The Holzer Files

I saw a woman who I didn't recognize as myself today,

But I knew I was her.

She was on the third floor in the castle.

She was very upset about something.

I began to feel the horror of something locked away.

And I kept repeating, "I don't want to know.

I don't want to know."

Hans: This is hans holzer, new york city.

Hans holzer, london, England.

Hans holzer in switzerland.

Now going up the stairs in the old house.

Please speak to us.

Man: Get out!

It is not your house anymore.

You 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.

Davide: I began to feel the horror

Of something locked away.

And I kept repeating, "I don't want to know.

I don't want to know."

That doesn't sound like one of hans' regular mediums.

It's not. That was a woman named barbara davide.

Hans interviewed her in 1991

About some paranormal experiences she was having.

In 1972, barbara started having these vivid dreams

About an unknown castle.

She had these dreams for eight years.

Then in 1980, she and her husband were out for a drive

When they stumbled upon this historic building.

She felt compelled to go inside, and when she did,

She recognized it immediately.

It was lambert castle in paterson, new jersey,

The same place she had been dreaming about

For almost a decade.

Well, what do we know about it?

It was built in 1893 by a wealthy silk manufacturer

Named catholina lambert.

He designed the elaborate house for his wife, isabella,

And they lived out the rest of their days there.

Did hans ever encounter their spirits

When he investigated the home?

My father never made it to lambert castle.

He tried several times,

But strange things kept stopping him.

Yeah, unexpected storms, closed roads.

He wrote that he was being blocked

From going there for some reason,

But those that did make it inside

Found an unmistakable presence there.

People reported full-body apparitions,

The sound of a woman weeping,

The strange sense of being drawn there.

Like barbara. Just like barbara.

Hans focused his investigation on her,

Meeting with her and recording her visions.

He always felt that the connection

With her and the castle went beyond her clairvoyant dreams,

Almost as if the castle had a purpose for her.

It seems like the castle is alive somehow.

Hans never made it there,

But I think we need to go to new jersey

And do a full-scale investigation

Of the lambert castle.

Hans holzer investigated over a hundred castles,

From wolfsegg castle in bavaria

To waverley castle in mississippi.

But he never made it

To new jersey's infamous lambert castle

Just a few miles from his home in new york city.

Something kept him away and drew barbara davide in.

The question is, why?

Following the holzer method, our psychic medium, cindy,

Has been kept in the dark regarding this case file.

She'll walk the house cold with our equipment tech, shane,

While I monitor and check her findings

Against hans holzer's research.

Decades after hans first attempted to investigate here,

The museum's directors have granted us access.

So we can finally step inside

And continue his work...

Unraveling the mysteries of lambert castle.

I'll be down at base camp.

If you need me, I'm just a click and a buzz away.

All right, I'm gonna start the thermal camera right now.

Okay.

I feel like I want to start upstairs.

Kaza: Well, this little stretch right here,

I feel really, really uncomfortable right here.

Hold on.

I'm looking down here, and I see this man walking.

I see him wearing a suit, and he's walking around there.

He's calling himself "the money man."

No. I want to go in here.

Okay.

Uh...

Do you see anything on that?

Because I feel really heavy in here.

It feels really heavy.

I feel like I can't focus.

I feel confused, like I'm jumping all over the place.

Ah.

I just need a second to get tapped into this.

Okay.

Ah. Okay.

I see a woman dressed in all white.

But this woman that I'm seeing,

I feel like she wanders the halls of this house.

I feel like she's here a lot, and people must have seen her.

It feels so strange in this place.

I -- it's like I'll get these bursts

Of where I feel a lot of energy, and then it just gets cut.

I just feel like I can't see.

It's just like I feel deaf, dumb, and blind.

I- I feel like I can't --

I'm not myself. That's what I feel like.

I don't feel like myself right now.

I don't know what that even means.

Schrader: Doesn't feel like herself

Is a really weird statement for her to make.

It's almost as if whatever is in here

Doesn't want me to pick up on what's in here.

I feel like I want to go down to the main area

Where I was seeing the man walking back and forth.

Pittman: Okay. Let's go. Okay?

What was that?

I don't know. It's coming from --

Oh. Is it upstairs?

There's a man. There's another man.

He's standing way up on the third floor.

He looks like he's in his 40s,

And he's wearing a nice suit, smoking a cigarette.

He's just saying, "I'm looking for my wife.

I'm looking for my wife."

I don't know why I'm not picking up on her.

But there's a secret there. There's some family secret.

He had a relationship with somebody else

Or would have gotten somebody else pregnant.

There's, like, two different women, or there's an affair,

Or there's something like that that happened.

There is no connection with that.

We'll have to look into that, 'cause I don't know about that.

This is a tough one for me.

I --

I'm trying to tap into it, but I'm being blocked.

It's bizarre, and that doesn't happen very often,

But I'm being blocked.

This is so unlike cindy.

Yeah. I'm frustrated.

I don't...

I don't like it.

Cindy's visions were blocked

In a way that I've never seen before.

Lambert castle has secrets, and it intends to keep them.

I'm heading over to speak to barbara davide,

The reason that hans started this investigation

In the first place.

The spirits of lambert castle may not be willing to talk.

But hopefully barbara will.

I had been having dreams of a brownstone mansion

Three to five times a year for over 20 years,

And I had never seen this place before.

Hans holzer, I felt, would be able to guide me

On a pathway to finding out the reason.

My first dream took place on the veranda of the castle.

And then when I found lambert castle by accident

Eight years into the dreams,

I went on the veranda.

I stood there for a few moments,

And I knew this was the castle from my dreams.

Schrader: Would your dreams repeat themselves?

Would you always see the same story?

No.

Each time, it would be in a different part of the house.

One time, I dreamt I was on the second floor crying,

Heartbroken.

It was me, but it wasn't me.

You knew that you weren't yourself?

I'm not myself. That's what I feel like.

I don't feel like myself right now.

Right. I was somebody else in another time.