In need of both a thrill and a chill in 2009?
Then perhaps a ghost tour or cemetary walk is just what the paranormal investigator ordered…
The National Trust of Victoria run several spooky events a year… tonight is one of their yearly full moon cemetary walks… UM found out a little too late to be of any use to you… sorry wampires, but what we did find is that they’re also running ghost tours:
the next one is in July and is of Como in South Yarra in conjunction with a medium:
Back by popular demand, Como House is running Ghost tours in cooperation with a medium form Spookspotters.
Tour will focus on past people and events in the house. Tours begin with a complimentary glass of wine in the beautiful Ballroom and a background of Como’s residents passt and present.
Ghost tours are not suitable for children under the age of 15.
Date
Date: Thursday 2 July 2009
Time: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Location
Como House
Cnr Wlliams Road and Lechlade Ave
South Yarra
Cost
Adults $30, Concession $27
Members: Adults: $25 Concession $22
Contact Details
(03) 9827 2500 or como@nattrust.com.au
Bookings Essential
http://www.nattrust.com.au/events/ghost_tours
They’re also running a regional Winter Solstice Cemetary Walk:
The Western Cemetery which has an important Aboriginal grave, fine avenues of Italian Cypress and a number of graves of Western District Squatters, was established in 1858 and was classified by the National Trust in 1997.
Notes and supper included.
Date
Date: Friday 19 June 2009
Time: 7:30 pm – 11:59 pm
Location
Western Cemetery
95 Minerva Rd
Manifold Heights
Cost
$12
Contact Details
Bookings essential
Jenny Yeats 03 5255 2097
There are are also some privately run Melbourne Cemetary Tours which run once or twice a Month:
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~hdharris/cemetery.html
run by historian Helen Doxford Harris. These tours are thematic and cover walks like: Law makers and Law Breakers, Medicos and Misadventures, Creative Colonists
A list of Melbourne Ghost Tours – and the rest of Australia – is offered here:
http://www.castleofspirits.com/ghosttours.html#victoria
And here, Paranormal Australia – Channel 31’s famous ghost hunters – conduct their own ghost tours, including Walhalla:
http://www.paranormalaustralia.com/tours/tourwalhalla.html
and many others in rumoured ghost locations around Australia
And for those of you that don’t want to go out in order to get ghostly – perhaps what you need is the:
Haunted Downunder Online Radio Show
And of course we’ve already featured the Haunted Melbourne ghost tour on Underground Melbourne! But we could hardly feature a Melbourne Ghost Tour page without mentioning him again.
