The Holzer Files

This is han holzer in new york city.

Hans holzer in london, England.

Hans holzer in switzerland.

Now going up the stairs in the old house.

Please speak to us.

Man: Get out!

This is not your house anymore.

You've died.

You must go away from this house.

No, no, no!

What is it that you want?

My body, where is it?

It is where it belongs.

Wow.

Fighting, murder, and direct contact with a spirit?

Roth: Yeah. This was sybil channeling

The spirit of a colonial soldier.

Where were hans and sybil when they recorded this?

This is hans' 1967 investigation of the barnstable house,

Cape cod, massachusetts.

He was contacted in 1966 by the owner, leonard svenson.

He was operating a restaurant in the building at the time.

According to the letters, the family was seeing objects

Move on their own, light anomalies,

And they saw the apparition of a little girl up in their attic.

My father was about to go to massachusetts,

And then mr. Svenson unexpectedly sold his business

And moved out.

He just left?

Yep. Mm-hmm.

Well, did hans contact the new owner?

He didn't have to.

The new owner reached out to hans

For help within months of acquiring the property.

Same activity?

Moving objects, light anomalies,

The exact same things as the previous owner.

From the recording we just heard,

It sounded like hans was helping the spirit to cross over.

Do we know if that worked?

He believed so.

He never heard of any other paranormal disturbances

After his investigation.

If it did stop, it started back up again.

The building is currently professional offices.

The owner, an attorney named carrie strumski,

Claims that she personally hasn't had any experience

With paranormal activity, but her tenants, their clients,

Just about anybody that sets foot in this building

Has some kind of run-in with a presence.

Just not carrie.

Not that she's willing to talk about.

Interesting.

Well, what do we know about the history of the barnstable house?

It's one of the oldest buildings in barnstable.

It was built in 1716 by james and thomas paine,

And through the centuries, some of the oldest families

In the country have lived there.

It's been everything from a tavern to an inn

To the professional offices that it is today.

With a history that long and so varied,

It's gonna be really hard to pinpoint

Where a haunting like this starts.

Well, my father always said

That the spirits want to tell their stories.

We just need to listen.

Well, then, that's where we'll start.

We'll do a preliminary investigation,

And I'd like to meet with carrie strumski, the owner.

There might be more to her story than she's telling us.

I'll let her know we're on our way.

Great.

Hans spoke with two separate owners of the barnstable house

Experiencing almost identical paranormal activity.

Now, according to the file, they saw full-body apparitions,

Shadow figures,

And the fireplace spontaneously combusting.

And now, 50 years after hans helped the restless spirit

Of a soldier move on,

People are experiencing the same exact things.

Everyone except for the owner, carrie,

But she was eager to accept our help.

So she's opened the place up to us

So we can start with a baseline investigation.

Our psychic medium, cindy, hasn't seen the files yet.

So along with our equipment tech, shane,

She'll do a walk-through of the building uninfluenced

By any of the stories of the owners, past or present.

If there's something still here half a century after hans

First visited with sybil,

Cindy is gonna find it tonight.

All right. We're good to go, guys.

Shane, cindy, baseline investigation.

All right.

I really just feel like I just want to go back there.

Okay.

Somebody was hanged here.

And he feels so pissed off about this.

He has some unfinished business

Because he was wrongly accused of something

Or paid way too much of a price.

He's pissed.

Okay.

I want to go upstairs.

Okay.

I keep hearing a little girl saying my name.

She's going, "cindy, you can't catch me!

I'm over here! I'm over here!"

It's really weird.

I think she went over here.

Wait a minute.

She's gone.

Whatever this is, it moves really, really quickly.

It looks like a ball of light,

But it shoots all over the place, moving really fast.

You can't figure out what it is, where it is,

But I hear a little girl's voice.

So...

This is unbelievable.

When hans was here with sybil leek

And the owners of this establishment back in 1967,

They went into a room and they were blinded

By a large flash of light.

They all saw this, and then it was gone.

Cindy is picking up on this exact same phenomenon.

Okay.

There's a woman that I'm seeing, too,

With really long, black hair.

Do you see what she's wearing?

I see her wearing...

It's like a white dress with this white collar.

So I want to go up on the third floor, upstairs.

What the hell is back here?

What is this?

What is this? This room is scary.

What is this?

I don't know.

It's a weird room.

I just heard something about drowning.

There was a drowning. That's what I just heard.

I feel like there's a lot of tragedy that happened

In this house between the drowning that I'm hearing,

And I keep seeing a death that happened

Around a fire or smoke inhalation.

Has to do with fire.

Cindy is picking up on a house fire.

I can't remember any mention of that,

But perhaps it's something else

That I can locate with the historian.

This place is giving me a headache, massive headache.

Hold on.

I just heard, like, a growl.

You did?

I just heard a growl as we were walking by.

I don't know.

Did you just hear that?

I definitely heard a growl.

We just heard it down here.

I just heard, like, a growl.

Did you just hear that?

I definitely heard a growl.

We just heard it down here.

Just doing a quick sweep.

Okay. I'm not picking up anything on the thermal.

Kaza: There's definitely something up here.

That was crazy.

If last night's baseline was any indication,

Activity in the barnstable house hasn't slowed down one bit,

And some of the things that cindy sensed,

Like the dead child and the ball of light,

They seem to jump right off the pages of hans' file

From over 50 years ago.

Now, before we get too much further,

I'm gonna sit down

With carrie strumski, the owner of the house,

And get her take on the situation.

Carrie, thank you very much for giving us access

To the barnstable house.

You know, we're coming in off of hans holzer's

Original investigation from August of 1967.

Would you mind telling me a little bit