Maitland Gaol Ghost Psychic Inmate Tours & Sleepover Reviews

Maitland Gaol Tours & Sleepover Reviews
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The tour at first was I felt just a walk in the park and a history lesson. Then after the tour I seen the pictures that my son Adam had taken at random on his digital camera.

Not all people are fortunate enough to get pictures of ghosts, but he thought that he would have a go any way. One was during the walk through the old gaol cells and showed a light glowing streaking across the room. I was there and did not see a thing only felt a cold breeze. Then when we looked at another it was a dim shadow of a human shape and the close up showed it had a face and could clearly see its eyes, ears and clothing as it stood there looking at us. I would say to you all do not forget your cameras and take random shots around you. I was a non believer and this experience gives me a sense that there is more to life after death. These poor people were sent mad and are lost it seems as others spirits may not be leaving because they are entrapped in this past hell on earth.

I am an open minded person who has never seen a ghost and may I say do not won't to other then on camera. This was a worth while tour and a few fruit loops in the crowed helps gets your goose bumps going. People watching is very interesting during the walk as one lady was hugging her husband to death and another hitting hers as he played practical jokes on her. I must say that it was not good for the young children being there as it may affect their sleep and caused some upset and crying. All in all a great night, ten out of ten worth doing the tour.

Submitted by: Les, Helensburgh, NSW (Added: 09/02/2007)

Hi There,

My local radio station (SEA FM 101.3) was talking 'scarey stories' with listeners in celebration of Halloween (2006). After receiving sooo many stories about the hauntings of Maitland Gaol, the producer of the show organised a competition for listeners to win a place in a sleepover at the gaol with the breakfast crew. I was one of the people chosen and I took my husband along.

We arrived there round 7:30pm, after dinner we were introduced to Noela, who was a psychic that was invited by the radio station. She was telling us about her experiences as a psychic over the years and I was very fascinated by some of the stories she told. We were all outside the room where we ate dinner (I think it's the cafe-it's off to the left of the main enterance of the gaol) talking about different experiences and expectations of the night ahead!!!Some of us spoke about taking photos of windows and dark places, in the hope to catch something on camera by accident.... so as we left to head back to the main gates I took a photo of a dark spot under the stairwell...the next day when we arrived home I put the photos onto the computer and was gobsmacked by what I saw.... under the stairwell where we had all stood around talking...I captured a man-like figure with his arms folded leaning against the wall. Some people I have shown the photo to has seen the same and some just see a white haze?????

Anyway we went and choose where we were sleeping and put our stuff there and set off on the tour. It was great and our guides PETE & DAVE were excellent. As we went around the gaol Noela the psychic was telling us what she was feeling and seeing. She explained to us that people feel the presence of a spirit in different ways eg, some feel cold, some hot and some just uncomfortable and uneasy. In some cells she said she felt really uncomfortable and had to get out. In Awing she said she saw a man hanging at the end of the cell block and in cell 46 she saw a man kneeled down with his throat slashed.She was amazing and we were glad for her to share her view of it all.

A couple that was with us on the tour had a video camera with infrared mode and he went into the showerblock alone and came out screamin he had seen something on the wall...and sure enough he showed us his camera and he had this green glowing object on the wall... not sure what it was but it sure did seem spooky!!! I have a photo of what I believe to be an orb in the shower block.

My husband and I were so fascinated by the tour and the photos we took that we have organised with a group of friends to go back for a sleepover after christmas bout Feb or March '07...we will hopefully taking a psychic with us, and the cameras of course...we hope that we experience some more paranormal activities.

Anyone who is thinking about taking the tours at Mailand, I highly recommend you do, as it's an experience thats for sure.... even if you dont take the 'ghost tours its great to hear the history of the place.

Submitted by: Kylie, Killarney Vale (Added: 09/02/2007)

i loved it, it was so scary though i had fun

Submitted by: Vanessa, Australia (Added: 09/02/2007)

My husband,teenage son, younger son and myself took a tour in March 2006. The Guide was a really friendly ex-con, staff very accommodating.

My family was able to stroll around alone until tour started. This was a great opportunity to pick up impressions without bias. Practically had the whole gaol to ourselves this day. No images caught on video or cameras. I couldn't walk up the stairs of the first wing. I couldn't even walk to the end of the wing downstairs. I just kept getting breathing difficulties. As soon as I stepped back over the threshold I was fine. So I would try again. My husband was dead set on seeing a ghost but the best he got was a very heavy door banging shut when he left a cell. My youngest son started acting out in this wing, running off into upstairs cells, locking himself in the cells and I had an all consuming panic state of keeping him with me but couldn't physically get him. My husband noticed my distress and got the boys out of that wing. Found out
later a lot of rock spiders in that wing!

In another wing my teenage son and I got very heavy headaches and couldn't continue the tour in that section. Again the feeling eased for both of us if we stayed in the guards station area. One cell in particular my teenage son refused to enter. Turned out to be the young offenders cell. One of the cells diagonally opposite us had a dark shadow move into it. We spun the camera around but didn't catch anything. My son and I both saw it.

The guide and staff are helpful and considerate. If you are serious about wanting a supernatural experience this tour is the one.

Submitted by: Aquachime, Sydney (Added: 09/02/2007)

we went on this tour on the 27/5/06 our guide was Cheryl.

i found the best part with the most activity to be the b wing this is where everyone on the tour felt something a few of us (7 people) seen a man in the guard box clear as day we were on the top floor there was a lot of activity around the kitchen and where the burried all the bodies i found that around a wing also there was quite a lot of activity we heard kids laughing in some of the cells Cheryl told us that this is where the mother and children were kept over all a great experence

Submitted by: Scott Falzon (Added: 09/02/2007)

i saw a ghost. many people would call me crazy but it is true. There are ghosts here and i recommend never take children.

DON'T GO PEOPLE!!

i am telling you now ... your money isn't worth how many thearapists i went to after this experience. It was horrible.

Submitted by: Anonymous (Added: 09/02/2007)

I was very scared to actually go to maitland gaol as all the stories i had heard and what had happened there.. i was with a bunch of friends and while we were on the tour the guide wouldn't go into c wing because when she did last time she had fainted from all the spirits and things like that freakkyy...

Any-way after the tour was over we were allowed to wonder around by ourselves or with friends i of course went with friends i wasn't goin to be an idiot and go around by myself and it was about 11:30pm and mind you i forgot to say that it was on halloween in 2003. The gard towers were all blocked off so you couldn't get up there and we were all walking around the corner figuring how could we get up there and we kept walking and we heard all these kids running up in there and laughing and screaming chasing each other or running away from something we didnt know what it was but we were yelling out to them to tell us how to get up there and then it went silent and they dissapeared and all the sounds did as well it was the freakiest thing i had ever expierienced. Im goin back there on the 22nd of july 2005 for a friends birthday and it should be good this time im goin to take a camera.

Submitted by: Raechel, Cessnock (Added: 09/02/2007)

I went on a self guided tour by myself in December 2004. When going up the stairs to where the dining area was, I heard voices from that area. I assumed it was some tourists ahead of me, however when I got there, I was alone. On the way out I asked if I had been the only one in the complex, and was told yes, I was. I found it eerie, even during the day. I have no doubt that parts of that prison would be very active with paranormal activity, especially at night.

Submitted by: The Hearse Whisperer (Added: 09/02/2007)

The 1st time I went to Maitland Gaol was the best. It was a fairly active night and our guide Sheryl didn't want to take us places as the energies were very hostile. I saw grey-ish type figures in B-wing when we had to turn off our torches - and one in particular was pacing back and forth-you could hear him walking on a landing above us! My left arm also became hot and sore - I was told it was a spirit doing this. I saw a black figure glide past the kitchen/morgue/womens prison in a rather agitated manner.

Our group was chased out of the visitors centre by a spirit - our guide Sheryl said if I run you all run - she ran we all followed! We returned to the building shortly after to inspect, the lights wouldn't work properly and a toilet door that has no lock would'nt open - I tested this myself - All heard the heavy foot steps moving towards us rapidly and once outside the building we could hear the bangings from the attic - which is very small. No-one left the tour that night remaining a non-believer!

I have been twice since, once for a public sleepover (no longer running) and none of my friends would come so I went on my own - nothing really out of the ordinary happened that night, except for some rather loud inconsiderate immature girls that thought sreaming at everything was funny!!!

Submitted by: Hayworth (Added: 04/04/2005)

We arrived at the Gaol about 45mins before anyone else, as it was the middle of winter, it is extremely dark (especially when there is no moonlight).

After waiting outside, and having a chat and a joke, our tour guide turned up (an ex-inmate). He talked to us about life inside the gaol (normal gaol stuff etc...) until he just plainly informed us 'this place IS haunted'. Ah, thats the words I wanted to hear! Having never been on one of these tours, it was exactly what I wanted. After stories told to us by the ex-inmate of 'doors slamming shut' & 'voices in empty cells' I was ready to go inside the Gaol. By this time the rest of the tour had arrived and it was time to go inside.

Eerie, is an understatement! The six foot thick walls of the old Gaol all but block out the outside noise. First on the tour was B wing. This is where I felt most uncomfortable. Even in a group of 20 people, it is still daunting to walk in a pitch black cell, and not feel unsettled. After some Gaol stories told by torchlight, our guide casually informed us of the 'ghost' of Charlie. An inmate who had made a pipe bomb to throw at the door of the cell, only to have it bounce back and explode on his chest. Cell 46 it is. But it was not that cell that un-nerved me, it was the two cells opposite that did the more than adequete job of that. Both felt like I was walking through a cold draft in the doorway (no other cells did this), however I failed to ask if these cells held some 'stories'.

The tour continued through the shower block, then on to the old death row block (I dont know the name). it is amazing how much fear you have to turn your back on a cell that has not housed an inm! ate since 1998.

From there it was to the newest wing of the complex. There is only one way to sum up Cell 4. Extremely eerie. That is where a reported Devil-worshipper was housed, and one night apparently self-combusted. The guard that found him killed himself by slitting his rists that night, and with his own blood wrote that he did it to 'stop satan from coming to earth'. I know, sounds like a cheesy hollywood movie. Of the two inmates that were assigned to clean up cell 4, one of them was found a few days later in his single cell with all his limbs ripped from his body. The cause of death was deemed to be 'suicide'. After these events, cell 4 was locked, and no inmate ever served in there again. Now before you dismiss this story, bare in mind that this happened in 1989, not that long ago.

From here the tour begin to wrap up, after being shown the grave sites of inmates. And the guard tower that even the guards would not work in (apparently haunted by the ghost of a man who jumps from the tower, lands on the ground, and runs across the yard). I still get goosebumps from that story (i dont know why). And that is that (all I can remember anyway).

This tour is HIGHLY recommended. Although I consider myself to be skeptical, you cannot rule out a feeling, and let me tell you that place is full of feeling. Cant wait to go on a sleepover!

Submitted by: Khrusty (30/06/2002)

it was cool we went as a class and had a ex con and he do not do the that he was put it there 4

Submitted by: Matthew, Newcastle NSW (23/07/2002)

my wife and myself work at maitland gaol on the friday 28 march 2003 for a sleepover for the smith family we went on the ghost tour it was great but not much seemed to happen maybe because of the amount of kids we had to supervise about 50 but my wife noticed a few little things that she werent to shaw about about but in a couple of photos she had taken in C Block and in the grounds behind the C Block there is some blobs in them that arent in other photos that where taken of the same areas straight after each other and before.

Submitted by: Don, Cessnock NSW (04/004/2002)

Firstly the psychic tour is fantastic, I have been three times! My first tour was on friday 13th April 2001 it was a bit scary a few little things happened , my husband who was initially a sceptic saw an apparition of a man standing behind the psychic in 5 wing, he did not say a thing until we got back to the cafe after the tour and then proceeded to tell the psychic what happened and gave her a description of the man, imagine my husband's horror when he described George Savas to the psychic, and it was also outside the cell where he reportedly hung himself!

Earlier in the night when we were in the shower block it was very blurry and felt like I was constantly standing in someone's space. When we left there, a young girl who was on the tour had a heavy nose bleed, the first in her life, coincidence ?

I am also sure that I seen a dark shadow walk into one of the cells on the third floor of B wing, I think it was the third or fourth cell on the right.

We enjoyed this tour so much that we decided to have a private psychic tour Thursday 26th April 2001, with only 6 of us( my husband refused to go), you usually need more but I think Cheryl (Psychic) felt sorry for us so she took us on the tour, so many things happened that night that I dont know where to start.Okay it was a very eerie night with cloud cover, lets just say nearly everywhere we went we could feel presences all around us, it was a late tour, 11pm till 2am.

Something that I will never forget is a fire hose along the wall of a building near 5 wing turned on on it's own while we were standing two feet from it , we ran and then came straight back to look for signs of a trick maybe, but the thing turned itself off right in front of us.I refused to walk in C block this night , there was a bad feeling outside this building, in the visitors building where inmates could visit with there family , it got very cold and the lights went out , they came back on about 1 min later.

There was a mysterious lantern that kept appearing at the front gate. Mind you three of my friends went and sat in the car half way through this tour, there feelings of spirits around them was too strong and they decided to leave with one of them shaking and in tears. From outside the gaol they clearly heard the gates open and shut, whilst no one was near them.I'm sure If I wrote every thing that happened that night I would be here all day.

Well nearly a year later Saturday the 6th of April 2002 we decide to head back on a 9pm till 11pm tour, and I dragged my husband back , it was a great tour as usual, we never actually seen anything, I felt really out of sorts after we went to B wing, I went and stood in the 2nd cell from the end on the left and felt a sharp pain go through my right shoulder blade and could not get out of there quick enough I felt as if something was deliberately trying to hurt me. In the shower block I felt a similiar pain in my right hip, this really threw me because I had never felt a physical pain in the gaol before.

We went on to the kitchen and upstairs where the inmates slept I felt my hair move at the back of my neck as if someone was fiddling with it when no one was standing next to me, I really felt out of sorts by then, I also felt a spirit walking towards me alongside c block and I literally jumped and everyone looked at me like an idiot. This was a great tour, there was not much activity , I cannot even put into words what I felt on this tour just really out of sorts, and hot I had to take my cardigan off, whilst everyone else had jumpers and jackets on....

Given the opportunity I would go again, for some reason I am fascinated with it.....I participated in a Sleepover tour in 2001.

Submitted by: Louise (8/4/2002)

Maitland Gaol is such an eerie place with 20 people, let alone by yourself.

Even though gaol is empty, I felt as if there were presenses other than ourselves in the when walking around, this feeling did not leave even when I was alone.

The tour guide (ex-inmate Peter) was very informative and told his experiences whilst he was 'residing' in the gaol.

We captured some strange photos (you can see these in the Photo gallery). We also heard strange sounds on the guards walkway on top of the main outer wall, as if someone was walking across it (there was no one up there at the time!).

A lot of the cells were very uncomfortable to be in, and there were a couple that I could not go into for no apparent reason other than I felt I shouldn't go in.

I definitely recommend this tour, and will be going back with the Paranormal Australia team for another sleepover this year.

If you go on this tour make sure you bring warm clothes and comfy bedding.... and a strong heart!!! :)

Submitted by: Kelster (9/03/2002)

Recently me and my husband went on the Mailand Gaol psychic tour.

We were in one of the cell blocks, I took a photo of one of the cells, then about 10 seconds later the flash went off on its own. This happened about three times, and only in this particular cell block.

During the tour I had a lot of trouble taking photos as well, as my camera's auto focus would not work.

We did not see any spirits and nothing came out on the pictures I took.

Submitted by: Christina (20/01/02)

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