Historic haunted places in Sydney, NSW. 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.
Legend says a merchant sailor named Eric finally won the hand of brothel madam Scarlett in the late 1880s, only to return from a voyage and find she had died of tuberculosis. He di…
The quarantine station on North Head held arriving ship passengers from 1832 until 1954, and many who were isolated there with diseases such as smallpox and plague never left. Visi…
In 1838 the son of ex-convict William Reynolds was accidentally shot while pigeon-shooting, and the infected leg was amputated inside the house without anaesthetic; he died soon af…
Over its history the building served as a hospital, a sailors' hostel and an unofficial brothel. Its best-known ghost is an unnamed sailor said to have been murdered in Room 8, who…
Open (operating cemetery; coastal walk passes through).
Opened in 1877 on the clifftops at Bronte, this heritage-listed cemetery holds tens of thousands of burials, including poet Henry Lawson and state executioner Robert 'Nosey Bob' Ho…