Historic haunted places in Canberra, ACT. 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.
Heritage cottage museum on Lake Burley Griffin; open on selected days (check National Capital Authority).
Sixteen-year-old Florrie Blundell died in 1892 from burns suffered in an ironing accident at this stone farm cottage. Visitors describe a sudden smell of burning with no fire nearb…
Officers' mess at the Royal Military College; closed to the public except on annual open days.
Canberra's oldest building, built in 1833, is home to the city's best-known ghost, Sophia Susanna Campbell, who died in 1885 at 28 after falling from her first-floor bedroom window…
Prime Minister Ben Chifley chose this early Canberra hotel over the Lodge and suffered a fatal heart attack on 13 June 1951, though accounts differ on whether he died in his room o…
Open to the public Wednesday to Sunday (admission; ACT Historic Places).
This 19th-century pastoral property in the Tuggeranong area saw drownings in the nearby river and farm accidents over the years. Its best-known ghost is a stockman or farmer seen s…
Open to the public (free entry; cinema and events ticketed).
For about 50 years before it became the film archive in the early 1980s, this Art Deco building was the Institute of Anatomy, where human and animal remains were dissected, studied…
The museum stands on the site of the old Canberra Hospital, and local ghost guide Tim the Yowie Man says strange things still happen there. People report information boards spinnin…
Open to the public as a museum; after-hours paranormal investigations ticketed (18+).
Staff at the museum describe mostly subtle encounters: voices and footsteps in empty halls, cigar smoke in the Prime Minister's Office and Cabinet Room, and people glimpsed from th…