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Fiona on the Radio – and in Haverhill

Jul 15th, 2009 | By Margaret Brighton | Category: What's new

UPDATE: Fiona is reviewing last night’s photos and will post a summary next week.  Thanks to everyone who supported Hilldale Cemetery last night by attending this interesting ghost encounter!
On Saturday evening, join Fiona at a “ghost hunt” in Haverhill, Massachusetts.  Here are the details from Pelham Paranormal:
Saturday July 18, 2009:
Join us for another Hilldale [...]



Edith Wharton Home

Apr 23rd, 2009 | By Margaret Brighton | Category: Misc / Archives

Friday, April 25th: Join members of the Ghost Hunters International team with John Zaffis,  Fiona Broome  (HollowHill.com), Gavin Cromwell, and others, as we explore the legendary haunted home of author Edith Wharton in Lenox, Massachusetts.
This is the same site featured in one of this season’s episodes of Ghost Hunters, and we’re expecting it to be [...]



Fiona on Darkness Radio

Feb 28th, 2009 | By Margaret Brighton | Category: Misc / Archives

On Saturday night, February 28th, Fiona Broome was on Darkness Radio.
Show host Dave Schrader led a discussion about haunted Salem, it’s Witch history and Witchcraft in modern times.
The show’s main guest was one of Salem’s leading Witches, Christian Day (of Hex and the Festival of the Dead).
Fiona Broome shared insights related to ghosts in Salem, [...]



Weird, Scary and Unusual

Feb 2nd, 2009 | By Margaret Brighton | Category: Featured articles

Armchair Reader: Weird, Scary and Unusual is a huge book filled with eerie tales and strange trivia, including stories by Fiona Broome.
If you like ghost stories, you’ll like this book.
However, only some of the stories are about ghosts.  Most of the ghost stories in this book are true and located in America.  Others are from [...]



The ghost wore boots – part 1

Oct 30th, 1999 | By Margaret Brighton | Category: California

[as reported in Fate magazine, in an article titled 'Boots']
I lived in a haunted house in California for five years, and this is my story:
Twenty-five years ago, I still believed that you could wish anything to happen and it would. So, when I wished for a house in northern California, I [...]



The ghost wore boots – part 2

Oct 30th, 1999 | By Margaret Brighton | Category: California

At first, I merely felt uneasy.
I blamed it on the black skies outside the windows in my “studio.” In that rural town, there were few city lights to brighten the sky. When we’d first moved there, I’d loved that: I could see the stars as I never had, [...]



The ghost wore boots – part 3

Oct 30th, 1999 | By Margaret Brighton | Category: California

What happened next was the most dramatic event of the haunting:
From the start, there seemed to be two ghosts. Now I was getting a very visual sense of them, though I did not see anything besides their mischief.
I perceived a slender, mournful woman in a form-fitting, slightly gaudy [...]



The ghost wore boots – part 4

Oct 30th, 1999 | By Margaret Brighton | Category: California

Our ghost was considerably quieter–but not silent–after that.
Within a couple of weeks, the house was filled with workmen. We gutted most of the house to remodel it. After that, we did not hear the boots upstairs on our new wall-to-wall carpeting.
We began using the new [...]