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Historic haunted places in Hobart, TAS. Each page gives the ghost story, whether visitors can go, and a link to the site the story came from. The stories are folklore, not documented fact.
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More than 40,000 convicts passed through the penitentiary, which later became Hobart Gaol and still holds its courtrooms, tunnels and gallows. Guides describe a recurring smell of …
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
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This 1830s merchant's house, now a museum, is said to have Battery Point's longest-serving ghost. She is Polly, a young pregnant convict servant who died after she fell or was push…
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
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Staff speak of a spectre called Albert, thought to be either a convict whose skeleton was found in a drainage tunnel or Premier Albert Ogilvie, who died in office in 1939. People r…
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
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The waterfront restaurant occupies the old warehouse where Henry Jones started work as a boy before building the IXL jam empire. Staff tell of Millie, a red-haired girl in a white …
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Haunted place
Opened in 1837, the theatre is said to be home to Fred, an actor who supposedly died there in the 1800s, possibly in a fight. Crew say he tells people to leave late at night, and l…
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.