The Haunted Palace

Before chasing spirits was popularized by television ghost hunters armed with digital gadgetry and infrared video, one young woman traveled to the darkest corners of the globe, communing with the dead and chronicling her experiences in pen and ink.

At the time, Countess Catherine Buxhoeveden was married to famous paranormalist and author of 140 books Hans Holzer, and for years she and her husband sought out ghosts all over the world. He wrote about their haunted adventures and her illustrations brought the dead and their often forbidding dwellings to life. A Southampton resident, Ms. Buxhoeveden recently had a show of her drawings and a collection of new paintings at the Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor, where she was joined by her 37-year-old daughter, Alexandra Holzer. An author and rising star in the paranormal world in her own right, Ms. Holzer signed copies of her new memoir, “Growing Up Haunted,” which recounts her colorful upbringing as the child of a countess and a ghost hunter.

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