the man was wasca. And that he recognized Bernard as his son, apparently, through reincarnation. Oh, he's ancient Peruvian Indian. Yeah, of course. No, it's that's how reincarnation works. It could be anyone. It could be a dog. It had been instrumental in getting Bernard to buy this chair. And then was anxious to make himself known. This having now been accomplished, they're followed a joyful embrace. And then the Indian was gone. Wow. The following day, all knocks and other strange noises that had accompanied the feeling of a presence prior to the sails were gone. The chair no longer moved and squeaked. All had been quiet since the silence. Yes, silent chair. That's what's silent, but deadly. Do you have just you've gone to chair? Yeah, I do have it on to chair. Yeah. What is the deal with that thing? It's just super creepy chair. And the guy said that they've never liked it. Guys didn't like having it in the shop and they said it moves stuff around and having it in the shop. And then we bought it and didn't do anything. No, of course not. No, of course it didn't do anything. I have a question about this though. So according to this story, the spirit of the chair, the spirit of the man, the, the, the, the spirit, the haunting spirit, the Inkin man had been in this chair for years, waiting for the reincarnation of his son to come along. I think no, the, the, the ghost, the Indian man was inside the boy. And then the boy saw the chair and then realized that was my chair in a different life. Yes. That's what it was. It was his old chair. Okay. Now it's back in the house. But the thing is that he's speaking in ancient, never mind. Yeah, you know, there's no reason to get too deep in it. Ethel just wanted to play Peruvian. Okay. You know how hard it is? You want to get, you remember how that big stink that scarlet your handsome played to be a Japanese woman? No, that's right. She wanted that. That was Emma Stone. They're all, they're all Japanese to me. As far as I'm fucking it's, yeah, for sinking Japanese, but it is funny that they got the most wide-eyed American. Yeah, shiny and Asian person. Here we go. Here's my story. Ghostly lover. The ghostly lover perhaps is the most fantastic case of recent, recent vintage. It's a case involving Betty Ritter and the well-known psychoanalyst Dr. Nandor photo. Oh, we've covered Nandor photo. Oh, yes. Very much so. Every character you could think of comes back a lot of times in these cases. Dr. It was a small community. It was. It was a weirdo and weird man. In this small town, Dr. Photo had been treating a certain Edith Burger in Long Island for what seemed to at first be a disturbing symptoms of split personality. And if you know any woman from Long Island, Rob, you know, for a fact, that's just their general character. Now, but Dr. Photo is a trained parapsychologist as well, and he did not fail to recognize the case for what it was. Possession. He suggested that the burgers call in a good medium. I recommend Betty Ritter. Happened to years, Edith Burger's mother told Betty on the telephone how possessive spirit personality had been annoying her and her daughter for the past four months. It seemed that Edith, the daughter, had a gentleman friend, medical doctor who died in the tropics not long before. The very day after his death, the young woman found that her erstwhile sooner had attached himself to her and was forcing himself on her physically. Not allowed. The attacks were so violent, the mother said, that she had to sleep in the same bed with a daughter for protection, but to no avail, the mother also felt the physical contact, so this is the entity. Yes. Yeah, and it should be called ghost rapist, not ghost lover. Love is different on the others. I guess so. I mean, how else is he gonna get it? Oh, I mean, I heard this Jim Krochi song recently called five minutes of love And it's all about five minutes love gets you 15 long years in jail. It's like don't call it love Probably she's got so sick of rhyme and rape and all you got is grape Grape again grape rape date, which means nothing nothing if to make it a proper noun. Yeah Betty concentrated her psychic powers immediately, and we can all be called a form of exorcism Although there was some relief the ghostly boyfriend was still around not a boyfriend Define the restless one standing before her bed stark naked in a menacing mood Betty's context on the other side, however, protected her and took the airing one away So he was gonna get her to okay, and they were like, hey now. Hey, whoa, hey, hey, so she called the ghost police her ghost bouncers. Oh, okay Telling Edith Burger of her experience the next day She accurately described the visitor Her efforts seem to weaken the attack somewhat and several days later she saw him again This time, however, fully clothed he wore riding boots. He carried a whip the burgers confirmed that the man had been a lover of horses Oh, and on April 20th, 1961 Betty Ritter Betty Ritter says so are they saying that he was a horse rapist was all as well I'm right. Okay. Yeah. Loved horses. Yes, actually. He just made love to the horses. Okay. He took them out on dates He asked for explicit explicit fucking Yes, well the thing is you can't ask consent from a horse because all I can say is Don't fuck horses The burgers to find out how things were going The moment Edith answered the telephone the ghost started to pull her hair in a most painful passion as if to prove you still very much in evidence But the violent mind of the young doctor would not accept the separation from his physical body and its pleasures The haunting continued thus Betty Ritter asked me to accompany her to the burger home for another go at the case The burgers turned out to be very level-headed middle-class people and completely ignorant of anything's psychic Edith seemed to be highly nervous. Yeah, quite normal human being. Yes. You think she's nervous. Yeah, highly nervous She's getting raped by ghosts every night old boyfriend almost immediately the entity got a hold of the medium and yelled through her I shall not be pulled away from you. I won't go I learned that the father and at first been highly skeptical of all this. He doesn't even believe in human base rape But his daughter's behavior changed so much and it came so different from her previous character That he had to admit to himself that something on can he was happening in his home Edith would want it to be a singer almost far from tidy Suddenly became the very model of tidiness starting to clean things up and behave like a nurse The profession her late boyfriend had wanted her to follow At times he gets sick. It's a good plan. It is at first. At times she assumed his ailments and passing symptoms at times She would suffer from genuine malaria. He said he had done since Edith was mediumistic It was easy for the dead doctor to have his will the message he wanted her to deliver most was to tell his mother that he was still alive But how could she do that? I'd not reveal her agony One afternoon while she was praying for him. She felt a clutching sensation on her arm Later on in bed. She clearly heard his voice saying it's me done I got me done. We got back from the throp as we got. Yeah See if you could touch your breast for me Bring your mother in here From that day on he stayed with her constantly on one particular amorous occasion her mother clearly discerned a man's outline in the empty bed She quickly grabbed a fly swatter and chased the earth pound spirit out of her daughter's bed Once when she was about to put her on her coat to go out the coat apparently its own volition came towards her as if something were holding for her to slip on Whenever she was with other men he kissed her and she would hear his angry voice But this time to say unscracked his selfish shell. I Haven't been able to finish what I started he sobbed referring to his important medical experiments Oh, is he a gooner? Actually, he didn't say He then asked forgiveness and then he would be allowed to come back to be with Edith now and then So after we left Dr. Fodor had come along to we all expressed hope that the burgers would live in peace But a few weeks later Edith telephoned me in great excitement. The doctor had returned once more I then explained to her that she had a sacrifice Read herself of her own desire to have this man around unconscious though it may be and In closing a door on this chapter of her life Make it impossible for the earth bound one to take control of her psychic energies. I Have heard nothing further. Wow. Yep. It's beautiful cut him off. Um, dump them. That's what that means dump him dump him Don't make his career your career. Don't don't make his life your life. Don't let that your life It's just a ghost if it was his life he'd be alive Ended it But arguably Hans is most famous case that he covered was the amityville horror house Oh really if you remember from Mac when we covered amityville Hans and Ethel Johnson Myers arrived at 112 ocean avenue in January of 1977 Ethel channeled a native American chief rolling thunder who explained the backstory of this cursed land This was the remains of a haunted Shinnecock tribe burial mound and the ghosts of an angry chieftain Enhabited the body of Ronnie Defeo and led him around murder his family that faithful night. Mm-hmm. It was an attack on white people I said an attack on a tally These claims are spectacularly debunked the amityville historical society showed evidence that this section of Long Island actually stood on stolen land of the crown Montauquette a whaling people and craftspin of clam jewellery. That's certainly something that historical society in Long Island would be an expert on is it? The the my talking early section was super crucial on the first creation of moose of the hell They do some of the best red pep fucking pork chop you drop in you get some sweet chili pups you take a fucking Oh, it's nothing like my mother's whisper in cats She fucking loved my fuck a sweep up a pork chops buddy. Yeah, man. These fucking people. They love killing whales and they love wearing clams They love wearing clams. Don't fucking bring up claims to my wife. Oh, you bring up clam jewellery should be talking about for five fucking You could sell it after church on Sunday Now despite all this information Hans believed in Eiffel's abilities and subsequently wrote the infamous book murder in amityville Which would inspire the first sequel to amityville the first movie and according to my count You know that there has been over 70 films using the amityville horror as a space One of my favorite Hans factoids is his lifelong dedication to being a lactarian A vegetarian who also eats dairy, but not eggs. Oh, I'd never heard that before. He's a pain in the ass way to live. I Yeah, that is the feet. That's a an embryo of a chick and he doesn't want to eat a live animal But milk is the byproduct of an animal. Yeah, sure they get tortured To get it, but you know if this alive Now we see the strong dietary stance led to him being this is a kind of a little side quest I took let doing being a light having a lifelong best friendship with a man by the name of Alexander's AKA verbious AKA the king of all witches I'd love this fucking This fucking guy in my research. I became slightly obsessed with Alexander's But it's another story. I got to do it another there's a whole thing there. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing this to you today But some him up for now Sanders is a bisexual wicked version of Alistair Crowley Essentially I'd call his group the ordean de la Luna the paisley OTO It is essentially he went into the women led wickin world Created a new thing called Alexandrian witches after himself and then basically said dudes rule here too Like that's what he did This is like a whole thing guys. It's like it's very it's very funny. He abandoned left and path magic because he was doing it for money and sex. And he said after too many magical gay orgies, it gave his sister breast cancer, right? So that's where he stopped. He got punished for it. - Okay. - 'Cause both the gay sex he was having. - I mean, if it's too much fun, anything that much fun is gonna give you cancer. - That's what I always said. (laughing) - And stress, and stress. He also led the public crusade for the awareness of Wicca, including in developing Alexandria and Wicca, and all this kind of shit. He made a lot of enemies, the rest of Wicca. And in his last years, he spent his time with his coven casting magical workings to revive Merlin's ghost from Atlantis. - Wicca, so Merlin. - Merlin's from Atlantis. - Okay, but so-- - Say Merlin? - Like King Arla. - Yeah, we are Merlin. - It's only one. - So was he alive from Atlantis and tell King Arthur? - He's still alive. - Merlin. - But he's in a ghost state. - Why do I keep saying Merlin? - Merlin. - Merlin. - Merlin. Yeah, he's in a ghost state. He's in a holding state. - Oh, okay, all right. Yeah, he lives forever. - He lives forever. - He plays baseball. - From Florida, Berlin. - He never came back. (laughing) - And they were only around 1990 stuff. (laughing) - I mean, that's the only thing. - Congratulations to the Milwaukee Brewers. - Wow, congratulations guys. But Hans, that's his Hans' best friend. It's just kind of just show like the world he trafficked in because this is really now when you see as he first started writing books, as we can, as happens to every single paranormal researcher, we know the love of Hollywood comes calling. They want it so bad. And Hans is the guy. He's the guy that really made the template for all ghost hunters from then on out. There would be no Zach Baggins and be none of that shit. He led a long, storied career. He was the first TV ghost buster. He had a show called Ghost Hunter. That was in the 1960s and why can't find it anywhere. He was the original producer on In Search Of. - Oh, that's the one with Leonard Nimoy, right? - Yes. - And so he created that show into the when to the '70s and '80s. He's also, there's a current travel channel show called The Holes or Files that is currently going on to the shows that his influence continues to this day. - Their lies, but entertaining lies. - They are. (laughing) - That's right there. - As the ladies have now people, it's this group of guys, it's, this show's been on since 2019. - Jesus. - It is something like several hundred episodes where they just go through his files and they try to just go and do the, they just cover his files. - Man, it's not paying attention to cable altogether. - Yeah, it's hard, man, because there's a lot of these, but these guys are making a lot of money and these are the guys eating our lunch at these cons, guys. - It's true. - Well, you know, we can work on this. - Yeah, but they charge for their autographs. - It's true, we won't do that. - So, now this book, 'cause the reason why I kind of focused yet, yeah, is, no, that's what we need it. - Yeah, I don't know, yeah, I don't know. - We'll be charging. - We do our 70s and we do last podcast. The left comes back to do our big like 40 year anniversary and we're in wheelchairs and stuff. You'll see it. - Yeah, yeah, when we're charging for autographs, why don't you go and just put an extra five in there? - Yeah, we're gonna need it. - Yeah, we're fine. (laughing) - Bye from North way. - So this little, the reason why I got obsessed with this book, because much like all, again, lots of ghost hunters, he's a genuine starfucker. Right, like he loves celebrity. So he moved to L.I. for like 15 years and he would just go to famous people's, like showed up, like he wouldn't go to big parties and all this kind of, it became kind of ingratiated all these celebrity scenes and then just essentially just reported on the ghosts of various celebrities and their families. - Okay. - So this is the first one called The Stranger at the Door. - I have found that there ghosts and all sorts of places, and ancient castles, modern apartment houses, farms, and ships, but it's somewhat of a jolt to find out you've lived in a house for a few years and didn't even know it was haunted. - What? - But that is exactly what happened to me. - That doesn't necessarily mean it's not haunted, it's just that you didn't see it. - For three years, I was a resident of a beautiful 29 story apartment building on Riverside Drive. - More Riverside. - I lived on the 19th floor and seldom worried about what transpired below me. - Stop it around. - She stopped smashing dishes. - This movie is refrigerator back and forth. - But I was aware of the existence of a theater and a museum on the ground floor of the building. I was also keenly aware of numerous inspired paintings, some Tibetan, some Occidental adorning the corridors of this building. The museum is nowadays known as the Riverside Museum and the paintings are largely the work of the great Roorach, a painter who saw his inspirations mainly in the mysticism of Tibet where he spent many years. And his return from the east. - It's about your ass, you're dead. (laughing) - I got him too. (laughing) - That's fucking piece of shit, dude. - And his return from the east. His many admirers decided to chip in a few million and build them a monument worthy of his name. Thus in 1930 was raised the Roorach building as a center of the then flourishing cult of Eastern mysticism of which Roorach was the high priest. After his death, a schism appeared amongst his followers. An Exodus took place. A new Roorach museum was established by Sina Fostick and is still in existence a few blocks away from the imposing 29 story structure originally known by that name. In turn, the building where I lived changed its name to that of the master institute. Combination, apartment building and school and of course art gallery. It was in February of 1960 when I met at a tea party. Yes, there are such things in this day and age. A young actress and producer, Mrs. Rowland, who had an interesting experience at my building some years ago. - That is Gina Rowland. - Ah, the famous actress, Gina Rowland, who is preferring to. - Gina Rowland, who was in woman under the influence. A famous of fairy famous, she was a wonderful actor favorite of it at John Casabetti's. - She was not sure whether it was 1952 or 1953, but she was quite sure that it happened exactly the way she told it to me that winter afternoon and the apartment of famed author Claudia Delice. A lecture meeting dealing with Eastern philosophy had drawn her to the Roch building. Ralph Houston, the imminent philosopher, presided over the affair and a full turnout it was. As the speaker held the attention of the crowd, Mrs. Rowland's eyes wandered off to the rear of the room. Her interest was invited by a tall stranger standing there the door listening quietly and with wrapped attention. Mrs. Rowland didn't know too many of the active members and the stranger whom she had never seen before fascinated her. His dress for one thing was most peculiar. He wore a gray cotton robe with a high-necked collar, the kind one season oriental paintings and on his head he had a round black cap. He appeared to be a fairly young man, certainly in the prime of his life and his very dark eyes in particular attracted her. For a moment she turned her attention to the speaker when she returned to the door. The young man was gone. "Pecilia!" she thought. "Why should he leave in the middle of the lecture?" He seemed so interested at all. At the devotees of mysticism slowly filed out of the room, the actress sauntered over to Mrs. Foster Dick whom she knew to be the boss lady of the group. "Tell me," she inquired, "who was that handsome, dark-eyed young man at the door?" Mrs. Foster Dick was puzzled. She did not recall any such person, the actress then described the stranger in every detail when she had finished Mrs. Foster Dick seemed a bit pale. Get her a banana. But this, you know, sometimes my foster Dick gets pale. "Minds brow, dark gray over here. Off." But this was an esoteric forum, so she did not hesitate to tell Mrs. Rowland that she had apparently seen an apparition. What was more, the description fitted the great Roorach in his earlier years to a tea. Mrs. Rowland had never seen Roorach in the flesh. At this point, Mrs. Rowland confessed that she had psychic abilities and was often given to hunches. "That's so sad, that's. " There was much. There was much. "They say they're beautiful and a lot." "You just get into a beautiful, you just gotta be psychic. You're incredible." "Can you see these, are they?" "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you can really see them." There was much head shaking, followed by some hand shaking, and then the matter was forgotten. I was, of course, interested for what would be nicer than to have a house ghost, so to speak. He started to get just desperate. House, house, ghost. Yeah, well that'd be great, a house, ghost. House, ghost. The next boarding, I contacted Mrs. Fostick. Unfortunately, this was one of the occasions when truth did not conquer. When I finished telling her what I wanted her to confirm, she tightened up, especially when she found out I was living at the enemy camp. Oh my god, he would know the difference. Empatically, Mrs. Fostick denied the incident, but admitted, knowing Mrs. Rowland, with this I returned to my informant, who reaffirmed the entire matter. Again, I approached her. Mrs. Fost Dick with the courage of an unwelcome suitor advancing on the castle of his beloved. Fully aware of the dragon's lurking in the moat. I love the sky. Well, I explained my scientific reasons for wanting her to remember the incident. She launched into a tirade concerning her withdrawal from the original Roorach group, which was fascinating, but not to me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, shot the fuck out. I have no reason to doubt Mrs. Rowland's account, especially as I found her extremely well-poised, balanced, and indeed psychic to large swinging psychic abilities. I only wonder if Mr. Roorach would sometimes honor me with a visit. Or vice versa, now that we were neighbors. I'm slick. He read that slick. Thank you. Well, you know, he has a slick vibe. That's what I get. I get the slick vibe. And just all suits, she's real great. And she was married to John Casabetti's. Yes, yeah, general. All right, I got another one. Yeah, and this is yours now. The Spectral Mary, Queen of Scots. That's right. Back of Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, residents of Mary, Queen of Scots. All right. And other Scottish monarchs, you know, stands a little house of modest appearance going by the quaint named of Crofton Ray. This house was once owned by James. Earl of Jones, I mean, Maray. Half brother of Mary and Regent of Scotland in her absence. Today, the house is subdivided into three apartments, one of which belongs to a Mrs. Klein. But several years ago, this was the official residence of the Warden of Holyrood Palace. The Warden is the chief guide who has charge of all Chorus traffic. David Graham, the one-time warden, has now retired to this house at nearby Portobello. But 14 years ago, he had a most unusual experience in this little house. We had fun. That will trade Uno. There were 12 of us assembled for Sayots. Not a call, he said. And we had Helen Duncan, who's now dead. And our medium, there we were, seated quietly in the top floor of Crofton Ray, waiting for developments. Helen Duncan, go raster rotten fat and soul. You'll sit here, dude, nothing in me, sitting in me here, Crofton Ray, I kill her again. They did not have to wait long. A figure, materialized before their astonished eyes and was recognized instantly. Mary Queen of Scots herself. It's so good to see you again, man. It had been to this house many times in moments of great emotional turmoil. Within a moment, she was God damn. On several occasions, Mr. Graham recalls. He saw the ghost of a short man in 16th century clothes. "I am French!" The man insisted. "I won't, okay." Graham thought nothing of it. Until he accidentally discovered that the house was built by an architect, "Maint French!" Jesus! Oh my God! French stewart again. "I am French!" "I am French!" "I am French!" "Yo, soy French!" "I am French!" Yeah, like our friend, Neil French. Yeah, he was helped us out with many an episode over the years. I wonder if he's related. He might be, because he is of a, he's of Northern stock. Well, French is the first name. French is the second name. Oh, is it? That's what I would imagine. Oh. Neil, are you the other French or are you related to this architect named French? Get it back to us. Yeah, but there's French stewart. No, and he also remember Neil took us around Edinburgh. I know. That's what I was saying. So it might work. It's actually French stewart was born with the name "French stewart." Really? That's interesting. No, it's not real. It was German stewart. Right. So you wouldn't even believe the other celebrity he got to meet. He had several long exchanges with Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson. He saw blob in the shape of Alexander Hamilton. He was rapping and rapping and rapping. So you're believing that? And then he spoke to his old favorite comedian actor, Clifton Webb. Oh, Clifton Webb, but he'd known for it. Well, due to poor health, he spent the last five years of his life as a recluse at his home in Beverly Hills in October 13th, 1866. Webb suffered a fatal heart attack. He was 76 years old and now he's laid in crypt, 2350, corridor G6. And the Hollywood Forever Cemetery alongside his beloved mother. Let's dig him up. Let's dig him up. Let's dig him up. The only information you could find about him. He made a bunch of short reels and then he lived with his mother until he was 71 years old. And then when she died, he died quickly after. So he was with her whole life and then he was very much a closeted gay man. Oh, okay. He loved him, but a funny one. Yeah, Clifton. Dry. Ah, dry humor. Also Hans Bitt, Woodrow Wilson. Oh my god. Yeah, what a lucky guy. Hans was. He kick him in the nuts. He should have. You know, in this personal life, the man married Catherine Boe de Voven. I believe it's Boe de Voven. Boe de Voven. The sixth generation to send enough Catherine to great. Goes to show you the spooky goth dudes who look like Eddie Munster can pull a baddie if you could take under enough haunted locations. They did get divorced, though. Probably because of his crazy high sex drive and his giant coin collection. Now, when you say giant coin collection, do you mean his coin collection was giant or collected giant coins? I think it's giant coins. It's like, we need dishes, huh? See, Hans was also-- Yeah, yes, the Batman. Yeah, the Batman. Hans was particularly proud of his picture of the ghostly monks of Winchester Cathedral. He was there alone with his wife. I bet he left a couple of ghostly monks behind as well. What is that? It's come. Now, if you look at the picture here, you can see that you see here where I guess there's no-- You can see other there's a podcasting. It is an audio meeting. I know, but there's a picture here. There's a bunch of people standing in a dining room. And if you see it, that monk, there's like a character right here, like a hooded character right there. He said that character was not there. That hooded guy. Oh, really? Yeah, and he said, it is the picture. It was just quiet. Maybe. Gordon Holtzer. I'd heard that a number of persons had seen picked figures of ghostly monks walking processions in Winchester Cathedral. When no living monks had set foot since the early 1500s, when Henry the Eighth had executed many of them on the very spot. I took pictures in four different directions. When the photos were developed, one of the four pictures I took showed three hooded monks walking in procession. Interestingly, it seemed to be walking at a level someone lower than they should have been as if their feet were in the cathedral floor. I found on later, however, that the floor of the cathedral was raised a century after the last monk had been driven out. Oh, he's such a good, he's so good with the, I later discovered. He's so good. He just has that turn. Let's sit back there. Would you need that with a ghost story? You need that. Trust me. So this is really just a, a smattering of all the stories. I want to go through all of it because I just feel like you can go buy all the books. They're all like kind of like a lot of them are out of print, but they're a lot of them run Kindle. It's really fun ghost stuff. They kind of feels from a bygone age. You know, it's like this is really like I for some reason, why do I believe in these ghosts more than modern ghosts? You know what? I will say they're good stories. All right, they're fun stories. They're meaty. He's a man of many, you know, big history. Yeah, I love that. He's like a starfucker even for ghosts. That's the thing. We're also looking for famous ghosts. So he would go to places where they're famous ghosts and trying to meet them. There are several ones that he met. I'm gonna quote where he, but the thing is it was all through a transmittium. The most famous ghost has to be Lucille Ball, right? Of all time. Yeah, Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln's been seen as a ghost a lot. Yeah, yeah. The Lincoln bedroom famously haunted in the White House. I'd say Abraham Lincoln's the number one most famous ghost. Yeah, that it like is around often. Take that Lucy. Yeah, fuck you Lucy. Yeah, I didn't even know Lucille Ball was a ghost. Yeah, she hunts her home and you get the people who live in her home say they hear her laughing. Really. So Hans, Hans Holtzer was a grand ambassador for the other side. He devoted himself to the sciences and mysteries of death and truly died of a long illness. That's a, that must have been so exciting for him. And that's it. That's my Halloween little ghost episode. We got a bunch of ghost stories in there. That was nice. That was real nice. Good work, man. That was a lot of fun. We've been a while since we've done some ghost shit. You know, it's hard because they get the bunkton. It's just not the, it's hard to, you got to, you got to kind of work yourself up to being ready to be spooked. Yeah, yeah, you really do. And yeah, you know, a lot of ghost stories. It's just, it's hard to find the ones that aren't just mentally ill people. Yeah, it is. It's a lot of that. A lot of that. You call my mother mentally ill? Yes, yes. And my mother thinks she sees ghost dogs. My mom talks to angels. She sees saints and stuff like that. Jesus, my mom is living the life of like an ancient witch. It's the ghost spiders you got to watch out for it always. And the ones in your legs, go to patreon.com. So it's last podcast left. You can list to his ad free. You can also watch movie stories that's on there. You can also see last stream on the left live every Tuesday. 5 p.m. PST go and check us out. Go check us out on the social medias and help you on the left with all the horses. Go buy our new live show tickets. We got side stories live still out there. Last podcast on the left dot com. Yeah, December 11th. We're going to be in Iowa city. But all the other side story shows are pretty much sold out. Yep, so fly to Iowa city, but you can come see Henry definitely fly to Iowa city. You're going to love it there. I honestly think I got somebody actually read me like you got to go to Iowa city. So it told me that recently the only reason why they're saying that they said the food's good. I've been to Iowa city. Yeah, before I went for the green gravel comedy festival. I talked about this when we were talking about side stories. It was Dave Willis and I that's right. And everybody. It's the drunkest place I've ever seen, but I'm excited. I can't wait. I've ever viewed it as like a wintertime destination, but we're going to make it that. It's going to be wonderful. But if you want the week before Henry and I are going to be at the ice house in Pasadena for Ed Larson and friends hosted by Henry Zabrowski, that's going to be a fucking blast. And then right after Iowa city on December 13th, I'm going to be in St. Louis. That's right over at the helium comedy club. It's going to be a fucking blast. I'll be there with Logan Mets. And then in January, January 24th, I'm going to be in Nashville at the Zany's comedy club with the reformed doors. And then the next week after that, I'm hitting Rochester. That's right. January 29th and 30th. I'll be a comedy at the Carlson with Danny Bedrojan. And then on the 31st, I'll be in Albany, New York at the funny bone with the wonderful Danny Bedrojan. He can't get enough of Rochester. No, he loves it up there. You. Oh, me. You love it. They wanted me back for some reason. You love it. They were like, don't bring Henry back. Hey, man. Hey, I miss it. I want to move there. I see it there. Go see us. And I'll go check our new YouTube. Rochester, New York. Not my hometown of Rochester, Texas. Never in a thousand. There is a stage still in the abandoned high school, which I suppose you could perform on. I want to perform for all the debt cheerleaders. No, perform for all the meth heads and the elderly people because that's all it's life. Hey, I'll suck up their last coin. Yeah. You know, they're an audience. Go and check us out on all the YouTube's. Love you all. Happy Halloween. Hell Game. Hell Patrick Stewart. Yeah. Yeah. He said it goes. That's his favorite. He said it goes. Yeah. Finally, they're not going to make him run anymore. And I'm happy. Yeah. He doesn't have to do that. He can stop running. He can rest. The last generation. Yeah.