Hi everyone, since I'm brand new here I'm just going to start by saying g'day and although I don't personally agree with all the theories put forward on this forum it's good to see a place where people can express their views on topics like this.

Anyway what I wanted to know is if anyone knew of any haunted locations around Melbourne that the owners are known to let people have a look around in. I keep hearing of places that I'd like to check out but then there's always mentions of heavy security patrols and such.

A couple of mates and I are thinking of spending a fair bit of time at some haunted places, I'm talking hours here, so we don't want to be investigating noises and such only to turn a corner and see some security guards. So if anyone knows of anywhere where the owners are likely to let us in if we organize it before hand that would be great.

Cheers,
Ando

These are all the haunted places I could find out about in melbourne. Sorry for the long post.

Victoria - Melbourne - Ballam Park Homestead - In 1853 people lived in the homestead which was sold to another family and sold many more times with lots and lots of people dieing there. A couple were having there wedding pictures taken at the homestead [they were the only people there plus the photographer] and when the photos were developed you could see a little girl in the window on the second floor. Tours of the house are on from 2.00pm-5.00pm every weekend.

Victoria - Melbourne - Bundoora - La Rundel Mental Asylum - Banging noises heard from outside of hospital. Also music boxes and babies crying around the area. Eerie coldness and smell.

Victoria - Melbourne - Casselden Place - noise heard exercise equipment running by themselves, doors shaking cold snaps in some levels and car park as well. the block than Cassenlden Place is build on was the red light district in the 1900s. For more information on the excavation here please go to - Casselden Place ExcavationCasselden Place - About the Dig

Victoria - Melbourne - Daisys - A pub located in the Eastern Suburbs of Melbourne that is reputed to be haunted by the ghost of a previous female owner.

Victoria - Melbourne - Greenvale - its and old mental hospital out in the bush its a fair walk but its said that it is still haunted bye its prisoners, it is currently guarded by patrol cras and security , but those who are game make the trip it is worth while but beware and get ready to run because you will be chased and the grounds are surrounded by aboriginal grounds.

Victoria - Melbourne - Kew Mental Asylum "Willsmere" - This is some of the stories from Willsmere. Noises have been heard for people living in three story houses, hearing noises from the levels above. There are also sightings of ghosts waking up people in the night standing at the ends of their beds.

Victoria - Melbourne - Luna park - a crazy joker ghost that terrorized people on rides and through things around fifty years ago

Victoria - Melbourne - Methodist Ladies' College - When MLC was first opened, in 1890 or something, around that time there was a girl who was a boarder. Her name was Nelly. She was said to either have killed herself, or to have died from a disease. Some people say that they have seen her haunting the top room of the boarding house, which was her room.

Victoria - Melbourne - Milanos restaurant - ghost of girl who was raped and murdered by original owners. Things smash, names are called and shadows have been seen. Known as Tilly, the ghost is always aggressive to males and more playful to females.

Victoria - Melbourne - Old Melbourne Jail - A number of ghosts, including the ghost of the famous bushranger Ned Kelly, are said to inhabit the walls of this colonial prison.

Victoria - Melbourne - Princess Theatre - Eerie lights and uncanny noises. At times violent, tried to push someone down the stairs. Rumor has it, the ghost of an English tenor had a heart attack when he fell through a trap door on the stage while performing in 1888. Seen sometimes as a golden orb, or just a general feeling of uneasiness.


Victoria - Melbourne - Pentridge Prison - An evil presence has been noted by several visitors to this prison before they stopped doing tours. Many areas within the prison are said to be haunted by past inmates. The jail is currently being converted into apartments.

Victoria - Melbourne - Vermont - the center road milkbar has had reports white ghostly figures floating around and opening doors and are known go round in the other houses in beddoe road

Victoria - Melbourne - Overnewton Castle - A boy who died there (approx. 15 yr ago) is said to haunt the place the boy apparently fell down the stairs on a school trip and broke his neck the school opposite the castle used to use the castle as a library but since the children (6 yrs to 18/ Prep - Yr12) claimed to see the boy at the top of the spiral staircase the school stopped using it. Also passersby report seeing apparitions in the window. The place is currently a function hall but no one is allowed access to the staircase the main gate has closed itself and lights go on and off when there is apparently no one home.

Victoria - Melbourne - Sunshine - Ashley Hotel - Reported to be Haunted by a Manager working a graveyard shift after kicking a couple of drunken customers out of the hotel. He went down to the back of the hotel to dispose of the empty beer kegs when he was brutality murdered and his body was left in one of the hotel rooms. Today the hotel dose not run open rooms but the hotel is believed to be haunted with his presence, lights turning on and off the clattering of plates things being moved around and some have seen this poor man.

Victoria - Melbourne - Sunbury - Salisian Bridge - Hundreds of years ago a maid from Kismet Park manor fell in love with the air to Salisian manor. They used to meet near Salisian Bridge late at night when they couldn't be discovered. Eventually the young man was to marry, but insisted he marry the maid instead for he truly loved her. His family refused to ever let him see her again and he killed himself. The maid didn't find out for a while and ever night she continued to go to the bridge where she waited for him. When she found out she killed herself too and now late at night you can see her wandering around Salisian Bridge looking for her lost love.

Victoria - Melbourne - Victoria Market - Victoria Market was Melbourne's first general cemetery and still contain over 50 000 bodies buried there including Melbourne's founder john batman who is buried under a statue of him in the car park and there is two bush rangers ghosts that walk around the stalls in the fruit section.

Its surprizing what you can find in google mate, google.com.au that is. Wonder if theres any here in Adelaide...

yeah I've googled and googled, the main point of this post was to see if there were any that people knew the owners didn't mind us taking a look around. save me from ringing a hundred different places.

sounds like a road trip mate....B

And g'day to you, mate, too,

I've always been the sort of person to go up to people and just ask. You need that attitude when hitch-hiking in different countries and trying to learn their languages. Some people consider me to be too brash on some occasions. If I were in your boots, I'd go any one of these haunted places, precisely when you most expect security guards to be going their rounds. As soon as you see them you go up to them in friendly fashion and you ask them, not if they will allow you to go into the building concerned, but to whom you should go the ask for permission. That way, one:you have gained their confidence when they next see you and, two: you will be more likely to able to have a look around places if you go through the right channels. P.S. I'm also a very pro-Australia person and have contacts there via email.

Ando, and welcome to UM...I see Marak has a road trip and a half set for you...Just don't ask B to borrow his car...If you get to any of these places, have fun and be careful...

The most haunted place i've ever encountered in Melbourne so far is This place

Let me look thru my library, I know I have a book on Australian ghosts
.....And murders too, but I have to case that one up.....I live in Melbourne, so am interested....lol

Yeah it seems there are a lot of old mental asylums. I wonder if that says something about us Melbournians?

And Ando, mate, welcome to UM.GOOD TO SEE A MELBOURNIAN in here.

Hi fellas, my first post and I'm in Melbourne too.

Well there's some activity in what used to be the old Billboards nightclub. Wasn't a nice place to be if you were alone and especially out the back behind the stage where the little walkway is.

Also had a couple of experiences in a park on Kew Boulevard at night. I think they've gated it now but if you're game you can park your car on the road and walk down.

There's also a house on Bridge Road and another one in St.Kilda, don't know the actual street addresses but they're kind of an "urban myth."

Hi guys,

I'm from Melb also.

This goes way back to my high school days, so I'm not 100% sure if it's just an urban myth or a fabrication some high school kids thought of when wagging school, but in south-east Vic, there's a place between Dandenong and Rowvile.
It's like some sort of National Park or something, it's called Churchill Park and in particular Churchill Park Drive - long stretch of road heading from Dandenong.

The area is a highly reported UFO sighting area, (according to a book I read once) but few people have been spooked by strange sights whilst driving there at night.

Personally, I've only been there a couple of times during the day and once at night, and the road in itself is quite spooky.

If I had the guts, I'd go drive down there with a camera and a few mates just to see if there's anything out there.

I'll do some googling and report back here if I come across anything signifincant.

Cheers,

In addition to my post above, I've come across this site which has a great collection of supernatural phenomena around Oz, including Vic.
Most of these can be accessed without a specific permission as most are open to the public.

http://www.strangenation.com.au/haunts.htm

Check it out.

I also found out that the Churchill Park area was used by the Native Police as police corps HQ in 1837.

Ref: http://www.parkweb.vic.gov.au/1park_display.cfm?park=94

hey thats exactly what i was looking for thanks. although if i were in flagstaff gardens at night i think id be more scared of the living than the dead. ima have to check some of those places out comprehensively

That's cool, glad to be of help. Hope your search goes well, I know I'd be soiling my underpants visiting some of those places listed, but then again I'm a huge wuss.

Let us know how you go!

Hey Ando,
Living in melbourne i would have thought you would have done the walking ghost tour of melbourne.
A few girlfriends and i come up from the country and did it.
We had a ball and got some very strange feelings from different places they took us.
Should give it a go.

Welcome Isadora1982 and velo to UM. Hope you enjoy the show.....lol

Thanks buddy!