Pentridge Prison ‘ghost’ captured on camera

THE Pentridge ‘ghost’ has spooked more visitors to the old prison complex with Melburnians sharing photos of mysterious spectres lurking near cells.

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THE Pentridge ‘ghost’ has spooked more visitors to the old prison complex with Melburnians sharing photos of mysterious spectres lurking near cells.

We reported yesterday on the apparition of a ghostly figure near the old cell of Mark “Chopper” Read in the prison, which between 1851 and 1997 housed some of Victoria’s most notorious criminals.

Now Emily Widjaja, 35, said she visited the prison at night a couple of months ago and later inspected a photo she took.

“I took some photos with my phone and that’s what came up,” Ms Widjaja said.

Was it a ghost?

“Something like that, because there wasn’t anything standing there,” she said.

An image captured by Emily Widjaja of a ghostly shape at Pentridge.

The picture by Emily Widjaja shows a figure lurking in a corner.

On Friday last week Jodie Bezzina, of Deer Park, took a photograph on a ghost tour at the old jail showing what appears to be a lingering spectre.

“We visited (the cell) where Chopper Read was kept and we felt very cold,” Ms Bezzina said.

“I decided to walk out and take a photo of my partner and his cousin. I had to look twice as I thought someone from the tour was standing by, but it wasn’t. We spotted a ghost.

A shadowy figure claimed to be a ghost by the woman who took the photograph.

“If you look directly at the photo, it’s behind the boy in the black hooded jumper, on the left-hand side.”

Ms Bezzina, who was on a Lantern Ghost Tours excursion, is certainly not the first to suggest the old prison is haunted.

Many visitors, and even previous inmates, have claimed to have seen apparitions and heard noises through the draughty halls.

An image by Craig Ferguson inside Pentridge.

The picture by Craig Ferguson captured a mysterious figure..

Reader Craig Ferguson says he captured a photo of a mysterious figure in a trench coat in the background of a photo when he visited the prison in March.

The image, taken when other members of a tour group had vacated the upper level, seems to show a figure in the background, which Mr Ferguson believes was wearing a trench coat.

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