Fiona Broome is a third-generation psychic and medium. She is also a popular public speaker, appearing regularly at events such as Dragon*Con, and conferences related to paranormal topics.

Fiona Broome may be best known as a ghost hunter and the founder of Hollow Hill. However, she is equally respected as a Celtic historian with an emphasis on faerie lore and alternative history.*

BACKGROUND

Fiona was raised in Belmont, Massachusetts, in a family of artists. Her psychic abilities were encouraged from earliest childhood, and her beliefs in mysticism and “fantasy” were supported by Irish and Celtic traditions in her family.

Fiona’s college education included Colby-Sawyer College and Harvard University, and she is also an ordained minister.

Fiona has always been intrigued by the historical and scientific roots of the paranormal and mystical worlds. Her research, writings and art reflect her unique and eclectic beliefs.

SPIRITUALITY

Often described as a “Witch,” Fiona includes the Craft in her practices. For Fiona, truths are universal. They’re at the core of every enduring religion. Fiona’s spirituality is wildly inclusive, combining a variety of traditional and non-traditional religious beliefs.

She is constantly studying ancient, earth-based beliefs and their modern counterparts.  Fiona believes that healthy spirituality evolves to meet the needs of the individual as well as society.  When religion becomes rote, the energy goes flat.

GHOST HUNTER

Fiona is the author of several books, including The Ghosts of Austin, Texas. Fiona’s ghost research mixes her skills as a medium, with documented history and hard-nosed scientific scrutiny.

Because her breakthrough discoveries often focus on the patterns of regional hauntings, Ms. Broome is noted for being able to find unreported and under-reported haunted sites.

FAERIE EXPERT

Fiona has always believed in faeries, and first created furniture for them at age 10 when she read the popular children’s series, The Borrowers.

In the late 1990s, Fiona was one of the leading artists who launched the trend of creating “faerie furnishings” from natural materials. Her 1998 article, How to Make a Faerie Door, has been reprinted widely across the Internet, and her workshops in faerie crafts — and faeries traditions in general — are very popular.

PSYCHIC ABILITIES

Fiona believes that everyone has some psychic abilities. The greatest difference is how much you pay attention to your psychic gifts, and whether you consciously develop them.

As a ghost hunter and medium, Fiona uses a variety of psychic tools, including psychometry, dowsing rods and the Tarot. (Psychometry is the ability to handle an object and detect the subtle energy that it stores.)

As a psychic reader, Fiona often makes direct connections with the client’s friends and relatives on the other side. She sometimes divines messages from the client’s “future self,” and consults the Tarot and astrology for more precise guidance.

WHAT’S AHEAD

Fiona is currently finishing two regional ghost hunting books. One is about New Orleans and the other is about Salem, Massachusetts. Part travel guide and part psychic insights, each of Ms. Broome’s regional books include detailed lists of haunted places and their ghosts. She always focuses on haunted locations that are open to the public.

*Alternative history is the study of history with a quantum twist. Like many physicists, Fiona believes in parallel worlds. She also believes that some people move effortlessly (and perhaps frequently) from one world to another, whether they realize it or not.

Therefore, the “history” that they recall may be different — sometimes in significant ways — from what other people (and historical records) suggest.

That alternate history may include dragons, faeries, and mystical beasts. It could reflect a world in which J. R. R. Tolkien’s works document our very factual past. For Fiona, King Arthur’s and Merlin’s legends are real, not romanticized folklore. Magick and alchemy are true sciences, and ideals are always worth striving for.

Ms. Broome is also the U.S. publicist for celebrity psychic medium Gavin Cromwell.