About

Ghost tourism in Australia, treated as the industry it is

The Australian buildings that sell a ghost tour, and the people who run them.

What is here

Twenty-six pieces across five sections, each one about a named place, a named organisation or a named published document: Port Arthur and the Tasman Peninsula, Q Station at North Head, the gaols at Russell Street, Dutton Park, Geelong and Fremantle, the inland sites at Junee, Picton and Ararat, and the Australian Skeptics’ standing challenge alongside the television formats and the published research.

Each piece states where its dates and figures come from — a site authority, a heritage register, a National Trust document, a dated newspaper account or a published paper — and links to the sibling pieces that carry the rest of the story.

Where to start

The Port Arthur ghost tour is the oldest product of its kind in the country and the best place to begin. The archive holds everything else.