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Melbourne is full of creaking old buildings with a reputation for hosting ghostly goings on.
And there’s nothing wrong with a good scare, as long as it’s all in the name of fun, right? You can book a Melbourne ghost tour or head out on your own to explore the city’s paranormal dimension.
Here are ten of the most haunted places in Melbourne.
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1. Old Melbourne Gaol
At one time it was the country’s toughest place of incarceration, but Old Melbourne Gaol has long since been reincarnated as a museum. Don’t worry — the forbidding atmosphere can still make your hair stand on end! Bushranger Ned Kelly was executed here, along with 132 others over the life of the prison. So, is it haunted? Chances are…
2. Pentridge Prison
With an inmate roll call that included the likes of Ned Kelly, Squizzy Taylor, Mark ‘Chopper’ Read, and Ronald Ryan (the last man executed in Australia), a tour of old Pentridge Prison in Coburg is guaranteed to send shivers up, down, and back up your spine. The prison operated from 1850 to 1997, and has recently been transformed into a hotel and luxury housing development.
3. Labassa
Labassa is one of the most beautiful heritage buildings in Melbourne, but it’s also reputedly one of the most haunted! Located in the suburb of Caulfield, the beauty of the mansion’s enigmatic French Renaissance-style architecture is often overshadowed by claims of spectral encounters within. Labassa is open to the public on the third Sunday of each month and is popular for wedding photos. Just don’t be surprised if you’re the victim of a phantasmic photo bomber!
4. Princess Theatre
They say the show must go on, but what happens when your leading actor has a heart attack and dies after falling down the stage floor trapdoor? That was the fate of British opera singer Frederick Baker (aka ‘Federici’) in 1887 at Melbourne’s Princess Theatre. And to make matters even spookier, Federici was playing the devil in Faust at the time! Over the decades since, actors and stagehands have reported strange encounters with a ghostly figure in full evening attire, and to this very day a seat is kept free for Federici’s ghost at each opening night. He must have been quite the performer; the audience were none the wiser about his tragic final exit until the news appeared in the morning papers.
5. Melbourne General Cemetery
Are you game for a wander through Melbourne’s eeriest cemetery? We dare you! Established in 1852, Melbourne General Cemetery in Parkville is actually the final resting place of numerous notable citizens — everyone from poets to Prime Ministers. Even Federici ended up here! Pick-up a guide from the office and head off to explore.
6. Williamstown
While many of us delight in strolling along the Williamstown waterfront, in days gone by it was not a spot for the faint hearted. Home to Melbourne’s main docks, by the mid 1800s Williamstown had close to thirty pubs — making it one of the seediest and most volatile parts of the developing city. The alleys and cobbled laneways were the site of bawdy behaviour and many a heinous crime, and you can learn more on a ghost tour of the precinct. It includes a visit to Victoria’s oldest (and long abandoned) morgue.
7. Finders Street railway station
With its famous clocks and ornate Art Nouveau-era facade, Flinders Street station is one of the most recognisable buildings in the country — and it has a resident spook! If a man holding a fishing rod disappears into thin air before your very eyes on platform 10, don’t be alarmed. It’s just the station ghost named George.
8. Young and Jackson Hotel
Sitting directly opposite Flinders Street station, the iconic Young and Jackson Hotel (originally known as the Princes Bridge Hotel) has long played a central role in the lives of thirsty Melburnians. Many have raised a glass to Chloe — a 2.6-metre-high nude that has hung in the hotel’s first floor bar since 1909. Painted by Jules Joseph Lefebvre in Paris in 1875, the young model is said to have committed suicide over her unrequited love for Lefebvre.
9. Queen Victoria Market
We’ve heard of walking over someone’s grave, but shopping over it? That’s a new one. Beneath the car park of the venerable Queen Victoria Market lie the remains of no less than 9,000 bodies. They were originally interred at the Old Melbourne Cemetery, which occupied the site until the late 1800s. Marked graves were relocated to make way for the construction of the market, but those with unmarked gravesites weren’t so lucky. Some graves are reportedly less than 1.5 metres below the surface!
10. Hosier Lane
You’ll often see mysterious figures darting about in Melbourne’s Hosier Lane. They’re generally toting spray paint cans and contributing to the ever evolving urban canvas that is this Insta-immortalised part of Melbourne. The lane certainly has an ethereal feel, particularly late at night, and is said to be haunted by the ghost of Frederick Bailey Deeming.
British-born Deeming swung from the gallows at Melbourne Gaol for murder in 1892, and stories persist that he could actually have been London’s Jack the Ripper. The theory has never been proved, but it makes for one ripper of a ghost story!
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Julietta Henderson is a Melbourne-based travel writer and author. Originally planning to visit London for six months, she ended up staying for ten years and now divides her time between her home in Australia and several months of the year in the UK, Italy, and France. Julietta has travelled extensively through Europe, North America, Indonesia, New Zealand, Australia, and Russia, and believes the keys to a great travel experience are an open heart, an open mind, and an open-ended ticket. Her first two novels — The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman and Sincerely, Me — are now available in bookstores.
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