Ghost Tours

"Recently on the Haunted Brisbane walking tour, I took some clients to the Bell Tower of the Pancake Manor. As part of the story we ask one of the clients to knock on the large wooden door and listen for footsteps within the locked stairway. There were no footsteps heard, however three clients all swore that they could hear the sound of chains rattling from the top of the bell tower. 'We heard chains behind the locked door, after knocking on the door.' wrote SB from Bellevue Hill."

- M Soltau

HAUNTED BRISBANE Ghost Tour - October 2009

"Last Saturday night I arrived at Dutton Park as usual at 6.20pm, to do a quick lap around the tour route before the clients arrived, it was a little breezy, I was near the Annerley Rd main gate waiting for the Host to arrive and was looking among the head stones when I felt a strong gust of wind behind me and a sound like a foot step in some loose leaves, and felt a hand on my shoulder, which sort of creeped me out a lot. I then started to walk up to the front gates to close them before the tour, for some weird reason I looked down, at the little gate next to the main gate way and found my plastic phone cover I had lost a month before.

This sounds a bit normal I know but bearing in mind I have not run a tour in aprox a month and half and there are dozens of people that walk around Dutton Park all the time, normally I would think some one would have walked on it and smashed it by now?

i put it down to someone telling me where my phone cover was, and they had taken care of it till i come back to do another tour?"

- D Stumer

DUTTON PARK CEMETERY - October 2008

"While assisting with the HAUNTED IPSWICH Ghost Tour recently there were a few odd moments. Upon entering the Old Flour Mill a strong smell of flour came to me. The building is now a restaurant so there would be flour there, but it was almost like I had my head stuck in a bowl of flour. Later we reached the Ipswich Cemetery. While the Host told was speaking about the Ned Kelly connection I turned to see a shadow move behind the tour group. It was almost like a person was walking several metres away and the moon was casting their shadow on the ground - but there was no one there."

- D Lindsay

HAUNTED IPSWICH Ghost Tour - August 2008

"We had an interesting experience last saturday night at Toowong Cemetery.

Before the tour started a tawny coloured cat materialised out of the undergrowth near the front gate. It stayed away from the patrons standing outside the gate. It seemed quite happy to run up against my legs as I stood staring at the patrons... Five minutes before the start of the tour I made my way to my now customary starting point. I was waiting behind a headstone hidden from view when I heard a questioning 'meow?'. The tawny cat had obviously followed me and was very interested in why I was hiding. To cut a long story short the cat stayed with the tour group for the entire tour! For two hours it kept apace with us; staying away from the main group but rubbing against myself and the Tour Assistant. Sometimes it would dart through the crowd while I they had their lights off during a story (The Mayne Crypt was the best timed run... scared the life out of a few people). It followed me in lock step when i walked down the Valley of Death before the patrons are sent two by two."

- G Rowbotham

TOOWONG CEMETERY - August 2008

"While working this Friday 13th at Toowong I had a very chilling experience. As we had several tours running that night I was patrolling the grounds and making sure that each tour was running smoothly and to time. This involved being on my own walking through the guts of the cemetery for the most part. On one occasion I was walking along a grassed section (where the headstones had long since been removed) running parallel to 12th Avenue. A tour group passed and, being out in the open, I made my way to stand behind a tree so I did not distract the tour - although I think I might have spooked a few clients. I waited for them to pass and when I went to walk away an icy chill passed through my right leg. Not the entire leg, just around the middle of my lower leg - almost the size of a hand clutching at it. The cold went right to the bone and passed as swiftly as it came. I moved away from there very fast."

- D Lindsay

TOOWONG CEMETERY - June 2008

"On Saturday, 28/6/2008, on the Haunted Brisbane Tour, the tour paid a visit to the Christ Church Memorial Grounds. A client was sent ahead of the group to open the gate to enter the former graveyard alone. Strangely, he pushed the gate open with his foot, not, as one would expect, using his hand; as he did so a strong wind came up and blew from behind the church towards the group, dying as quickly as it had rose. Later the client commented that he felt a bit creeped as he approached the gate, a sensation that there was someone in the dark area beyond. This is why he had kicked the gate open."

- J Sim

HAUNTED BRISBANE Ghost Tour - June 2008

"During the Dutton Park Tour on Friday the 13th when we where at Patrick Kenneth’s grave a cold breeze came down the road a client's torch came on by it's self, then 5 mins later I had to escort two clients off the tour due to being giddy in the head. Then when I was coming back to the tour group my brand new torch went flat in the middle of the cemetery while I was on my own, lucky had a bag full of other torches."

- D Stumer

DUTTON PARK CEMETERY - June 2008

"During a recent tour, myself and 2 clients had just walked to the end of The Valley of Death and we where waiting for the rest of the group to join us when a very loud crash came from some where along 12th Avenue just by The Grove. It sounded like a tree had fallen over. I turn to look and saw a number, possibly 4 or 5, black shapes move quickly into The Grove. I’m not sure what they where they looked like someone wearing long black robes with a hood. The clients seemed to have heard something too and shone their torches up the avenue but in the torch light nothing seemed to be out of place. Feeling a little frightened I asked my gatekeeper to inspect The Grove and the other side of 12th Avenue while I continued on with my next story, but he could see no trace of the black figures or even the tree that I was certain I had heard fall. I revisited Toowong during the daylight a few days later and there was no sign of all fallen trees or branches."

- A Marriott

TOOWONG CEMETERY - May 2008

"It was Halloween and I arrived at the cemetery early to have a look around. I was coming back from the Valley of Death and as I crossed over the creek I turned around and looked back towards the valley and noticed a young lady walking towards me but still a fair distance away. She was wearing a long black dress and what looked like a black robe. Naturally I assumed it was our Host coming from the other side of the cemetery where she sometimes parks. When I got back to the gate I met the Tour Assistant who was on the phone. When he hung up I asked who he was on the phone with and he replied that it was our Host. I thought this was a bit strange as I had just seen her and she would have been at the gates any minute. I asked him what she wanted and he replied that she was stuck in traffic and would be at least another ten minutes before arriving. This gave me quite a shock because the person I had just seen could not possibly have been our Host and the only other young woman in black that I knew of was Lily the Vampire. Needless to say I kept my eyes pealed for the rest of the night and I was glad when I was safely outside the cemetery and on my way home."

- C Ames

TOOWONG CEMETERY - October 2007

"While assisting Mr Sim with his last Haunted Brisbane Ghost Tour I really got the chills. We were telling the story of the Creepy Cauldron and the old Paddington Cemetery. The whole group was huddled up around Jack and I was lingering at the back to make sure I could see everyone. It was then that I heard clear footsteps coming along the pathway they stopped directly behind me and I heard breathing and even felt it blow on the back of my neck. I turned around quickly expecting to see a living person that had wandered into the grounds, but there was no one there. Against my gut instincts I walked down the path to get a good look behind all the gravestones - to make sure there wasn't someone hanging around that shouldn't be. I couldn't find anyone. From that moment on, I stayed much closer to the group."

- D Lindsay

The Cauldron on the HAUNTED BRISBANE Ghost Tour - September 2007

"During the Grove story, I stepped aside for a quick drink of water. Right in front of me, a few feet above eye level, a black shape flew past me and into the Grove. I thought for a second it might have been a bat, but it was too big and way too quiet, and there were no signs at all of any bats flying in the area for the rest of the night."

- C Spensley

"While I was walking along 12th Avenue to take my place in front of the Mayne Crypt I spotted a black shadow moving amongst the graves near 13th Avenue towards the Grove. I stood and watched it for some time before moving on to tell the next story. Then once I had finished this tale I made my way to the crossroads of 12th & 13th for The Angel story I kept an eye out for anything unusual and saw another shadow move behind a tree further up 12th Avenue."

- D Lindsay

TOOWONG CEMETERY - September 2007

"Prior to the tour commencing myself and two other staff members walked the tour route to check for anything that might disrupt the tour and to place out the safety signs. At the bottom of 12th Avenue one of my fellow staff put one of the signs down on the road with a huge clang that rang out through the cemetery. We had just been commenting to one another how dark and silent the night was, the moon having not risen yet.

"Immediately after this crash rang out I heard a distinctive hissing noise coming from the bottom of The Grove, like something that had been disturbed by the sound. I stared straight at where I thought the sound had come from and said to the others, "I just heard something over there. I just heard a hiss." One of my fellow staff put the torch up and lit up the area but the other just scoffed at me. I was definitely feeling uncomfortable as I had heard a noise that wasn't the usually cemetery animal sounds, besides, this night was dead silent - we hadn't heard any animals.

"We didn't stay to investigate as the tour group would be arriving soon so we continued on, but I was still very spooked. As the others turned to leave I turned back around to look into The Grove I saw a solid human figure standing on the edge of the road (on the grass closest to the graves, just before a small, scraggly tree). It appeared to be female, wearing a long black dress that was satin like in appearance with a low scooped neckline. Her neck was long and white, almost luminescent, her face oval like with black eyes that were more like hollows and very long black hair was hanging down to about her waist on either side of her face.

"Not really believing what I saw I turned back up the road but looked back again to confirm that there was actually a person there, but whatever it was had gone. All I could see was the scraggly tree that in no way could resemble a person even in the half light of dusk. If she had still been standing there I would have thought it was an actual person hanging around the cemetery - she looked so real. But no human could have moved that fast or that silently.

"This things sudden appearance and disappearance was almost like we had startled it with the sound of the clanging sign which made it venture out to inspect what had made the noise. The fact that this was a private tour tonight and not our usual tour night makes me think that she wasn't expecting us to be there.

"I didn't tell any of the other staff on that night what I thought I saw because I didn't think they would believe me, and I can hardly believe it myself. But I know that I was utterly terrified until we had left 12th Avenue and were well away from The Grove. I was also not looking forward to having to go near The Grove again that night, but when we arrived there with the tour group the feeling of being watched had gone.

"I think whatever I saw ventured near enough to see who we were then kept well clear after that. Which I am not entirely upset about if I am honest."

- D Lindsay

TOOWONG CEMETERY - July 2007

"We were taking a tour group through the grounds of Toowong Cemetery on evening and on this particular occasion there was a second Host telling some of the stories. While I waiting on the hill alone above the intersection of 12th and 13th Avenue (the place where The Angel is said to appear) I heard a male voice whispering to the right behind me. I couldn't make out exactly what it was saying, but it sounded something along the lines of 'You can go to sleep I won't hurt you' or 'You can go to sleep I'll take care of you' This just sent chills down my spine. I could hear the other Host talking from down the bottom of the hill and this voice was coming from the complete opposite direction. When I turned around to inspect the sound I truly believed I would see a person there, but of course I was completely alone."

- D. Lindsay

TOOWONG CEMETERY - April 2007

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