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Title: Blue Mountains - NSW - Ghost tour/Investigation
Post by: Sare3333 on October 07, 2009, 08:00:29 PM
Hi, if anyone is interested in a ghost tour with a difference ie bit of investigating - then check this website out below. They have something called their 'Psychic Fright Night' which includes a buffet dinner and desert plus a 20mins psychic reading for each person. You can also bring your own equipment on the tour!

There is the option to book accommodation too.

http://www.bluemountainsmysterytours.com.au/halloween.htm

The dates they have so far are (all saturdays):
17 Oct
21 Nov
19 Dec

I'm not plugging a friends business or anything as I honestly dont know the person who runs this. I'm just a fan of those kind of events which encourage other interested people (especially those who want to investigate) to get together.

I'm booked to go to the 21 Nov one - so may see ya there!

Sare
Title: Re: Blue Mountains - NSW - Ghost tour/Investigation
Post by: Christine on October 09, 2009, 07:17:20 AM
Thanks!
Title: Re: Blue Mountains - NSW - Ghost tour/Investigation
Post by: Salt Breeze on October 09, 2009, 11:45:38 AM
Sound great.  I love the scenic railway and the cable car when I was a kid (back in the age of the dinosaurs).  The cable car looks all brand new and modern now.  Lol.   No matter how you see it, the scenery there is amazing.  Plus there are a number of great old cemeteries around, plus legends gallore, and I suspect the fright tour takes in a few of them. 
Title: Re: Blue Mountains - NSW - Ghost tour/Investigation
Post by: bixter76 on October 15, 2009, 07:19:44 PM
So is anyone from here going to go?
Title: Re: Blue Mountains - NSW - Ghost tour/Investigation
Post by: karen077 on October 15, 2009, 10:53:36 PM
I would love too it sounds good
Title: Re: Blue Mountains - NSW - Ghost tour/Investigation
Post by: Sare3333 on November 01, 2009, 02:40:32 PM
Guess what guys.... the company has had to cancel these nights!!! noooooooo.... he's had trouble with the '3rd parties' involved in the night.

He was really apologetic about it...might get myself on one of their regular ghost tours anyway....
Title: Re: Blue Mountains - NSW - Ghost tour/Investigation
Post by: Jugstar on October 01, 2010, 02:01:28 AM
The guest house is no longer on the tour. That was the best location by far! Apparently tour participants were going back in their own time and conducting their own investigations to the annoyance of the owner. I went on the tour for the 2nd time in August and it wasnt as good as good as it was 12 months ago. You go to "hanging tree" and some old unmarked graveyard instead now and you dont get supper anymore. Still the same price at $75 a head. I had two good experiances on my last tour. The EMF meter started vibrating in my hand and I went to tell everyone we had some activity when I quickly realised that these things light up, they dont vibrate....lol. The 2nd one was that my camera went of on its own 2-3 times in the graveyard at Little Hartley. When I checked the picks, I captured the outline of what looks like a man in a top-hat. Pete had said a man in a top-hat haunts that graveyard. Is there anyway I can post that pick here?
Title: Re: Blue Mountains - NSW - Ghost tour/Investigation
Post by: karen077 on October 01, 2010, 09:15:34 AM
I was put off By the price of this tour. I think the Sydney Quarantine Station is the best one i have been on ( i have only been on 3 though) and i would love to do it again this time staying the night.
Title: Re: Blue Mountains - NSW - Ghost tour/Investigation
Post by: Salt Breeze on October 01, 2010, 09:20:06 AM
Jugstar, if you do a search on here you'll probably find a section on how to post pics. 

Basically you first have to upload your pics onto one of the image hosting sites like photobucket, and from there you'll be given codes, ie. the img code that you insert into your post here with the pics. 
Title: Re: Blue Mountains - NSW - Ghost tour/Investigation
Post by: Sare3333 on January 14, 2011, 08:02:20 PM
Hey Karen007,
The q station do a sleep over thing now called 'ghosty sleepover'.

should be listed here:
http://www.qstation.com.au/experience/tours.php

Its $155 and on the 3rd Friday of each month.

I've been thinking of going for a while...not sure about the 'bring your own sleeping bag' kinda thing. Not fussed with sleeping in a sleeping bag, just not keen about potentially being on a concrete floor - burrr...

Cheers,
Sare
Title: Re: Blue Mountains - NSW - Ghost tour/Investigation
Post by: nick61 on January 15, 2011, 11:25:18 AM
Hartley courthouse and jail is such a cool place. Pity.
Title: Re: Blue Mountains - NSW - Ghost tour/Investigation
Post by: Jugstar on January 28, 2011, 10:45:51 PM
I was put off By the price of this tour. I think the Sydney Quarantine Station is the best one i have been on ( i have only been on 3 though) and i would love to do it again this time staying the night.

Im planning on doing the QS this year some time! Looking forward to it after seeing it on GHI. The price for the Blue mountains one isnt too bad considering they drive you around in a mini bus for 4-5 hours. Still, a bit steep for a ghost tour though. It is still the best tour I have been on so far. So far I have done the Picton Tour which was good in parts but the guide (Danni) was saying what was quite clearly  dust in peoples photos were spirits ect, so she lost my respect and all credibility right from the start. The Bartholeoms Church tour was cheap ($10) and is worth going but the lady who hosts the tour (Hazel) seems to dramatise everything when nothing is actually happening. Another good tour is through lower Hobart. Although there wasnt much activity, the tour was very well run and gave a great history of the area. By far the worst tour I went on was the Port Arthur Tour. It was very rushed and we were made to feel very uncomfortable by the guide if we took photos. The guide also went out of his way to scare my fiance, after I had earlier explained to him is very sensitive to spiritual things when he picked her as a lamp bearer.He nearly had her in tears He also spoilt the tour by telling us at the end that he had never seen anything paranormal on a tour???? lol. Im really looking forward to the QS tour though and might even do the one at the Rocks soon too!
Title: Re: Blue Mountains - NSW - Ghost tour/Investigation
Post by: Salt Breeze on January 29, 2011, 11:33:56 AM
By far the worst tour I went on was the Port Arthur Tour. It was very rushed and we were made to feel very uncomfortable by the guide if we took photos.
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Wow, that's a shame.  Things must have gone downhill in the last ten years or so.  It used to be brilliant.  We walked all over the site for several hours, with supplied lanterns and torches.  We stayed at each part of the site until everyone was ready to leave, and our guide was actually offering to take photos of people together.  There was no rush at all, despite that we walked all over the place, from the old houses on the higher street, right down past the old church, and over to the penetentiary, and then up to the psychiatric wards on the hill. 

Maybe the almighty dollar is now influencing the tours - which is why they may be shorter in distance and time, and also why you may have been rushed if there are multiple tours going on.  When we were there, they had only one tour per night and it started around 9pm, because prior to that time, it was still too daylight for it to be fun... much more fun for ghost tours to be in the dark, obviously. 
Title: Re: Blue Mountains - NSW - Ghost tour/Investigation
Post by: Jugstar on January 29, 2011, 04:04:26 PM
Its run like a production line and a business now. You cant go too fast or you'll catch the group in front, and cant go too slow because the group behind will catch up. Its kinda "get em in, get em through, get em out" kinda thing....lol. The guides also dont seem to have a genuine interest in the paranormal which takes away from it. All the other tours ive been on, the guides seem to have a genuine interest in paranormal and that makes the tour more interesting for everyone.
Title: Re: Blue Mountains - NSW - Ghost tour/Investigation
Post by: Salt Breeze on January 29, 2011, 05:49:44 PM
Oh wow. That's horrible.  There was only one group each night, when we went.  So we had the whole of the site, to explore, in the dark, for several hours.  It was great. 
Title: Re: Blue Mountains - NSW - Ghost tour/Investigation
Post by: catseyes on January 29, 2011, 06:21:02 PM
I don't think I will bother with a tour then
Title: Re: Blue Mountains - NSW - Ghost tour/Investigation
Post by: Jugstar on January 29, 2011, 08:50:45 PM
I don't think I will bother with a tour then

It was last November (2010) when I did the tour. I dont mean to scare anyone off from the tour, it really does come down to personal experiance. Maybe I went on a bad night. There was dinner included with the tickets and that was sensational! I went back and did the day tour of PA the next day including Isle of the Dead and that was a great day out! I got to explore some of the areas we went to on the ghost tour but it just isn't the same during the day time. The goal there is one bloody spooky place! If anyone is planning on going to Tassie I can highly recommend the Battery Point(lower hobart) Ghost tour. Only around $20 a head and the people who run it are really friendly and have a genuine intrest in what they are doing. You can find that tour on face book under "Ghost Tours of Hobart and Battery Point".
Title: Re: Blue Mountains - NSW - Ghost tour/Investigation
Post by: Jugstar on January 29, 2011, 08:53:11 PM
That was meant to be gaol not goal.....lol
Title: Re: Blue Mountains - NSW - Ghost tour/Investigation
Post by: Salt Breeze on January 30, 2011, 07:46:27 AM
Don't you just love the Isle of the Dead?   The stories about it are a hoot too.  When I was there, a lady did the boat tour over there, and she was brilliant with her story telling.  It was also a really pretty island when we went there.  They'd just done some landscaping and planted lots of flowering vines which were in bloom.  The flowers took the edge of what would otherwise be a rather ugly and gloomy terrain. 

I'd go there just for that tour during the day.  I don't think I'd bother with a night tour that could end up being disappointing.  But actually, you can wander around all over the site in the day, and there's a lot of 'spooky' and fascinating places to see that way.  Over at the Commandante's Quarters they had a person on duty who gave what was basically a 'free' tour of the building, and that was intriguing. 

There's also another part you see on the way to the Isle of the Dead - Port or Point Puir (spelling?).   It was the boys prison on another island at PA.  Apparently it's very haunted, and so many odd things went on there that they decided not to have it open to the public anymore.  It looks like a spot that would be good for a Dracula movie set.   From memory, the boat sailed around it, on the way to Isle of the Dead. 
Title: Re: Blue Mountains - NSW - Ghost tour/Investigation
Post by: Salt Breeze on January 30, 2011, 07:50:09 AM
As I recall, we visited PA just over one year after the massacre.  I'd been to PA at various times, and had eaten at the Broad Arrow Cafe where all the people died.   It used to be the only place to eat, before they built the large building there.  Nice little cafe.  Just a shell is left now, with the bullet holes in the stone walls, in memory.   
Title: Re: Blue Mountains - NSW - Ghost tour/Investigation
Post by: lotsakids on January 30, 2011, 08:21:54 AM
Robi did the PA tour last year with his school..he was the last in line and got to hold the lantern..he said it was great, and very spooky..he felt like he needed to be watching behind him all the time...but thats the viewpoint of a 15 yr old..lol..

he wants to go back and do it again

I have a great book somewhere on the Isle of the dead, it documents all the remaining headstones and has stories of the people buried there..a father and son spent time there a few years ago, and documented everything, because the headstones were gradually disintegrating and they wanted to document what was left at the time;.
Title: Re: Blue Mountains - NSW - Ghost tour/Investigation
Post by: Salt Breeze on January 30, 2011, 09:50:45 AM
On the night tour we did, we were standing by a tower thingy which had a spiral stone staircase.  May have been part of the old church, I can't recall.  Several other folk and I heard distinct footsteps on the stone stairs in the tower, and we thought it was someone from the group who'd gone up there for a look.  As I recall, we weren't really supposed to go up there because of the danger of tripping etc. in the dark. 

Long story short (because I know there's a post somewhere else about this experience).....  We all stood around, thinking that one of the group was still up there, so there was no hurry to move on.  However, no one came down those stairs!!   No one had actually gone up there.  At the time, the tours there were not in the habit of 'creating' spooky rubbish (not sure what they do now), so it was not a set-up, and wasn't someone hiding up there to give us a fright.   

I share Robi's viewpoint about looking behind him.  It's a marvellously creepy place at night.  I can imagine a group of teenagers having a great time.  I was looking around all the time, not because I was scared, but because of the general 'feel' of the place, and I hoped to 'see' something. 

The Isle of the Dead has some wonderful old headstones.  Some of the graves are the 'above-ground' type.  Can't think what you call them -  Where the coffin is inside a concrete container, sitting on the ground.  Others are hidding down amongst the trees.  The did good stone work too, because most of the headstone inscriptions are quite clear. 

There's a marvellous story about a guard who was on duty on the island.  He regularly did overnight stays there.   They probably still relate this story on the tour.  Anyway... having no mobile phones or two-way radios, the idea was that if the guard had some kind of emergency, and needed someone to come to the island, he had to light a signal fire.   He did this one, night and when they found him he was a panicking wreck, and was babbling about having seen 'the devil himself' on the island that night.  He never resumed his island duties and never went back there. 
Title: Re: Blue Mountains - NSW - Ghost tour/Investigation
Post by: lotsakids on January 30, 2011, 09:54:03 AM
robi said that tower was part of the church and the stairs go up to the bell tower..and its blocked off so people cant get up there..
Title: Re: Blue Mountains - NSW - Ghost tour/Investigation
Post by: Salt Breeze on January 30, 2011, 10:00:30 AM
Yes, that would be it.  Probably a good thing that its blocked off now, because I think someone from the past is still wandering around up there.  Rofl.
Title: Re: Blue Mountains - NSW - Ghost tour/Investigation
Post by: Freckles on February 13, 2014, 04:31:20 PM
I took my eldest daughter on the BM ghost tour last weekend for her birthday.

Like most things the places you go to are dependent on the weather and this time bush fire damage (risk of falling trees) so we couldn't go to the pits/ wells.

Pete gave a lot of information and history but I'm more one who likes to just wander and feel out a place. We got the most activity at the last 2 places of the tour with footsteps at one and also male voices talking from upstairs in the last place which had a hidden room which was the only thing I found unsettling. Something bad had happened there, the vibes were so strong.

2 women ruined it for me as we had the least time at the last 2 stops and they both jumped and screamed when things started happening, turning on their torches and leaving the buildings.

A big question, why go on a ghost tour if you're scared of what you might encounter? I'd never go on a tour of tall buildings as I am scared of heights it just doesn't make sense.

We also protected ourselves before the tour then smudged ourselves afterwards not that we felt anything had attached.

I'd recommend the tour once daylight savings is over and having a closed group of people you know only on it. Also maybe talking to Pete beforehand about what you'd like most so time was given to where you wanted to work/ study most.
Title: Re: Blue Mountains - NSW - Ghost tour/Investigation
Post by: Christine on February 15, 2014, 12:29:51 AM
Good feedback, thanks.
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