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Eerie Tours is one of Australia’s most popular Ghost Tour providers and the first to win a Victorian Tourism Award.

Eerie Tours invites you to spend an evening exploring the dark and paranormal side of the City of Ballarat, a town steeped in early Australian history.

Set against the backdrop of Ballarat’s beautiful Gothic inspired architecture, Eerie Tours will provide you with a night of uncanny occurrence and tales of the birth of the Australian spirit, in more ways than one.

Eerie Tours currently offers two tours exploring the supernatural side of Australia’s most haunted city, hosted by a professional team of historians and storytellers.

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Eerie Tours is one of Australia’s most popular Ghost Tour providers and the first to win a Victorian Tourism Award.

Eerie Tours invites you to spend an evening exploring the dark and paranormal side of the City of Ballarat, a town steeped in early Australian history.

Set against the backdrop of Ballarat’s beautiful Gothic inspired architecture, Eerie Tours will provide you with a night of uncanny occurrence and tales of the birth of the Australian spirit, in more ways than one.

Eerie Tours currently offers two tours exploring the supernatural side of Australia’s most haunted city, hosted by a professional team of historians and storytellers.

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Explore Ballarat’s City of the Dead after dark in this creepy and entertaining tour conducted by Eerie Tours professional team of historians and storytellers. A world class cemetery.

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Explore Ballarat’s Haunted past in this entertaining walking tour hosted by Eerie Tours, a professional team of historians and storytellers. Ballarat’s original and best ghost tour.

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Spend an evening exploring the dark side of Australia's premier Gold Rush Cemetery.

Hear stories of death, disease, battles, and a range of fascinating and often disturbing stories from Australia's Gold Rush Era. A magnificent experience for everyone interested in history, cemeteries and mortality.

You will experience:

• Eureka soldiers and miners' graves
• A variety of denominational sections
• The Chinese Cemetery
• The Jewish Cemetery
• The mass grave of over 10,000 gold rush miners
• Lots of personal stories of the builders of Ballarat

Opened in 1856 Ballarat Old Cemetery presents fascinating and important stories from Australia's Gold Rush Era.

• 90-minute tour

Founded in the early 1800's, Ballarat has seen its share of tears and misery - from the hazards of the Gold Rush, the blood soaked Eureka Stockade, to the many souls who discovered mortality in the town's 150 year history.

Tours run Saturday nights. Tours begin at 8:00 pm EST or 9:00 pm during Daylight Savings.

Tour begins at the old cemetery gates, corner of Drummond and Macarthur, Ballarat.

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Not suitable for children under the age of 6.

We run the tour rain, hail or shine!

Ballarat can be cold. Please check the weather prior to the tour and dress appropriately.

Tours are an easy walk, with an emphasis on stories.

Unfortunately tours are not suitable for wheelchairs.

Very informative,your fantastic guide kept us enthralled waiting for the next story as we walked. We learnt a lot about the local history and people past. Would recommend this tour to anyone! Only thing I could add was time went too fast could have listened to stories for hours! Would love a series of walks to learn about all the other people and pasts there! Thanks for a great night 10/10

I was on holiday a couple of weeks ago and my granddaughter and I had a great night out and really enjoyed the tour of the old cemetery. Our guide Gwin? Was amazing at building up the atmosphere, from the time of her arrival till the end of the tour she maintained the tension necessary to ensure our interest. While it wasn't really spooky, Gwins delivery of the information meant we could fully visualise all the happennings described. I really recommend this night tour, my only suggestion would be to start a day tour, I'm sure heaps of people would be interested in the history of the cemetery without the ghosty bits. Kind regards Bridget Porter Auckland NZ

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If you would like to see the graves of Ballarat pioneers and hear interesting stories of the people who lived in the city built on gold you have two choices - Ballarat Old Cemetery with burials from 1858 and Ballarat New Cemetery which came into parallel use from 1867. The Society conducts group tours of both cemeteries at a cost of $10 per person. For information and bookings please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or phone the secretary 0467 241 352

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Ballarat has 2 Cemeteries known as the Old and New. The Old Cemetery is located on Creswick Road (Yellow Pin) and the New Cemetery is located on Norman Street (Red Pin)

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Ballarat Heritage Festival 2023: Ballarat New Cemetery tours, picnic day

RICH Autumnal colours in the gardens, bands playing, Cobb and Co horse carriage tours, coffee and a sausage sizzle are what Ballarat Cemeteries Trust hopes will help to demystify their major parkland.

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A picnic day at Ballarat New Cemetery, as part of Ballarat Heritage Festival, aims to bring more people into the grounds.

Ballarat Cemetries chief executive officer Annie De Jong said while the day is partly for history buffs, it is also about encouraging new visitors and to spark positive conversations and feeling about cemeteries.

Our cemetery holds such a rich history about the people in our community. It's about honouring the lives of those who have passed. - Annie De Jong, Ballarat Cemeteries chief executive

"Our cemetery holds such a rich history about the people in our community," Ms De Jong said. "It's about honouring the lives of those who have passed and enjoying this space."

Ballarat New Cemetery is almost 150 years old and is only 11 years younger than Ballarat Old Cemetery, which is located off Macarthur Street.

Ms De Jong said an "unusual at the time" feature of Ballarat New Cemetery is the Chinese burial section was developed near the front gates.

The city has a strong Chinese population on the goldfields that all-but-vanished with the introduction of the White Australia Policy in 1901.

A tour, as part of the picnic day, will highlight the unique designs of the Chinese section and how this reflects a Chinese religious view of death in contrast to the cemetery's dominant Christian perspective.

Ballarat China Community Committee's Jim Quinn and Dianne McGrath will lead the tour as a general introduction to the cemetery and its history and evolution.

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This will be one of four Heritage Festival tours in Ballarat New Cemetery. There will be a mini-bus tour of significant graves, such as Ballarat's King Billy, a Wadawurrung traditional elder, and a small walking tour with Eerie Tour's Nathanial Buchanan.

Tours will also take in the New Cemetery's feature burial sections, such as the Greek Orthodox, the Dreamtime ode to Indigenous Australians and the Birdsong Walk with its more native, bush-like burial areas.

The cemetery will also feature open sessions on the history of cremation, with Ballarat one of four regional crematoria in the state, along with Bendigo, Geelong and Traralgon.

"This will help to demystify cremation," Ms De Jong said.

"There are lots of myths about cremation, such as people asking do we cremate more than one person at a time.

"We want to show the care for loved ones and a lot of people are really interested in it."

Cremations are increasingly becoming a popular option for farewelling loved ones with about 60 per cent of the state's deaths in the past three months leading to cremation, figures from Birth, Deaths and Marriages Victoria show.

Picnic Day at Ballarat New Cemetery is on Sunday from 9am to 3.30pm.

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The tour begins inside the main gate of the New Cemetery and proceeds to the Chinese section. The tour takes approximately one and half hours. It is advised to wear suitable walking footwear. Tour members are expected to be respectful of the Cemetery.

The tours depart 10.30am and again at 2.30pm.

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Honouring the life of a family member and establishing a lasting legacy is a significant decision.

We provide professional and sensitive guidance to you when choosing the appropriate setting for your loved one. Available are a variety of beautiful peaceful settings where their memory will be sustained for generations to come. All burials are in perpetuity.

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Hear Haunted Ghost Stories at the Ararat Lunatic Asylum

Explore exclusive parts of Australia’s largest abandoned lunatic asylum not available on any other tour. This is the most in-depth way to understand the history of Aradale and its haunted past.

Over almost 130 years, the lunatic asylum housed thousands of patients ranging from the criminally insane to those who suffered from mental illness and other conditions. Aradale Mental Hospital saw many deaths in its walls, and after an Ararat ghost tour, you’ll see that some of these patients never really escaped their imprisonment in these hallowed walls.

Aradale Ghost Tour is one of the creepiest ghost tours in Australia. Prepare to be haunted by stories of bizarre history, brutal treatments, amazing personal stories, and of course, lots of ghost stories detailing some of the most infamous people to walk these halls. The ghost tour travels through the administration building, chapel, kitchen, infirmaries, surgery theaters, morgue and the most intact cell blocks in Australia. Feel like you’ve stepped back in time as you walk through this incredible building. Reported ghost encounters include tickling, strange smells, banging sounds, shadows, and other spooky sensations. Come experience it for yourself.

Tours are limited to 30 people and are led by a team of professional theatrical historians who will help set the stage for this ghostly experience.

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Cant get enough of Aradale? Want to see more? Our extended tour is the best way to learn about the haunted history of Aradale Asylum. This tour travels through parts of the asylum unseen on any other tour, at a relaxed pace, with lots of haunting history and even more ghost stories.

Gain a deeper understanding of the miseries of Aradale, and how it fitted into the larger picture of Victorian lunacy as your guide regales you with horrible treatments, and accounts of paranormal occurrences both heard and personally experienced.

Children must be supervised by an adult at all times.

Book your Aradale ghost tour online…if you dare!

Meet at Ararat Lunatic Asylum 15 minutes prior to departure.

Ararat Lunatic Asylum, Heath St, Ararat, Victoria 3377, Australia

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Tickets are non-refundable.

Tickets can only be transferred to another date, name or different product of the same value if rebooked 24 hours prior to booking start time.

No intoxicated people will be admitted. No drinking is permitted on tour. Guide instruction must be followed at all times.

Breaking these terms can result in refusal or removal from tours without refund.

Customers will not hold Eerie Tours liable for any injury or loss of property.

In the event of a coronavirus outbreak, incident or illness, credit notes will be provided.

Total fire ban cancellations – Should a fire danger rating of extreme or catastrophic occur on the day of a scheduled tour, we will issue you with a credit note. Aradale Asylum and Melbourne’s Quarantine Station will close on such days, as per State Government Legislation.

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