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J Ward Lunatic Asylum Ghost Tour
Highlights
- Explore the eerie cells of J Ward Lunatic Asylum and uncover chilling tales of the criminally insane.
- Walk the haunted grounds where infamous characters and tragic stories linger, enriching your understanding of history.
- Experience a two-hour guided tour led by local experts, revealing the asylum's dark secrets and ghostly encounters.
- Enjoy family-friendly facilities including carpark access and public toilets, ensuring a comfortable visit for all ages.
Be committed for an evening. Enter the cells of the criminally insane if you dare, with Lantern Ghost Tours. Walk in the footsteps of self mutilators, men with superhuman powers and infamous characters linked to the Queen.
Learn of governors who have murdered inmates, prisoners buried in the grounds and the many souls trapped within these walls. Includes entrance, museum access, two hour ghost tour by professional, local tour guide.
Children must be 12 years old or older to attend tour.
Lantern Ghost Tours is a multi-award winning ghost tour company taking you to Victoria’s most haunted properties, contact them for more details.
Itinerary highlights
J Ward Lunatic Asylum
Learn of governors who have murdered inmates, prisoners buried in the grounds and the many souls trapped within these walls. Includes entrance, museum access, two hour ghost tour by professional, local tour guide.
Tour details
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Single Available from 27 January 2018
Features
Service facilities
Actively welcomes people with access needs.
Physical – Mobility
Caters for people with sufficient mobility to climb a few steps but who would benefit from fixtures to aid balance. (This includes people using walking frames and mobility aids)
Operation information
Lantern Ghost Tours
Discover the darker side of Victoria’s most historic properties with the award-winning Lantern Ghost Tours.
Be incarcerated in a Lunatic Asylum, visit an abandoned morgue or be a ghost hunter for the night. Lantern Ghost Tours runs multi-award-winning tours of Australia’s most haunted properties.
Lantern Ghost Tours offers a range of tours, including J Ward Lunatic Asylum (Ararat), Altona Homestead (Altona), Ghosts of the Old City (Williamstown), Old Melbourne Ghost Tour (Melbourne) and Eynesbury Homestead Dinner and Ghost Tour and Melbourne Spirits and Ales Haunted Pub Tour.
Please view the website for full tour details.
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