Haunted Melbourne !
Yep the CBD has more ghosts than you can poke a stick at !
Did The Haunted Melbourne Ghost Tour last night and it was great value , not just for entertainment but also for historical points you don't usually get in a 2 paragraph guide of Melbourne.
Melbourne's first cemetary is now Flagstaff Gardens...next time you're lounging on the cool grass think of many bodies still buried under you...and the odd ghost flitting amidst the gum trees.
Melbourne's second cemetary is the asphalted car park of the Queen Vic market.....all 9,000 bodies and our founding father John Batman still over-seeing the haggling of the fruit and veg.Outside the original cemetary wall-that brick wall inside the market itself- ghosts of criminals are still seen,late at night by security guards....at the spot marked E 13.
Did you know John Batman actually built Young and Jacksons pub-as a girls school ...as he had 7 daughters(great way to get them out of the house !).
His stately home was where the Spencer St Station train yards were...he is still seen in all places he lived in or built...including Little Lons where he visited the "painted ladies".
Want to visit a forgotten Melbourne pub ? The Mitre Tavern in Bank Place has gorgeous architecture and a female ghost...looking towards the mens club across the lane.
Visiting Federation Square soon ? Look carefully and you might see some of the ghosts from Melbourne's first morgue.
Little Lonsdale Street...infamously known as Little Lons....the red light district where anything could and did happen.....wander down there in the wee small hours and you might spy the painted lads and ladies of years gone by.
The Little Lonsdale st car park-unable to be used for anything due to a nasty being still residing there almost 60 years after the not-so-accidental-death-by-axe.........which everyone saw and got photos of.....
The State Library of Victoria with it's many ghosts that have been seen throughout the buildings....claimed as Melbourne's "Most Haunted Building" on international sites.
MANY ghosts abound in the busy city...they're even busker proof !
Did The Haunted Melbourne Ghost Tour last night and it was great value , not just for entertainment but also for historical points you don't usually get in a 2 paragraph guide of Melbourne.
Melbourne's first cemetary is now Flagstaff Gardens...next time you're lounging on the cool grass think of many bodies still buried under you...and the odd ghost flitting amidst the gum trees.
Melbourne's second cemetary is the asphalted car park of the Queen Vic market.....all 9,000 bodies and our founding father John Batman still over-seeing the haggling of the fruit and veg.Outside the original cemetary wall-that brick wall inside the market itself- ghosts of criminals are still seen,late at night by security guards....at the spot marked E 13.
Did you know John Batman actually built Young and Jacksons pub-as a girls school ...as he had 7 daughters(great way to get them out of the house !).
His stately home was where the Spencer St Station train yards were...he is still seen in all places he lived in or built...including Little Lons where he visited the "painted ladies".
Want to visit a forgotten Melbourne pub ? The Mitre Tavern in Bank Place has gorgeous architecture and a female ghost...looking towards the mens club across the lane.
Visiting Federation Square soon ? Look carefully and you might see some of the ghosts from Melbourne's first morgue.
Little Lonsdale Street...infamously known as Little Lons....the red light district where anything could and did happen.....wander down there in the wee small hours and you might spy the painted lads and ladies of years gone by.
The Little Lonsdale st car park-unable to be used for anything due to a nasty being still residing there almost 60 years after the not-so-accidental-death-by-axe.........which everyone saw and got photos of.....
The State Library of Victoria with it's many ghosts that have been seen throughout the buildings....claimed as Melbourne's "Most Haunted Building" on international sites.
MANY ghosts abound in the busy city...they're even busker proof !
posted by Bugs at 10:26 pm
2 Comments:
I did that tour about eighteen months ago and LOVED it!!!
And hurt for two days after walking under the walkway where the angry ghost stalks and feeling a huge shove on my shoulder..
Would love to see the pics!
where has all of your blog gone [sob] ???
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