from www.ghost-sighting.co.uk/
Port Arthur itself is a historic site of one of the oldest penitentiaries in the country, no longer used of course. It would have been nice to see during the day but again it was more than we wanted to pay for what was in essence a huge museum. But I was told I should go so three of us opted to go for the night time ghost tour. Well, I didn’t see any ghosts, but it was a pretty fun tour. I foolishly volunteered to be one of four lantern bearers for the group and because she thought me the bravest, the guide insisted that I should go last to make sure there were no stragglers. In my experience stalking predators will pick off the ones at the back so the rest of the group may proceed unaware. Not meaning offense to anyone it was the first time I’ve ever appreciated not being black as surely then I would not have survived…given standard movie rules I mean.
While I did say I did not see a ghost, our guide said she had had over 18 experiences in about five years of working there and that Port Arthur was ranked as the 3rd most haunted place in Australia simply because the recorded accounts of ghost sightings had gone back to the 1870s. After being identified as the bravest, I was not about to back down from this charge in front of everyone so I went and knocked on the damn door. The thought occurred to me to scream like a girl to spook the rest of the group, but a Karmic itch told me I should not.
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Some queer stories are being told of a “ghost” which has made its appearance in a house in New-street. There is a long-standing belief among the superstitious that this particular house is haunted, for different people who have resided there declare that they have encountered the apparition
-I lived on Bungonia Rd, in Goulburn, NSW in the early-late ’70s.There are still many old Homesteads made of: “Wattle & Daub” from Pre-Federation days along the road from Goulburn to Bungonia. Ir had been a “Cobb & Co” route in Colonial times & the Property that I stayed on: “Tyrone Glenn”(later to be named: “Sunfell”)had been a “Weigh-Station” between the two small Country towns. BushRanger “Ben Hall” frequented that area. There are local tales of an Elderly Woman who drowned when Her Sulkie was swept away in a Flash-flood & Her Ghost still haunts the spot.
he story of Fishers Ghost of Cambpelltown, a rural city founded in 1820 and settled with convict farmers, is considered to be the best known ghost story in Australia today.
The story has captured the hearts and imaginations of Australians and Campbelltown residents ever since the story of the ghost first surfaced. But was there really ever a ghost or was it just a wild story?
Take yourself back to the early 1800’s. Australia was then a rough, rugged and mostly unsettled wild country. It was then full of convicts who had been shipped to Australia for punishment for crimes such as stealing loaves of bread, murder and any other acts deemed as criminal.
Frederick George James Fisher was a 35 year old ticket-of leave man who originally came to Australia from England as a convict. He left England on a ship named the ‘Atlas’, and arrived in the colony in 1816. Soon after he acquired his ticket of leave. A ticket-of leave was something convicts, who were particularly well behaved, could gain for themselves to be able to buy themselves land and settle without being imprisoned.
He soon bought 30 acres of land in Campbelltown, the house being close to the spot which the Old Post Office now occupies (left). The farm was located between the main street which is now renamed Queen Street, bounded on the north by the line of Lithgow Street and on the south by a line from Allman Street. His property extended out to and ended at the Bow Bowing creek line.
The Town Hall Theatre is the site of George Worralls Farm Fisher prospered on his land and had purchased himself more land located at Appin, Cabramatta and Nepean. A little known fact about Fisher was that he was also the first man to attempt to make paper in New South Wales.
Fisher’s close friend, confidant and neighbour was a man named George Worrall, who was also a ticket-of-leave man. He rented the property next door to Fisher and must have much envied his prosperous neighbour. Worrall rented a cottage 140 yards south of Allan Street, the site occupied by the first Campelltown Town Hall and now contains the local theatre.
Undoubtably one of Melbourne’s most haunted sites, Old Melbourne Gaol resides it’s weary bones in on the corners of LaTrobe & Russell Streets, Melbourne. It’s bluestone walls sit back quietly as heavy traffic from the city roads pass by 24/7 not taking much notice of what chilling events took place here, or what now resides in the darkness within.
136 executions by hanging took place in the Gaol including the famous bushranger Ned Kelly, the prison was often overcrowded and an extremely dark and difficult place for any inmate to be.
Built between 1852 – 1854 and modeled on Pentonville Prison, England it was considered to have the latest prison reform theories of the day.
It has been rebuilt quite a number of times, and moved from it’s original location in 1839 to a larger premise where it still stands today. The remedies to solve the overcrowding never resolved anything, it still remained an extremely unpleasant place for any prisoner. Placed under review in 1870 it was recommended the gaol should be closed and the prisoners moved elsewhere.
The Gaol was slowly run down between the years of 1880 and 1924 then parts of the Gaol were demolished. It was then used as a Military prison during World War II for a brief time.
The only use for it after that was as a police storage facility for the nearby Victorian Police Force until it was acquired by the National Trust and now is open as a museum to the general public on a daily basis.
Ned Kelly’s Death mask watches the prison to this dayThe Gaol’s most famous prisoner was Ned Kelly, a notorious Australian Bushranger who was captured at a siege in Glenrowan in the 1880’s. Ned Kelly was executed by hanging in November, 1880 while a large crowd gathered outside the Gaol. His headless body was originally buried within the Old Melbourne Gaol grounds in an unmarked grave, but later removed, under much controversy (his coffin was discovered with the Kelly symbol and workers stole his bones) to Pentridge Prison grounds.
Wollondilly Shire Hall is located in the heart of Picton township, home to Liz Vincent Ghost tours and the famous Picton Mushroom Tunnel.
Located approximately 1.5 hours from the heart of Sydney city, Picton is well known for its haunted township and considered to be one of Australia’s most haunted townships
The Female Orphan School now rests in the middle of University of Western Sydney Parramatta Campus – it is boarded up and the University & Historical Society hope to restore it sometime in the future. The building is historically significant. It is the first 3rd storey building in Australia and dates back to the very early 1800’s.
There are many reports of ghosts and ghostly happenings inside the old building. Many people touring through the building have reported of hearing children’s voices, seeing children and also having strange and unusual feelings when entering a room. The Matron’s Bedroom seems to cause some problem with the occasional person not being able to enter or even walk near the place……….this is one place where we had a trifield meter set of and we both experienced goosebumps.
Security guards have reported a “Whistler” ghost inside the building – on occasion when showing some late night tourists through they have experienced this “Whistler” for themselves (and made a quick escape)…the ghost apparently carries a happy whistling tune……..It is believed he may be the ghost of the mortuary assistant who worked next door at the morgue. Security guards have also seen floating black figures outside the building that appear to float down the gravel road – along with a strange mist like substance that hangs over the Morgue in the early hours of the morning.
Visitors saw dark shapes moving at the opposite end of the tunnel. There was also a series of bright flashing lights over the course of the night.
If you take a trip down the Hume Highway to mid NSW and stop at the small, friendly country town called Junee, just outside of Wagga Wagga, you will notice what a quaint, delightfully peaceful place it is to visit. You also can’t help but notice the looming mansion perched high up on a hill looking down upon the township and it’s residents.
The mansion is MONTE CRISTO and is known to Junee and Australia as “Australia’s Most Haunted House”. It has gained it’s spooky reputation from hundreds of encounters that visitors, friends and relatives have had with it’s spectral residents who still dwell in and around the spooky old mansion to this day.
Visitors have spotted unexplained lights inside the hospital wing, cool spots throughout the buildings, and witnessed many other tourists who told of their close encounter with one of the ghostly residents of the old site……….long dead patients all still remaining within the confines of the Station.
Some of the more common tales which you may hear while on a tour of ths Station include the story of the ghostly girl with blonde plaits who occasionally holds a tourists hand and leads them around the pathways. Some visitors see her hiding behind bushes or even tugging at their jacket sleeve. Some say she speaks to them or see here as a child on a tour, only to be told later there was no children on their tour
