Canberra's Most Haunted Spots

[Madam Jacqui]

Blundell’s Cottage
Visitors to the heritage-listed cottage on the edge of Lake Burley Griffin swear they often smell burnt flesh on the breeze. On top of that, there are regular sightings of a young girl flitting through the gardens or standing on the veranda of the rubble stone cottage. Most are convinced it’s the ghost of 16-year-old Florrie Blundell who died in 1892 from terrible burns. It’s said she means no harm so the only thing that’s likely to scare you off is the nighttime security guard.
Australian War Memorial
According to Canberra local, Tim the Yowie Man, the War Memorial is regularly subjected to a good nighttime wrecking thanks to a resident poltergeist. If you want more detail, you’ll just have to sign on to one of Tim’s ghost tours.
The Mint
Hang around long enough and you may just hear very faint whistling (and not from any live lips)! Two friendly ghosts remain, and staff at the Mint believe they were once staff members themselves. Loving their jobs, they’ve refused to move on and linger around to lend a helping hand

 

[Sally]

Monte Cristo Homestead

Monte Cristo Homestead | © Bidgee / Wikimedia Commons
Introducing the place that claims to be the most haunted house in Australia. The two-storey Victorian manor was built by pioneer Christopher William Crawley in the New South Wales town of Junee in 1885 before his homestead became riddled with death — a stable boy burned to death, a baby girl thrown down the stairs, a maid lobbed off a balcony, and a caretaker shot dead among others. Pictures of the creepy Crawleys still hang on the walls today, and the current owners are happy to take visitors on candlelit tours of the spine-chilling property.

 

[Sally]

Aradale Mental Hospital

It’s estimated that an astonishing 13,000 people passed away within the walls of the so-called Ararat Lunatic Asylum over its 140 years of operation, which makes for plenty of potential ghost stories. Victoria’s earliest psychiatric institution opened its doors in Ararat way back in the 1860s, and these days the abandoned mental hospital hosts ghost tours of the haunting grounds two hours west of Melbourne.

 

[Sally]

National Film and Sound Archive
Museum

Australia’s audiovisual archive doesn’t sound too spooky, but the building it occupies had a blood-stained history before the film reels and radio tapes moved in 34 years ago. This Canberra icon housed the Australian Institute of Anatomy before 1984, meaning the building collected and stored thousands of body parts, including a stash of human skulls in a downstairs area that today reports high levels of paranormal activity.

 

[Sally]

Devil’s Pool (Swimming Pool)

The legend goes that a runaway bride named Oolana leapt to her death in this sacred Indigenous site when she was barred from marrying her one true love. Her curse on the spookily-named Devil’s Pool, also known as Babinda Boulders in tropical North Queensland, has lingered ever since — Oolana is said to have lured 17 men to a watery grave in the past half-century, remembered with the eerie epitaph: ‘He came for a visit … and stayed forever’.

 

[Candice Cruz]

Monte Cristo Homestead

Monte Cristo Homestead | © Bidgee / Wikimedia Commons
Introducing the place that claims to be the most haunted house in Australia. The two-storey Victorian manor was built by pioneer Christopher William Crawley in the New South Wales town of Junee in 1885 before his homestead became riddled with death — a stable boy burned to death, a baby girl thrown down the stairs, a maid lobbed off a balcony, and a caretaker shot dead among others. Pictures of the creepy Crawleys still hang on the walls today, and the current owners are happy to take visitors on candlelit tours of the spine-chilling property.

been there. Had such an eerie vibe walking up the stairs... floor boards creaking

 

[Georgia VIP Darwin]

very interesting!

 

[Pluck a Duck]

Would have thought Parliament House would be featured - so many people there with knives in their back.

 

[Lena Black]

Don't forget the Yarralumla brickworks!!!