Historic haunted places in Brisbane, QLD. 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.
The 1920s arcade was built for the children of Patrick Mayne, a butcher long rumoured to have murdered a timber-cutter in 1848. Shoppers tell of a woman in a bonnet and eerie waili…
Open to the public (civic building; ghost tour meeting point).
City Hall opened in 1930 with a 64-metre clock tower. Local folklore says the tower is haunted by a lift operator who fell to his death, and the city's CBD ghost tour sets out from…
Queensland's oldest surviving building was built by convicts in 1828 and worked by a punishment treadmill when the wind dropped; a prisoner died there in 1829. In 1841 two Aborigin…
Cnr Frederick St and Mt Coot-tha Rd, Toowong QLD 4066
Open daily 6am-6pm; licensed night ghost tours.
Queensland's largest cemetery, with about 120,000 burials, has been handed down in Brisbane folklore for generations. Stories include boxer Peter Jackson's ghost ready for one more…