Australia's Most Haunted
ell jails, old jails and convict jails are pretty much the archetypal haunted place in Australia. All that suffering, all that death, I felt particularly spooked when I went to Port Arthur. Does it have to do with past history really? Tim the Yowie Man:In most instances, yes. Places where there's b…
- Record ID
- 4,026
- Year
- 2,006
- Source
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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- Public search-ready
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- Record ID
- 4026
- Source
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Publication
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Published
- 2006-11-12
- Narrative type
- Ghost and Apparition Accounts
- Public-text label
- haunted_place
- Archive period
- Digital Era
- Location
- St Helena Island, QLD (QLD): B
- State or territory
- QLD
- Source voice
- Place First Public Page Record
- Publicness
- Public Web Page
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ell jails, old jails and convict jails are pretty much the archetypal haunted place in Australia. All that suffering, all that death, I felt particularly spooked when I went to Port Arthur. Does it have to do with past history really? Tim the Yowie Man:In most instances, yes. Places where there's been a lot of misery, where there's been a gruesome murder, where there's been a lot of sadness, they are the locations, the buildings or the jails where it seems, most of our spooks hang out. Some of them literally hanging out, because that's how they ended their life; they were hanged. Rachael Kohn: Which ones in particular? I've been to the old Adelaide Jail. Tim the Yowie Man:You have the old Adelaide Jail, the Fremantle Prison and Port Arthur. Probably they are the top three jails in Australia where you'll find ghosts. But also a little-known one out on the island of St Helena, which is.
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