Joe Felz
Licensed electrician, off-grid solar educator, real-estate entrepreneur, and rare-book digitizer with over 1.4 million followers, dead at 40 in August 2026 — days after telling his audience he was about to release a free public archive of scanned antique religious, Masonic, and occult texts.
| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Full Name | Joseph "Joe" Alx Felz |
| Born | c. June 26–27, 1986 (turned 40 in late June 2026) |
| Died | Announced August 3, 2026 |
| Age at Death | 40 |
| Location of Death | Augusta, Georgia area (per reporting; GBI Medical Examiner involvement) |
| Cause of Death | Reported August 7, 2026 as hanging — see "Official Determination" below |
| Official Ruling | Reported as suicide by the GBI Medical Examiner's Office (attributed to TMZ reporting) |
| Nationality | American |
| Killed on US Soil | Died on US soil |
| Category | Energy Educator / Licensed Electrician / Content Creator |
| Investigation | Energy |
Assessment: UNCERTAIN — OFFICIAL SUICIDE RULING, DISPUTED BY HIS AUDIENCE
Joe Felz died at 40. Reporting on August 7, 2026 attributed to TMZ states that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Medical Examiner's Office determined by autopsy that the cause of death was hanging and the manner was suicide. That determination — not the online theories — is the only official finding on record, and it should be treated as the baseline fact of this case.
What keeps this entry open is the gap between that finding and the reaction of the people who followed his work: a large audience reports that he said on camera he would never take his own life and told followers to ask questions if anything ever happened to him, and he died roughly 72 hours after signaling the imminent full release of his scanned rare-book archive. This page documents both the ruling and the dispute. It does not assert that he was killed. No agency has called the death suspicious, and his family has repeatedly and forcefully asked the public to stop speculating.
Official Determination
- August 3, 2026 — Death announced via a joint Instagram post by his partner, Alxzondra. No cause given.
- August 4, 2026 — TMZ, People, The Sun and others reported the death. All stated the cause and manner were unclear and not announced.
- August 7, 2026 — Reporting attributed to TMZ stated the GBI Medical Examiner's Office determined the cause of death was hanging and the manner was suicide.
Readers should note the limits of what is verifiable here. As of this writing, the suicide determination is sourced to that reporting rather than to a primary GBI press release we have been able to locate, and it was not present in the August 4 articles. Aggregator and obituary-farm sites that have circulated the same claim are not independent confirmation. If a primary GBI release contradicts or refines this, this page should be corrected.
Circumstances of Death
His death was announced on his social accounts on August 3, 2026 in a joint post from his partner, Alxzondra:
"With word rapidly spreading, I wanted to put out a formal statement. Joe Felz has left this earth and has finally found his free. I don't have many words right now, but I ask that you please give myself, Joe's family, and all of his loved ones the space and time needed to process a loss of this magnitude. Thank you for your prayers, your love, your understanding, and for remembering Joe for the life he lived."
The post included a message attributed to Brandy:
"The manner in which something occurs should never overshadow the end result or the legacy that is left behind. Think before you speak. Consider who will hear your words, and honour those who have yet to speak."
On August 4 she followed up, directly addressing the speculation already spreading:
"What is not helping, and what Joe would have been absolutely ashamed and disgusted by, are the false narratives, assumptions and speculation that are already circulating… there is a real family trying to process an unimaginable loss, and social media rumors that flow into local real life should be the last thing we have to deal with right now. I promise that, when the time is right, the truth will come. Right now is not that time… honor the man instead of feeding the rumor mill. Respect the family he loved and the people he leaves behind… If you weren't shoulder to shoulder with him — you likely don't know the whole story — and it's not your place to fill in the blanks."
The months before his death included significant loss and disruption. His father, Mike Felz, died in May 2026 per some reports, after a period in a nursing home with Parkinson's. An emergency-room visit preceded a break from social media. His last solo Instagram activity was around late June 2026 — photographs of injured birds — with joint posts into early July 2026 referring to "healing." His birthday post on June 26, 2026 read: "The man is 40. Celebrated simple and sweet with a few of the lifers."
Background
Public records and his own statements connect him to Augusta, Georgia addresses. In one long-form profile he said he was born in Papua New Guinea to missionary parents working with formerly cannibal tribes — his mother gave birth without painkillers and his father delivered him. The family left when he was months old due to illness, and he grew up in the southern United States.
His father, Mike Felz, was a medical researcher and endurance athlete who qualified for the Boston Marathon and competed in triathlon at 54. Felz described a childhood built around morality, responsibility, courage, resilience, and faith, with twice-daily Bible readings. He said cognitive testing placed him in the top 99.8%. As a boy he was drawn to animals and snakes — he considered herpetology — and to the independence he saw in construction workers and the manual trades.
He took up combat sports at 13 (kickboxing and MMA) and turned down college wrestling. He became a serious endurance athlete: ultrarunning at 25, 40, and 50 miles, obstacle course racing, a three-mile swim, CrossFit. He said his medals weighed roughly 35 pounds. His mantras came out of ultrarunning — "Intensity and focus" and "You've been here before, how long can you stay here?" — alongside the biblical formulation of power, love, and self-control.
He publicly described himself as an eight-time convicted felon who served prison time and was released with $50. He rebuilt through real estate. In 2011 he founded Felz Investment Group, a Georgia LLC with its principal office historically tied to Old Louisville Road in Augusta and Joseph Felz as registered agent. The business acquired, renovated, and wholesaled property, running single-family and short-term rentals in Georgia and Washington State. His personal portfolio was described at one point as roughly 65 rental and investment properties, working off-market deals; some accounts put his career volume near 300 homes bought and sold without traditional mortgages. His stated motto for that side of the business was "People before profits."
Related ventures included Firethorn Realty, Firethorn Homebuyers, Creative Construction ("This ain't HGTV, cuz"), Felz Vans ("Find your freedom"), Felz Media Group ("Reality TV lives here"), and FelzApps — including FelzHouse and FelzHouse Manager for renovation management, and the FelzCalc solar design tool. He told the prison-to-property story on podcasts including The Titanium Vault and Second Story.
After a divorce around May 2022 he moved into a van he called "El Suave" as a deliberate exit from conventional life. He later relocated toward Costa Rica — a small farm in the mountains of the Alajuela area, with contracts near the beach — alongside his partner Alxzondra, herself a bus-conversion content creator. He traveled extensively: fishing villages in Colombia, the Nicaraguan border, Guanacaste, canyoning at La Fortuna, rafting the Sarapiquí, tuna fishing off Coco Beach, national parks, surfing. He lived off-grid for more than two years across van and bus conversions that at times housed several people.
Following: more than 1.4 million combined across Facebook and Instagram — Instagram @joefelz at roughly 770,000+, TikTok @joefelz, YouTube @joefelz at roughly 110,000–121,000 subscribers, and Facebook as Joe Alx Felz. He had no known personal X/Twitter account — all discussion of him on X is third-party.
Energy Connections
Felz ran Felz Energy Consultants (felzenergy.com), which he described as a "non-traditional renewable energy braintrust" focused on energy independence for ordinary people. The pitch was blunt: "Own your energy" — education plus hardware so a household owns its power rather than renting it from a grid.
He came to it as a licensed builder and electrician in Georgia, licensed in South Carolina for relevant construction permits, who had lived off-grid for more than two years. His demonstrated range ran from building solar generators from scratch to whole-home off-grid systems, powering a house from a truck, a pyrolysis trailer, and an off-grid bus.
What the business actually offered:
- Solar design — free system configurations for clients, $75 otherwise; the FelzCalc tool checked electrical compatibility and generated professional wiring diagrams, released free with a login
- Installation — learn-by-doing, with the guarantee "charge off the sun before the day is over or your money back"
- Training — live sessions on electricity fundamentals, sizing panels, storage and output, series vs. parallel, components and terminology, with eligibility for in-person training in Costa Rica
- Systems — NEXUS + APEX-6.5K off-grid packages; BigBattery ETHOS batteries with hybrid inverters for grid-tied and ESS configurations from 10 to 46 kWh, UL9540-listed with long warranties; control boxes and balance-of-system
He kept the framing practical: how many panels, can it run the air conditioning, how long does the battery last.
Collaborations and R&D:
- BigBattery Inc. (Eric Lundgren, Marshall Neipert) — product research and development
- Parker Edmundson — wireless power transmission research
- Julian Brown (NatureJab) — historic solar-powered microwave pyrolysis converting trash and plastic into gas and fuel, with a solar trailer powering the reactor. Felz's line on it: "Seeing gas made from sunlight and trash." Related to the Recycoline / plastoline work.
In Costa Rica he designed a hybrid renewable system integrating water, wind, and sun — his observation being that days without sun usually bring wind or rain. It paired Big Battery Nexus batteries with Apex inverters switchable across 120V, 230V, and 208V three-phase, projecting 80–110 kWh/day against a household need of 10–20 kWh. He stated an intent to donate the surplus to cover utility bills for indigent families. He planned seminars in Costa Rica on energy and agriculture, and offered free community training in electricity and construction.
His video work was heavily hands-on: van solar tests running air conditioning all day on 660 W of panels while still charging, 11.8 kW system builds, heat-to-electricity concepts, and an analogy he used constantly — energy as water, where width, depth, and speed map to voltage, amps, and watts.
He was not an over-unity or free-energy device inventor. That distinction matters on a page like this one. His project was mass adoption of practical, legal, off-the-shelf independence — not a suppressed machine. Some of his later content did link energy to frequency, ancient artifacts, and archaeology in Costa Rica and Central America, including cave sites and symbolism.
The Rare Books and the Digital Library
Through 2025 and 2026 Felz collected antique volumes and began high-resolution scanning them for a free public digital archive at felzbooks.com, accessible with a free registration. The site was live with partial access months before his death, and traffic reportedly surged after it.
Titles he showed and discussed repeatedly:
- 1812 Bible including the Book of Esdras, Wisdom of Solomon, the Apocrypha, and Psalms
- 1878 German Bible with Apocrypha
- 1884 Catholic Bible with newspaper clippings and reference sections
- 1895 reference Bible with translator biographies
- Lost Books of the Bible
- Conversations on the Bible — Enoch Pond, 1889
- Encyclopaedia of Witchcraft & Demonology — Russell Hope Robbins, 1959, covering the inquisitions and Salem
- Ancient Magic, Magnetism & Psychic Forces — L. H. Anderson, 1895, Masonic Temple Chicago imprint. He treated this as the obscure one: hypnotism, mind control, and magnetic and electrical principles of the Earth
- History of the Jews — Henry Hart Milman, 1866
- History of Freemasonry and Concordant Orders — 1891
- History of Freemasonry — Daniel McDonald, 1898
- Physics and Physiology of Spiritualism — William Hammond, 1871
- Am I a Jew or Gentile — Thomas Davies, 1893
- Original works of Flavius Josephus — Whiston editions with unique plates and maps
- Egyptian mythology, cosmology, creation, and Zoroaster titles; and his father's missionary book on Papua New Guinea
His videos showed the physical stacks, page-turning, and scanning progress — thousands of pages in single sessions, with milestone posts like "2 out of 4 massive bibles scanned… 2,219 pages." He argued the editions contained inconsistencies with modern history, and drew links between frequency, magnetism, and energy. He said he intended to upload them unaltered for public preservation, asked his audience whether to release them, and framed the project in lines like "the internet and the world needs this" and "one day all secrets will be brought to light" — a "library of Felz" set against the Library of Alexandria.
An important qualifier, in fairness to the record: the core texts he was scanning are public-domain works that have been freely available elsewhere for decades. What was genuinely unique were his specific physical copies — particular plates, printing variants, and maps. Multiple people have confirmed those scans remain accessible after his death.
Why This Death Raises Questions
- He was 40, a competitive endurance athlete, and by public accounts physically healthy
- His audience widely reports he said on camera he would never take his own life, and told followers to ask questions if anything ever happened to him
- Posts circulating afterward place the signal of an imminent full archive release roughly 72 hours before his death
- He sat at the intersection of three subjects with dedicated followings — energy independence, antique religious and Masonic texts, and archaeology — which his audience read as a combined profile
- No cause was released for four days, and the ruling reached the public through entertainment reporting rather than a primary agency statement we could locate
- The volume and speed of the online reaction was itself large enough that his family had to publicly ask people to stop
The Counterargument
This is the section that should carry the most weight on this page.
An official determination exists, and it says suicide. Unlike nearly every other case documented in this investigation, there is no missing ruling here to fill in — reporting attributes a completed autopsy and a manner-of-death finding to the state medical examiner.
The documented context is consistent with that finding. His father died in May 2026. He had an emergency room visit. He went quiet on social media, and the last posts before his death referred to healing. He had recently gone through a divorce and a total restructuring of his life across two countries.
None of the classic suppression markers are present. There are no reported threats, no lab raid, no confiscated equipment, no patent secrecy order, no gag order, and no seized research — the elements that define the genuinely suspicious cases on this page like Floyd Sweet or Michael Zebuhr. His work was legal, commercial, publicly documented, and used off-the-shelf hardware. His archive was public domain material. He was not sitting on a suppressed invention.
The people closest to him have rejected the theories outright — repeatedly, in writing, while grieving. That deserves more weight than the volume of online reaction.
The honest reading is that a well-loved man with an audience primed for suppression narratives died young, and that audience supplied a story faster than the facts arrived. This entry exists because the "he told us he'd never do this" testimony is real and widely attested, not because the evidence supports foul play. It does not.
If you are struggling, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is available 24/7 in the US — call or text 988.
The Online Reaction
Discussion on X after August 3 was substantial, and it is worth documenting as a phenomenon rather than as evidence.
The most-shared framing came from @JasielCTH on August 5: "Joe Felz! They are REMOVING truth tellers! ☠️" with video, reshared by @PaulGoldEagle and others, drawing thousands of likes and reposts. Other posts asserted variously that he was killed, tied his death to his free-energy content and his 200-year-old Bibles as a "triple threat," drew parallels to claims about other figures in the space including Julian Brown, and pointed to his own statements telling followers to dig if anything happened to him. Accounts such as @Justice4JoeFelz formed around the case. When the suicide report surfaced, a portion of that audience shifted to "they made it look like…" rather than accepting the finding.
A great deal of the surrounding discussion consisted of unsupported accusations against named agencies, governments, and ethnic groups. Those claims are not reproduced here — no evidence has been offered for any of them, and repeating them would be neither honest nor responsible.
The book-related discussion was more concrete: lists of the specific titles, claims that a full release was imminent 72 hours before his death, calls for his partner to finish and publish the archive, questions about whether videos had been deleted, and confirmations that felzbooks.com remains live with the scans accessible after free registration.
Note on identity: all reporting, business filings, social accounts, and public records point to Joe / Joseph Alx Felz of the Augusta, Georgia area. There is no contemporary "Joe Phelps" matching this description, and the name occasionally appears through transcription error.
Video Evidence
Commentary clip circulated after Felz's death, captioned "Joe Felz! They are REMOVING truth tellers!" Source: @JasielCTH on X, August 5, 2026 — reshared by @PaulGoldEagle, August 7, 2026. The framing in this post is the poster's claim. The official determination reported two days later was suicide.
Content and Public Footprint
His YouTube channel carried well over a hundred videos: solar installs across van, home, trailer, and pyrolysis rigs; off-grid walkthroughs ("Could You Live in My Van?", "What It's Like to Live in A VAN | Inside El Suave"); construction and real estate; travel through Costa Rica, Colombia, and fishing trips; archaeology, artifacts, symbolism, and frequency; book-scanning sessions; his personal story ("How I Became A Felon"); a keynote at a Dallas builder convention on off-grid solar and entrepreneurship; and collaborations.
The recurring themes were authenticity, freedom, practical energy independence, truth-seeking through old texts, community, and anti-corporate energy ownership — plus healing, which he tied to place: "Costa Rica is a place where hurt people get well." His Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook mirrored the same, along with meet-and-greets in Augusta. His business sites remained active with booking and training calendars extending into late 2026.
See Also
- Bob Boyce — HHO electrolysis inventor and energy-independence advocate
- Ken Rasmussen — pulsed electrolysis researcher whose associate was threatened at gunpoint
- Gerald Schaflander — solar hydrogen vehicle inventor
- James Allen — filmmaker documenting zero-point energy testimony
Other Shocking Stories
- Michael Zebuhr: Shot in the head after the robbers already had the purse. Advisor then got a threat.
- Eugene Mallove: Cold fusion's loudest voice beaten to death with 32 lacerations and a crushed trachea.
- Andrew Riley: Age 33, killed when a sealed palladium cell exploded — contamination found inside it.
- John Mullen: Arsenic in his supplement. The only suspect died days before her arrest.
Sources
- TMZ — Influencer Joe Felz Dead at 40
- The Sun — Influencer Joe Felz's loved ones blast 'false narratives'
- yourNEWS — 'Truth Seeker' Joe Felz Dies at 40 as Family Urges Public to Reject Speculation
- Yahoo / People — Influencer Joe Felz Dead at 40
- Felz Energy Consultants
- FelzBooks — About
- Joe Felz on YouTube
- @JasielCTH on X, August 5, 2026
- @PaulGoldEagle on X, August 7, 2026
- Georgia Secretary of State business filings (Felz Investment Group LLC, 2011)
- The Costa Rica News long-form profile; podcast appearances on The Titanium Vault and Second Story
Status: Deceased (2026)
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