People often ask Fiona which are her favorite haunted places.  Sometimes, they mean which are the scariest haunted places.  For Fiona, those are usually different kinds of locations.

In this podcast, Fiona lists the scariest places as well as her favorite haunted places... and why they are in those categories.

Scariest sites:

Vale End Cemetery, Wilton, NH, USA
The Falstaffs Experience, Stratford-upon-Avon, England - Official website - Fiona's podcast

Favorite haunted sites:

England

Louisiana
New Hampshire
Texas
Re-enactments and living history sites such as Sturbridge Village, MA (official website)

You can encounter real ghosts without expensive ghost hunting equipment.  In this 16-minute podcast, professional ghost hunter Fiona Broome explains how to use your five (or six) senses to find real ghosts and haunted places.

She talks about the kinds of evidence you might see, and what to listen for.  Fiona also shares an easy way to make your hands more sensitive to "cold spots" and exactly how to find them.

In addition, Fiona shares tips for using dowsing rods, and whether or not you should investigate "lights out" at indoor locations.

Related links:
Hollow Hill, the ghost hunting website: HollowHill.com
Fiona's newest Tenney Gate House audio
Fiona's free Introduction to Ghost Hunting course, online
Low-tech ghost hunting (2007 podcast)

In this HollowHill.com podcast, Fiona Broome answers several questions from readers.

Q. Is ghost hunting related to some religion or faith?


Q. Is there really a "witching hour"?


Q. I was at a ghost tour (or a ghost hunt, or saw a movie about a haunting, or a TV show, or a website that claims that ghosts travel through Internet and phone connections).  Now, I think a ghost is in my home (or business, or car).  Is that possible?

Music: Zombie, by Devin Anderson
Related link: HollowHill.com

Fiona answers the most popular, recent questions received at HollowHill.com.

1. How can I join a ghost hunting group?
2. What do you think of ___ TV show?

3. Are "blue light" cemeteries real?

4. Is Pine Hill Cemetery, aka "Blood Cemetery," good for ghost hunting?

Fiona concludes with an update -- and some research tips -- for Old Center Cemetery in Andover, NH.

Several of these questions were addressed in earlier podcasts.  However, friends and fans couldn't always find those podcasts, so we've created a list of them at Hollow Hill's podcasts mini-sitemap.

Most TV shows don't show ghost hunts in cemeteries.  So, why should you and your team bother with cemeteries?

HollowHill.com's founder, Fiona Broome, explains why she prefers cemeteries for several kinds of research, and for training team members. 

Cemeteries can be the most useful sites for ghost research, and provide some of our best evidence for hauntings.  Learn what can make a difference when you next explore haunted cemeteries.

Link: HollowHill.com

Music: Zombie, by Devin Anderson

Can you encounter ghosts during the day? Why do TV shows usually show after-dark investigations? 

In this podcast, HollowHill.com founder, Fiona Broome, talks about daytime and nighttime ghost hunting.  Learn the one time you should look for ghosts at night, and how to select the best hours for ghost hunting at your favorite haunts.

Link: HollowHill.com

Music: Zombie, by Devin Anderson

Fiona returns with bi-weekly podcasts! 

Do ghosts get 'stuck' in our world? Could you become trapped here, after you die?  Fiona shares her observations about why most ghosts are here, and what holds some spirits in this world.

Also, she discusses the trend of 'provoking' ghosts and if that's a useful practice for ghost research.

Link: HollowHill.com

Music: Zombie, by Devin Anderson.

Are children more aware of ghosts?  Do children make better ghost hunters than adults?

In this 15 minute podcast, those questions are answered by psychic ghost hunter Fiona Broome, the founder of Hollow Hill.

Among the points discussed by Fiona:

- Children are more perceptive than most adults, but also less objective.
- Ghosts, especially angry ghosts, can manifest as very large spirits and terrify children.
- Children can be physically, mentally and spiritually more vulnerable than adults.
- Adults are more objective but also less observant.
- Adults are more likely to investigate something odd before calling it a ghost; a child may be frightened and want to leave.
- Teens may be a "happy medium" ... no pun intended.

In this podcast, Fiona also discusses liability issues regarding children, teens and adults.  She explains how to plan ahead in case an adult becomes very frightened or belligerent during a ghost hunt.

For more about this topic, see Fiona's article, Age and Ghost Hunting.

Other notes:  The podcast music was 'Zombie', written and orchestrated by Devin Anderson.

Fiona Broome talks about ghost hunting during the winter. These are some of her suggestions:

If it's too cold outside for outdoor ghost hunts, investigate indoors.  Check haunted theatres, hotels, restaurants, museums and haunted houses.

Review last year's investigations.  Re-read your notes, review your photos and EVPs, and see which sites should be revisited for more research.

Plan the upcoming year.  Include a ghost hunt at one location you've been planning to visit, but haven't investigated yet.  If it's a popular location, make your travel reservations now.

Research other locations using new and popular ghost-related books.  Also skim 19th century histories of your vicinity, looking for references to ghost stories, haunted places and other paranormal phenomena.

Practice with your ghost hunting tools.  The better you understand them, and the easier it is for you to use them in the dark, the more you'll be able to observe during future ghost investigations.

Schedule ghost hunts starting the week before April 30th.  In many cultures, that's a night when -- like Halloween -- the ghosts walk among us.  Discover Walpurgisnacht (or Walpurgis Night) traditions and make the most of them on this second eerie and magical night for spirits.

For more information, visit HollowHill.com, the ghost hunting website.

Psychic ghost hunter Fiona Broome discusses ghost hunting tools.

Using the K-II meter as an example, she comments on the benefits and liabilities of highly sensitive, high-tech ghost hunting equipment.

The more sensitive the equipment, the more it will detect normal -- but often unnoticed -- phenomena, in addition to the paranormal.  For this reason, researchers must do far more extensive baseline studies before relying on sensitive equipment to document ghosts.

The more complex the ghost hunting equipment, the more it can hold the attention of the researcher.  This is a liability as well. 

Fiona suggests that EMF surges, orbs, cold spots, etc. aren't the ghosts; they could be signs of ghosts, or an indication that the door between the worlds has just opened.  If you're busy watching the flashing lights on the meter, you might miss seeing an actual apparition or other spectacular paranormal display.

Fiona also notes that the absence of EMF could be as important as EMF spikes in haunted settings.

Fiona recommends relying primarily on your five (or six) senses.  Ghost hunting tools can support and document paranormal experiences, but they shouldn't be the only way we connect with the ghosts around us.

Links

Grant Wilson (as Grant-o-Lantern): What We Know About the K-II Meter

Ghost Hunting Tools, an article by Fiona Broome

Basic tools every ghost hunter must have, by Fiona Broome

Learn about the ghosts and haunted graves of South Street cemetery in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Hear psychic ghost hunter Fiona Broome describe the haunted hill where the gallows stood, the strange and unmarked grave of Ruth Blay, and the female apparition near the eerie second entrance to the cemetery.

Link: Ghosts of Portsmouth, NH - South Street cemetery

Looking for a really haunted place?  In this podcast, HollowHill.com founder Fiona Broome describes the kinds of places that are most reliably haunted.

In a nutshell, you're looking for locations associated with death or intense emotions, or places where people were in the spotlight (sometimes literally) in the past.

Related link:
How to find local ghosts, a Hollow Hill article

Got ghosts?  HollowHill.com founder Fiona Broome discusses ways to deal with the most frequent type of haunting: Residual energy.  In this podcast, Fiona describes general approaches and some very specific ones.

Related links:
Dealing with a problem ghost, more detailed solutions from religion and folklore
Also see Hollow Hill's other articles about ghosts in your home

In this Hollow Hill podcast, Fiona Broome talks about the difference between an active haunting (where there is a ghost) and residual energy hauntings, which are simply stored energy.

Links:
Gilson Road Cemetery, Nashua, NH - HollowHill.com reports
The Myrtles Plantation - official website
The Myrtles Plantation - the first of Fiona Broome's five-part series of podcasts about the ghosts of The Myrtles

This is the second of a two-part series about haunted Gilson Road Cemetery in Nashua, NH.  Fiona Broome talks about many quirky facts and fables--and ghosts--related to a Colonial site about an hour from downtown Boston, Massachusetts.

In this podcast, Fiona describes the eerie depressions that indicate unmarked graves at the back of this cemetery.  She also talks about the "Betty Gilson, I have your baby," urban legend.

Another tale about Gilson Road involves an insane medicine man who was banished to an island, supposedly where a subdivision stands today.  Is he the one who whispers in the woods at night?

Fiona describes other strange phenomena at the cemetery, from ghostly lights in back of the cemetery to unexplained blue lines in photos taken with several different cameras.

For mroe information, see Hollow Hill's articles linked at Haunted Gilson Road Cemetery, Nashua, NH.

Gilson Road Cemetery in Nashua, New Hampshire is very haunted.  It's a Colonial cemetery with many legends... and even more ghosts.

In this podcast, Fiona Broome describes the location of the cemetery and two strange stories about its history.  She also explains why its actual history is just as eerie as the legends, since the cemetery was isolated when it was built and many people interred in the cemetery don't appear in the town's records.

For more information about Gilson Road Cemetery, see our Hollow Hill reports linked at Haunted Gilson Road Cemetery, Nashua, NH

And, listen next week when Fiona will tell more strange stories about this cemetery.


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Looking for obscure and "missing" ghost stories where you live?  Listen to this podcast to hear how Hollow Hill founder, Fiona Broome, found more than a dozen hauntings in Austin, Texas.  They're victims of Jack the Ripper, before he went to London. 

In Austin, he was named the "Servant Girl Annihilator" by writer O. Henry, who was also interested in ghosts.

In this podcast, Fiona refers to:

- Her latest book, The Ghosts of Austin, Texas

- A Twist at the End, a fictional story related to Jack the Ripper in Austin, Texas

Also, visit our main website, Hollow Hill, the ghost website

Fiona talks about patterns in hauntings, and how they can help you find other, unreported ghosts.  She also discusses Austin, Texas' haunted Shoal Creek and the strange story of Abner Cook why his buildings may be haunted.  Fiona offers her theories about why most hauntings occur after dark, and describes a brief investigation in Austin.

Links:
Fiona's book, The Ghosts of Austin, Texas
Our podcast sponsor: Hollow Hill, the ghost website

Answers to the top questions from Fiona's Dragon*Con 2007 panels:
- What's "normal" at a haunted place?
- How to start a ghost hunting group.

In this informal talk, Fiona Broome describes some of the most reliable free and inexpensive tools for ghost hunting.

Recommended:
1. Coat hanger dowsing rods - homemade and easy
2. Dowsing rods from Dowsing.com - Professional quality and reliable
3. 'Old fashioned' techniques including table tipping, rapping on walls, moving small objects.
4. Electronic Voice Phenomena, also called EVP

Hear Fiona Broome's first-person account of the ghosts of The Falstaffs Experience in Stratford-upon-Avon, England.  It's one of the strangest hauntings, ever.

Links for more info:

The Falstaffs Experience - the official website
Hollow Hill - our own ghost-related website

In this podcast, Fiona Broome talks about real and false orbs in photos.  These may sound like 'common sense' tips to some, but you might be surprised at how many people forget these things when they think they've photographed a ghostly orb.

Ghost hunter Fiona Broome describes two very vivid ghosts at Houmas House in Darrow, Louisiana.  This is the plantation home where movies such as "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte" (Bette Davis) were filmed. 

Once a 20,000 acre plantation, Houmas House has retained its elegance... and its ghosts.  Visitors can tour the plantation house & gardens, and enjoy a gourmet meal in Houmas House's lovely restaurant. 

Plan to spend at least half a day at Houmas House, when you visit.

Related links:
Houmas House official website - Learn more about the history, ghosts, and things to see at Houmas House.  Be sure to see the virtual tour at their website; the haunted spiral stairwell is likely to make you dizzy!

Hollow Hill - This podcast is provided by Hollow Hill, the ghost website.

This final Myrtles podcast summarizes Fiona's on-site research with Margaret Byl of Amateur Spirit Seekers.  It's just an overview, but it'll give you an idea of what you may encounter if you conduct a serious investigation there.

What's key is to notice what should be there, normally, but isn't.

Fiona also talks about the ghost story related to the footsteps on the stairs.  The victim was William Winter, who--in 1871--was shot on the porch of The Myrtles, and then stumbled up the stairs before collapsing near the top step.  He died on the stairs, in the arms of his wife.

Our next podcast will be in about two weeks. Fiona will talk about investigating another wonderful haunted house, Houmas House in Louisiana.

Links:
Margaret Byl, Amateur Spirit Seekers
The Myrtles Plantation
Wikipedia's entry for Myrtles Plantation (mentions Wm. Winter's death)

Fiona reviews the highlights of her previous podcasts about The Myrtles, and then talks about the male spirit in the room, the icy temperatures, the piano music, and the hair episode.  She also describes what she did to get the ghost in the room to stop, and what happened when Fiona decided to leave The Myrtles.

There will be one more podcast in this series about The Myrtles Plantation, to describe stories related to the phenomena, as well as the more serious investigation of the first floor.

Links:
The Myrtles Plantation
Margaret Byl, of Amateur Spirit Seekers
The Myrtles Plantation: The True Story of America's Most Haunted House

Fiona talks about her visit to the cemetery at Grace Episcopal Church in St. Francisville, LA.  She also describes these paranormal encounters:

- Hands holding her ankles in The Myrtles Plantation parking lot
- A "too quiet" sensation after dark at The Myrtles
- No orbs in photos when there should have been some
- A visitor was disoriented on the stairs
- A sobbing voice in the suite bathroom
- The repeated sounds of someone walking up the stairs, and then collapsing

In this podcast, Fiona talks about her first impressions of The Myrtles Plantation and the rooms where she stayed.

She also talks about:
- A cold spot near the top of the stairs
- The swinging chandelier upstairs
- Others' stories about staying at The Myrtles
- Closely examining the house for evidence of a hoax

1. Gilson Road Cemetery
2. Houmas House Plantation (official website), Darrow, Louisiana
3. The Myrtles Plantation (official website), St. Francisville, Lousiana
4. The Myrtles Plantation: The True Story of America's Most Haunted House, by Frances Kermeen
5. Our article about using a hiking compass to detect EMF
6. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (book)
7. The Haunting (earlier movie)

The first in our experiment with weekly podcasts:

1. Ghost story: Energy around graffiti at the Tower of London.
2. Ghost hunting tip: Use your hands to sense ghostly energy.
3. Scariest places?  Vale End cemetery, Wilton, NH - The Tower of London, England - The Myrtles Plantation, Louisiana
4. Website review: OrbStudy.com

Reminder:  There are still a few spots open in our June 2007 investigation/ tour of haunted England.

Have a ghost question that you'd like answered in a future podcast?  Leave a comment at HollowHillPodcasts.com!

 Learn about some of London's most haunted places, including underground stations, hotels, theatres, churches and the Tower of London.

Hear about other ghosts of England at Fiona's Ghost Tours webpage.  Join Fiona in June for nine eerie days and nights, touring England's most haunted places.