Fiona Broome’s podcasts

What are "era cues" and how can they trigger ghostly encounters?

In this 12-minute podcast, Fiona Broome discusses the concept of "era cues" as presented on an episode of Ghost Lab.  She explains how you can use them to improve your research results, as well as what you encounter during ghost tours and events.

Links to more information, referenced in this podcast:

Ghost Lab - TV episode (Disturbing the Peace - 6 Oct 2009)

The Myrtles Plantation - official website

John Sabol - MySpace - Book: Re-Haunting of Gettysburg (at Amazon.com)

The Spalding Inn - NH hotel

Salem, Massachusetts - "Witch City" - Salem Witch House

Paragenealogy - Fiona's book about research ghostly history

Gavin Cromwell - Former research associate

Music: Zombie by Devin Anderson

For more information about this podcast, see HollowHill.com's article on Era Cues.

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What do ghosts look like?  In this 18-minute podcast — the first of two — Fiona Broome explains what to look for, if you’d like to see a ghost.

She divides visual phenomena into five kinds:

1. Light and shadows, including shadow figures.

2. Figures that look like people — sometimes with clearly observed faces and clothing — seen out of the side or corner of your eye.

3. Visual distortions, where proportions seem odd, or you see wavy lines.

4. Reflections, including:

• Reflections from windows, especially at dusk or after dark.
• Reflections on shiny and polished surfaces such as metal, tabletops, and hardwood floors.
• Strange reflections in mirrors, especially older mirrors, and often at dusk or at night.

5. Full apparitions that appear like living, breathing people… but they do something that signals that they aren’t regular, living people.

Click here to listen to this podcast online (MP3)

Mentioned in this podcast, or related to this phenomena:

The Falstaff’s Experience (also called Tudor World), Stratford-upon-Avon, England (visual distortions)

Houmas House, Louisiana (ghostly reflections)

The Myrtles Plantation, Louisiana (haunted mirror)

Haverhill, Massachusetts (haunted historical home with mirror)

The Spalding Inn, Whitefield, NH (visual distortions, upstairs hallway)

Margaret Byl (one of the organizers of the G.H.O.S.T.S. conference in May 2010, where Fiona was among the speakers)

Primeval TV series (BBC America) (good representation of visual anomalies)

HollowHill.com - Fiona's ghost-related website

Music: Zombie, written and orchestrated by Devin Anderson

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