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Head Quarantine Station Ghost Tour Reviews
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excellent we really enjoyed it and will do it again. We did smell somthing like dirty hair where we had the video and my daughter had a scent of vanilla in the kitchen down stairs brian was an excellent guide his stories were so amazing
thanks alanna and lorraine Submitted by: Lorraine & Alanna (Added: 03/07/2007) i went on the tour on the 2nd July 2005. it was my birthday n i am really interested in the supernatural, so i decided to go on this tour for my birthday.
at first the tour was a bit slow but i have to say it definitely picked up after. my first paranormal experience on the tour was on the pathway between the first buildings and the shower block. the guide stopped us to tell us a story when to my left was a massive oval of grass and darkness. i heard laughter and talking like there was another tour group, but when i approached the guide, i asked him if there was another tour group over there he said no, that's a cliff. (wtf!!!) my next experience was right outside the shower block. we were all waiting as a group as the guide told us about the shower block, and i was listening until i heard footsteps on the gravel behind me but in the distance. i looked to see if anyone was there but there was just another cliff. i kept hearing it until we actually went into the shower block (which my heart was racing and i felt very uncomfortable). my last (but very horrific) experience was downstairs underneath the dining hall. it was kinda like a cellar type thing. anyway's i was standing right in front of the guide as he was telling a very detailed and freaky story of what had happened in that room with professional video/photographers and how their equipment wasn't working properly and everything turned off n they were in darkness and what not. (that story made me wanna leave that room!) anyway's, i was standing there right in the front locking arms with my friend. very slowly i felt this cold hand grab my leg/ankle. i felt the fingers and the thumb grab me very slowly it was so cold, it's hard to describe the feeling it was so eerie. as soon as i felt it i jumped so high and screamed at the top of my lungs and shook my leg so hard n fast to get it off!!. everyone on the tour that was around me spread out away from me as fast as they could. i was almost in tears as i told the guide what i had just felt n he just laughed at me n said, yeah that's happened before. in the common room where we had our damper n tea, there was a log book of all of the recordings that has happened. i wrote my experience in it and i found one from about 2 yrs before me of the same occurrence as me in the same place!!. freaky huh? the tour was fantastic and was fun to retell it to each other of what they had experienced after. i highly recommend going n i am planning to go again for my next birthday party! (ps. bring a camera for proof!!) i regretted not bringing a camera but it was still a great experience. dress warm and wear comfortable walking shoes. i would like more time to wonder in each part of the quarantine after the guide has told us his stories and things because as soon as he finished talking we were on our way to the next building and i didn't get time to explore my senses and freak out! hah Submitted by: Alysha.A (Added: 03/07/2007) The tour was fascinating!! Our tour guide, Guy, led our group through the station holding only lanterns and indulging us into the history and haunting tales of the quarantine station.
I highly recommend this tour to everyone, even if you don't believe in ghosts.. it's a terrific night and it will stay with you forever. :) Submitted by: Allysa, Sydney NSW (Added: 03/07/2007) I toured at 10pm on the 27th of January 2007 at the quarantine station Sydney
Well I am not one for all that ghost stuff, yet I have to say something is going on in that place. One thing I will never forget was in the hospital (the one that didn't burn down in 2002) when I approached the back of the room. It had been a very hot day and the building was still warm that night. Yet I noticed a very sudden temperature drop while walking into the very back of the hospital ward. No windows were open at all and I couldn't see anything in the room that would explain the temperature change, I literally froze to the spot. Creepy!! However, apart from giving me the creeps the place has a great view of Sydney from North Head. The tour guide also gave an amazing recount of what life was like in the quarantine station. Oh and to top it all off the tour ended with tea, coffee and damper (very nice). It was actually while having my late night tea that I met a group of paranormal investigators who were preparing to spend the night in the old hospital (good luck). For any one thinking of doing this tour I would advise that you definitely go, you will have a great time. Submitted by: Richard, Sydney (Added: 09/02/2007) About 5 yrs ago, a friend and I did a Friday night tour of the station. I am a staunch believer in ghosts having seen my dead neighbour 6 months after he died (in full colour).
The staff provided excellent details about the station. I had an unnerving experience at the mortuary building, an invisible presence pressing against me. However, the most disturbing experience on the tour was in the hospital where the Matron resides. I made a rather unpleasant comment to my friend about the Matron and the "dying room". Needless to say when entering the bathroom in that building, I was "held" in the doorway by an unseen force!!! The feeling of dread that came over me was so intense, I started shaking all over! The dread was so overpowering (image how you would feel if you were informed yrfamily had been killed) and that's what the feeling was like. I dropped the hand kerosene lantern which luckily did not smash! After some time, I seemed calmer. My friend who was quite concerned about my well-being, asked if I was OK to which I replied..."that B.... won't get the better of me" and I managed to get through the door. Everything was Ok after that. I had heard of other visitors making certain comments to defame the Matron so a word of advice to anyone wanting to make a visit to the station. DON'T MAKE ANY COMMENTS about the Matron whilst on the grounds or you will regret it like I did. On the way out, we had an unusual feeling that something was right on our heals when there was nobody there. In another hospital building, the tour guide was explaining it's history, my friend was on the opposite side of the ward by himself. He told me later that he could hear a multitude of voices near him. We mentioned this later to the Ranger who told us that many people complain about that area and it's "voices" from beyond!!! The shower block presented it's own morbid feelings. Although no one on the tour saw anything. I waited behind the rest of the tour before the Ranger locked the door and there was definitely a dark presence at the back of the block almost evil in it's capacity. So that's my experience of the station. I highly recommend it even if for the historic value. Who knows, you may become a believer after all!!!! Submitted by: Dan, Chipping Norton (Added: 09/02/2007) My tour in the above mentioned site was really splendid.
I started to live there at S9 cottage in 1965 till 1972 my mother worked there as quarantine assistant It was a peaceful place, many times I went fishing on the quarantine wharf at 2am till dawn that was the time you caught the most fish when I became an teenager I was riding a motorbike through the station and at night there were many rabbits,possums,bandicoots running around. I have lived there for 8 years and I was an explorer been through all the buildings and it never came up in my mind that there were ghosts around and I have never seen them in those days. Submitted by: Rudolfje, Sydney (Added: 09/02/2007) excellent tour, guide was great. There were a few spooky moments shower block was by far the worst just want to get out of there !!!!
Submitted by: bjl80, Sydney (Added: 09/02/2007) being the morbid gal i am, i was a little disappointed that we missed out on seeing the death and dying room and the morgue... but anyway....
a few strange things did happen though... in the sergeants house? (the 2 story one near the nurses/dr's housing) we went upstairs... all well and good great view... and i started down the stairs. and opened the door at the bottom... well tried to... i pulled with all my weight but the door wouldn't budge... thinking i was being weak i asked one of the guys on the group to give it a go and it opened into his palm as he reached for it... weird... cause the sergeant didn't even die there he got mangled in a ferry accident... further along near the 3rd class cooking/dining area i felt very sick in the stomach like i was going to vomit... most icky... but it seemed to disappear as we climbed the hill to the 2nd class dining. at the 2nd class dining all i could smell was burning upstairs and down i don't think it was the lamps because it was the smell of a dead fire ashy and thick... down at the shower block someone pulled my hair... thinking it was a joke i turned looking for my boyfriend... instead i felt hands on my arms... i told the tour guide and he told me this was the holding area where the quarantined ppl waited for their personal belongings to be steamed... i went and found my boyfriend and then we we caught up with the group i overheard another lady saying that she had felt someone holding her arms also... still freaks me out now... i keep turning round now as i write this... hee hee GREAT experience! we need to support this site so it doesn't get pulled down and sold off** to make a quick buck like the rest of sydney... go now while you can!?!!!! Submitted by: Bella, Newcastle (Added: 09/02/2007) ** Hi Bella, just to let you know - the Quarantine Station is now being looked after by a company called Mawlands who have signed a regimented lease which means they can't tear anything down. They are currently re-building fire damaged areas such as 3rd Class Accommodation & the destroyed Wooden Hospital ward, increasing security & giving some needed maintenance to long neglected buildings. There were a lot of rumours about tearing down the Station but it isn't allowed to happen. In fact, the future of the Quarantine Station looks more positive than it has in years - Kelly / Paranormal Australia. The whole experience was amazing!!! We like the supernatural and are into ghosts big time we got great EMF readings especially in the kitchen, my brother said he felt the most comfortable in the shower block like no-one their was out to harm him.
I couldn't even go into the morgue I just had a feeling even before being told what the building was used for. My Mother saw half a man in front of our Guide appear and then disappear we captured so many orbs in different locations. We also captured two or three faces peering out at us either from windows or veranda's. The whole tour was fantastic and we are planning to go again soon to see if we can capture more evidence. Submitted by: Destiny, Sydney (Added: 09/02/2007) As we got about a quarter of the way through, my sister turns to talk to me, and gives me this evil stare and then collapses on to the ground. Everybody turns around to look- thinking she must be feeling ill. She wasn't. She woke straight up, feeling fine. We decided to go outside for some fresh air. As she headed up the stairs, she stopped walking, turns around again and collapses again! At this point I was really scared. She is perfectly healthy and has never fainted ever!
We got out side and for about ten minutes the tour guide was telling a story about one of the buildings. The group started to walk to the next part of the tour, my sister took one step, then froze dead in her tracks. I said "C'mon, let's go" but she said "I can't" and collapsed again!! I felt her temperature, and she went freezing cold. Then boiling hot. She broke out into a sweat and couldn't move. We waited ten minutes, and started walking back to the car. She sweated until we got about five minutes down the road towards Manly. Then she was fine, and even had trouble remembering what had happened. I was a skeptic - but after that, I believe that something- or someone did not want her there at all. Truly spine tingling. Submitted by: Paddy, Sydney (Added: 09/02/2007) I believe in ghosts as I grew up in a haunted house but was disappointed not to see anything on the tour. I loved it and would do it again in a flash.
It was creepy and sad but didn't see anything until the end of the tour when you go back for coffee. My sister and I went to the old toilets and there was blood all over the floor. I am a theatre nurse and know the sight of blood. Well, I ran out to the guide and said "I think someone is hurt, there is blood all over the floor". She followed us back into the toilets and the blood had disappeared leaving a faint outline where it was. The floor was completely dry. No one else had used the toilets in the time we went to get the guide. Who was hurt?? Where did the blood come from? I would love to know anyone else that has seen something similar to what my sister and I saw. Submitted by: believer, South Australia (Added: 09/02/2007) I recently went on a ghost tour at the Quarantine Station Manly/Sydney (NSW Australia).
The tour started at 7:30pm and went until approximately 10:00pm. The tour group, of which there were two on site this night, were reasonably large at about a dozen a piece. The guide was quite good at what she did and the tour was reasonably well organised, certainly the tour guide knew her stuff and was knowledgeable of the history of the site and skilled at telling stories (and scaring the hell out of people). Overall a highly recommended tour that I would like to go on again. I found it was a popular tour and for a group of five I had to book several weeks in advance for a Saturday (I cannot comment on other nights). There were kerosene (i.e. hurricane) lamps distributed to us, about one per pair (I elected not to take one to leave me free to take photos - but this left me sometimes uncomfortably dependant on those more enlightened people around me). We also had an EVF meter courtesy of the tour guide, which on occasion read several spikes. Though the guide conceded it was a quiet night, the site without argument was a very eerie place and the large group definitely made us feel safer; it was almost amusing seeing how everyone bunched together in the more questionable locations for comfort. I was forced to admit to myself in several buildings that I would have been terrified had I been by myself or with only one or two others, particularly the showers. There was an unusually large amount of orbs photographed during the tour; in the locations that they were caught they appeared on both my own and friends digital cameras. Though the conditions were not particularly dry, I strongly suspect that the photos containing the more denser clouds of orbs might have been dust, but who knows. I personally did not directly observe any paranormal phenomena myself, but there were several members of the group who apparently spotted an apparition on the balcony of the dining hall. I'll admit I did feel ever so slightly watched when walking past but dismissed it at the time. Of all the buildings, the most oppressive was unanimously the shower rooms where the sick were made to bathe in acid solutions under the false assumption this would be beneficial. In daylight this place would be bad enough let alone at night, I admit that left to my own devices there is no way I would have gone in there. The tour feedback reports i'd read particularly revolved around this building, and quite frankly gave me the creeps. Ironically despite my expectations it was quiet, and neither I nor my friends felt peculiar here though there was definitely the feeling of being watched and most of us flatly refused to leave each others line of sight (except for a particularly brave girl who seemed to be almost trying to invoke a the wrath of a ghost at every turn - I was half expecting her dismembered head to roll up to my feet I tell you!). Submitted by: Chumbly, Sydney (Added: 09/02/2007) Fantastic tour!
It lived up to our expectations and was worth the money. Very knowledgeable guides and a friendly crowd. It started off slow with a lot of detail about the history of the station and some people seemed a bit restless. This all changed as soon as we donned lanterns and headed down the hill. First to the house of the Asiatic's where we began to learn stories off other tour participant's experiences, there were some really good scares if that's what you're after. Hype aside and with complimentary damper in hand Jess and I both concluded that there was a definite and varied feeling of emotion felt in various locations of the tour. Dress warmly for winter and wear sneakers with grip, dare to explore the shadows and confront you're deepest fears. Submitted by: Justin & Jess, Holsworthy (Added: 09/02/2007) Hi Guys,
I attended your tour on Friday 30th July 2005. I really enjoyed myself and had a couple of spooky things happen. When we first started the tour, our tour guide Brian was telling us about the buildings we were next to and I could have sworn I heard a group of people laughing and talking in the far building. It wasn't loud but they definitely sounded like they were enjoying themselves. About 10 minutes later Brian informed the group that the far building was the Bar room. Later on in the night two other members of the group mentioned that they had heard the same thing. After in the 3rd class quarters we watched a slide show on the history of the station, when we left the room I felt a blow to the side of my head. I turned to see who had hit me only to find no one there. Up towards the top of the station while standing next to a burnt down building I could smell a very strong scent of Alcohol. To tell you the truth I thought that our guide had been drinking. Another member of the group smelt it too so we walked among the group trying to find the culprit. Whilst we were doing this our guide started to tell us all the story of the drunk that used to climb in over the fence so that he would be quarantined and given free food and drink. Was it his spirit that we smelt? I only have one complaint... It would have been nice to be able to spend quiet time in each building to allow the group to feel the atmosphere that comes with a haunted place. It was great to hear the tales that Brian had to tell and he definitely knew his job but each time he finished we were moved out. It would have been great to be able to use all our senses, smell,sound, gut feeling etc to be able to experience the supernatural..... Submitted by: Jill, Sydney (Added: 09/02/2007) I am turning 12 and i went on the tour 2 weeks ago. i was really excited to be going before the tour started and i didn't think it would so scary but i take that back now!
when we went in the spanish influenza hospital ward our tour guide told us the story about when they use to have sleepovers at the station. she told us about a haunted bed and a young girl most probably about 9 years old went and sat on it. everyone was sitting on beds except for one bed that was empty. i felt a shiver go down my spine when i saw that bed. i felt like that one was the most haunted. only because i saw a young asian girl with a pale blue night gown on. she was lying in that empty bed and she looked like she was still a patient in that exact bed. i think she looked about 3 years old. also in the mortuary i saw a floating beard or moustache over the dummy lying on the table. i don't really know what it was but I'm sure it was a floating beard. the tour was coming to an end as the guide showed us our was out and once we started to drive away i saw 2 small children. a small boy , looked about 7 years old and he looked like he had enjoyed a long day of fishing at the wharf. he looked like he had small pox. for those who don't know what that is it is just like chicken pox but much much more painful and deadly! he was holding a little girls hand. she looked Dutch because she had her hair in 2 plaits on either side of her head and her plaits were swirled up. she was wearing a white night gown. she looked very sick. she was coughing and holding her hand over mouth. they were both waving to me. i'm not sure if it was a come here wave or a good bye wave. they left me wondering. even know i got scared it was a great experience!! i recommend you book a sunday with a group of your friends... even know i'm nearly 12 i loved it!!!!!! Submitted by: Christina :), Sydney (Added: 09/02/2007) The Quarantine Ghost Tour was a lot of fun. The place is rich in history with a huge amount of strange happenings. Bone chilling stories are told by the tour leaders which definitely sets the atmosphere and i suggest going with someone so you can hold them! Personally I didn't have any strange experiences but my camera told another story when I got home, strange figures popped up out of nowhere. Tour leader was very informative. It is definitely worth going.
Submitted by: Alex, Sydney (Added: 09/02/2007) I really enjoyed the tour. I found it very interesting. After everyone left the shower block, I went back in on my own to take a few photos. As I was walking back to the door to leave, I felt something touch my neck. It was most likely my jacket collar, but I tried to replicate the feeling and could not do so.
The next experience was in the hospital. While I was sitting on a hospital bed, listening to the tour guide, I felt extremely ill. I felt I should go outside to get some air, but was too interested in what the guide was saying, so I stayed. As everyone was leaving I did stay back a little longer to get some photos, and as soon as I left the room, I felt much better. I can't wait to go back again!!! Submitted by: Peta, Sydney (Added: 09/02/2007) Thought I would mention my favourite ghost tour.
I frequent this place and always experience something. I always get anomalies in my photos ranging from orbs that follow to apparition. I always feel the chill of spirit here and on 2 occasions have witnessed a spirit there that tosses stones to gain attention. Last time the stone got my sister on the leg. She has also had her head stroked. I have felt sick in the hospital area and witnessed doors slamming and strange noises. I've seen thermometers behave strangely and I have also had my dig camera show 'no power' but was fine after I left there. Its a wonderful place. I also love the bandicoots that you see.. Submitted by: Tracey, Central Coast (Added: 09/02/2007) My tour in the above mentioned site was really splendid.
I started to live there at S9 cottage in 1965 till 1972 my mother worked there as quarantine assistant It was a peaceful place, many times I went fishing on the quarantine wharf at 2am till dawn that was the time you caught the most fish when I became an teenager I was riding a motorbike through the station and at night there were many rabbits,possums,bandicoots running around. I have lived there for 8 years and I was an explorer been through all the buildings and it never came up in my mind that there were ghosts around and I have never seen them in those days. Submitted by: Rudolfje, Sydney (Added: 09/02/2007) Just did the Quarantine Centre Ghost Tour last weekend, and really enjoyed it. A few odd things happened to people in the group, though some of them could have been just psychological. In the 3rd class accommodation, I could have sworn I smelt horses & hay. My friend had an inexplicable itchy sensation on his legs as we were walking back up towards the 2nd class area - this has been reported by other people in the past, and it's thought to relate to the itchiness of the smallpox that so many people died from there. One of the girls in the group reported seeing a disembodied face near the window in the morgue - and this was BEFORE the guide told us the story about the Fijian guy who died there, and who left the imprint of his face on the window which sometimes reappears.
Apart from the spooky stuff, it's quite interesting historically, and a really beautiful setting, with gorgeous views out over the harbour and the city lights. It was windy and there was the occasional lighting flash while we were there, which all added to the atmosphere. We also saw two ring-tail possums, which was cool because we had an English friend with us.
I'd highly recommend the tour, if you're at all into this sort of stuff.
Submitted by: Debbie, Sydney (Added: 03/04/2005) It was definitely a worthwhile experience if you are interested in the early history of Australian settlement, and of course the spirits associated with it. We began the tour near the old dining room and the tour guide certainly set the scene with many stories and experiences that other people had shared with him while on the tour. He set the mood well when he told us we might have nightmares and actually bring something home with us!!!
My group were taking pictures on their digital cameras all night, and although it was raining which could be explained for some of the "orb like" images in photos outdoors, I happened to take a photo with a red blurred image in the top left corner, while outside near one of the accommodation buildings. I do not believe was a coincidence with the rain as the lens had no water on it, and there was also a distinct eerie feeling about where we were at the time. Other photos which I saw that were taken indoors after the lens had been wiped dry also had unexplainable images in them. We went down to the kitchen and the guide said that people often experience a burning sensation around their neck as if someone is choking them which is exactly what happened to my friend and I. The tour guide was good at recalling many spooky experiences, particularly with the Scream Test contestants while they were filming the show. We also went to the wards where victims of the Spanish Influenza were held, and I had a lie down on one of the beds that the guide said were often haunted by people. I am a big believer in ghosts and such, however I am a rather loud person so maybe I did drive away some of the ghosts, as the guide said some people who are "extroverts" can be blockers and the ghosts don't like it, which can be explained for the lack of sightings. Definitely the most mood setting part of the tour was in the Shower Block. Although I didn't feel anything you could just sense the history of the place and could feel the eerie setting of it all. Many other people felt "vibes" that the guide described. I went in there alone without a lantern after everyone went outside after my friend "thought" she had seen a ghost and was crying but had realised it was a person from our group which was rather funny, but everyone was too spooked to go back in there-just in case. I wasn't scared at all while I was in there. I definitely want to go on the tour again and actually be totally quiet so I can see something next time. I recommend you book the tour on a Sunday as it usually the most quiet day of the week. The other people in the group were quiet and I really enjoyed it. The only negative part of the tour was having to view the slideshow, although it was historical, it was also rather old and boring. I suggest you go because it is a relatively cheap night out, and you might be in for a few scares along the way!!! Submitted by: Elieboo, Sydney (Added: 03/04/2005) Well we just did the QS this weekend and well i'm still a major skeptic and the group we were with were pretty good and nothing out of the ordinary happened to me but about 30mins into the tour the girlfriend of my mate that went came over all sweaty and said she lost her sight, everything came over black and she was feeling faint but it was a pretty cold night and everyone had jackets on and i had a freezer jacket and the girl was profusely sweating. Hmm anyway that's my story of the QS. I'm glad i did it a second time we also had 2 occurrences of smelly cooked potatoes near the 3rd class kitchens. I recommend it to anyone it was really good . . .
Submitted by: Brendan, Sydney (Added: 07/12/2004) On the night tour the water in the shower block was turned off and all of my group was standing in the middle aisle. Everyone was standing still and then the third shower turned on as hard as it could go. I felt fingers touch the back of my neck outside the shower block that same night.
Submitted by: Jodie, Toowoomba QLD (Added: 05/12/2004) I took the tour on Sunday, 12 September 2004. I showed up for this tour about 45 minutes early (didn't take anywhere near as long to get there as I thought it would). So I rode down to the station with the guide to help him set up the after-tour refreshments. After we set everything up, in the 1st class gentlemen's smoking parlour, I went out on the veranda to snap some pics. After taking a few flash pics (it was dark by then) I put my camera back in to it's pouch, and turned to my left, towards the second class accommodation. After a couple seconds I saw a dark, shadowy figure emerge from the darkness in the street, walk right up the steps of the second class building, and go thru the CLOSED door! To say that I was bugged out would be an understatement..all I could do was stare. I was fortunate to be in a small group of only 13 people. The tour was very interesting and informative. Our guide (never did catch his name) was very professional, and quite good at telling ghost stories. When we got to the brick hospital ward (the wooden ward unfortunately burned down, nothing left but the chimneys)I felt slightly ill. This seems to be a common occurrence. I was once again bugged out as we stood in the middle of the brick ward, but this time it was by the big hairy spider that dropped on to my head! BTW, you can still smell phenol in the ward. Supposedly it's a "ghost smell". The gas chamber made my eyes burn slightly, and one of the girls commented that she was feeling sick. I had a strange, eerie feeling the entire time I was there. But overall it was an interesting, enjoyable experience. If you have any interest at all in visiting an unquestionably haunted sight, I highly recommend that you take this tour. Submitted by: UFO Hunter USA - USA (Added: 05/12/2004) Having been to the Quarantine Station numerous times I cannot recommend it enough. It is definitely the most haunted site in NSW. As soon as you step into the Station you go back in time. I have had many experiences here and going on more than one tour you realise that some of the things you thought were your imagination are actually experienced by people on other tours. Make sure you mention any strange things that happen to you on the tour to the guide, even if you think that it was your imagination - you will probably learn that it is something that happens time and time again to other people on different tours. Special thanks to tour guide Kathy who really makes the tour enjoyable, with the perfect mix of history and spooky ghost stories. Submitted by: Kelly (part of the Paranormal Australia Team) - Sydney, NSW Australia (Added: 05/12/2004) Submitted by: Anna - Sydney, NSW Australia (Added: 09/11/2004) On visiting the Quarantine Station several years ago, with my daughter; when we were in the shower block I was totally convinced that a cold draught was coming from the back, right-hand side of the building, I asked my daughter if she felt it too and she said, not really, then I felt terrified as if there was someone waiting at the back of the room for us, although our group had left the building (as we had strayed behind ) it was imperative to leave, immediately as I felt terrified! Also, in the Morgue, I had this feeling of a great weight on my lungs, I felt as if I was having difficulty breathing and although it was only momentary the feeling was considerable enough to cause me concern! I have been to the Quarantine Station in Manly twice, and I love it and have a strange feeling of being familiar with it, even though I was only a short term visitor I felt somewhat at home there! Submitted by: Lexy - Sydney, NSW Australia (Added: 09/04/2004) When I was in the Shower room I got an eerie feeling like someone behind me and no one was there. Then in the room where they used to put the people with Spanish Influenza. I heard something like someone gargling again no one was there. over all it was FUN! anyone expecting to go there you wont be disappointed. But your in for a scare! Submitted by: Me, NSW (Added: 24/01/2004) As we visited the nightly ghost tour, we were all looking forward to seeing something a little bit odd but as the night progressed we all seeing something we weren't sure was there. We visited one of the grave sites when one of us seen an average sized man in all white clothing walking closer to the group as they looked again he suddenly disappeared, and then as they turned around again for the third time he was walking off into the bushes. As the group walked over another grave yard and down toward the morgue one of us had seen a lady in a an old white long lacy night gown when she noticed it she felt a cold shiver down her spine and the lady was moving towards the group as she was getting closer she seen another small younger girl in a white lacy night gown but then as she looked back it seemed to be gone. As we moved into the morgue our hearts were beating fast and we became hot n sweaty as the room was small n we felt a breathing on our necks but as we turned around we noticed we were standing against the wall. We then moved into the hospitals one of the boys we came with us found it hard to walk as he felt something was restricting him to walk making it difficult for him to move, as i walked back to help him we noticed that the window was opened but we didn't remember seeing it open as we first entered the hospital. As we progressed into the shower room we all felt a little but scared so we held the guys tightly as we were feeling unsure about the shower room we walked past the first shower block n looked in as both doors were open as we toured around we didn't seem to see anything we walked up to the back of the shower room and we seeing nothing weird so as we were walking out we noticed that first shower block door was locked not just closed it was locked we tried to push it open but it wouldn't open, and no one else could of locked the door as we were the last group in and last out the door just wouldn't budge it was as if something was pushing against the door on the other side. The tour was coming to an end as we enjoyed a light supper in one of the rooms at quarantine the room was old and had a musty smell we felt ghostly presence in the room the old music was playing and we enjoyed damper and cordial, as we thanked the tour guide for a great night we asked him for directions back to where the car was parked we walked off into the dark track with no lantern and no torch it was pitch black and we were surrounded by bushes, this was the most scariest part of the night as we walked along the track we all noticed a kind of tallish young looking man in wat it looked like to be wearing a navy suit with a white hat we had to look twice but we had all seen what we thought was a ghost, he seemed to be walking towards us we all stopped as we were all in shock, as we got closer to this ghostly looking thing it seemed to walk straight past us, and as we turned back we could no longer see him. We were all relieved to be back to the car we all jumped in and locked all the doors as we started to drive off the driver looked into revision mirror he swore he seen a chinese looking man with a sash and a strawish kind of hat but what he noticed the most bout this image was his pony tail hangin ova his shoulder he drove off out of quarantine station we all stopped suddenly as we almost hit a rabbit, but we enjoyed the night it was a good experience and we will return for friday the 13th and hopefully it will be a full moon............. Submitted by: haley, teneil, renee, simon, & james Sydney (Added 24/03/03) I
thought the tour was spooky and really fantastic. I was totally
scared about all the stories the instructor told us. Next time
i go i'm taking my mum, brother and a few of my cowardly friends,
although you don't have to be a coward when coming on these
ghost tours.
There were no dislikes about the tour. Overall i think my experience will stay in my mind forever. Thank you for making a great and memorable day! p.s Never ever knock the buildings down and be careful with the place because it could easily disappear in a flicker of a bush fire or a fire Submitted by: Julia (Added 24/03/03) I
really enjoyed visiting the Quarantine Station. I visited Sydney
in late July 2002 and did many "Terry touristy" trips.
I did one day tour to the Quarantine station, I really enjoy the tour but the guide was a little hard to hear, unless you stood real close to her at all times. It was sad to hear about the fires that had burnt down 2 buildings, however we did get to see lots but I wished she had she had shown us everything! She had lots of information and it was very interesting. I also was booked on the Sunday night tour, the guide Guy, was very passionate about the station and the whole group had a very enjoyable evening. Guy took us to several places that I had not seen previously so it was still very interesting even though I had been there the day before. I was with a great group of people mostly tourists from overseas this made the evening most enjoyable. We all shared lanterns,stories and experiences, and I regret that I didn't get contact details from everyone to swap snaps and stories. I didn't like the shower block day or night! I felt the need to go to the front left hand side of the shower block both visits. I felt something bad had happened there to a young girl, several people refused to go into the shower block! preferring to wait outside with the guide...... No where else troubled me, I can't wait to get back to Sydney to do the tours again, as our tour guide said you could come to the Quarantine Station a 100 times and every time you would see something new. Take your walking shoes and enjoy! Submitted by: Marion, Brisbane (Added 18/11/02) it was really interesting but a bit eerie, in the ball room our guide said we would feel really hot, i was more then hot i was pulled to the ground, feeling heavy, the it was as though i was being pushed from behind the whole time after that... then as we were leaving the car light switched on and off, it frightened the whole family but even after that we had the smell of sulphuric acid in the car, which we were told the residence that were kept at the quarantine quarters used to wash themselves in that... but it was a good tour and i want to return to see if anything different will occur Submitted by: mandy (Added 18/10/02) I visited the Manly Quarantine Station a couple of years ago. I must admit that I did not expect to experience anything strange that night. I was standing in front of the fireplace in the old hospital ward that is now an exhibition room. I was focused on reading a blurb about all the diseases that they treated near a plaster cast of an arm that had smallpox all over it. I felt the firm touch of a hand on my right shoulder & top of my arm. Without looking, I just assumed that it was my partner. When I looked up, my partner was on the other side of the room. The closest person to me was our tour guide! I told him what had happened & he said that such experiences were commonplace! Submitted by: SD - Australia (10/08/02) I
attended the Ghost Tour at the Quarantine Station with the Scout
group as outing that was organised in 1996 I think. I cant exactly
remember anyway, as the usual we were told ghost stories and the
history of the significant spook.
Nothing really happened, but there is once significant memory that I still cant shake off. I was standing next to a friends father who was trying to scare a friend of mine & I, by bumping her. However as i was listening to the stories I felt like a hand like presence holding onto my left arm since my arms were folded. Thinking it was my friends father, and to bust him out i glanced toward my left arm near my elbow where I felt the touch. I felt a bit uneasy when i glanced at my elbow and on the ground to see no shadow at all. I wasn't scared but curious, no chills or what so ever. I asked my friends father at the end of the tour if it was him, he said no. But i still wonder to this day was it a ghost or was it him playing a prank on me. This is not the only paranormal thing i experienced, as we toured to the hospitals, (i didn't think of it back then but after years later when we tell what ghost tours we've been to)i remember lifting my oil lamp up to the window to look inside before we were let inside, my oil lamp lit out. Thinking back to it now days, how can an oil lamp burn out? Especially just as I lifted my lamp up to the window, i was wondering why it was still dark and as i looked at the lamp; there was no light. No breeze, no wind, and no one to blow out. Did I disturb the patients or the nurse found it rude for me to glance inside til I got in? To this day I still don't know, why my light turned off. But then again if i was disturbing a patient & the nurse found it rude, I don't blame her as 6yrs later I'm studying Nursing myself and would be annoyed too! Submitted by: Agnes (Added 06/04/02) I
loved going there even if it was during the day....i know this is
suppose to be about ghost tours but wow....I felt a couple of things.
I love seeing everything the Hospital (to think I was probably one
of the last people to see it) In the hospital I was attracted to
one Window for some reason....it wasn't bad I felt really calm and
I was swaying a bit but it was probably just me. I took couple of
pix there and one orb came up in the morgue but that's the one thing
I got.....I would really like to go on a ghost tour sometime I think
that would be a lot of fun. I remember one time I felt like I was
going to faint....just in one spot and the person who was with me
felt the same at some stage too but we both cant remember where
it was....isnt that weird had a lot of fun anyway and I recommend
it The Day tour is quite interesting....and i'm sure if i go on the
night (Ghost one) tour I'm sure it will be fun.
Submitted by: FLuRoZaC (Added 25/03/02) I,
like the people in the other reviews have done the Quarantine Station
tour more than once, although nothing huge has happened there were
a few strange things.
The Hospital Our group had gone into one of the hospital buildings and once the guide finished telling us a bit about the place everyone was walking around checking the building out. I looked over at the dark windows, thinking about what it would be like if I suddenly saw a face look in (yes, I was wanting to see something like that at this point! *laugh*) and upon seeing nothing thought I'd walk over and look out onto the verandah. I walked over to the window/wall and suddenly my breathing became heavy and wheezy. "Uh oh," I thought... thinking that the kerosene from the lanterns were finally getting to me (I hate that smell!). I turned around and walked to the middle of the room and felt much better. I looked at the ground and to my surprise, I saw that the lanterns were in a heap in the middle of the hospital floor. So it couldn't have been the kero that annoyed my throat, I turned and walked back to the window. Once again, as I got closer to the window/wall my breathing became heavy and wheezy as if I had a bad flu! I did a few walks between the lanterns and the window (I must have looked strange!) and each time my breathing was affected. I told my sister to walk over to the window without telling her why, however it didn't have the same effect on her. The 3rd Class Dining Kitchen On the next night time tour I attended we were in the downstairs kitchen in the 3rd Class Dining Building and I noticed a couple (the same couple you'll read about later) whispering urgently in the corner but didn't think much of it. Later on the tour he told us that he'd been walking into a little room (which was a larder) and felt something poke him in the ribs. He said there wasn't anyone near him, and he was very taken aback! On a day tour, when I entered this room for some reason one spot on my back got really hot for a couple of seconds. Odd. Also in this building I suddenly felt very hot and dizzy, like you feel just before you pass out. This only lasted for a couple of seconds and it was only after the tour that my friend who was also on the tour told me she had felt the same thing! Shower Block I never feel comfortable in this building (even as a kid - when we visited the Q-Station as part of History lessons) and this feeling is shared by a lot of people I've spoken to! For some reason when I enter I'm drawn to look in the corners of each outer row, and I HATE being the last person out! Anyway, we were walking around and a couple called us over and asked us to "feel" the air in a partial spot. I (and others) felt the area they were pointing out and it felt quite colder than everywhere else - not like a draft but like a pocket of cold air. After a minute or so the air felt normal and we laughed and looked around again. Walking away we felt another cold area, which again "moved". We were so engrossed in this that we hadn't realised that the entire tour group had gone out and were waiting outside. The place feels bad enough with 15 people in it, but knowing we were the only ones there we lost interest immediately and headed for the door as quickly as can be! One guy and I raced up a the side corridor and he, like me couldn't get out fast enough! We both agreed that it felt like someone was watching us leave, and perhaps willing us out faster! Submitted by: Kelly (Added 12/01/02) I've
been to the Quarantine Station, Manly three times now and although
I've never seen anything out of the ordinary, I have experienced
the feeling of unease about the place. I have also heard (along
with other people) a shower running in the immigrants section, although
there is no water available to that part of the station. I highly
recommend the tours, even if you don't see anything the history
of the place is fascinating.
Submitted by: Zoe I've
done this one twice. Nothing unusual happened either time, but we
heard lots of stories of previous tours and I've heard first hand
experiences of others I know who have done the tour and have been
mysteriously pushed, etc. It's definitely a spooky place. My only
criticism is the guide had a soft voice and was hard to hear, also
a few more lanterns to go around would have made it easier to see
where you were going. Also they should get rid of all the rabbits
there, they are making a mess of the place.
Submitted by: Mr. Destiny I went on a tour to Quarantine Station (see the Tour page for more info) & went in with a totally open, partly sceptical mind as it was my first experience of this kind.
The tour was very interesting historically for the first part of the tour until we came to the graveyard where walking down the hill I got the most overwhelming feeling in my chest (like it was being squeezed & couldn't breathe properly except I could) and down in the fumigation area it got worse. Heading to the gas room I was hesitant and once inside felt I couldn't breathe properly and I could actually smell something and had to walk out, standing outside the shower block I said to my friend that I felt I shouldn't go in there (I still have no idea why) and was told by a Ranger (who overheard me say it) that it used to be the waiting area (not sure if it was enclosed). Once inside the shower block I honestly could not move past halfway up the middle aisle, all this time though I could hear a shower dripping and no-one else could, during this time I had to go outside but also could not stand out there by myself so I stood in the doorway where I felt a push (I still put it down to my imagination) and so I ventured back up to my halfway rooted spot and could see something out of the corner of my eye in my shower cubicle that I thought was dripping. I called my friend over and told her to take a photo of the shower and as we ventured over discovered that the recess of the shower was all wet as if someone had just had a shower as I put my lantern up to the showerhead it was dripping (this was witnessed by six other people) and I told them that I swear there was someone in the shower, I was also told that the water had been turned off two - three years ago. Bit by bit my mind told me it was all my imagination but what I felt I have never experienced before ever, as we left the shower block and wandered up the stairs to the hospital block about half way up the stairs my feeling left me. I still wonder to this day whether it was my imagination and each time I tell it I think yeah maybe it was but I also think what if it wasn't. The rest of the tour was ok, historically it was brilliant, to imagine how everything must have been, but I hope I never go near that shower block again. Submitted by: Leesa, Sydney |
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