Ghost stories persist throughout any society and all cultures, so it’s not a surprise that there are just as many ghosts reported in Sydney, Australia, than anywhere else.  And perhaps it’s also not a surprise that Sydney has its share of ghost tours, although unlike two hundred years ago, the tales told now are told largely to entertain and give us a healthy scare, as opposed to those who truly believed and feared the stories they heard.
If you’ve checked into one of the Sydney five star hotels, and you wish to check out the paranormal experience others have had, you might do well to look up one of these tours and go for a few hours walk through the city.  Sydney has been around since 1788, and during the Edwardian and Victorian periods, both ages saw an increase in spiritual and supernatural interest.  Seances were the order of the day as people wanted to contact their loved ones in the afterlife.  Especially in the first twenty-five years of the 20th Century, Sydney saw an upswing in the numbers of the Liberal Catholic Church (unrelated to the Roman Catholic Church), and the Theosophical Society, both with a real interest in astral travel and séances, and so on.  All of this is to say that Sydney and Australia has its share of ghost sightings as much as any place.  Most of these sightings are simply lights, others are full apparitions.  Here is just a sampling of the stories:
Quinn’s Light.  A yellowish light shaped like an eagle, named after the man who saw it first, John Quinn, appears near the Go Go Ranges in the Daudaman Valley.  Pollman.  A ghostly wagon may be heard regularly, supposed to belong to a man named Pollman, who hid a large sum of money and then was murdered by his brothers.  The sounds may be heard at the Murdering Sandhills near Narandera,NSW.  The Black Horse of Sutton’s Forest.  A riderless horse is sometimes seen in Sutton’s Forest, with claims that the horse passes right through houses.  Elizabeth Farm ghost.  An apparition of an old woman walks from room to room.
Of course, not all sightings are ghosts.  There’s the story of The Ghost of Dog Trap Road, Parramatta.  The ghost in this case was a hoax perpetrated by mischief makers, who were regulars at Stoners Vauxhill Inn in the 1870s.  They would go out after sundown and one of them would wear a white sheet, and makes certain he was seen.  The ghost-makers were caught and were given a horse whipping for their efforts.

Apparitions in Sydney is a post from: Five DC

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