Joseph Flammer

A well-respected force in Long Island's paranormal community, The Paranormal Adventurers, Joseph Flammer and Diane Hill, speak at conferences, libraries, historical societies, colleges, and before other community groups.

Because of their journalistic backgrounds, these seasoned investigative paranormal reporters contribute articles and stories to newspapers and national paranormal magazines, such as Fate, Ghost!, and Haunted Times. Through lectures and articles they relate insights gained from their own spine-tingling investigations as well as those of other top Long Island investigators.

The Paranormal Adventurers are Long Island's most famous ghost hunters.

Ever since they met in a bookstore store overa decade ago, Flammer and Hill have been best friends and partners in search of elusive ghosts.

Mr. Flammer saw his first ghost at a creek in Oceanside, Long Island when he was fifteen, along with five other people. The white ghost, a poltergeist, floated over the creek after drawing attention by creating the sound effects and movements of stomping feet running right beside the group of stunned teenagers. Years later, while searching for the Bell Witch Ghost in Adams, Tennessee, Flammer would be pushed nearly into a tomb by an disembodied entity he believes may have been the deadly Bell Witch. The next day, while in the Bell family cemetery, he would see the black form of a spirit walkling through a meadow beside the graveyard.

Ms. Hill moved into a haunted house in Lake Ronkonkoma, Long Island just after she was married. Footsteps, raps and murmurs were often heard when she and her husband were alone in the house. One night, Ms. Hill was suddenly awakened from a sound sleep. Standing in her bedroom were two apparitions dressed in trench coats and hats. The ghosts were pointing at her and having an animated conversation she could not hear.

In Long Island's Most Haunted:A Ghost Hunter's Guide these ghost hunters break new ground. Instead of merely relating Long Island ghost stories, The Paranormal Adventurers bring readers to the haunted places they've investigated and prepare them for what they may encounter should they decide to conduct their own investigations.

The duo's second Book, Long Island's Most Haunted Cemeteries (Schiffer Books) was released in the spring of 2010. It contains many photographic images of spirit activity.

In 2012, Flammer and Hill published Ghosts, Ghouls, and Monsters of Long Island(Schiffer Books). In this book the duo relates stories about the haunted Fire Island Lighthouse, the ghosts of Grumman Memorial Park in Calverton, the ghost of a sea captain on the Port Jefferson Ferry, the angry ghosts of Sweet Hollow Road and Mount Misery, and many other stories. The investigators also tell about their particiapation in a three month search for the infamous Long Island Devil, an all black creature spotted in the Farmingdale-Bethpage area and seen by many people.