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The Paranormal Adventurers
The Paranormal Adventurers
9 Knoll Road
Rocky Point, New York 11778
Joseph Flammer Diane Hill
(631) 849-2348 (516) 840-6654
http://paranormaladventurers.com
Biographies of Joseph Flammer and Diane Hill
Last update: September 6, 2007
Education and Work History
Mr. Flammer graduated from Nassau Community College and S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook, where he majored
in English and minored in History. He was the news editor of the student newspapers at both of those
schools. He went on to become an award-winning journalist with many years writing full-time and
freelance for Long Island newspapers, including two years on The Long Island Advance. He worked as a
manager for Symbol Technologies for seven years, until operations were moved to Mexico. Since then he
has worked for Developmental Disabilities Institute as an instructor. He teaches mentally retarded and
autistic adults simple life skills.
Ms. Hill worked for Chase Manhattan Bank for four years. After taking nine years off to raise her
family, she returned to work and attended Nassau Community College. At Nassau she indulged her love
for the written word by taking literature, poetry, film and creative writing courses. For the last nineteen
years she has worked at her alma mater,West Hempstead High School, as the school's registrar.
The Beginnings
Joseph Flammer and Diane Hill met in the poetry section of the Borders Book Store in Stony Brook in
2002 and have been best friends ever since.
Flammer, 51, of Rocky Point, and Hill, 55, of West Hempstead, shared a keen interest in Long Island’s
history and decided to collaborate on a book about Long Island's Revolutionary War figures.
The duo turned from history buffs to ghost hunters when they unintentionally photographed apparitions
in a small family graveyard in Strong’s Neck. Joseph published a several-page article about the
apparitions in the national publication, Haunted Times Magazine. From there the team wrote several
articles for Haunted Times, Ghost Magazine and Dan’s Papers, the premier magazine of Long Island’s
East End.
Investigations and Projects
The pair has investigated haunted places from Montauk to Gravesend. Among other places, Flammer
and Hill have traveled to the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to Adams, Tennessee, home of the
infamous Bell Witch ghost, and to a haunted mansion in North Adams, Massachusetts, where they
investigated for three days alongside Jason, Grant and Steve of T.A,P.S. - the ghost hunters featured on
the hit SciFi Channel television show, Ghost Hunters. Their Fall 2007 show features the results of their
investigation of 301, the most haunted room at the Red Lion Inn in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
The Paranormal Adventurers released their first 60-minute DVD, The Ghosts of Gettysburg in 2006,
available through http://paranormaladventurers.com They are currently developing a second DVD,
The Ghosts of Sweet Hollow Road, which highlights their theory of the tragic “Black Hats.”
Mr. Flammer and Ms. Hill are currently writing a book, Long Island Love Stories From Beyond. The
book is composed of true paranormal experiences of fellow Long Islanders whose lives have been
touched by loved ones from the other side, proving love transcends death.
Newsday’s LI Life Magazine spotlighted The Paranormal Adventurers for the cover story its October 29,
2006 Sunday issue with an accompanying three-page article. The Queens Tribune featured The
Paranormal Adventurers’ investigation of Fort Totten in Queens in its October 26, 2006 magazine issue.
The pair has been written about in numerous Long Island newspapers and featured in a five-minute video
produced by Newsday and shown on Newsday.com in the fall of 2006.
Presentations
The Paranormal Adventurers speak at libraries, conferences and before private groups such Cub Scouts,
Women's Groups and Historical Societies. They present two different programs each year. In 2006, for
example, they presented Meet The Paranormal Adventurers and Ghosts, Spirits and a Witch…Oh, My!
They presented these shows at over sixty libraries and before numerous private organizations.
In 2007 they presented So, You Want to be a Ghost Hunter? and A Haunting Study of Ghosts. By
year’s end they will have presented their shows at sixty libraries.
In 2008 The Paranormal Adventurers will be presenting The Ghosts of Long Island Pirates and
Shipwrecks. This show promises to be the hottest ticket at libraries across Long Island. It will be
presented from June through November. There will be a children’s version of the program and a version
just for adults. Don't miss it!
The Paranormal Adventurers are available to tell Ghost Stories Around a Campfire for Scouts and other
groups with no props or tools used other than a microphone.
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