For over 30 years, Fiona Broome has been an author, researcher and paranormal consultant.

(Yes, she started very young.)

An unabashed geek, Fiona analyzes and sometimes predicts paranormal activity.  She’s fascinated by the reasons why some places and object (or the people around them) seem haunted… and others aren’t.

Luckily (for her, anyway), she usually finds answers in history and geography.

Fiona’s research and her contributions to over 15 books are always based in documented facts, history and science.  However, she also delights in the fun and folklore that make paranormal reports intriguing.

Online, she’s respected as the founder of Hollow Hill, one of the Internet’s oldest and largest websites about ghosts and haunted places.

Since 2006, Fiona has also been an annual, invited Guest and speaker at Dragon*Con.

In October 2011, Fiona will appear in Ontario, Canada at the 2nd Annual G.H.O.S.T.S. Conference, and in Austin, Texas at the Central Texas Paranormal Conference.

After that, Fiona is scheduling no personal appearances.   She’s turning down interviews, TV and radio shows, and she’s rarely online.  To some, she may even look like a recluse.

Because so much of Fiona’s  research applies to the  popular subject of ghosts, many people associate her exclusively with that field.

However, Fiona’s actual studies cover a far wider base.

Paranormal patterns

Ms. Broome has attracted attention for her groundbreaking studies of paranormal patterns.  Using history and geography as a base, Fiona is able to predict anomalies such as hauntings and UFO reports.

• In Austin, Texas, she discovered the connection between Abner Cook, haunted Shoal Creek, most of the major hauntings in downtown Austin, and the tragedy at the (haunted) University of Texas tower.

• In Salem, Massachusetts, Fiona discovered the Judges Line, a path of tragic events, crypto zoology, and hauntings related to the Salem Witch Trials.  It’s one of at least two patterns researchers can use to find ghosts in the Salem and Danvers areas.

• In New Orleans, Fiona uncovered a little-known tragedy from the colonial era.  Its community-wide impact connects almost every haunting in the French Quarter, and adds a startling perspective on why specific downtown New Orleans areas flooded during Hurricane Katrina.

• In northern New Hampshire, another pattern reliably predicts the locations of paranormal reports.  Those locations include the site of America’s first reported alien abduction, as well as the happily haunted Spalding Inn.

Ghost photography

Fiona has taught Ghost Photography since the 1990s.  Her book, Ghost Photography 101, documents the potential for false anomalies in settings with high humidity, dust, smoke and other problems.  This book also explores new and unusual opportunities for researchers who want to photograph orbs and other evidence of ghosts.

Paragenealogy

Ms. Broome is one of the world’s top paragenealogists.  Drawing on over 30 years’ experience, Fiona uses historical and genealogical resources to uncover the reasons why certain locations — and people — trigger more paranormal activity than others.

With hauntings, Fiona digs beneath the surface of folklore and popular legends to expose the real names and histories of ghosts.

However, even when Fiona debunks a story, she usually finds far more related, eerie and paranormal events… and the chilling history-based facts that explain why.

For example:

• No child was poisoned at The Myrtles Plantation, but there’s far more to The Myrtles’ hauntings than the history of a vindictive servant.  And, there may be a very troubling reason why people so clearly hear strange things at The Myrtles, at night.
• No servant leaped to her death from the third floor of New Orleans’ “haunted mansion,” also known as the LaLaurie Mansion.  However, two of Madame LaLaurie’s nearby residences may be even more haunted.
• Though it may seem like fiction, The Hound of the Baskervilles was based on a real spectral hound that is still sighted in locations across England.  Even more strange, it’s tied to a particular family with a wealth of bizarre paranormal reports.

As a consultant, Fiona has worked with many psychics, paranormal researchers and haunted locations to document the facts — and fiction — behind popular ghost stories, UFO reports, and baffling anomalies that seem to echo popular sci-fi TV shows.

Writing

Fiona is the author of over a dozen books, with many more scheduled through 2012.

Some of Fiona Broome’s recent books

More books that include Fiona Broome’s research and stories

Fiona has also written for many magazines, including publications as diverse as Fate, Herbal Quarterly, MIT’s Tech Talk, and Romantic Times.

Contact

To contact Fiona Broome, use the Contact link at the top of this page.  (However, when she is researching or writing a book, you may not receive a quick reply.)