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    Possessed? Need help?

    “I am possessed. Please help me.”  “My sister needs an exorcism.”  “I think my house has a demon.”
    That’s what’s in my email most days.  Either someone thinks they’re possessed, or they think someone close to them is.
    Though at least 80% of those emails are pranks — and replies will immediately bounce back as undeliverable email [...]

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Investigations and Touching

"Touching" occurs at some ghost investigations.  The sensation of touch is among our five (or six) senses, and it's one ...

Fiona’s Schedule

Look for Fiona Broome (the founder of HollowHill.com, and our lead investigator) at the following events. Special note:  Through 2010, Fiona ...

Free Worksheet: Evaluating Cemeteries

You can download Fiona's own worksheet for evaluating haunted cemeteries.  It's free, and you can copy it (without changes) for ...

Ghost Hunting in Haunted Cemeteries

Ghost Hunting in Haunted Cemeteries: A How-to Guide is Fiona Broome's detailed guide to finding, evaluating, and exploring haunted cemeteries. In ...

Scams and con artists

Scams and con artists can be in any field. Unfortunately, ghost hunting is especially vulnerable to people whose primary interests are ...

Ghost hunters guide

Which Cemeteries Are Haunted?

The vast majority of graves do not seem to be haunted.  I would guess that at least 95% of graves are simply tributes to a person’s life.  No spirit is there.
Nevertheless, cemeteries are still among the best places to learn ghost hunting.   In most cemeteries, you’ll find at least one or two very haunted graves.
That’s [...]

Haunted places

Bonito City – The Real Story

Bonito City and its ghosts — if there are any — were featured in a recent ghost-related TV show.
The show’s three ghost enthusiasts visited Bonito Lake in Lincoln County, New Mexico. However, their version of Bonito City’s past was very different from actual history, and they may have missed the real ghosts of Lincoln County.
The [...]

Podcasts with Fiona Broome

Ghost-Hunting Reality Shows

Fiona Broome speaks plainly in this podcast about ghost hunting “reality shows” that aren’t real.
She starts by talking about the evolution of reality shows, documentaries, and ghost-related TV programming.
With special nods to the Blair Witch Project, Fear, A Haunting in Connecticut and TV shows such as Ghost Hunters and Ghost Lab, Fiona explains what’s real, [...]

Fiona's blog

Plagiarism Among Ghost Researchers

Plagiarism disgusts me.  There’s no excuse for it.
So, I was disappointed and annoyed when I found one of my original stories on page 148 of the Everything Ghost Hunting Book.
It’s the Colby-Sawyer ghosts story, and it’s an entire section in Ms. Ellis’ book.
It’s written as if the author — Melissa Martin Ellis — had interviewed [...]