About

Holly Faust is the founder and director of Talking to the Dead Paranormal and host of her own podcast, DeadTime Tales on YouTube. She is an Esoteric Interfaith Minister, a practicing witch with a focus on Celtic and Appalachian (Granny) magic, a metaphysical healer, a past-life regressionist, a Death Doula, a psychic/medium, a child advocate, and a paranormal investigator with over 30 years of experience in the paranormal. When not researching and investigating, she can be found mentoring new younger, and even some older investigators in the field. She has been a guest on several podcasts discussing the importance of working with clients at their spiritual level in investigations, along with destigmatizing witchcraft and sharing stories of PA ghost towns, along with educating others on occult symbols and the occult in general, and also ways to work with and engage with children with special needs who have psychic gifts. She loves researching urban legends, true crime, and sharing those stories with others. Holly also enjoys traveling to haunted locations with her paranormal team, Talking to the Dead, all over the US, searching for cryptids and exploring ghost towns, haunted asylums, prisons, and more, to learn about their unique history. She has had the opportunity to investigate many locations throughout the United States. She has spent a large amount of time in Gettysburg, PA, researching intelligent and residual hauntings. Other locations that she has investigated include Malvern Manor in Iowa, The West Virginia Penitentiary in West Virginia, The Bellaire House in Maryland, Mansfield Reformatory in Ohio, Sorrel Weed House in Savannah, Georgia, St Alban’s in Virginia, The Keighley Mansion in Uniontown, PA, Wildwood Sanitorium in New York, Hinsdale House in New York, the Old Jail in Jim Thorpe, PA and many others. She has also conducted many private investigations, where she has aided families and others affected by hauntings. She had the opportunity to study under many veterans in the field. Holly was a guest several times on Paranormal Insider Radio discussing Gettysburg Hauntings and near-death experiences. She also had the opportunity to visit and see how the paranormal is investigated by the Rhine Institute in Raleigh, North Carolina. She was a member of the Paranormal Research Society for over a decade. She has also taken courses in parapsychology with the Koestler Parapsychology Unit at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. Holly’s focus over the last several years has been writing on paranormal topics, psychic experiences, and witchcraft. She has also been aiding new and young paranormal investigators on their paths in the field. She continues her work as an educational and disability advocate for children, where she diligently works to remove the stigma of disabilities and mental health. She can also be found on Twitch or TikTok streaming ghost hunting games like Phasmophobia