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
- Public search-ready
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Record context
- 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
- Source voice
- Place First Public Page Record
- Publicness
- Public Web Page
Source-grounded excerpt
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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