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The old church spires poked up above the trees, its shelled out sandstone windows lit up by glowing lanterns.
Above the full moon glowed, offering us more light than I would have hoped, but a tad more eeriness.
Port Arthur, a historic former convict settlement in Tasmania, looked like a scene out of a horror movie. The perfect place for a Ghost Tour.
We were about to embark on a journey to explore the hidden side of the convict settlement, led by an expert guide who will reveal the most harrowing stories of Port Arthur’s history.
If you’ve ever fancied exploring the dark recesses of our heritage buildings, here is our experience of the 90-minute Port Arthur Ghost Tour…
Our Tour Experience Of A Port Arthur Ghost Tour
Our small group set off on a lantern-lit ghost tour, walking across the paddock to the first crumbling ruins for our first ghostly tale in the most haunted place in Australia.
In case you are unaware of Port Arthur, this was the place where the criminals were placed during the colonisation of European settlement. Although many think of it as a prison, it was more of a settlement, as prisoners were able to build a small community there, but many tragic and horrific things happened, and it was no place you would want to be today.
Like my children when they are told they can have chocolate, I almost jumped up and down and giggled as I was so excited.
Tell me more. I want more stories, I want a ghostly encounter.
I regretted not putting my hand up when visitors were asked to be a lantern bearer, when the lead lantern bearer was sent to open cottage doors, warn the ghosts that we were coming and meant no harm, and be the first to enter the pitch dark, haunted buildings.
The first stop was the parsonage house, which is known to be in the top 5 haunted houses in Australia. It’s not a convict prison as you might expect, but a cute pumpkin cottage that belonged to the Reverend George Eastman.
His death wasn’t so traumatic that he’d have cause to haunt, but it was for his wife and 10 children who were no longer looked after by church or government and so lived a life of struggle.
Is it the wife and children that haunt the property or the reverend himself?
No one knows for sure, but the figure of a man has been seen outside the window with arm raised in stabbing strike…
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