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1920, An Austrian-Born Ghost Hunter was in the making. Professor Dr. Hans Holzer, best known for his plethora of hundreds of cases worldwide dealing with the paranormal and the occult, deeming him the given phrase of The Father of the Paranormal. In 1935, at the age of fifteen, Hans became an avid collector of antiques and coins and was an ardent bibliophile. The 1928 book, Occultism in This Modern Age by Dr. T.K. Oesterreich, a professor at the University of Tubingen in Germany, began Hans' approach to ghosts. His was of an idle curiosity mixed with a show me kind of skepticism. He took a course in journalism and began selling articles to local papers. In 1949, he went back to Europe as an accredited foreign correspondent, with the intent to write articles on cultural activities, the theater, and human interest stories. He began to compose music and write scores in New York, which later lent it's way to Off Broadway success in Manhattan. One year later, Hans returned to Europe visiting many cities including London, and was invited backstage at The Hippodrome Theater where comedian Michael Bentine, was appearing. After Mr. Bentine offered Hans a home-grown tomato instead of a drink, the two hit off being Hans was a vegan. Through mutual friends, back in Manhattan he began work on a television series based on actual hauntings. He'd meet regularly with others at the Edgar Cayce Foundation in New York. The purpose was that he was on a quest for truth in the vast realm of extrasensory perception. From then on, he devoted more and more time to the field. One of the great mediums, Eileen Garret, president of the still today, Parapsychology Foundation in New York, in 1946, worked with Hans and encouraged him to write about his work. 1963, his first book was born, titled, 'Ghost Hunter' and went into an unheard of eleven printings. 145 more books would follow. Hans stated sometimes an "ordinary" person does manage to see or hear a ghost in an allegedly haunted location, be it a building or even an open space. Such a person could be sensitive or mediumistic, without knowing it and is less usual then one might think. The Holzer Method was born before the 1950's, where combining the work of those with sight and that of the academic and science stance to the field, would yield far better results in obtaining data to help us further understand what happens when we die. Even though Hans was artistic and therefore sensitive person, he did not profess to mediumship and certainly would not be satisfied with the meager impressions he may garner himself, physically. A more advanced psychic talent would be needed for better results. So he took his "sensitive" with him or what became affectionally knowns as his medium-in-tow, on cases to try and solve them for all those involved. On his research, he said it always took places after the investigation was closed. "Ghosts are people too," he'd famously say, expressing how with a haunting they may be unhappy, have memories and are incapable of escaping by themselves from the vicious net of emotional entanglements. "It's not a good idea for a ghost hunter to be afraid of anything, because fear attracts undesirables even among the unseen." His career was a unique whirl wind of books, research, lectures, teaching, hundreds of national and regional talk show appearances, co-hosting/hosting programs such as Ghost Hunter on Boston's Channel 2, NBC's In Search Of with Leonard Nemoy (an Alan Landsburg productions), Beyond The Five Senses in Louisville, KY, Explorations with Brownville Productions in Ohio. In radio, he had a continuous segment with New York City's WOR station with famed radio personality Joe Franklin who still remains a family friend. Some books and case work yielded films such as Amityville 11: The Possession, the adaptation from his best selling novel Murder in Amityville, based on his work on the case in Amityville, Long Island and The Amityville Curse, which also became a film in 1989 that went to Sweden, the US in 1990 then in 1991, released in Japan. Holzer became and still is considered a leading authority in the field of the paranormal, having earned his PhD from the London College of Applied Science. He has spent over six decades traveling the world to obtain first hand accounts of paranormal experiences, interviewing expert researchers, and developing para-psychological protocols and terminology such as 'sensitive' and 'beings of light.' He taught a class in parapsychology at the New York Institute of Technology for for nearly a decade. One of his favorite quotes comes from T.S. Elliot's Confidential Clerk saying blandly, "I don't believe in facts," but Hans did. "Facts, come to think of it-are the only things-I really do believe in."- Heather Strube was born on 20 April 1984. She died on 26 April 2009 in Snellville, Georgia, USA.
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Enzo Monteduro was born on 12 August 1937 in Scorrano, Apulia, Italy. He was an actor, known for Kidnap in Rome (1976). He died on 26 April 2009 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Actress
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Macha Béranger was born on 22 July 1941 in Vichy, Allier, France. She was an actress, known for Les brigades du Tigre (1974), Funny Boy (1987) and Secrets of the Satin Blues (1981). She died on 26 April 2009 in Perray-en-Yvelines, Yvelines, France.- Writer
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Claude Desailly was born on 14 April 1922 in Cambrai, Nord, France. He was a writer and actor, known for Les visiteurs (1980), Les yeux cernés (1964) and Ce soir les jupons volent... (1956). He died on 26 April 2009 in Gordes, Vaucluse, France.- Pichin Plá was an actress, known for Marcelo Zona Sul (1970), André, a Cara e a Coragem (1971) and Os Mansos (1972). She died on 26 April 2009 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Donald Specht was born on 18 June 1929 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Donald was a composer and writer, known for Sonar One-Step (1978), Something About Photography (1976) and The Hugga Bunch (1985). Donald died on 26 April 2009 in Studio City, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Daryl Hury was born on 9 January 1974 in Edinburg, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Buttleman (2003) and A Thief of Time (2003). He died on 26 April 2009 in Edinburg, Texas, USA.
- Chuck Gradi was born in 1938. He was an actor, known for F.I.S.T. (1978), Tabitha (1976) and Deadly Game (1977). He died on 26 April 2009.
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Mitko Moskov was born on 25 October 1931 in Bulgaria. He is known for Tazi krav tryabvashe da se prolee (1985), Momcheto si otiva (1972) and Prebroyavane na divite zaytzi (1973). He died on 26 April 2009 in Sofia, Bulgaria.- Writer
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Masakazu Shimura was a writer and assistant director, known for The Shogunate's Harem (1986), Shikake-nin Baian (1981) and Roaring Fire (1981). He died on 26 April 2009 in Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan.- Ivo Hrdina was born on 3 November 1934. He was an actor, known for Darling, Are We a Good Match...? (1975), We'll Kick Up a Fuss Tomorrow, Darling... (1976) and I Know You Are a Murderer... (1972). He died on 26 April 2009.