One tour experienced a loud humming noise, a "humming" or "buzzing" noise is quite often associated with paranormal events. The air was thick and heavy with the noise but nothing could be seen to be causing such a disturbance. Tour members shone their torches around and the guide looked about but nothing was found. The two guides later that night both experienced difficulties with their cars whilst trying to leave the station to go home.
Another tour group who were overly skeptical saw a white 2D image whilst looking out at the view over Manly, it appeared to be a white shimmering shadow down the hill from them. It then started to move up the hill towards the group but stopped when it was approx. 20 meters away from them. The group shone torches at the apparition and went to move forward to investigate further but the apparition vanished into thin air.
A staff member who used to reside in the Isolation Wards often reported of a white figure walking past her window along the verandah. She would play her flute outside at night and always spy a man in an old fashioned sailor's uniform out of the corner of her eye. If she turned her head to look at him directly he would dissappear.
A caretaker would often complain of the lights in one of the offices switching on and off with no one else there but himself. He would quite often call upon someone else to go inside the office with him as he felt there was "someone after him". The lighting in the office was rewired due to his complaints but the strange occurances of the lights turning on and off still happened.
From the wharves ghostly noises of people disenbarking from ships can quite often be heard. The Wharf has mysteriously been burnt down 3 times.
A ghostly man of Asian appearance complete with the long plait down his back appears quite regularly in the Asiatic quarters.
In 1992 a television crew were filming for a children's program. Being a very wet and windy night no one else was around. Filming in a cemetery the Production Manager was watching the filming when she turned around to look behind her at the expanse of the cemetery. There were three figures standing above the cemetery on the hill a man, a woman and a child, all were wearing plain clothes similar to collared nightshirts. She returned the wave that they gave her and looked away for a second, when she looked back they had disappeared into thin air.
Locked doors quite often cannot be unlocked or opened. When tried again by another person the doors open with ease. Lights are seen in some of the buildings that contain no electricity and have no one in them. Floating white figures are spotted around the verandas and compound.
A staff member who was living in the Quarantine Station compounds went out onto the rocky ledge overlooking the sea one night, she felt an unseen force attempting to push her over the cliff and end her life. She managed to break free and apparently ran straight out of the Station, not even returning to collect her things. Relatives had to collect everything of hers.
Both tourists and staff members have reported of witnessing smoky or white apparitions floating across the front of their cars at night when driving home down the long dark road that leads out of the Station.
[AGHS - The Australian Ghost Hunters Society]
The Diseases
A small ghost child (who is a common resident ghost) with thick plaits is a common resident ghost. It is not uncommon for her to join a tour or grab someones hand or tug at their sleeve. One psychic who had never heard the stories of the young girl commented on seeing a girl passing though the tour group looking up into the faces of all the women, searching for someone.
A worker wrote a testimonial that as he was leaving one of the buildings in his car at sunset a face suddenly appeared out of nowhere in front of his windscreen. He said that he "immediately tried to rationalize the situation" but gave in to the fact that it was simply one of the ghosts.
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The most spookiest part of the tour - The Shower Block
The Mortuary, where the ghosts never leave or rest
More information on the Hospital Wards/Wing
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