About Fiona Broome
Fiona Broome is a popular public speaker, paranormal researcher, and a third-generation psychic and medium.
She is the author of several books, and -- when she's not writing or speaking to audiences -- she is an intuitive career counselor and an award-winning fine artist.
With her wild mane of auburn hair and sparkling green eyes, Fiona stands out in any crowd. A member of Mensa, her range of expertise and her wit often take people by surprise.
Fiona appears 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 paranormal researcher and Celtic historian with an emphasis on faerie lore and alternative history.*
BACKGROUND
Fiona was raised in Belmont, Massachusetts, in a family of artists and inventors. 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, as well as studies at M.I.T. She holds a Doctorate of Divinity and became an ordained minister in 1974.
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
Fiona believes that truths -- including spiritual truths -- are universal. They're at the core of every enduring religion. Where a conflict exists among religions or their beliefs, an important truth has been misinterpreted, misstated or overlooked.
Fiona is constantly studying ancient, earth-based beliefs as well as primitive, traditional and modern-day religions. She believes that healthy spirituality evolves to meet the needs of the individual as well as society.
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 talks about the fae world -- 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, Fiona uses psychometry, dowsing rods and other divinatory tools to focus her psychic gifts.
(Psychometry is the ability to handle an object and detect the subtle energy that it stores.)
As an intuitive career counselor, Fiona sometimes makes direct connections with the client's friends and relatives on the other side, and relays their messages. (Fiona often jokes that she's the "psychic answering service.")
More often, Fiona divines messages from the client's "future self," or discerns a clear, spiritual vision of the client's richest and most fulfilling future.
She conveys that vision to the client, and -- if the client is interested in those goals -- Fiona guides the client through the vital, initial steps to make that dream into reality.
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. Much of magick and alchemy are sciences leading to a more lovely future, and virtuous ideals are always worth striving for.