Came across a newspaper article in 2006 about a book written by Tim The Yowie Man, titled 'Haunted and Mysterious Australia' who claimed that Canberra was the most haunted place in Australia.
Interested, I read further.
The most famous ghost of Canberra is that of the ex Prime Minister Ben Chifley-who chose to live at the Hotel Kurrajong in Barton instead of living at The Lodge, because he wanted to be known as a working-class man.
He suffered a fatal heart attack one night at the hotel and since then, many people have witnessed the ghost of a grey suited man pointing in the direction of the Old Parliament House (pictured left). The book claims the Old Parliment house as one of Canberra's most haunted places, with people often seeing spirits walking in the courtyards and windows mysteriously opening and closing by themselves.Security guards on the 'graveyard' shift have had their walkie talkie's ripped off their belts and thrown across the room. Needless to say, many guards have requested a transfer over the years!
During the celebrations of the opening of Old Parliment House in May 1927, a aviator's plane crashed on the site of what today is now the National Library. Many have reportedly seen the ghost of the aviator in the basement of the library.
However, perhaps the most fiendish of all Canberra's ghosts, though, comes from the National Film and Sound Archive, which is built on the site of the former National Institute of Anatomy.
It has been reported that many people who visit the basement area, have been pinned up against the wall by an unknown force!!
Excited-you bet I am!!
No prizes for guessing where we may take a trip to next weekend!
