Australia's Most Haunted
ey've all been reported. But spooks don't just scare people away, they attract tourists, and become part of local legend. The eeriness of a place is often what starts the ball rolling, and it seems Canberra has it in spades. Tim the Yowie Man: What makes Canberra the nation's capital so spooky, is…
- Record ID
- 4,062
- Year
- 2,006
- Source
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Index status
- Public search-ready
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Record context
- Record ID
- 4062
- Source
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Publication
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Published
- 2006-11-12
- Narrative type
- Ghost and Apparition Accounts
- Public-text label
- spooks
- Archive period
- Digital Era
- Location
- National Film and Sound Archive, ACT (ACT): B
- State or territory
- ACT
- Source voice
- Place First Public Page Record
- Publicness
- Public Media Page
Source-grounded excerpt
ey've all been reported. But spooks don't just scare people away, they attract tourists, and become part of local legend. The eeriness of a place is often what starts the ball rolling, and it seems Canberra has it in spades. Tim the Yowie Man: What makes Canberra the nation's capital so spooky, is the number of ghosts and pesky poltergeists, lurking in many of the national institutions. Now if you go to the Parliamentary Triangle in Canberra, it's the area where all the national institutions are, such as the National Library, the Gallery, the National Museum of Australia, Old Parliament House. Each of those buildings and many others harbours a ghost or two. There's even a ghost of Ben Chifley, our former Prime Minister. He haunts the Hotel Kurrajong in Canberra. I know quite a few people that travel from all over Australia just to Canberra to go sleep in the Chifley suite to try and.
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