Our small group set off on a lantern-lit ghost tour, walking across the paddock to the first crumbling ruins for our first ghostly tale in the most haunted place in Australia.
In case you are unaware of Port Arthur, this was the place where the criminals were placed during the colonisation of European settlement.
Although many think of it as a prison, it was more of a settlement, as prisoners were able to build a small community there, but many tragic and horrific things happened, and it was no place you would want to be today.
I regretted not putting my hand up when visitors were asked to be a lantern bearer, when the lead lantern bearer was sent to open cottage doors, warn the ghosts that we were coming and meant no harm, and be the first to enter the pitch dark, haunted buildings.
The first stop was the parsonage house, which is known to be in the top 5 haunted houses in Australia. It’s not a convict prison as you might expect, but a cute pumpkin cottage that belonged to the Reverend George Eastman.
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