First annual Hollow Hill/ISPGH Awards winners

During January 2007, over 80,000 visitors to HollowHill.com were able to vote for their all-time favorites in media related to ghosts and ghost hunting. Nominees had been selected by subscribers to Hollow Hill's regular newsletter, but voters could write in additions.

Here are the top three winners in each category. Most links open in a new window, and take you to others' websites. Visit them to see why they are so popular among ghost hunters!

TELEVISION

1. Ghost Hunters (SciFi)
2. Most Haunted (Living TV/Travel Channel)
3. Supernatural (WB)

Best personality/actor on a ghost-related TV show

1.(tie) Jason Hawes (Ghost Hunters), and
1. Grant Wilson (Ghost Hunters)
2. Yvette Fielding (Most Haunted)

RADIO

Best ghost-related radio show (Traditional or Internet-based)

1. TAPS Para-Radio (Planet Paranormal)
2. Glimpse through the Veil (Eastern paranormal)
3. Coast-to-Coast

MOVIES

1. The Sixth Sense (Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment)
2. Ghost (Whoopie Goldberg, Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze)
3. (tie) An American Haunting (Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek)
3. Poltergeist (Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams)

BOOKS

Best author of ghost-related books

1. Sylvia Browne
2. Hans Holzer
3. Derek Acorah

1. Weird Hauntings, editor, Joanne Austin; contributing author, Fiona Broome*
2. Ghosts by Hans Holzer
3. Haunted America by Michael Norman

Best ghost-related novel

1. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
2. Red Lily by Nora Roberts
3. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

HAUNTED PLACES

1. RMS Queen Mary (ship)
2. Eaton's Tunnel, Parkersburg, WV
3. Fort George, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada

Best haunted hotel or B&B (US or Canada)

1. The Myrtles Plantation, St. Francisville, LA
2. Hotel Monteleone, New Orleans, LA
3. Wentworth-by-the-Sea, New Castle, NH

Best haunted place (UK or Ireland)

1. Tower of London, England
2. The Bucksford Pub, England
3. Kilmallock Abbey, Ireland

Best haunted hotel or B&B (UK or Ireland)

1. Comlongon Castle hotel, Scotland
2. Royal Lion Hotel, England
3. The Ancient Ram, England

Best haunted castle (UK or Ireland) - Some of these are also hotels.

1. Chillingham Castle, England
2. Glamis Castle, Scotland
3. Warwick Castle, England

ONLINE FORUMS

1. Most Haunted forum (LivingTV)
2. Dead Famous forum (LivingTV)
3. Afterlife (BBC America, forum not online in early March 2007)

Our next nominations process will begin in November 2007. These polls are co-sponsored by Hollow Hill and the International Society of Professional Ghost Hunters (ISPGH).

*Voters were advised: "Fiona Broome is the founder of Hollow Hill. We encourage you not to vote for this book unless you genuinely think that it's the best in this category."