Canberra most haunted?

Hobart, Hobart Gaol, my only ‘experience’ in 58 years. In 2000, on our first trip to Tassie, I was the last in line on the tour. 1/2’ish way through the tour the guide brought us to a room, all entered and as I stepped onto the stone step I got a overpowering sensation not to enter, and stepped back off the step. I noticed my hair on the back of my head did a adrenaline rush ‘stand up”. The guide on learning from me my reason informed us that it was used for executions. We hadn’t been told this beforehand.
My father, whilst a primary teacher at Coolah, had his one and only ‘experience’. He took the shortcut through the bush along ‘the creek’ after he finished footy training one night. He was spooked big-time, and sprinted. As he ran through the front gate of the boarding house fence, the ‘fearless’ house dog nearly knocked him over running past him and disappeared into the bush along the track my father had just left. The dog returned, seconds later, tail between his legs, ran under the house and apparently would not come out for 6 days, even to eat!
I have a very open mind on such things despite only one perceived experience, Mark

Ok guys here is some real history for you about the “Michelago haunted house”…

THE HIBERNIAN HOTEL
This two-storey stone building is on the right-hand side of the
highway going north from the village turn-off. It dates from 1872,
and replaces the earlier hotel of the same name established in
1856 by Thomas Kennedy and his wife Mary (nee Maher). Both
buildings also served as Coach Offices, offering accommodation
and stabling for travellers to and from the Monaro. After the
death of 55-year old Mr. Kennedy in March 1875, Mary retained
ownership until her death June 1894, aged 82.

In June 1866 the notorious bushrangers, the Clarke brothers,
and some others of the ‘Jingera Mob’, made a second assault
on the village in only a matter of months. Instead of the PostOffice Store, their attention this visit was focused on the old
Hibernian, where they held captive many of the locals, while
they ransacked Abraham Levy’s store across the road. The day
was rounded off by ‘drinking the hotel dry’ (or almost) and
forcing their captives to do the same, before staggering off to
their hideouts in the Jingera range east of the town. Those left at
the Inn were in no fit state to give chase. The family of the local
police officer, Constable Moran, were amongst those detained,
‘the law himself’ riding escort with the gold-carrying coach, en
route from the Kiandra diggings to Queanbeyan.

The absence of a School of Arts or Hall in the village meant the
Hibernian served as the local hub, hosting concerts, balls,
fundraising activities for the church, sports days, auction sales
and the best place to celebrate winnings (or drowning sorrows)
after the local horse races

After the death of Thomas & Mary there were different licensees
until the sale to local property owner, Mr. W. Lenane in March
1895, and another change of ownership in 1900, to George
Fane De Salis (late of ‘Cuppacumbalong’) .The name of the
property changed to ‘Soglio’ and the old inn became the family
home, occupied in the latter years by the four Misses De Salis,
until 1962. ‘Soglio’ continues in family ownership and a working
property

Source: http://www.michelagoregion.org.au/mrca/images/stories/mrca/newsletter/mrca_autumn2011.pdf

scorpio63 said :

LOL what’s 10 years between friends Frots (born in 63 not 53) LOL!!

Oh damn my eyes!! Sorry my friend – its age catching me faster than I can run!!! Have a great day Scorpio13!!!

Good LOL though!

LOL what’s 10 years between friends Frots (born in 63 not 53) LOL!!

My little story that changed the way I think …

I’d always had a very agnostic view to anything labelled occult or supernatural, probably leaning more towards the sceptic side as I felt a lot of people look for signs, that was up until about a year ago.

A good mate had often spoken of a ghost in his new house (in Holder) that patrolled a guest room at the back of the house and the hallway, a claim I didn’t take seriously because he often spoke of such ‘things’ and these ‘things’ never presented themselves to me so didn’t think much of it. When he and his partner go away, I generally dog-sit their two huge Labradors and agreed to do this for a week in the new place while they went on holiday. No dramas.

Straight away, on arrival, I did feel that there was something/someone in there with me, monitoring me from the back of the house, watching me with disapproval. But it didn’t actually worry me too much. This feeling strengthened the longer I was there, a feeling I’ve never had before. I really felt the presence of an older female but again, shrugged it off as an over-active imagination.

One evening late in the week I was on the throne in the dunny at the back of the house outside where the hallway met the guest room. The two dogs suddenly scuttled down the hallway to where I was and while the female dog sat herself in front of me looking at the doorway (door was open, gross, I know) the male stood alert just outside the door looking directly into the guest room (where I slept). That particular dog never, ever barks unless something is very wrong and he went into a barking frenzy, hair on his back spiked up, focusing on the back corner of the guest room at something in particular. Suddenly he lurched back a few steps as if something had come at him, it seemed to scare him and he came and sat in front of me with the other dog still watching the door way. It was then I saw … something. It was like a human figure but not clearly defined, sort of like a pixelation in thin air that moved down the hall from guest room. No alcohol or anything else involved at the time, and no doubt there was something there, something I’d never seen or experienced before. It was there, whatever it was.

After that, a calmness prevailed.

The weird thing was personally, I get spooked by horror movies, jump a mile in ‘suspense thrillers’ designed to make you jump, and always thought that an encounter with something like this would make me run for my life. If I walked into a house and something said ‘get out’, I’d get out post haste. But this did not scare me or even really bother me at the time at all. I felt totally safe, even though I had the distinct feeling she wanted me out and was being aggressive about it. It was a bit like you would feel if a big dog was gnarling it’s teeth at you behind a big, solid fence. Totally unperturbed and I have no explanation for that reaction, or lack of, and continued to sleep in that room no problem. It wasn’t until I’d processed it later on that I thought OMG.

I believe now she was annoyed at the male dog for trying to protect me, or maybe for identifying where she was. I’ve been told dogs can see things we cannot, but not sure about that.

On my mates return I of course mentioned it to him and he rolled his eyes and told me the story of the former owners being an older chronic alcoholic woman who locked herself in that guest room all day every day and the husband who took care of her best he could. She died there an angry, troubled soul – this all according to the husband who sold the house after she passed and felt it appropriate, for some reason, to share the history of the place.

According to my mate he got sick of her being a general nuisance, scaring the dogs etc about six months later and asked her to leave and she slowly did.

I’ve never had anything significant happen other than that.

Scorpio,

I’d be really interested to see the photo if you can dig it up again.

+1 – and thanks Scorpio53 for the resposnse.

Frots I saved it on my son’s computer at the time, mysteriously during the weeks that followed, he and his sister’s computers crashed after a viral bug, despite loads of virus protectors. Most files vanished.

Richard Luton or Peter Blackshaw agents knew about the lady reflected in the glass corner cabinet.

Am fairly certain it was Peter Blackshaw’s R/E.

All homes may have the home on microfiche from April/May/June/July (Kambah) in 2009 when I started looking at homes to purchase.

Skidbladnir said :

loviefluff said :

oh yesah. derringotn cres? some chick died in there.

loviefluff said :

oh yesah. derringotn cres? some chick died in there.

canbraaah said :

mmm, she still haunts the living room apparently. freaky!!!

Two ‘seperate’ accounts, posting comments and replies to eachother six minutes apart, on a Sunday night?
The mod queue doesn’t move that first on a weekday let alone a Sunday night, so I’m going to suggest you might be self-replying under another name, and expecting nobody to notice.

Whats your motive for zombifying a dead thread to discuss this Bonython house?

Both people have the same lack of punctuation and capitalisation….

loviefluff said :

oh yesah. derringotn cres? some chick died in there.

loviefluff said :

oh yesah. derringotn cres? some chick died in there.

canbraaah said :

mmm, she still haunts the living room apparently. freaky!!!

Two ‘seperate’ accounts, posting comments and replies to eachother six minutes apart, on a Sunday night?
The mod queue doesn’t move that first on a weekday let alone a Sunday night, so I’m going to suggest you might be self-replying under another name, and expecting nobody to notice.

Whats your motive for zombifying a dead thread to discuss this Bonython house?

scorpio63 said :

Two years ago I was looking on the Southside to purchase an inexpensive smaller home.

Quite a few homes in Kambah caught my eye (for renovation) one in particular.

I drove up to the home after seeing it advertised in the Domain magazine, got out to walk around, although something deterred me from walking closer to the house.

That night I logged on to allhomes and zipped through that Kambah house’s rooms, stopping at the Dining Room, where I clearly viewed a woman dressed in 1930/40’s attire staring through a corner cabinet unit’s glass (the only piece of furniture remaining in the vacated house) with a serious expression on her face. She was a beautiful lady with dark hair, clear pale skin and a hint of lipstick.

I sent the link to the Real Estate asking the Sales Rep what his opinion/take on the lady was.

He was surprised and stated that on the day the photographs were taken, that no women were present, either inside the house or in the yard. I saved the photo for a while and sent it to Thats Life or one of the magazines who did not publish it.

They would be wary of the legalities involved later, if the home was sold.

Do you still have the link – or the photo?

Lankyman95 said :

I have just moved into a new house in Lyon. I had a friend stay over last night. She came into my room in the middle of the night scared, she told me she had just had a nightmare. In her dream something had started to strangle her and she woke up in the exact with a heavy feeling on her chest, just like something had fully tried to strangle her. She said that in the dream everything felt so real. She couldn’t stay in the room.

I told my new house mates in the morning that she had a nightmare. Before i had explained everything i was told that the guy that used to live in the room used to tell stories of a lady that would tickle his toes and then try to strangle him.

I was wondering if anyone around the same area has experienced anything like this?

I was also thinking of spending the night in the with my camera set up to record. Paranormal Activity style.

This is an example of sleep paralysis. Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

Two years ago I was looking on the Southside to purchase an inexpensive smaller home.

Quite a few homes in Kambah caught my eye (for renovation) one in particular.

I drove up to the home after seeing it advertised in the Domain magazine, got out to walk around, although something deterred me from walking closer to the house.

That night I logged on to allhomes and zipped through that Kambah house’s rooms, stopping at the Dining Room, where I clearly viewed a woman dressed in 1930/40’s attire staring through a corner cabinet unit’s glass (the only piece of furniture remaining in the vacated house) with a serious expression on her face. She was a beautiful lady with dark hair, clear pale skin and a hint of lipstick.

I sent the link to the Real Estate asking the Sales Rep what his opinion/take on the lady was.

He was surprised and stated that on the day the photographs were taken, that no women were present, either inside the house or in the yard. I saved the photo for a while and sent it to Thats Life or one of the magazines who did not publish it.

They would be wary of the legalities involved later, if the home was sold.

I ain’t afraid of no ghosts

mmm, she still haunts the living room apparently. freaky!!!

oh yesah. derringotn cres? some chick died in there.

has anyone else heard about that haunted place in bonython? it sounds pretty spooky.

peterh said :

PBO said :

I found the old abandoned treatment plant out the back of McGregor to be pretty cool. I really want to go and jump the fence at lawson and have a look around. The old Naval base there looks pretty interesting on google satellite. Does anyone know about the silver mine at the cotter?

last i had heard, the silver mine entrance collapsed after the fires. I have been to the site where it was, but haven’t been able to see it.

I have noticed that there are several new spots opened up after the fires, don’t know if there are other diggings there as well….

The Silver mine had a rail track running into it , surely the rails would still be visible, I havent been there since 87 when I used to go bushwalking in the area , I dont think it could have collapsed because from memory it was tunnelled into solid rock for the first 10 mtrs or so and ended in an area that was bricked up

Interesting. Though I find it difficult to indulge.

I have just moved into a new house in Lyon. I had a friend stay over last night. She came into my room in the middle of the night scared, she told me she had just had a nightmare. In her dream something had started to strangle her and she woke up in the exact with a heavy feeling on her chest, just like something had fully tried to strangle her. She said that in the dream everything felt so real. She couldn’t stay in the room.

I told my new house mates in the morning that she had a nightmare. Before i had explained everything i was told that the guy that used to live in the room used to tell stories of a lady that would tickle his toes and then try to strangle him.

I was wondering if anyone around the same area has experienced anything like this?

I was also thinking of spending the night in the with my camera set up to record. Paranormal Activity style.

also I have a few personally weird experiences, like it seems in august that my house seems to have a weird vibe, for example I came home from school one day to find the T.V. remotes had been moved and the T.V. was on another channel than before when it was turned off. also I also fell down the stairs once after It felt like i was being pushed.

I go to Kaleen HIgh School and let me tell you: that place is HAUNTED!
a student died there at school one day (there is a plaque) and ever since I have been there spooky things have been going on from the minor such as being in a classroom and there suddenely being a cold gust of wind closing the door with no windows open or vents in sight, to the majorly creepy being last year, my old Japanese teacher had broken a hear no, see no, speak no evil bell she had gotten in japan with these monkeys on it and she put the little bell part that had become separated into the main part of the bell so she could glue it back together later then when she picked it up after the bell went, it was all perfectely in shape and working just fine

Creepy or what…

i have read everything in here and even though i have never seen anything i would like to i think every story is great but i havent been able to find anything on the internet to back any story up not saying i dont believe i just like to find the story behind the story does anyone know of any websites that i can find what i am looking for

Im likeing this thread alot.
I have had a few things happen to me.

Waking up at night, seeing a little girl walk down the hallway who appeared bright white. Upon recent years, I find out that my mother had seen the EXACT same girl as me, but in another house. Same clothes and all. I was quite young when I saw this (around 10?), but it sure freaked me out for a long time.

Another time around this age, I remember waking up from a bad dream or somthing. After leaving my parants room, I walked back to my room. In that short 10 seconds a black object appeared above me, I looked at it and ran to my room. These may have just been childish imagination, but older experiences I cant explain

One night, back when I was about the age of 12, I woke up with a sore throat (Yeh I had a cold). I took a throat losenger and sucked it while I lay in bed. I knew I had to stay awake because if I fell asleep I could choke on the lozenger. A few minutes later, from nowhere, and earthquake hit. Atleast thats what i presumed at first. It lasted for about 3-4 seconds. Nothing seemed to move but me and the bed. I froze in bed, then ran to my parants. I yelled at em, there was an earthquake!. They said, no, nothing happened. I was scared pooless at this point. Upon returning to my room, nothing had moved or changed. But one book had fallen to the floor from my bedside table.

It was either the bed or the bed and me getting violently shaken, like the earthquake simulator at questicon. This event is one I wont forgot, and it shook me up for many weeks. I inspected the bed the next day, but even the leg dimples in the carpet were aligned.
When your awake and someting like this happens, its not a nice feeling.

You may say that I fell into a mild sleep and dreamed (Or whatever) what happened, but that does not explain the book falling off. To wrap this up, ill tell you guys that I am still afraid of the dark in certain places, I mean, you never will know whats about to happen….

The stories about the house at Michelago do need a bit of perspective. It was built probably around 1840 as a hotel. It was purchased I think about ten years later by the Fane-de Sallis family who made it their home. They named the place Soligo (I think) after the area they came from in France (again, I think). One of the daughters married William Farrer, the famous breeder of rust-proof wheat. I understand that this family still owns the place – and are, quite naturally, very sensitive about the ghost stories, not to mention the hordes of midnight visitors.

But I think there is something in the ghost stories and it is this …. The house was last occupied until the 1960s by two Fane-de Salis sisters in their 60s or 70s. They were much-loved old ladies of the district, famous for the garden they kept and for sharing the produce of vegetables and flowers with their neighbours. Returning one afternoon in their car from delivering vegetables to a sick neighbour, they were struck by another car as they entered the Monaro highway and one of them was killed. I think this was about 1963. So far as I am concerned, if the house is indeed haunted and if a lady has been sighted in a window, then it is probably she. I was a schoolboy when the accident occurred, I remember driving past the house soon afterwards and there was already then a prevailing atmosphere of deep gloom and sorrow – so heavy that I would not be surprised that it has remained for 50 years.

I think this lady would have been an aunt (great aunt or great grandaunt) of the present owners. I do believe the house may well be haunted but anyone curious can feel the atmosphere from the public road, no need to invade this private property. Just use a bit of sensitivity that’s all. If I am correct about the origins of the haunting, it is a very delicate and moving story.

The wooden building (now very decayed) that you pass just before the house is said to be former police station. This explains the unusual windowless slab buildings to the back of the house – they were holding cells. Apparently a number of bush rangers were held there. I’ve never heard of any ghost sightings though.

As you pass the house and go on to Cooma, just over the bridge there is another long old building, I think this is the inn that was built after the Fane-de Sallises took over the original inn as their home. I have heard vague reports of “something” on the road near there. My father, the most pragmatic of men, saw or felt something there once but would never say what, he still (now in his 80s) tenses up whenever we drive past there.

That whole area is very rich in history, not all of the text-book kind – the yowie for instance is said to inhabit the towering Tinderry mountains to the south-east. I am pleased if people are feeling and sharing this – but it has been the home of two very private families, the Fane-de Sallises and Ryries, for generations, as many others who live there – so please, a bit of sensitivity.

Don’t let this thread die! it’s too interesting.

A friend of mine was showing me photo’s of her friends. Some of them used to go out to the pine forests near Duffy and drop acid. There was one spot in particular; a big lone gum tree, half dead, all alone in a clearing, like the pines wouldn’t go near it. She said she and her friends would hang out there during the day but there was no way they’d go there at night.

I recognised the tree in her pictures. I grew up in Rivett so I used to spend time down in the forest with neighbor kids. I remember coming across this tree a couple of times and thinking how freaky it was, the whole thing had an eerie vibe. I wouldn’t want to go there at night.

I wonder if it survived the fires?

Also, this book http://www.australianbigcats.com.au/ is coming out soon. I’ve noticed a few posts about big cats. I wonder if there are any more? I think I remember reading about sightings near uriarra crossing, Michelago and cotter. I didn’t realise we had them in our own backyard!

Granny said :

We had something similar happen at 60a Melba St, Downer, a couple of years back; but the person involved wouldn’t be happy for me to go into details.

Hi Granny.I came across your post from a while ago regarding 60A Melba Street, Downer. You posted a message in the thread about haunted locations in Downer. I wasn’t sure how else to contact you but I recently stayed at that location and would really love to get in touch with you about your experiences. Please contact me at goldenduckoz@gmail.com if possible. With thanks.

There’s a few missing that I know of….My Grandmother used to work in Archives in the National library and also at Old Parliament House in the 60’s and 70’s – no-one would go into the basement of either building alone due to the feeling that there was someone walking behind you and touching you.

There is a nun that is supposed to haunt Merici college in Braddon, my brother and one of his staff saw her when they were packing up from a social one friday night. She walked through the hall and out the back entrance and then disappeared. She is dressed all in white.

My family is very closely related to the Southwells and we used to visit Wattle Park farm on Springrange road as a child. There were rooms in the house that you wouldn’t enter as they had a cold creepy feel to them. Also as the farm was being subdivided and sold my parents stayed out there for a night and mum saw my Great Aunt who passed away in the house feeding the chickens in the middle of the night – only thing was there were no chickens left.

Not sure how true these are – but definately enough to give me chills….

Ozhair said :

…I work at Parliament House (the new one) these days. A group of us were heading back to the office, and rounded a corner to where the lifts ar. I caught a glimpse of someone getting into one of the lifts just as the doors closed. We pressed the button a few seconds later, and the doors opened immediately. Nobody there. I was prepared to put it down to my imagination, but one of the other people in the group freaked out because she’d seen the same thing.

As far as I know, that’s the only New Parliament House ghost story I know of.

I’ve got another new parliament house story for you. A few years ago I was at a senate committee hearing held in the main committee room. I spent most of the time in the side room but things got quiet in the afternoon so I walked into the hearing room and sat in the second-last row to listen for a while.

About half an hour later, someone started kicking the back legs of my chair – not hard, but enough to bring my attention to it. I ignored it but then felt something lightly touching my hair at the back of my head. At first I put it down to air currents from the vents but then it got more … intentional. Like someone was wiggling the tip of their finger into the tightly bound hair just above my ponytail. I can only compare the feeling to the certainty that it is a fish on the end of your line, rather than a twig being pulled about by the current. I turned around to glare at the botherer and discovered I was the only person in the back three rows of the room; certainly nobody was behind me or within reach of me. I turned back around and thought to myself that this was ridiculous. The hair tickling started again and I managed to restrict my exasperated ‘stop that!’ from escaping my lips. I then got the distinct impression of an older, mischievous gentleman who was as bored with the stuffy, self-important droning of the senators as I was, and was looking for a distraction. That’s when I got up and walked out.

And before you ask, I am one of the majority – not at all convinced about the paranormal but has one or two experiences they find hard to explain.

My other experience was not nearly so much fun – several friends also had run-ins with the distinctly unfriendly ‘permanent resident’ at a house in Birdwood St in Hughes in the 90s. But that’s a tale for round the campfire on a moonless night…

2 words, Monti Cristo hehehe not around canberra but damn what a place

What an entertaining thread!

I do a 8km walk around Wanniassa most mornings at 5am. I can tell you Wanniassa is certainly buzzing with spirit energy. Let me share my accounts. I was passing Wanniassa Hills Primary School and I saw the swings in the playsground move on there own. This was on a summers morning and it was about twilight! I can tell you, when I pass the school, I have a strange feeling that something is watching me and following me! Another spooky area is the Wanniassa High School, when walking on the footpath that passes the basketball courts, there is some type of angry energy that attacks you. The trick when walking pass the school, is to keep thinking of something else such as work and walk pass as quickly as possible! I could keep talking about many of my Wanniassa ghosts but the one that is the most evil is located at the corner of Wheeler Cres and start of Sternberg Cres. Again when walking on the footpath, I was literally attacked by some kind of “black mass of energy” which came out from under the pine trees. I was terrified for days after this attack. Does anyone know of any child who died at Wanniassa Hills Primary School?

does anyone know any information about a hanging at the tuggeranong homestead in around 5 6 years ago??

hi all just though i might add one more place to the ever growing list of hunted places in canberra. as i work at the federal gold club and there are some freekey things that have happened there for instance i work in the kitchen and was washing some dishes and out of the corner of my eye i saw a white figure come through the door ( i though it was just one of the other staff) but when i turned around i way the onlty one in the kitchen, now what really freelek me out way a few days later one of the other chefs in the kitchen says holey sh*t i sware i just saw someone just run through the kitchen and my reply way where they dresed in white he was sooo freeked other stuff has happened since then but u get comphtable with it after a while.

BOO!! You guys are soo funny, you all sound like young teenagers, we used to go to haunted houses when we were in our early teens, ghosts/spirits are people who have crossed over, the body dies but the spirit does not, some spirtis stay here on earth for a reason, either they were murdered and want justice and will wait until the trial is over, or in an accident, some stay to look over their loved ones, most people when they passover go the the light but they can still come here on earth, they learn more when they go to the light and are more peaceful. I have had many expericences, I have seen spirits, most have the same personality when they were here in body, I have also seen an evil spirit like a creature which walked like a creature (bobbing up and down) when it walked, it was black, I just shuddered when I saw it, (not in my home. I have a spirit which is with me all the time, he oftern plays around with clocks, radio’s doors, lights, switches, turns the kettle on, pats the dog, which she used to freak out, makes my phone ring from the base instead from the handset so I can’t answer the phone, doesn’t worry me as I know who the spirit is around me. So when people don’t believe, they have never had an experience, the people who have, usually have a gift and are opened minded.
TYLERSMAYHEM when you had that dream, most spirtis when they passover oftern visted in your dreams, they actually do come to you.

Come on don’t let let this thread die again.

VYBerlinaV8_the_one_they_all_copy said :

5 Moresby place Forrest – Canberra’s original haunted house. Anyone know the history?

Where exactly is this? There seems to be a Moresby Street, but not a Moresby Place, and no number 5. I figured Google StreetView might be a good place to look some of this stuff up.

http://www.allhomes.com.au/ah/ah0089?appid=40057 i found that googleing, sadly doesnt have any pics of the houise street etc, but we do know it exsists!!! sorry for the few month lag on the thread but i found it and its totally interesting!

We lived in this townhouse unit in Wanniassa in the units called malahide gardens next to micheals court accross from the erindale centre… when we first moved in nothing really happened but about 6 months later things started to happen that were a bit scarey!!! i swear im not kidding around. we would go to bed at night and our tv and raido would turn by its self… we would hear noises like pots and pans banging and sounds like there was someone down stairs and the house always made creeking sounds.The lights would always exsplod by there self when you turned them on. The spookest thing that happened to me while living there was i was walking up the stairs one night after going down to check what was going on and when i got half way i could feel someone behind me walking up! My husband and i got out of the house as soon as we could and to this day we will not go back…

Bam Bam said :

Does anyone have any stories about the old Lanyon homestead? It sure is eerie down in that old staff house near the water hole. I once hid in there waiting to jump out and surprise my daughter and I got that ‘hair on the back of my neck” feeling from out of nowhere. The history of the place hadn’t really dawned on me till I got the willies. I then checked out the spooky audio presentation which involved all manner of nasty business.

Haha one night I drive up there in the dark and the whole place was full of fog it was so bad I couldn’t even see in front of the car I freaked out and got outta there as fast as I could!!!!!!

VYBerlinaV8_the_one_they_all_copy said :

5 Moresby place Forrest – Canberra’s original haunted house. Anyone know the history?

Where exactly is this? There seems to be a Moresby Street, but not a Moresby Place, and no number 5. I figured Google StreetView might be a good place to look some of this stuff up.

Yeah we have been there to and didnt really see much morsby place has like only 6 houses… we looked for number 5 but couldnt find it, there was a big new house that we thought might be the one but i dunno…

Felix the Cat said :

A guy I went to school with hung himself about 25 years ago in a tree at the Hawker horse paddocks (end of Dungowan St). I’ve never been there at night to see if any spooky stuff happens, been there during the day a few times (not for years though) but nothing out of the ordinary to report. I will have to go there again soon just for a look, used to hang out there (no pun intended) a lot when I was a kid, riding my BMX bike.

Felix – been trying to reply for a while, my PC wouldn’t let me see the post box – spooky! Anyway, this wouldn’t be more like 35 years ago (say 72 or 73) would it with that awful picture in the old afternoon rag we had then? Studnet at Canberra High School? Surname initial H I think I recall?

dexi said :

farnarkler “There was a story about an aboriginal ghost who haunts the grounds of Government House”

The Yarrulumla story is a good one. The tree is still there.

Link to full story.
http://www.hauntedaustralia.com/index.php?Itemid=0&id=508&option=com_content&task=view

Original source (Horrid txt)
http://www.janesoceania.com/australia_bush_tales/index.htm

Some more detail on the Yarralumla story (scroll down for Yarralumla) – a hoax theory, but with another ghost offered up for compensation to the disappointed among us!

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GENANZ/2003-11/1067742884

(newbie post)

she proudly told us how her husband had found and kept a finger.

what sort of sick sad world are we in?? keepinga finger, someone’s dead finger, ffs…

farnarkler said :

Really bizarre, I don’t remember seeing anything about the Mig 15 crash in 93 ins the CT.

It should be there farnarkler. I know here were plenty of photos and articles in the CT at the time. I know I was getting quite angry at some other supposed ‘eye-witnesses’ who claimed the aircraft flipped over in the air etc.

Of note, there was quite a furore afterwards about the souvenir hunters that descended on the site picking up bits of aircraft even before the remains were fully recovered. I recall giving one women I worked with ‘both barrels’ when she proudly told us how her husband had found and kept a finger. The CT also published a letter I wrote about these morons.

IN some ways, the worst bit was being called into court sometime later as part of the coronal inquiry. Having to give evidence in front of the families of the deceased was very sad. Seeing the aftermath of the crash was bad, but I think that my time in the Navy prepared me for it in some ways.

in the late 990s

wow, i-filed, you’re so old! – no wonder you’ve seen ghosts… 🙂 did you get much sleep?

Deckard said :

Disposable said :

I met an awesome lady at the Charny Carnival #3 who was trying to get people interested in local history. She had some information about an illegal grog shop that used to be out near the Ginninderra Falls. People would walk out there along the creek. Allegedly someone was murdered along the way to the grog shop.

In the mid 1980’s a young boy drowned in the same creek. He was washing his bike and somehow fell into the water. The creek was flooding at the time and he got caught in some loose barb-wire fencing and drowned.

I grew up in the areas concerned and have never seen anything weird there, I have almost drowned in the creek though!

Do you know whereabouts along Ginninderra Ck these things happened? In the Belconnen suburbs or out past Dunlop?

I was only young when it happened but I think the 1980’s one was around where Florey drive crosses the creek in Macgregor. With the 1880’s murder I got the impression it was somewhere between the 2nd crossing out the back of Dunlop and the actual Falls. From memory the Belco library has a book that features the 1800’s one.

I have never believed in ghosts but had a strange experience in the late 990s which nearly made me reconsider my skepticism. I was staying at a farm near Young for a party, and four of us were sleeping in one of the cottages, which dated back to 1860. Two of us, a girl named Denise and I, left a party in the main house at about midnight, walked to the cottage and went to bed in adjoining bedrooms. At 1 am I was woken up by footsteps crunching in the gravel outside, someone walked past my window, right outside. I assumed it was another partygoer coming ‘home’ but then I realised the footsteps were made by someone in heavy boots and I could hear the footsteps continue around the corner of the house. It was a little alarming. Denise had heard them too and came running into my room, alarmed by the ‘heavy boots’ sound a foot away from her window.

The two other people who were to sleep in the cottage arrived from the main house a short time later (wearing light shoes!) but hadn’t seen anything.

What made the story bizarre, is that when we got up the next morning and checked around the house, we were astonished that there was NO gravel anywhere. Just a single narrow footpath of bricks largely buried in the lawn led to the front door, and the cottage was entirely surrounded by a wide flower garden and then (at the time) a lush grass lawn. No-one could have walked right next to our windows, and it would have been impossible to make a heavy boot sound. The owner of the farm told us that before the cottage had been restored a few years before for his grand-daughter to live in, it had always been inhabited by station hands who didn’t garden, and it had always been surrounded by a bare gravel yard.

I still have no explanation for what happened.

V8-Prius said :

5 Moresby place Forrest – Canberra’s original haunted house. Anyone know the history?

Perhaps it was an Ambassador’s residence, mothballed during a diplomatic hiatus?

Really bizarre, I don’t remember seeing anything about the Mig 15 crash in 93 ins the CT.

what a load of crap….that ghost has been edited in….

Pretty good footage. Could the ghost be light reflecting off the camera though?

actual ghost footage – could it be canberra? http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eo8CP9Hhb58&feature=related

s’good but…

Disposable said :

I met an awesome lady at the Charny Carnival #3 who was trying to get people interested in local history. She had some information about an illegal grog shop that used to be out near the Ginninderra Falls. People would walk out there along the creek. Allegedly someone was murdered along the way to the grog shop.

In the mid 1980’s a young boy drowned in the same creek. He was washing his bike and somehow fell into the water. The creek was flooding at the time and he got caught in some loose barb-wire fencing and drowned.

I grew up in the areas concerned and have never seen anything weird there, I have almost drowned in the creek though!

Do you know whereabouts along Ginninderra Ck these things happened? In the Belconnen suburbs or out past Dunlop?

Does anyone have any stories about the old Lanyon homestead? It sure is eerie down in that old staff house near the water hole. I once hid in there waiting to jump out and surprise my daughter and I got that ‘hair on the back of my neck” feeling from out of nowhere. The history of the place hadn’t really dawned on me till I got the willies. I then checked out the spooky audio presentation which involved all manner of nasty business.

Thanks for the link Dexi.

farnarkler “There was a story about an aboriginal ghost who haunts the grounds of Government House”

The Yarrulumla story is a good one. The tree is still there.

Link to full story.
http://www.hauntedaustralia.com/index.php?Itemid=0&id=508&option=com_content&task=view

Original source (Horrid txt)
http://www.janesoceania.com/australia_bush_tales/index.htm

When did this crash happen?

13 March 1993.

The 1800’s murder at Ginninderra creek?

Interesting. My research threw up a drowning in Ginninderra Creek in the 1870s.

I met an awesome lady at the Charny Carnival #3 who was trying to get people interested in local history. She had some information about an illegal grog shop that used to be out near the Ginninderra Falls. People would walk out there along the creek. Allegedly someone was murdered along the way to the grog shop.

In the mid 1980’s a young boy drowned in the same creek. He was washing his bike and somehow fell into the water. The creek was flooding at the time and he got caught in some loose barb-wire fencing and drowned.

I grew up in the areas concerned and have never seen anything weird there, I have almost drowned in the creek though!

When did this crash happen?

Damned – *girls softball team*

Panhead said :

Awesome thread guys. BerraBoy68 tell us about the Mig crash in Narabundah :S

I was coaching a girsl softball toom out at Narrabudah. There was an airshow on at the airport. Various planes were flying over us all day on their approach to the airport. The Mig-15 came over quite low with flame coming vertically out of his engine, whcih was revving but without any real thrust. Just as he tried to turn towards the airport his control lines burnt through and he nose dived into he ground just short of Hindmarsh. The pilot and his passenger died instantly- trust me on this, there couldn’t be any doubt. It’s not like you expect… at worst you expecxt to see burnt bodies but in this case all you could see were loads of parts. I’m not keen on going into too much detail in case the familes involved are Rioters. Lets just say the firies that turned up, together with myself and a few others had to have trauma counselling.

Awesome thread guys. BerraBoy68 tell us about the Mig crash in Narabundah :S

Anyone know that random strip of uphill bush in Aranda? Near the old shops on Banjalong crescent, apparently a man hung himself there back in the 80s. Me and a few mates used to go get drunk and do all that teenage crap in the middle of the night there and I remember this one time I swear to god I saw a man in footy shorts walking up the path behind us but I turned around again and he was gone. Most likely my imagination but you never know

Tylers, that’s pretty cool! I found the things one of my deceased brother did in my house pretty conforting too. I’d love to seemy brothers ghosts, ot that of my now late father, but don’t think it’ll ever happen. That said, I was with my dad when he died and still feel his presence constantly.

As an aside, I’ve often though about going to the small clump of trees next to Hindmarsh Dr, near Narrabundah oval, one night.

I was one of the first two people to get to the wreckage when the Mig went down there. It wasn’t pretty at the time but with all the emotion and energy involved in the crash, I’d be interested to see if anyhting happens at night there.

I never really believed in ghosts or sprits, and my instinct is to still not to – but I have had two instances that I still question:

A year or so after my Grandpa died, I was about 15 and outside cutting firewood. For some reason I felt like I was in the presence of someone else. Then all of a sudden, I could smell my grandpa. He always has this comforting smell of aftershave with the light hint of the occasional bump of scotch and cigarette he’d sneek. Everything seemed to stop for a couple of seconds, then the smell disappeared as quickly as I noticed it – and the experience has never left me.

The second such situation was a few days after my Grandma died. I woke up to find my grandmother lying in bed next to me. I was strangely calm and happy to have her there, and she touched my cheek and smiled and told me she was fine and with Grandpa now. We both lay there with tears in our eyes, and then I woke up. I had tears in my eyes, and the light in the room was exactly the same, as if I had had my eyes open and had been talking to her. I felt a huge amount of calm and peace and closure after that experience and it’s another thing I’ll never forget.

So yes, while I’m very doubting about spirits and ghosts – I can’t completely dispute these 2 experiences.

We should look at getting everyone together for a ghost story telling night 😉

haven’t we tried doing that? 2 locations, bugger all attendance?

oh, more ainslie village stuff.

the old dorms had one room that no-one would sleep in, whoever was assigned the room asked to be moved fairly quickly. I had it for about 1/2 a night. it was in summer, and when i went to bed, I found that it was really cold in the room – it was a stinker of a night, outside was like an oven. I laid down on the bed, closed my eyes… a voice said “you b*stard! get out of my room!”

I opened my eyes, the light was on, my stuff was packed up in my bags again. wierd. But, i was tired, so I laid back down, closed my eyes after switching off the light. Then, I felt as if i was being pinned to the bed. two hands, one on each arm, holding me there. then the hold shifted, and it felt as if the person was straddling me, and holding my arms under his knees. I started being slapped across the face – not light hits, I had marks in the morning.

I was wide awake, and there was nothing above me.
and i could hear him saying quietly, “you good for nuthin, come in here to steal my stuff, I’ll give you whatfor…” I can remember screaming, and then one of the staff used the master key and opened my door. the weight lifted, and i could get up. They shifted me out of the room, into another. My arms had finger marks on them, i had livid bruises on my face and arms the next day.

as i would walk past the window of the now deserted room to the mess hall, I would see that each time, the light was on, and there would be the sounds of movement inside.

then there was the “running man” – you would hear this guy running down the dormitory, banging on each door as he went past. a couple of residents got sick of this, so we waited up to catch the bugger who thought it was a great joke.

we could hear him running down the hallway, banging on the doors, we opened the door of the room we were in, still hearing him running towards us, and all stormed towards him. nothing. no-one there, but we could hear his running feet, and the door we had just opened was still banged.

Monte Cristo: I worked for Prime TV in Wagga years ago. We were doing a story on Monte Cristo. I was setting the camera up on the second floor balcony to get a shot of my journo and Reg (the owner) coming out to look at the view. They were inside the house.

As I was setting up, I heard very distinct footsteps coming up behind me. Assuming it was Reg’s wife, I turned around to see what she wanted and… Yep, there was no-one there. I was fairly freaked out. I looked over the balcony, checked around the corner, but there was no-one anywhere.

When my journo and Reg stuck their heads out the door to see what was taking so long, I told them what had happened, and Reg just smiled and said “Yeah, that happens all the time”.

The bummer is that, as seems to be the case with these things, it happened while I was setting the camera up, not while I was actually recording 😛

> Twice I’ve been driving through Wanniassa on Fincham Crescent (off Sternberg Crescent) and I’ve come across a black figure standing in the middle of the road.

That’s interesting…my sister-in-law lives just off Fincham Cresent & her & her daughter (& her ex husband when he was still in the house) have told of many freaky ghost experiences in their house. I’ll have to get her to refresh my memory on details & post them here.

MWF said :

“Is it also coincidence that one twin can feel the other’s pain”

this isn’t just a phenomenon for identical twins, my sons know when one is in pain, the other will stroke his head, trying to make it better. they both wake at the same time, and talk to each other in their own language, quietly. sometimes, they seem to be speaking to another person, who I just cannot see. Maybe it is my stepbrother, or one of the other family members who have passed away. My wife and i lost 2 prior pregnancies, one at 12 weeks. I have vivid dreams about the little children we never met, perhaps they visit their living brothers.

I have been able to “hear” my wife and daughter call my name from another room. they haven’t, but may have been thinking of a question for me. they may have just been thinking about me. My daughter used to call out to me when she was very little, “Daddy!” – she had not yet learned to speak, not even her first word.

booroomba rocks pre dawn – there was a guy i went to school with who blew his brains out on the edge of the cliff, he had a mental illness, and went off the medication – he just wanted to be normal, he told us, that night. never even knew he had a gun… I have seen him standing there, looking over the valley several times. so have others.

I have seen a guy walking down the barton highway towards canberra, clothes torn, bloody and dirty, between murrumbateman and hall, and have stopped to help – he looks really bad, when i got out, he had gone. open stretch of road. A couple of the farmers told me that he and his family had hit a roo, the kiddies and his wife were very badly injured, he was critical. he apparently started walking down the road, trying to flag down someone for help, but died when someone reached him.

kiddies and wife survived, but moved away. One farmer thought that his spirit was still trying to get them the help he thought that they needed when he died.

Felix the Cat said :

A guy I went to school with hung himself about 25 years ago in a tree at the Hawker horse paddocks (end of Dungowan St)…. used to hang out there (no pun intended) a lot when I was a kid, riding my BMX bike.

What the? I lived in that street for 19 years, including a lot of my own mountain biking, and I’ve never heard that one. Would love to know more, but how do you find out about this stuff?!?!

Awesome thread!

I did the Screensound/NFSA tour years ago and it was fairly spooky. I have also done one of Tim the Yowie Man’s awesome weird Canberra tours, definitely recommended and a lot of fun.

Apart from the NFSA surely Canberra’s most haunted spot has to be the air disaster memorial?

These ones have always interested me and I was wondering if anyone has any more info on:

The 1800’s murder at Ginninderra creek?
The Yarralumla brickworks story?
Scrivener Dam stories?

Anyone else up for a RA ghost hunting trip?

I had a book about Canberra ghosts when I was a child. There was a story about an aboriginal ghost who haunts the grounds of Government House. I don’t remember the story fully but it had something to do with a diamond. Anyone else heard of this one???

MWF, I am so moved by your story.

As the mother of a child with a disability I can empathise about not being listened to because you’re ‘just a parent’ – as if that reduces your IQ by 30 points ….

I would just take getting to see your lost child as a very rare and special gift. Real or imagined – who cares as long as it’s real to you?

Big hug,
Granny

Hey P Pilate – seriously when scary shit happens it is out of the blue and least expected.

I also saw heaps of dead bodies – first year at Sydney Uni in anatomy class – never saw anything freaky there. But the people who donated their bodies to science – I remember their faces even now and it was 22 years ago.

PS I quit Uni in Sydney after a year to go and study for a gentler job without blood and death. And then the Canberra PS beckoned…………..

Hmmmm…..all these stories are quite interesting and most entertaining. I am disappointed though as I have yet to experience one bit of haunting, ghost sighting, unusual feeling of dread/history and yet I have been around quite a few dead bodies and places where really bad things have happened to people.

Not fair. Maybe I should start watching more horror movies or something to fire up the imagination a bit more?

How’s the book coming along? Would love to check out a few of these places out. Although with pre-concieved ideas already planted in ones mind it would make any kind of rational and independent testing null and void on a psychological basis.

I can’t believe this hasn’t said but the hotel Kurrajong in barton is spooky as.

my gf goes to uni there and was living on campus. staying there sucked so much.. one night in her room we were lying there when all of a sudden a glass on her table acrossf from the bed shattered. were sh*t scared but wat could we do.. it happened so we just left the light on and went back to bed.

next thing we know the glass was moving around every time we looked away from the table. spread it our so none of it was touching other bits (thought it might have been moving in the breeze)and the glass kept on clinking.

plus there’s many spooky parts of that place when the lights go out

I wanna tell another spooky story. Whoooo.

My grandparents, who are both deceased, experienced one of the light orb things. My grandfather went to go to his shed. He saw a really large light and went to walk toward it. It moved with him, in the same direction. He walked back, it moved back with him. He called my grandmother out to see what was going on and another light appeared. The 2nd light followed my grandmother up and down the yard. Backwards and forwards. Left and right. The two of them walked around their backyard and their own lights followed them.

This was in the 70s and I was just a little girl when I eavesdropped on this adult conversation. They tried to keep it from us kids, but I demanded answers and got none. It truly gave my grandparents the heebie jeebies – they were strict Catholics and believed in none of the UFO and ghost stuff (except for the church ghost stories 😉 ). It made them re-think their belief system. Freaked me out for years and years.

A guy I went to school with hung himself about 25 years ago in a tree at the Hawker horse paddocks (end of Dungowan St). I’ve never been there at night to see if any spooky stuff happens, been there during the day a few times (not for years though) but nothing out of the ordinary to report. I will have to go there again soon just for a look, used to hang out there (no pun intended) a lot when I was a kid, riding my BMX bike.

“Is it also coincidence that one twin can feel the other’s pain, or a mother can sense a child’s death?”

Possibly. But it happened to me. I knew my first child would die. It wasn’t a dream, I was awake when I saw it happen in a daydream like thing I had when I was pregnant. The funeral director in my “awake” dream thing was the same guy that came into my room after my baby had actually died. I tried to tell every Dr and nurse that I saw that something was wrong and I just knew it and was written off as a nutbag. My child was born at full term, large and apparently healthy and died shortly afterward, despite a s*&tload of Drs and paeds doing everything they could.

This didn’t happen in Canberra. However, the first night in the house we now live in and bought 4 years ago in Canberra, I heard and saw one of my living children padding up the hallway. It was strange that the child I saw had really curly hair and my living kids don’t. Anyway, I yelled to the OH to get the sleepwalking kid and put the kid back to bed. Oh went to the kids’ rooms and both were sound asleep.

I freaked out so much I phoned my mother at 11pm. I know what I saw and it was one of my kids. Haven’t seen the ghostly child since.

I’ve been reading over this thread with great interest, I’ll check some of these sites and see if anything interesting turns up.

peterh said :

fnaah, the same to you. be safe. we should have many discussions to come in the new year…

and the same to you all, if you are leaving for holidays, spare a thought for those of us still at work. (hiding from my inlaws)

Peterh, we’ll have alot to talk about when we venture down the Burns Club in the new year. I lost 2 brothers 6 months apart in ’85. This led to my mother and her family are rabid catholics who frequently fall out over ‘who is the better christian’. Her ‘over the top’ attitude has seen her lose almost all her friends and become a laughing stock who I’ve seen people cross the road to avoid. She was also banned from visiting a family friend who was dying by telling what she should do when she gets to heaven. Scary stuff.
I too have seen one of my deceased brothers doing stuff in the house where he died. I’m a naturally skeptical person but when his radio (which I inherited) suddenly turned on one morning with volume, bass and treble up to max, without being plugged in or having batteries installed it certainly opened me up to the possibility that something is on the other side. That was the first of a few similar events in his old room.

Very interesting thread! I’ve not had many ghost experiences in Canberra, but here’s one maybe someone can shed some light on.

Twice I’ve been driving through Wanniassa on Fincham Crescent (off Sternberg Crescent) and I’ve come across a black figure standing in the middle of the road. It looked like a male, and was wearing jeans. I thought it was a person, so I slammed on my brakes only to find that it had disappeared! (I did a walk around of the car). I have heard stories of crashes around there… any leads?

I’ve stayed at Monte Cristo overnight twice and have some spooky stories and so many strange pictures. We also heard strange sounds – horses, a carriage and child laughing – it was so frightening we left in the middle of the night the first time. I’d just bought a new camera prior to the first stay and the blasted thing kept turning itself off, and the battery kept running down. Reg – the owner – said that was a fairly common occurrence. I’d love some photo-savvy eyes to have a squiz at the pictures as I can’t explain a lot of what has happened – strange orbs, lights, fog and the same eerie black figure in three.

I’ve also been to Picton for a ghost tour; nowhere near as scary as Junee (Monte Cristo) though!

Travel safe too, we don’t need more fatalities.

Better to get there slowly than not at all.

I’m off for a jam session…

one of my cousins was a bit miffed, he was a priest, and was asked to leave when he started spouting from the bible

Ahhh, schadenfreude. Thanks for the smile. 🙂

fnaah, the same to you. be safe. we should have many discussions to come in the new year…

and the same to you all, if you are leaving for holidays, spare a thought for those of us still at work. (hiding from my inlaws)

fnaah said :

I understand the point you’re trying to make Danman, but I respectfully disagree.

Adults don’t believe in Santa Claus. We encourage this belief in children, yet if an otherwise perfectly sane adult told you that they actually believe a man in a red suit was going to bring them presents, would you think it was OK to just let this be?

I won’t argue the point any further, however I reserve my right to get my back up when people imply that those without faith have no grounding (moral or otherwise).

My rock is a rock.

your rock is quite possibly my rock. or another rock, the same as mine, with a different name.

faith is a personal thing. it is the same as a moral compass, I have friends and family that would argue till they were blue in the face that faith = god. not true. faith is not belief. my aunt was an athiest. she didn’t believe in god or any religion at all. We still attended her graveside and said goodbye. (one of my cousins was a bit miffed, he was a priest, and was asked to leave when he started spouting from the bible)

if a man in a red suit turned up and threw presents at me…

does Kevin rudd own a red suit?

that feels better…

Peterh, an apology is in order – you’re right, I’d tarred you with the godbotherer brush, and I’m sorry. I admire and respect your ability to reply calmly and without rancor.

Sincerely, all the best for you and yours over the holidays.

I understand the point you’re trying to make Danman, but I respectfully disagree.

Adults don’t believe in Santa Claus. We encourage this belief in children, yet if an otherwise perfectly sane adult told you that they actually believe a man in a red suit was going to bring them presents, would you think it was OK to just let this be?

I won’t argue the point any further, however I reserve my right to get my back up when people imply that those without faith have no grounding (moral or otherwise).

My rock is a rock.

oh, and i saw where my brother was, when he died. I went to visit the site, and was able to point out the exact spot he was sitting, in the creek, as he tried to cool his body from his horrendous burns. He had come to me in a dream, and had said goodbye.

fnaah said :

It wasn’t a possum? OH NOES!! It must have been some evil being the knowledge of which wot mortal man was not meant to meddle with, etc. You’re right!

I performed CPR on my father as he died, I didn’t see his spirit come out anywhere, nor did I talk to him in my sleep, nor did I feel him smiling down upon me.

Through all that I had knowledge.

Tell you what, if it makes you feel better, you can telepathically talk to your zombie carpenter if you like, I’ll pray to Joe Pesci. We’ll see who can get things done.

My mother and I prayed every day for her cancer to go into remission. I don’t believe that it was god that made her get better, it was her belief – the focusing of her energies into a single focal point that was tangible, and she recovered.

If you want to categorise me, i am a registry office christian – I go to church for births, deaths and marriages. I am also a new age meditating crystal using hippy. I am also a firm believer in fate. when i die, I hope that there is an afterlife. not heaven, but something.

I also firmly believe that there are spirits who choose to remain, to stay and watch over us. As they had been in life, some are good, some are definitely not. My stepbrother was killed in a plane crash in the blue mountains. I still firmly believe that he is with me from time to time, little things that happen, or the way that i find my sons both pointing at something in their room, laughing and smiling. (there is nothing there)

I cannot explain some of the things i have witnessed, but I feel I am richer for all my experiences. If, for some reason, I pass before my children reach adulthood, I hope that my spirit can see them grow.

peterh said :

fnaah said :

I prefer my rock to be a rock. To each their own though.

I am a christian, but it is my belief system. i don’t foist it on others.

Peterh, I’m with you there. I also believe in the general teachings of the church and consider myself a christian. That said, I have MAJOR issues with the Catholic Church.

Fnaah – just because you do not believe in the same things as others, it does not give you the authority to debunk other peoples experiences.

What may have been 100% real for someone may well be quite unbelievable for you or I, but that does no give either of us the right to take that persons experiences away from them, real or imagined.

Its ok to not believe, no one asked you to.

It wasn’t a possum? OH NOES!! It must have been some evil being the knowledge of which wot mortal man was not meant to meddle with, etc. You’re right!

I performed CPR on my father as he died, I didn’t see his spirit come out anywhere, nor did I talk to him in my sleep, nor did I feel him smiling down upon me.

Through all that I had knowledge.

Tell you what, if it makes you feel better, you can telepathically talk to your zombie carpenter if you like, I’ll pray to Joe Pesci. We’ll see who can get things done.

his was non-public, the lifts just outside Hansard on the Senate side.

You are 100% right Ozhair – those lifts are not 2 way entry. Bizarre man! Quite freaky actually!

So wait, you’re a christian, and you believe in astrology as well as the significance of birthstones? That figures, I guess, faith is faith.

What happened to thou shalt not worship any other god but me? Don’t make god angry. You won’t like it when he gets angry. All those plagues and the boiling seas and so forth. Nasty business, that.

Oh, and have a happy non-denominational festive season, eh?

fnaah said :

I prefer my rock to be a rock. To each their own though.

and I believe that, as my name means rock, my natal stone is a diamond, my zodiac sign is an earth element, and I am a lapidarist, I win. and not by religion, either.

I have been in places that are far too dark to speak of, with friends who spake in a strange tongue, or many tongues, seen a ouija board levitate when the “visitor” wanted to remain, heard the sound of what we thought were claws on the roof of a caravan in an open paddock, wasn’t a possum. all through this i have had my faith. I have witnessed faith healings, seen the spirit leave the body of a dying man, heard the cry of my unborn children.

I am a christian, but it is my belief system. i don’t foist it on others.

I only believe in gay spirit marriages when both ghosts are hot

I prefer my rock to be a rock. To each their own though.

justbands said :

> only if they want to. I don’t take communion, but that is a health issue – i am NOT sharing a cup with others.

Surely your god would protect you from any nasties?

you try it. my faith is my rock, not my shield.

Some do, some don’t. Ozhair, roughly what part of the Parli house was this? Public areas, non public areas, underground, senate or reps side etc? I should be able to tell you if they were double exit doors or not.

This was non-public, the lifts just outside Hansard on the Senate side. I’ve been using these lifts several times a day for the past twelve years, so I think I would’ve noticed a back door 😉 So, no, they aren’t the double-exit doors.

Timberwolf65 – the jury’s out for me on whether orbs are supernatural or just dust or moisture on the lens. That said I have a some pics with huge orbs that I just can’t explain away. Give me a clothed transparent human shaped ghost anytime.

Only quesion I have is why ghosts are always dressed. Clothes don’t have a spirit etc.. and you never hear of naked ghosts…

My sister lived out past Michelago on the way to cooma and she use to leave for work quite early in the morning as she worked in Canberra, One morning she is coming out of her property and she seen a large panther like cat walking in the paddock of the property across the highway.

I love ghosts and I have organised trips to different haunted places over the years.
Monte Cristo Homestead in Wagga was unreal, we got some weird photos of orbs and images of Mr Crawley who was the original builder/ owner of Monte Cristo, we also put a tape recorder in a locked room and caught footsteps and rocking from a rocking chair, wish I could post pictures on here.

Maitland Gaol was another good place, we stayed overnight and had the whole run of the place, we got some good orb pics there and some definite feelings that we were not alone, not much sleeping happened.
I would love to check out some of these places in Canberra though.

Wish I could post pics to let you see!!!

You have been warned !!!!!

Based on the updated “email” from the police ending with this statement – it hardly looks legit. The triple exclamation is anything but official.

on’t the lifts (I’m sure one that I can think of at least) in Parliament House have doors opening front & back? Perhaps your “ghost” simply ducked out the other side.

Some do, some don’t. Ozhair, roughly what part of the Parli house was this? Public areas, non public areas, underground, senate or reps side etc? I should be able to tell you if they were double exit doors or not.

> only if they want to. I don’t take communion, but that is a health issue – i am NOT sharing a cup with others.

Surely your god would protect you from any nasties?

BerraBoy68 said :

fnaah said :

There’s heaps and heaps of haunted buildings in Canberra.

They’re often unusually shaped (yet clearly signposted), with large occult-like symbols evident. Go into any one of them, and the people congregated there will tell you the ghost of a 2000-year old jewish carpenter lives there.

It’s funny what people believe.

True Fnaa, they also worship his memory by pretending to be cannibals and vampires.

only if they want to. I don’t take communion, but that is a health issue – i am NOT sharing a cup with others.

fnaah said :

There’s heaps and heaps of haunted buildings in Canberra.

They’re often unusually shaped (yet clearly signposted), with large occult-like symbols evident. Go into any one of them, and the people congregated there will tell you the ghost of a 2000-year old jewish carpenter lives there.

It’s funny what people believe.

True Fnaa, they also worship his memory by pretending to be cannibals and vampires.

fnaah said :

There’s heaps and heaps of haunted buildings in Canberra.

They’re often unusually shaped (yet clearly signposted), with large occult-like symbols evident. Go into any one of them, and the people congregated there will tell you the ghost of a 2000-year old jewish carpenter lives there.

It’s funny what people believe.

but he hasn’t been born yet….

There’s heaps and heaps of haunted buildings in Canberra.

They’re often unusually shaped (yet clearly signposted), with large occult-like symbols evident. Go into any one of them, and the people congregated there will tell you the ghost of a 2000-year old jewish carpenter lives there.

It’s funny what people believe.

Just means you’ve gone up a rank peterh.

hang on, why am i an agitator?

I had heard from some neighbors that there is a little grey cat that visits the houses from time to time. it isn’t looking for anything, and is really friendly, but when it rubs up against you, you can’t feel a thing. and when you look down to see it, it isn’t there. apparently, it died many years ago. it just loves to visit, and tries to follow you into the house. when you are inside, it vanishes.

I have now seen it 4 or 5 times, my cats know when it is around, they clamor to go outside in the cat run, and will chat to it. they don’t seem bothered by it.

> I figured I was just imagining things, then noticed that one of the other people was looking a bit freaked out. I asked what was wrong, and she said that she was positive that she’d seen someone getting into the lift. There definitely wasn’t time for the lift to get to another floor and have someone get off.

Don’t the lifts (I’m sure one that I can think of at least) in Parliament House have doors opening front & back? Perhaps your “ghost” simply ducked out the other side.

Heh, it’s somehow appropriate that a thread about ghosts rises from the dead… 🙂

I work at new Parliament House. A while back, approaching some lifts with some other people, I caught a glimpse of someone getting into the lift as the doors closed. We pressed the button a couple of seconds later, the doors opened, but the lift was empty.

I figured I was just imagining things, then noticed that one of the other people was looking a bit freaked out. I asked what was wrong, and she said that she was positive that she’d seen someone getting into the lift. There definitely wasn’t time for the lift to get to another floor and have someone get off.

The moral of the story: A place doesn’t have to be old, dark and spooky to be haunted 🙂

And for those who know the NFSA stories, the latest screenplay I’m working on is called “The Archive”. Guess what it’s about 😉 Now I just have to figure out how to get them to let me film there…

Gt a lot of spare time coming up Mr Thumper, so if you can get night release from the Feldons and The Thumperette, be happy to hang out one night and do some spooky night photography.

We had something similar happen at 60a Melba St, Downer, a couple of years back; but the person involved wouldn’t be happy for me to go into details.

I worked at NFSA many years ago, our section was in the basement of the old building.

Once in the film change room (darkroom) had someone grab me on the shoulder, freaked me out no end as I couldn’t leave the room as I had to change the film.

Had a tap running, turned around to do something and it got turned off, hard.

Was always a bit spooky and you would regularly find things moved from where you put them. But, we where always playing jokes on each other so sometimes hard to tell if it was ghosts or your workmates. Crapola all over the place and lots of dark corners, perfect spooky place.

The shoulder incident and the tap where definite freaky happenings and not workmates.

5 Moresby place Forrest – Canberra’s original haunted house. Anyone know the history?

Where exactly is this? There seems to be a Moresby Street, but not a Moresby Place, and no number 5. I figured Google StreetView might be a good place to look some of this stuff up.

Anyone know what’s the deal with those three kids running across the green strip onto the road by the Mint around 10pm-1am? I’ve heard (independently) from two mates who swore they nearly crashed into them. One slammed on his brakes and got out to yell at ’em – but there was no one around. They seem to appear in the area between the two bridges just near that large automated street warning sign. Anyone else seen them?

My turn:

I used to work for Prime TV in Wagga. We once did a story on the ghosts of Monte Cristo. While I was setting up the camera on the old wooden verandah, I heard very distinct footsteps coming up behind me. I turned around, but, of course, there was nobody there. Freaked me out severely.

I work at Parliament House (the new one) these days. A group of us were heading back to the office, and rounded a corner to where the lifts ar. I caught a glimpse of someone getting into one of the lifts just as the doors closed. We pressed the button a few seconds later, and the doors opened immediately. Nobody there. I was prepared to put it down to my imagination, but one of the other people in the group freaked out because she’d seen the same thing.

As far as I know, that’s the only New Parliament House ghost story I know of.

Cheers

Can anyone tell me which ‘haunted’ place would be be the best for atmosphere? Or any ideas of which place?

Tristan said :

Can’t we all just get along respecting each others personal views?

Hell no! The you’d loose the essence of RiotACT!

Cain’t we all just get along respecting each others personal views?

– Accept nothing expect everything

Just thought i should add that

WMC – what’s wrong with Danman saying he “feels history in certain places”? Call it atmosphere if you like but personally I feel quite different going into Old Parliament House than I do the new one. The new PH has no ‘atmosphere’ for me – i.e. no feeling of history.

The same can be said of the AWM or any number of buildings around the world. Some of the biggest skeptics I know have said they could ‘feel the history’ as soon as they entered, for example, the Tower of London. Now if Danman had said he “sees dead people” that’d be a different matter…

By the way – being psychic I thought was predicting the future….. How can feeling history in a place i.e. the past be related to being a psychic?
Do I communicate with the dead – No
Do I have a crystal ball – no

Do I go to places that put me well on edge, only to find out they are haunts or places of great depression… Yes.

Cal it what you will..

PS I lied – now I have said all i want

PPS Thumper – email me re pictures for your book – I lost your email between pc/mac switch

If I am not entitled to my opinion – however different to yours then I will happily eat a bowl of stfu.

like I said above WMC, Im not asking for you to agree with me, not even asking you to belive me

(Insert F Gump accent) “Thats all I have to say about that”

Woody Mann-Caruso said :

Twit.

Gee, I hope Woody Mann Crusa is going to get a stern warning for personal abuse 🙂

You’re clearly telling me what my opinion is.

You’re not clear about anything. If I had said ‘What danman means is’ or ‘what danman is trying to say is’ or ‘Danman believes…’, maybe you’d have a leg to stand on. But I didn’t do any of those things – I just made a statement. I couldn’t give a toss whether it’s your opinion or not.

Come to think of it, I did tell you what your opinion is. It’s wrong.

I dont claim to have psychic ability

But you claims to be able to “feel history in certain places”. Where do you feel it? How? Do you only feel it in places where you know something good or bad happened, or can you walk in some place you know nothing about and ‘feel the history’? Do you see dead people?

That statistical evidence was mind-blowing…

You’re the one with the burden of proof. How does your theory measure the countless number of times something significant happens to a twin and the other has absolutely no idea? How do you count the number of times somebody gave you a look behind your back and you were completely oblivious? Why are you surprised that with the millions of sets of twins in the world, and the countless numbers of experiences they have every day, that occasionally, over extended period of time, one set will think about something at the same time, and remember this rather than the billions of times they didn’t? Are you surprised when this happens with phone calls? Are you surprised when you see a particular license place on a car, knowing that there are millions of plates in Australia and that the odds of you seeing that particular one at that particular time in that particular place are astronomically low? Why is it that when you put twins in separate rooms and expose them to a range of stimuli they’re completely unable to say what the other is experiencing? What does it mean when your ‘psychic power’ is no better than chance and can’t be replicated under controlled conditions? Twit.

Twas joking Mr Serious.

To quote myself I dont claim to have psychic ability

Danman said :

Exactly.

Or knowing the phone is going to ring, and who it is, before the fact.

Does this predictive ability extend to sporting events? Say… this year’s Melbourne Cup?

PBO said :

Madman, no offence, just having a joke.

Mutley..Again, there is about 5 houses in Weetangera that are apparently haunted, been to 3 and my belief is that something is really going on there. Across from the shops, the big house used to house Embassey officials many, many years ago before the current owners, was apparently the scene of a double suicide ( dont know how true that is) and thinds are meant to happen there.

PBO – I’d be interested in knowing which other houses in Weetangera are thought to have the ghosts.

what I will ask is that you do not tell me how it is in my opinion

Which I did where exactly?

The bit where you said It’s called ‘coincidence’ – it’s statistically guaranteed to happen

You’re clearly telling me what my opinion is.

Not going to lock horns on this – my opinions exist because they are mine and no one can change them…only sway me to change them – so far not so good.

Do you want a disproof, or a calculation of statistical probability?

Disproof: My mother is a twin, her brother has been in several car accidents. She has only ever found out about these through someone telling her, not some mystic twintuition.

So now run off and refine your theory.

As for a statistical calculation, without having data to work with (since the burden of proof is on you as the person who put forward the argument, but you could probably start looking near where you found this peer-reviewed paper) we can’t give you an exact anything, I’m only able to suggest its probably Zero, or if non-zero so close to zero as to be either a calculating or attribution error, or a deliberate misconstruction of logic.

Woody Mann-Caruso said :

Is it also coincidence that one twin can feel the other’s pain, or a mother can sense a child’s death?

No, the word you’re looking for there is ‘false’, ‘delusional’ or ‘debunked’.

Brilliant rebuttal. I am completely convinced. That statistical evidence was mind-blowing….

what I will ask is that you do not tell me how it is in my opinion

Which I did where exactly? (You knew I was going to type that before I typed it, didn’t you?)

Is it also coincidence that one twin can feel the other’s pain, or a mother can sense a child’s death?

No, the word you’re looking for there is ‘false’, ‘delusional’ or ‘debunked’.

Is it also coincidence that one twin can feel the other’s pain, or a mother can sense a child’s death?

Exactly how statistically probable is that?

WMC, Im not asking for you to agree with me, not even asking you to belive me, what I will ask is that you do not tell me how it is in my opinion.

It’s called ‘coincidence’ – it’s statistically guaranteed to happen, it’s natural for you to notice it, and it’s not the slightest bit magical.

Exactly.

Or knowing the phone is going to ring, and who it is, before the fact.

Yes, even the way you can feel somebody looking at you long before you turn around and see them doing it – particularly if their gaze is communicating intense hostility or admiration.

You kind of just feel their eyes on you and instinctively turn around.

Our minds are so closed – schitzophrenia is enlightenment – but a society full of closed minds denounces these people different to them and therefore mentally unstable – what they see hear touch taste and smell is unreal to us so we broom closet them.

Maybe they are seeing all that there is to see, and because some neuropath in their brain has been bridged, it has enabled this. We are irate to the real world behind what we see and therefore as we are in the majority – we are normal.

I dont claim to have psychic ability – but I can feel history in certain places – weather its malevolent or warm comfort.

Very un-nerving sometimes.

Granny said :

I don’t think we should be surprised when unexplained things happen. Everything we consider to be so solid and ‘real’ is mostly just space.

or we accept is real. maybe the real world isn’t…

I don’t think we should be surprised when unexplained things happen. Everything we consider to be so solid and ‘real’ is mostly just space.

or Lustmord even

Listen to Lustmord in the dark… Thats scary

If you want a scare Tristan try sitting at my keyboard with the lights off reading this Thread! My PC faces the wall and I have a door behind me so I’ve been turning round every few seconds to make sure nothing’s behind me!! I think I may need to get the dogs inside and turn on all the lights for a while…

Ah life full of obstructions. So many stories, i don’t know which one to check out first. I’m looking for a good scare but don’t know which sounds the scariest.

Thumper, this book or text your writing. When do you think it will be completed?

i’ve also heard of a woman ghost in a kitchen but you could only see the top half of her going around on the floor. turns out the kitchen had been renovated and the floor was now higher than it was previously, so where she used to walk while she was alive had gone

Bloody ell! An Irish dancing ghost!

Fasinating blog! Given me the heeby geebies, sleeping with the lights on tonight!

oooh i love this sort of stuff. had anyone done one of the ghost tours with tim the yowie man? i went on one i really enjoyed hearing about all the history of canberra.

Heres a couple i remember that no one has mentioned here.

Blundells cottage – one of the daughters is said to haunt the house. her nightgown caught on fire one night and she later died from her burns in hospital. It’s said that you can sometimes smell burning flesh near the window at the front. which was her room.
Duntroon – Aparently has one of the most haunted rooms in australia. said to be haunted by a young woman, who is rumoured to have been pregnant to the gardener and subsequently murdered because of it. The cadets all refuse to sleep there and anyone who has has felt a presence. it’s usually said to be very cold in there and sometimes at night you can hear the window opening and shutting. the bed has also been found looking like someone has slept in it when it was previously made and the room shut up and locked for days / weeks.
the museum – it seems remnants of the hospital inhabit the place at night. a matron has been seen walking around and it’s reported that a security guard was in the elevator when the door opened and the sound of kids laughing and carrying on came down the hall, road in the elevator with him and then ran off laughing down the hall again.

there was plenty more stories too. i hadnt realised canberra had such interesting past. and yes tim mentioned in particular the national film and sound archive as being essenatially the most haunted place in canberra.

we didnt really see anything while we were on the tour, but we were also in a big group which i think is not going to attract any ghosty type behaviour. id like to hear people opinions on ghosts and why there here or what they are. like a previous bit of time trapped in a continuos loop….

ive heard stories that the woman who used to be seen along lake george hasn’t appeared since the highway was fix. the road was built up a metre or two in height. so no where she used to walk is covered in tar. i’ve also heard of a woman ghost in a kitchen but you could only see the top half of her going around on the floor. turns out the kitchen had been renovated and the floor was now higher than it was previously, so where she used to walk while she was alive had gone.

picton is also a place worth mentioning. the tunnel is haunted by a little girl.

PBO said :

peterh:
Off the old Charnwood Road near the intersection with the old Weetangera Road; around the present section 34 in Holt. That is where the old Charnwood Station was meant to be.
Some building foundations on the site of the former ‘Charnwood’ property were reportedly destroyed on instructions from the NCDC in the early 60s in the name of safety.

That is according to: http://www.belconnen.org.au/belhist.htm

Hope that helps.

Thanks PBO, I always wondered where it was, after going to charnwood primary school, the logo was the old station wool brand, with a back to front S.

peterh:
Off the old Charnwood Road near the intersection with the old Weetangera Road; around the present section 34 in Holt. That is where the old Charnwood Station was meant to be.
Some building foundations on the site of the former ‘Charnwood’ property were reportedly destroyed on instructions from the NCDC in the early 60s in the name of safety.

That is according to: http://www.belconnen.org.au/belhist.htm

Hope that helps.

Haha no apology required. I have pretty thick skin you know (***wipes tears away from eyes**).

Honey you shrunk the keyboard.

Roadrage77, My writing is usually better but i am using a half size keyboard at the moment.

glad that is sorted out….

does anyone know about the old charnwood station? where is the original location?

I think V8 may have gone to get an interpreter, cos that $hit PBO is writing ain’t no English.

My apologies, i did not see that written at the top. I was under the impression thatV8-prius came up with that. Sorry V8-Prius.

Calm down ladies.

The reader who posted the warning as a new story did so with a NSW Police email address (not breaching a confidence here as they were claiming to be police).

PBO said :

All i was after was a bit of clarification about that police warning.

queanbeyan reader, if you are out there, are you representing the NSW police force with the posted warning?

All i was after was a bit of clarification about that police warning.

V8-Prius said :

you is rite pbo. i is inable. i am 100% certain that you COULD have written it yourself.

I thought that the original info came from johnboy as an update – ie. at the top of the thread. queanbeyan reader posted it.

how did v8-prius get blamed for the post? he just pointed out that there were far too many syllables.

or did I miss something?

V8-Prius said :

you is rite pbo. i is inable. i am 100% certain that you COULD have written it yourself.

Whatever D##khead, if you dont have anything constructive to contribute the F##k off.

you is rite pbo. i is inable. i am 100% certain that you COULD have written it yourself.

V8-Prius: whilst i may not be a policeman (are you?), this does seem like a warning that would be releasedor the type of warning that they would give spelling mistakes or not. All i asked you to do was explain yourself which you seem inable / unwanting to do.

“no doubt that it could be authentic”?

FAIL.

can V8-Prius explain this to me:

Information for all who dare to attend the so called haunted house in Michalego. This is NSW Police, by entering this private property you are breaking the law. If caught you will be charged, it is an offence to tresspass on private property. NSW police will be conducting regular patrols of the above and surrounding areas. You have been warned !!!!!

if it was not the police then who wrote this and where did it come from? I have no doubt that it could be authentic but i am wondering who you are quoting.

tuggers said :

I love this stuff…

I’ve heard stories about the panther..near Camp Cottermouth and have also been told of one stalking the paddocks near Tarago.

at gininderra falls, the owner had a few sheep almost bitten in half – no idea what had done it, but there was a report of wild dogs in the area. We all decided that the dog that was doing it had to be huge. never thought about a big cat. The spoor that was left didn’t look like a dog’s, as the claws weren’t showing.

Uriarra crossing YMCA camp had a couple of sightings, but we leaders never followed it up, I mean, if it was a big cat, what would stop it feeding on humans?

V8-Prius said :

Information for all who dare to attend the so called haunted house in Michalego. This is NSW Police, by entering this private property you are breaking the law. If caught you will be charged, it is an offence to tresspass on private property. NSW police will be conducting regular patrols of the above and surrounding areas. You have been warned !!!!!

No way a piggie wrote this. Some of the words have more than one syllable.

but they can’t spell MICHELAGO….
obviously don’t live there, then.

Information for all who dare to attend the so called haunted house in Michalego. This is NSW Police, by entering this private property you are breaking the law. If caught you will be charged, it is an offence to tresspass on private property. NSW police will be conducting regular patrols of the above and surrounding areas. You have been warned !!!!!

No way a piggie wrote this. Some of the words have more than one syllable.

(however I stand corrected).

I thought for it to be trespass you had to be asked to leave, and refuse.

i know that there was an old mining operation going on there many decades ago. I did not know that it was the UFO capital (apparently thats meant to be Lawson in belco). Does anyone know about the old (abandoned) houses out there?

& Lake George has one of the largest number of reported UFO sightings in the world.

PBO said :

Peterh: I think Paul is just a one log in wonder. Any comment Paul?

I have heard of a big old house near Lake Gearge that also fits all the criteria and it is apparently abandoned, and for a long time too.

don’t get me started on lake george.

what with people disappearing out on the lake, the freak hurricane that blew up in the 1900’s, the guy that’s been seen sitting by the lake with a fishing pole, catching fish out of the grass – he can’t be seen at night, but on a foggy day, there he is…

Peterh: I think Paul is just a one log in wonder. Any comment Paul?

I have heard of a big old house near Lake Gearge that also fits all the criteria and it is apparently abandoned, and for a long time too.

The boys and girls in blue had a 4wd parked in front of the house in Michelago on Monday afternoon, and were wandering up and down apparently looking for someone or something.

Or maybe they were just too chicken to jump the fence………

The area around the Bogo quarry near the Burrunjuck turn off on the other side of Yass is rumoured to be haunted.
In the 1800’s a lady and her children were murdered by an Irish farm hand with an axe while her husband was away. The Irishman walked to Binalong to hand himself in and was later hanged and the woman’s ghost is said to haunt the area.
My grandparents both swear they once saw her standing on the side of the Hume Highway when they were on the way home from a fishing trip at the dam and over the years a number of truckies have also reported seeing a lady in a white dress standing by the side of the road late at night. Weird stuuf apparently happens at the quarry from time to time although I have a mate who worked there for a while and we didn’t see anything.

Apparently Holt has a good number of pioneer cemetaries that have been covered over and made into parks. It is possible as this used to be a large privately owned property.

PBO said :

Peterh:
Evatt cemetary (easier to call it that) was bulldozed over in 1970. The driver of the dozer was hesitant to do the job and there were protesters, however due to the advanced deterioration of the site as well as the vandalism it was covered over. Apparently there is also some Aboriginal bodies (2) buried there too. There was also a church on that site too.

well that makes me feel less comfortable about what i saw, but I will probably think more about it when i am taking out the bins at midnight tonight – cue hair standing up on the back of my neck….

Peterh:
Evatt cemetary (easier to call it that) was bulldozed over in 1970. The driver of the dozer was hesitant to do the job and there were protesters, however due to the advanced deterioration of the site as well as the vandalism it was covered over. Apparently there is also some Aboriginal bodies (2) buried there too. There was also a church on that site too.

Mælinar said :

3 post nutbag.

I get the feeling you lurk out there waiting for me to post 3 times, don’t you?
this is post #2, don’t have any thoughts yet for a third.

Skidbladnir said :

re: Jb’s update about the Michelago house being an act of trespass…

That sounds about right, and its neat that the NSW police read us the RiotACT.
Although apparently we were at one time responsible for sending people out there.
See this old story, and scroll down to where user Paul starts talking (and then calling me a drongo).
http://the-riotact.com/?p=1625

Skidbladnir, only, as he says – its easier to spell. though why he would be spelling your name when he could just Cut and paste is beyond me. (I did)

My friend used to reside on a rental property on Conlon Crescent in Theodore. One night she decided to clean the house and in the reflection of the sliding door in the family room she saw a reflection of someone standing next to her, she looked behind her and there was no one physically there. It happened again in another window in the living area of the house. She also told me that when she walked in the hallway of the house she has felt someone walking right behind her…

re: Jb’s update about the Michelago house being an act of trespass…

That sounds about right, and its neat that the NSW police read us the RiotACT.
Although apparently we were at one time responsible for sending people out there.
See this old story, and scroll down to where user Paul starts talking (and then calling me a drongo).
http://the-riotact.com/?p=1625

3 post nutbag.

3 post nutbag time….

You know, the evatt cemetery may explain something I saw with a couple of mates many years ago that freaked us out one night, we were walking across the paddock near the primary school next to copland college, it was a weird night, with a blanket of mist on the ground, even though it was mid summer.

We saw what we thought to be two groups of people facing each other off on the far end of the paddock. we stopped, and watched as these two groups fanned out and ran at each other, screaming and yelling. they met in the middle of the paddock, attacking each other with bits of wood and other objects, that we couldn’t quite make out.

this lasted for about 10mins, after which the mist started to disperse, and so did the groups. (not walking away, one minute they were there, the next they were gone)

There are apartments built there now, but it is still bitterly cold round that area on certain nights. never saw the mist there again, but I was one of 3 people, we hadn’t been drinking, or using drugs (we don’t), and there were no signs of these people or any of the items they had been using to attack each other. in fact, the long grass didn’t show any disturbance – not trampled, broken etc.

PBO said :

That is the old Weetangera Methodist cemetary, it has been there since about 1860. There use to be a churchat the entrance but it was demolished in the 1950’s and all that is left is two bits of foundation at the entrance under the pine tree’s. I learnt that yesterday. There is also one in Evatt at the intersection of Copland dve and Moynihan st.

hang on,

are there graves there? I have been past that site over the years, don’t remember any on the cnr of copland and moynihan.

would have remembered, went to copland, finished in ’88.

sexynotsmart said :

I’ve watched a few of these threads over the last year, so here’s my ghost story.

When based in Adelaide I drove back to Sydney a few times, usually overnight. On the second-last trip I had to stop for a slash about halfway between Balranald and Hay.

There was no moon and once I turned off the headlights, everything was just black. I hopped out of the car but left the door open and the interior light on. I could just make out some bushes about five or ten metres towards the fenceline, but couldn’t see the fence at all.

I unzipped and stood there waiting for a moment. “Just how long are you gonna take?” came a voice from right behind me. I spun around quickly, but there was no-one between me and the car. I would have seen anyone there from the interior light.

This totally freaked me out, so I jumped back into the car and sped off. And went at the roadhouse in Hay.

ah, yes, hay plain. scary place at night, boring by day. we had a light follow us along the hay plain road, we slowed down and stopped – got out to take a look, it just hovered there for a while then took off at a high speed over our heads. not a sound, either.

Madman, no offence, just having a joke.

Mutley..Again, there is about 5 houses in Weetangera that are apparently haunted, been to 3 and my belief is that something is really going on there. Across from the shops, the big house used to house Embassey officials many, many years ago before the current owners, was apparently the scene of a double suicide ( dont know how true that is) and thinds are meant to happen there.

Proud Local said :

People’s wild and self fulfilling imaginations are certainly common.

wow, haven’t seen Proud Local in months.

But where’s headbonius and vg? They’ve gone all quiet.

People’s wild and self fulfilling imaginations are certainly common.

This sort of stuff is actually reasonably common, people just don’t talk about it for fear of being labeled a nutjob.

I forgot to mention in earlier posts that I’ve had two family members die in my family home in Flynn in the past 25 year. Odd things do happen there from time to time but we don’t say their scary, just strange. i.e. my radio turned itself on twice at full volume, bass and treble and it wasn’t even plugged in and had no batteries. I even had a witness once.

I used to be involved in Canberra Youth Theatre and a few years back there was a performance at the Film and Sound Archive called ‘Youths Eye View’. It had 100 young performers re-enacting key moments of the 20th Century while the audience was ushered throughout the building. One part of the performance was in the dirt floors of the basement, as well as a number of small tiled rooms underground. One brave performer had to be tied to a chair blindfolded and alone in one of these rooms as part of a torture re-enactment. One of the guys who volunteered freaked out after the first 2 shows because he claimed he felt someone touch his shoulders when he was alone, just before the audience was shown in. No one dared take his place afterwards.

I’ve watched a few of these threads over the last year, so here’s my ghost story.

When based in Adelaide I drove back to Sydney a few times, usually overnight. On the second-last trip I had to stop for a slash about halfway between Balranald and Hay.

There was no moon and once I turned off the headlights, everything was just black. I hopped out of the car but left the door open and the interior light on. I could just make out some bushes about five or ten metres towards the fenceline, but couldn’t see the fence at all.

I unzipped and stood there waiting for a moment. “Just how long are you gonna take?” came a voice from right behind me. I spun around quickly, but there was no-one between me and the car. I would have seen anyone there from the interior light.

This totally freaked me out, so I jumped back into the car and sped off. And went at the roadhouse in Hay.

Nyssa76 – My cousin was a student at Lyneham High about 5 years ago and they did a similar unit to what you’ve described. When she was in year 9 they stayed overnight in the school to check on some of the stories that suggest the school is haunted. They all thought it was going to be a bit of a joke, but from what I heard, they got more than they bargained for. I’m not sure if the teacher who ran that night is still there but it might be worth checking out. Apparently they found at least 5 instances of strange phenomenon. Bit creepy.

My mother was convinced our house in Weetangera was haunted. She said she heard/felt someone walking down the long corridor to the master bedroom and sitting on the end of the bed late at night (usually when my father was away… no comments please!).

We met the previous owners of the house at the shops some time laterwhen we were selling the house and they asked her whether she’d noticed the ghost.

i just didn’t know how to respond!

yeah, it sort of killed the post for the time being.

PBO said :

It took ten minutes to think of that.

and don’t you wish you hadn’t?

It took ten minutes to think of that.

Handsome!! anyone who makes a comment like that must have a face fit for blogging! heh heh

Yeah and call me handsome PBO.

LOL Jks

or maybe i wont upon inspection.

Cool, thanks for that Absent! I will Google satellite the Area.

please call me absent.

weston creek.

What area is this shed in Diane?

I think I have posted this before but there was something weird about the decked out shed I lived in with my parents years ago (to clarify my parents didn’t live in the shed – they lived in the house on the same property).

Anyway both my brothers and I lived in the shed; as the eldest moved out the next eldest moved in kind of situation. all of us on occassions heard what sounded like someone walking laps around the shed. One night when I was living in the shed my brother who was in the house heard all this noise coming from outside..like the side door of the shed opening and closing loudly and what he thought was yelling. He assumed that it was me getting home from a night on the piss – however I had been in bed quite early that night.

I also had two major ghost interactions in the shed – the first one I put down to sleep paralysis (which i still suffer from time to time) but the second a little less explainable as I woke up in the middle of the night and found myself getting pulled downwards off the bed. which was particularly creepy.

Turns out that the shed used to be an old gunsmiths work room and that a little boy had been hit and killed by a car out the front of the house.

We lived there for years and no-one ever felt comfortable in the house or shed when alone.

Probably worth doing as i haven’t written anything for ages.
Coming up to next full moon – Ill be out of canberra for the next 2 out of 3 weekends – so keen for this weekend if you are…Theres enough moonlight around to make good pictures.

nyssa76 said :

I love this stuff too tuggers…I teach ‘Haunted Canberra’ to get my students interested in Canberra’s history.

I use Tim the Yowie Man’s book for pics and am always on the look out for ‘new’ info.

peterh, I didn’t know about the Cotter deaths.

nyssa76, take them to the pioneer cemetery at hawker, also, some of the old posts in the original thread by thumper may be of use as well.

you posted a bit in the thread, and reference was made to the Hyatt Hotel – a lot.

I remember I was staying at a mates place where the toilet flushed on its own, the TV changed to a particular channel at a particular time of night, (even if you changed the channel, it went back) and the hall light came on at night without any human contact.

The old lady who had lived there before was very ill at the end, and she went to the toilet a lot, watched tv at the same time every night, and was worried about falling over, so would turn on the hall light.
My mate wasn’t bothered, neither was i.

Never got to see her, but you knew she was there. bit sad that she wasn’t able to leave the place. the house was demolished in red hill for a modern house. I wonder if she stayed to keep up her routine, or was finally able to be released….

Thumper – wanna come out next full moon – Ill take the pictures and you can escort me and show me where to go – I believe we were going to get some pictures for your book a while back yes ?

Absent Diane said :

A mate who worked at the hyatt graveyard shift had several incidents….. one of the freakiest he told me was walking into the function room and hearing what sounded like fingers being run around the edge of every wine glass in the room…. Canberra does have a vibe about it though…

Quote from the old thread.

I actually worked at the Hyatt not that long ago and there was a story about the Function rooms downstairs being a boiler room in the earlier days and a young child had escaped from there room and got down to the boiler room and fell into one of the boilers. Apparently those rooms are said to be haunted.

Also there is a rumour of a Ghost at the Erindale Theatre who lurchs out the back of the Orchestra pit.

madman: 35.217890, 149.088440

Monte Cristo in Junee is an interesting place to spend the night…. I’ve done a few ghost tours now and Monte Cristo takes the cake so far. The guest book is filled with comments like “You couldn’t pay me enough to stay here”. I stayed over night and sleep doesn’t come very easily…..

http://www.montecristo.com.au/

I love this stuff too tuggers…I teach ‘Haunted Canberra’ to get my students interested in Canberra’s history.

I use Tim the Yowie Man’s book for pics and am always on the look out for ‘new’ info.

peterh, I didn’t know about the Cotter deaths.

here is another link to strange sites: http://theshadowlands.net/places/australia.htm

sorry, 2nd post, but this stuff is interesting….

PBO said :

I really want to go and jump the fence at lawson and have a look around. The old Naval base there looks pretty interesting on google satellite. quote]

Whats the coordinates???

i knew I had seen this thread before, here is one of thumper’s originals:

http://the-riotact.com/?p=1625

Shame bout that. Belconnen and Cotter area are full of things like this and it is just a matter of pooling our knowledge and mapping them before they are lost.

PBO said :

I found the old abandoned treatment plant out the back of McGregor to be pretty cool. I really want to go and jump the fence at lawson and have a look around. The old Naval base there looks pretty interesting on google satellite. Does anyone know about the silver mine at the cotter?

last i had heard, the silver mine entrance collapsed after the fires. I have been to the site where it was, but haven’t been able to see it.

I have noticed that there are several new spots opened up after the fires, don’t know if there are other diggings there as well….

Let us hope that this small, almost insignificant site is never forgotten or destroyed as it remains a direct link to Canberra’s pioneer past.

I have a booklet from my high school days at home that reads just about the same…. good to see that you are a fount of info thumper, in all things belconnen.

I found the old abandoned treatment plant out the back of McGregor to be pretty cool. I really want to go and jump the fence at lawson and have a look around. The old Naval base there looks pretty interesting on google satellite. Does anyone know about the silver mine at the cotter?

One place i did work, going back to the original topic, was security at the War Memorial at night. Very creepy, especially when the lights are turned off and all you can hear is the audio from a display playing in the distance. Sometimes i would walk through there and the statues would seem to move.

Gee thumper, looks like you learnt the same way i did. I like the way you think.

I have also been wondering about the validity of the rumor that some parks in belconnen were built on top of old disused cemeteries.

That is the old Weetangera Methodist cemetary, it has been there since about 1860. There use to be a churchat the entrance but it was demolished in the 1950’s and all that is left is two bits of foundation at the entrance under the pine tree’s. I learnt that yesterday. There is also one in Evatt at the intersection of Copland dve and Moynihan st.

PBO said :

Thanks heaps for that Thumper! I will check them out on the weekend (not alone of course)

As for the Murder Suicide, i heard that it was a suicide pact by two young heroin addicts. But i could be wrong.

I wonder if there are any old pioneer cemetaries still around the area.

there is one out on the fringe of belconnen, near hawker. most of the graves are southwells, they seem to be the dominant early farming family in belconnen.

Thanks heaps for that Thumper! I will check them out on the weekend (not alone of course)

As for the Murder Suicide, i heard that it was a suicide pact by two young heroin addicts. But i could be wrong.

I wonder if there are any old pioneer cemetaries still around the area.

Sorry peterh my comment should of been directed to berraboy68. My carelessness.

wishuwell said :

Peterh, I’ve always considered it a murder suicide.

agreed, but at the time, they thought there was a third party.

I love this stuff…

I’ve heard stories about the panther..near Camp Cottermouth and have also been told of one stalking the paddocks near Tarago. The most well known panther or mountain lion lived in the Razorbacks on the way to Sydney. Thats where the Penrith NRL team chose its name.

Canberrans have been driving around the Air Disaster Memorial since the end of the war and getting that same thrill. It’s a rite of passage for teens to hoon out there on a Saturday night at least once in their lives.

I’ve felt chills in the Hall of Memory, even in February. When was 12 I had to leave the Institute of Anatomy very quickly. I still feel the close atmosphere there and recollect the displays of various sections of bodies they had under glass.

Peterh, I’ve always considered it a murder suicide.

As a bit of an Urbexer, i have been told about these caves but i dont know where they are. Directions anyone?

I have also been trying to find the entrance to the old Lennox Gardens caves but i have had no luck.

PBO said :

Thats pretty interesting Thumper, you should forward that to:

http://www.strangenation.com.au/

Quite a good site for that sort of thing. They are good friends of mine who take this stuff quite seriously, They have quite a collection of prints and photo’s of these large cats.

As for the Cotter, If all the shallow graves were marked there would be one scattered cemetery.

cotter caves have always been pretty spooky, but that may be because you have to break through the barriers to get into them.

Thats pretty interesting Thumper, you should forward that to:

http://www.strangenation.com.au/

Quite a good site for that sort of thing. They are good friends of mine who take this stuff quite seriously, They have quite a collection of prints and photo’s of these large cats.

As for the Cotter, If all the shallow graves were marked there would be one scattered cemetery.

BerraBoy68 said :

Anybody remember that double suicide (the cotter I think??) in about the summer of ’87? Some bloke and his missus in a panel van looped a noose around one of their necks, passed it out back door, around a tree, back in the door and then placed the other end (another noose) around their own neck. They then drove off decapitating them both.

Now that place would have to be haunted!

I remember that. I was only a kid but there was a joke going around school along the lines of:

“where do you go when life’s getting you down? Head-off to the cotter!”

Still funny after all these years.

BerraBoy68 said :

Anybody remember that double suicide (the cotter I think??) in about the summer of ’87? Some bloke and his missus in a panel van looped a noose around one of their necks, passed it out back door, around a tree, back in the door and then placed the other end (another noose) around their own neck. They then drove off decapitating them both.

Now that place would have to be haunted!

it wasn’t a noose, it was piano wire. the forest workers that found the bodies were too distraught to look for the heads. It was originally touted as a murder.

Anybody remember that double suicide (the cotter I think??) in about the summer of ’87? Some bloke and his missus in a panel van looped a noose around one of their necks, passed it out back door, around a tree, back in the door and then placed the other end (another noose) around their own neck. They then drove off decapitating them both.

Now that place would have to be haunted!

I have heard some stories about a cotter “beast”, but when i ask for details all i hear again is about a random “beast” sighting with nothing descrpitive. Anyone else heard anything? I think its codswallop myself, but canberra does have its fair share of weird stuff.

I’ve had a dodgy experience at the air disaster memorial at the back of Fairbairn years ago as well. Me, my sister and a couple of her mates were up there to check the place out at night, and it was a really still night and we were sitting on the bonnet of the car having a smoke and we heard some whispering and then the sound of several people running on the dirt road. We all jumped in the car and shone the headlights but couldn’t see anyone. Was a real freak-out.

I recall the very sad even of the guy from Marist who died while saving another person. I won’t mention his name because I think it’s inappropriate to do so. I went to school with him, but didn’t know him all that well. When I saw him at his funeral it was shattering! Such a brave act to save someone and pay the ultimate price.

For my money try the War Memorial if you want Haunted. I was once told by the bloke that headed up the pace in the 80’s that the staff seriously avoid The Hall of Valour when the lights are turned off. One book of local ghosts (can’t recall the name – sorry) has an story from a a WWII veteran who got a bit dizzy when walking around there a few years ago. He said he was helped to a chair by one of the staff who was walking around in a WWII uniform. When he inquired with the volunteers if he could say thanks to the guy that helped him he was told they didn’t employ anybody wearing such a uniform and, on further inquiry, another member of staff said they saw the man walk over to chair under his own steam, albeit on a very strange angle as if he was being held up by somebody. Now that’s odd!

Other than that, try a small town in northern NSW called Kandos (near Mudgee). Wife and I had to sleep in the community hall one night to make sure the local ferals (enter sound of duelling banjo’s) didn’t break in and damage the hall that had been set up for the wife cousins wedding party the next day. We were both woken up at around 3am by the sound of a little girls singing and dancing INSIDE the hall. Scary bit is, we were locked in from the outside and there was no-one but us in there. Needless to say we didn’t get any more sleep that night and I haven’t been back there since.

wait until you are chased by min min lights out in central australia. Nothing more scary than a min min light, except perhaps being buzzed by a big light in a control tower, in a blackout, with no reported planes.

Air Disaster memorial is definetly errie – we were up there one night with about 5 cars full of friends just driving around….We all got the heebie jeebies at the same time and ended up nicking off quickly…

LBG has had many people die in it and already dead people end up in it, there was that young girl about 10 years ago (still unsolved) another girl in teh 80’s was found murdered and weighted down – several corpses from the Queanbeyan Cemtary remain unfound after the flood washed out the cemetary (in the 1950’s?) a kid drowned near the boathouse trying to get his football in high chop – the guy mentioned at the peninsula – dunno if its haunted but I have had and heard a lot of weird crap happen to me first hand when down by the lake alone at night…

Funny though – I get the feeling also at old anaminaby – but not at Lake Tuggeranong or Lake Ginnenderra. Lake Ginnenderra – I can feel teh heritage and history of the place and it gives me a warm feeling of comforting reminiscing solitude at night time, but the other 2 lakes mentioned really put me on edge… Dunno what it is – but its there and not imagination to me.

air disaster memorial at the back of fairbairn – up there one night with some mates, when a strange light started heading in towards us. we didn’t move until it disappeared, but it vanished where the memorial was. I have heard of people seeing the plane hitting the site, but all we got was a light, really freaked us out. checked the area after it went out, but nothing there.

also, there was a guy from ainslie village who topped himself on mt ainslie, I saw him walking down the trail an hour after he was dead – he nodded at me, then continued down to his section of the village. The police had found his body on the mountain, we didn’t know he had died, we just thought he was out for another of his walks, as he did so often.

it wasn’t scary, just a big shock to learn that he was dead, after we had seen him on the trail.

I don’t know why he was going back to the village, maybe he wanted to be close to his belongings, sparse as they were.

Thumper: I hear RAAF Point Cook has more than its fair share of stories, too.

PS: It happened during the day in summer, there were other families there, so its not part of the seedier side of Black Mountain Peninsula mentioned on Johnboy’s List.

Are there are gay ghosts?

Danman said :

I reckon LBG is haunted

Several people have died in it over the years, and there was that guy (an ex-Marist student several years back, the name escapes me for the moment, but there’s a photo of him up in their Hall of Fame (which is just near the toilets, strangely)) who drowned at Black Mountain Peninsula trying to save a kid from drowning who had gotten tangled in something.
The kid was rescued, but the rescuer himself got tangled in something and drowned.

If I were him I’d probably be a pissed off ghost too.

Plenty of spirits at my house… In all in my buffet hutch funnily enough.

I reckon LBG is haunted – if you have been there in the early hours you will understand why…. Just amy spidey sence..Others may not feel it… Seriously though… I think the whole lake is haunted…

One non haunting time I was over near rememberance place at about 2am on a tuesday morning (Flex day to take photos the previous night) and it was dead quiet except for the wind – no cars – not a soul around..then I heard on the wind someone on the other side of the lake laughing maniacally for about 5 seconds…

I hauled arse….sure it was not a ghost – I believe that – but it was still sh!t scary

V8-Prius said :

5 Moresby place Forrest – Canberra’s original haunted house. Anyone know the history?

I remember driving past that place about 10-15 years ago before it was rebuilt. There were always people hanging around the place, so its mysterious status was apparently well-known. Definitely a very spooky place. Looked to be uninhabited apart from a light on in the attic. We went so far as to have a look through the front window into the living room. The decor & television looked like a time warp back to the early 70’s. As for the history of the house, the story was that three people were murdered there (a nanny + 2 kids), although I’m very skeptical as to its credibility since I’ve never seen any newspaper clippings or anything official on the matter.

Still, an apparently uninhabited house on some of Canberra’s most pricy real estate does throw up some questions that maybe some RA posters could answer.

5 Moresby place Forrest – Canberra’s original haunted house. Anyone know the history?

Built on the site of the old Institute of Anatomy? er, it IS the old Institute of Anatomy. bloody hell. Built on the site indeed. Twits.

Anyway. That old place did feel weird, but then again so did the War Memorial. Haven’t been in either for years (mainly because they give me the screaming heebie jeebies).

There was an excellent thread here a while back about local hauntings and other weird stuff. It was a corker, some amazing stuff there. The writer (writer, humf) might be interested in what it dug up.

Bill Morris from The Smith Family once told me, when the Antiques and Collectables fair was held out the back of Old Parliament House, that the guards told him the building was haunted. And from all accounts, the ghosts/spirits/whatever would get really stirred up when the antiques went into the building. I’m a skeptic, but you’ve got to love the irony.