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Featured articles

Fiona’s Schedule

Oct 12th, 2009 | By Fiona Broome | Category: Featured articles

Look for Fiona Broome (the founder of HollowHill.com, and our lead investigator) at the following events.
Special note:  Through early 2010, Fiona is working on her writing projects, including her two upcoming regional books, The Ghosts of Salem, Massachusetts and The Ghosts of New Orleans’ French Quarter.
During this time, she’ll be making very few personal and [...]



Haunted Salem – Celebrate magazine

Oct 8th, 2009 | By Webmaster | Category: Featured articles

Do you love Halloween?  At Hollow Hill, we do!
So, we’re especially delighted to see Fiona quoted in the new, Halloween issue of Phyllis Hoffman’s “Celebrate” magazine.
Look for this great magazine — shown at right — at your grocery store or at any magazine outlet.
“Celebrate” is similar to Martha Stewart’s magazine, but with a wider range [...]



Free Worksheet: Evaluating Cemeteries

Sep 1st, 2009 | By Webmaster | Category: Featured articles

You can download Fiona’s own worksheet for evaluating haunted cemeteries.  It’s free, and you can copy it (without changes) for your own use or for your team.
This worksheet is explained in Fiona’s upcoming book, Ghost Hunting in Haunted Cemeteries, but most experienced ghost hunters will be able to use the worksheet right away.  A brief [...]



Scams and con artists

Jun 12th, 2009 | By Fiona Broome | Category: Featured articles, Ghost hunters guide

Scams and con artists can be in any field.
Unfortunately, ghost hunting is especially vulnerable to people whose primary interests are financial gain, celebrity status, or power.
I’m not talking about people who mistakenly think they’re more skilled than they really are.
I mean the people who look you straight in the eye and tell you lies for [...]



Salem’s Ghosts – The Judges Line

Mar 1st, 2009 | By Fiona Broome | Category: Featured articles, Fiona's blog

Patterns emerge when I study profoundly haunted (or “active”) areas. They help me identify overlooked ghosts and paranormal phenomena.
In my previous book, The Ghosts of Austin, Texas, I described two major paranormal patterns connecting almost all hauntings in downtown Austin.  With that information, ghost hunters can find dozens of unreported and overlooked  hauntings to investigate.
In [...]



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 [...]



‘Haunted Times’ recognizes Fiona Broome

Aug 25th, 2008 | By Fiona Broome | Category: Featured articles

The Fall 2008 issue of Haunted Times magazine recognized Fiona Broome in its elite list of “respected members of the paranormal community.”
Fiona was delighted and surprised to see her name on the list in this glossy, high-quality publication.
Fiona was mentioned in connection with her research at The Falstaff’s Experience in Stratford-upon-Avon, England.  She confirms [...]



Review: Brandywine Valley Ghosts

Jul 3rd, 2008 | By Fiona Broome | Category: Featured articles

Brandywine Valley Ghosts by Laurie Hull is a fun book to read whether you’re a ghost hunter or someone who enjoys real ghost stories.
Ms. Hull is the kind of ghost hunter — and author — I admire. In this book, she mixes well-researched history, chilling ghost stories, amusing anecdotes, and first-person encounters with ghosts. [...]



Free course – sign up now!

Jun 24th, 2008 | By Fiona Broome | Category: Featured articles

Hollow Hill’s founder, Fiona Broome, has created a free, four-part course, Introduction to Ghost Hunting.
This free course is for beginners who want to learn the basics.  It will prepare you to join a ghost hunting team and conduct your own paranormal research.
Sign up using the form below. Your first lesson will be sent to [...]



Been to Gilson? Tell us!

Jun 7th, 2008 | By Fiona Broome | Category: Featured articles, What's new

We’re preparing a report about paranormal experiences at Gilson Road Cemetery in Nashua, New Hampshire. We’d like to include stories of real encounters, as well as a profile of how haunted it is.
If you have been to Gilson Road Cemetery — whether or not you think it is haunted — we’d like to hear [...]