Haunted whyalla

Site Search. Thank you for submitting the form. Your reference number is. Clare Barry Posted October 30, Love ghost hunting? The facts Where is it? Best time to visit Any time, but May is best for blazing autumn colour. Three things. On the rails The Walhalla Goldfields Railway winds across six wooden trestle bridges on its way through the eucalypts and tree ferns of Stringers Creek Gorge to the Thomson River, then back. For the birds I spot my first-ever lyrebird scampering across the road near Rawson on the way into Walhalla and count another three across the weekend.

More local guides. During its year history as a penal settlement, it is said to have borne witness to over deaths, the souls of many of whom have never moved on. Ghost sightings and stories of the paranormal have become commonplace ever since, with reports of unexplained events and baffling incidents since the late 19th Century. Reported to have either slipped or been pushed into one of two flywheels of an old gas engine, he became entangled and unable to escape, leading to a ghastly death.

According to local historians, his ghost still walks the arcade today and it was claimed to have been captured in security footage as recently as A small boy is also on record as dying by a suspicious gas inhalation in while a young lady was shot in the back by her husband in , leading to his hanging at Adelaide Gaol shortly thereafter.

Unusual incidents, shadowy figures, sounds of children playing and reports of footsteps in the adjacent Gays Arcade have been common ever since. A popular ghost tour here includes a visit to the dimly lit original old tea room beneath the Arcade floors. Credit: bevleaross. The Aradale Lunatic Asylum in rural Victoria was built in and initially served as the Ararat County Jail before eventually becoming a home for the criminally insane.

At its height, Aradale provided a secure treatment facility housing over patients. They searched the house and found nothing or no one.

She described him as wearing old-fashioned clothes and they thought it was possibly Mr Crawley who has been seen in the property a number of times since. I hated that room and had always felt like I was being watched. Another ghost often felt in the main house is one of the Crawley children, Magdelene, who died after a violent fall on the staircase at 18 months old. It is also rumoured that the upstanding and devout Mr Crawley had affairs with many of their servants. One of the maids, supposedly pregnant, met her death on the front step of the property after falling from the front verandah.