17 Haunted Places in Australia
Every case file on record in Australia — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file. Browse the archive below, or open the world map.
Aradale Lunatic Asylum — Ararat
A · Ararat, Victoria, Australia — Australia's largest abandoned psychiatric hospital — a kilometer of wards that held 1,000 patients at its peak.…
J-Ward Ararat — The Criminal Lunatic Asylum
B · Ararat, Victoria, Australia — A granite gold-rush prison that spent 121 years as Victoria's asylum for the criminally insane — now a museum running some of Australia's longest-established ghost tours.…
Beechworth Asylum — Mayday Hills
A · Beechworth, Victoria, Australia — A 1,200-building asylum that held the desperate and the forgotten for 128 years, now running ghost tours four nights a week through its wards.…
Devil's Pool, Babinda — Oolana's Water
A · Babinda Boulders, Bellenden Ker Range, Queensland, Australia — The swimming hole that the statistics call fatal and the tradition calls a woman's grief: in the Yidinji people's Dreaming telling, Oolana — the woman taken from her betrothed to marry a chief — fled …
Fremantle Prison — The Convict Gaol
A · Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia — A convict prison built by its own inmates, in continuous use from 1855 to 1991 — 44 executions, and one glowing face.…
Monte Cristo Homestead
A · Junee, New South Wales, Australia — 'Australia's most haunted house' — a widow who never left, and a caretaker family that lived with it for 60 years.…
Old Melbourne Gaol — The Hangman's Watchtower
A · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia — The bluestone bastion where 133 people were hanged — Ned Kelly among them — now a museum whose night tours trade on what stayed behind.…
Picton's Mushroom Tunnel — Emily Bollard's Crossing
B · Picton, New South Wales, Australia — A gated 1860s railway tunnel in 'Australia's most haunted town', where a woman killed by a train in 1916 is said to still walk — headless.…
Port Arthur Historic Site
A · Tasmania, Australia — A convict hell-hole for 12,000 prisoners — Australia's most active paranormal site, with more than 1,800 documented grave-sites.…
Princess Theatre — Federici in the Boxes
B · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia — Melbourne's grand 1886 theatre where the lead singer of 'Faust' died at the final curtain in 1888 — and where a seat is traditionally kept empty for him on opening nights.…
Q Station — Sydney's Quarantine Station
B · Manly, North Head, Sydney, Australia — Between 1828 and 1984, every ship suspected of plague or flu unloaded its sick here — 574 people never left.…
The Russell Hotel, The Rocks — The Sailor of Room 8
B · 143-143A George Street, The Rocks, Sydney, Australia — Sydney's most haunted hotel: an 1887 harbour-side building in The Rocks where, by the district's own official telling, a sailor was murdered in Room 8 by a woman he had brought upstairs — and where gu…
Somerton Beach — The Somerton Man and Tamam Shud
A · Somerton Park, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia — The body found on this Adelaide beach at dawn on 1 December 1948 — well-dressed, unmarked, unidentifiable, every label cut from his clothing — became Australia's deepest cold case: the scrap of paper …
Wakehurst Parkway — Kelly of the Northern Beaches
B · Seaforth to North Narrabeen, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia — Australia's most famous haunted road: a dark, winding parkway of roughly fifteen kilometres through bushland between Seaforth and North Narrabeen in Sydney's north, haunted most famously by Kelly — a …
Westall — Two Hundred Students and the Craft at The Grange
B · Westall (Clayton South), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia — On the morning of 6 April 1966, in the Melbourne suburb of Clayton South, some two hundred students and teachers of Westall High School watched a grey, disc-shaped object descend crosswind, circle, an…
Willow Court — Australia's Oldest Asylum Precinct
A · New Norfolk, Tasmania, Australia — A brick precinct by the Derwent where institutional care began in 1827 and did not end until 2000 — 173 years of Australia's asylum history in one site, whose abandoned wards now carry the country's d…
Springbrook — The Yowie and the Senator's Classroom
B · Springbrook, Gold Coast hinterland, Queensland, Australia — Australia's wildman: the yowie of the Aboriginal canon — the hairy man-beings the first nations' traditions placed in the ranges long before the colony — and of a sighting file that runs from 1789 to …