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Australia's Most Haunted

YEAR
2006
PLACE
New South Wales
SOURCE
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Australia's Most Haunted

nd they even have a Ghost Tour. Why have they accumulated there, in particular? Tim the Yowie Man:Well that's to do with the history of the building that houses the National Film and Sound Archive. For many years that building was actually the National Institute of Anatomy, which means that's where…

Record ID
4,023
Year
2,006
Source
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Index status
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Record ID
4023
Source
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Publication
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Published
2006-11-12
Narrative type
Ghost and Apparition Accounts
Public-text label
ghost
Archive period
Digital Era
Location
Picton Tunnel, NSW (NSW): B
State or territory
NSW
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nd they even have a Ghost Tour. Why have they accumulated there, in particular? Tim the Yowie Man:Well that's to do with the history of the building that houses the National Film and Sound Archive. For many years that building was actually the National Institute of Anatomy, which means that's where all the bodies were cut up, human bodies and animals, and stuffed into jars, literally. Lining the corridors of the basement about 40 years ago were actually 150 human skulls. You've got that sort of history in a building, it's little wonder that it's Canberra's most haunted building. Rachael Kohn: Well if Canberra is the most haunted city, Picton, one of the five Macquarie towns at the foot of the Blue Mountains, seems to be the most haunted town. Now that seemed to have a lot to do with a disused tunnel. Tim the Yowie Man:Yes, that's right. It's the Redbank Range Tunnel there in Picton, a.

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