5 Haunted Places in Australia

 Monte Cristo Homestead, NSW

Monte Cristo Homestead is a historic homestead located in the town of Junee, New South Wales, Australia. Constructed by local pioneer Christopher William Crawley in 1885, it is a double-storey late-Victorian-style manor standing on a hill overlooking the town.

Known as “Australia’s Most Haunted House”, a series of deadly accidents took place over the years here including a boy who burned to death in the stables, a girl who was “pushed” out of a maid’s arms and down the stairs by a ghost, and a fatal shooting in 1961. You can actually stay overnight, and you might be lucky enough to see the ghost of former owner Mrs Crawley.

Breakfast Creek Hotel, QLD

Breakfast Creek Hotel is a heritage-listed hotel at 2 Kingsford Smith Drive, Albion, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Simkin & Ibler and built in 1889 to 1890 by Thomas Woollam & William Norman. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.

William McNaughton Galloway, the Mayor Of Brisbane in 1889 and first owner of the Breakfast Creek Hotel died after falling from a window on the second floor of the pub. The staff over the years have made reference to feeling a spooky presence and 'cold chills' when in certain areas of the hotel, believing Galloway could still be haunting it. 

BEECHWORTH ASYLUM, BEECHWORTH, VICTORIA

Beechworth Asylum, also known in later years as the Beechworth Hospital for the Insane and Mayday Hills Mental Hospital, is a decommissioned hospital located in Beechworth, a town of Victoria, Australia.

If you hear children's laughter in the corridors of Beechworth, you’re not the only one! It’s estimated that over 9000 patients died during their stay at Beechworth, Several years ago, a 10-year old boy on a ghost tour with his parents was seen talking to himself. When his parents asked who he was talking to, he said he was talking to a boy called James. After some research, it turns out there was a child by the same name who died at the asylum.

JENOLAN CAVES, BLUE MOUNTAINS, NSW

The Jenolan Caves are limestone caves located within the Jenolan Karst Conservation Reserve in the Central Tablelands region, west of the Blue Mountains, in Jenolan, Oberon Council, New South Wales, eastern Australia. The caves and 3,083-hectare (7,620-acre) reserve are situated approximately 175 kilometres (109 mi) west of Sydney, 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of Oberon and 30 kilometres (19 mi) west of Katoomba.

You can argue that all caves are spooky, but not all caves have their own resident ghost. A guide who works in the caves recalls an old man in a suit telling once him an unknown fact about a button in the reflective pools – when he tried to find the man afterwards; there was no sign of him. Legend has it that the man could very well be James Wiburd, a caretaker of the caves who loved them so much that he requested his ashes be scattered there.

NATIONAL FILM AND SOUND ARCHIVE, CANBERRA, ACT

The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), known as ScreenSound Australia from 1999 to 2004, is Australia's audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting and providing access to a national collection of film, television, sound, radio, video games, new media, and related documents and artefacts. The collection ranges from works created in the late nineteenth century when the recorded sound and film industries were in their infancy, to those made in the present day.

Before it was the National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra’s famed building was the Australian Institute of Anatomy where it housed hundreds of human skeletons and body parts and animal specimens, including Phar Lap’s heart, Ned Kelly’s skull and a mummy from Papua New Guinea. Staff in recent years have witnessed objects moving by themselves and weird noises coming from recording booths, which once served as dissection labs.