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GHOST TOURS
AUSTRALIA'S
creepiest
WORDS: PATRICK TADROS
NEED A SPOOKY WEEKEND?
  Paranormal tourism is booming across Australia,  with 'hauntrepreneurs' in every state tapping into our undying curiosity for the eerie and macabre.
And who wouldn't want to spend a night creeping around an abandoned asylum or deserted morgue? Here's how to seek out the afterlife in your state...
At nightfall, the desolate buildings of old Parramatta Gaol, which housed inmates from 1798 to 2011, are certain to raise the hairs on your neck.
NSW
Paranormal investigator Peta Banks, who leads ghost tours at Parramatta Gaol with APPI, had one of her more harrowing experiences at the old prison. 
“
PETA BANKSAPPI Ghost Hunts & Tours
I felt something grab me on the arm. I could feel the four fingers and a thumb. I shone my torch around... everybody was at least 2m away from me.That rattled me for weeks, it still rattles me now.
Parramatta Gaol is among NSW's most popular ghost tour sites, along with the Q Station at North Head, Manly, Cockatoo Island (18+ as there's a rumoured poltergeist), Maitland Gaol and Monte Christo in Junee.
Miha Samanovic and Nicky Marsten of Queensland’s Most Haunted offer ghost tours, and sleepovers in one of Queensland's most 'active' paranormal hotels .
QUEENSLAND
Their Criterion Hotel Haunted Sleepover in Maryborough is among their most popular, the 1800s heritage pub heritage rich in history and tragedy.
Queenland's Most Haunted also host seance experiences and old-world magic events, along with ghost tours through historic 'haunted' sites such as Toowoomba railway station.
Alison Oborn of Adelaide’s Haunted Horizons says tours at Glenside Hospital’s former Z Ward for the criminally insane continually booked out.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Other excellent locations  in SA for a frightful tour include the Old Adelaide Gaol, the Adelaide Arcade, the Adelaide Zoo and the National Railway Museum.
Twisted History unravels chilling tales of convicts, murderers and lunatics who once called Geelong Gaol home, while delving into the hauntings of sites in Bendigo and Melbourne's Chinatown.
VICTORIA
If you dare to enter after dark, Geelong Gaol ghost tours run seven nights a week. Other disturbing haunts include Bendigo, with its reputation as Victoria’s most haunted city, or join a paranormal investigation.
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