Just over an hour outside of Sydney, Picton is a small town known for alcoholism, suicide and tragedy.
Spent about two and a half hours traipsing through the town visiting cemeteries (2), the "mushroom tunnel" and various homes and businesses around town hearing stories of weird and unexplained happenings while getting a little local history.
Orbs: disputed that they are just "dust" particles however not everyone gets them in their photos and how do you explain the various colors? Couple of us purposely took photos of the same things at the same time and did not end up with the same results!
Mist: told by our guide this was spirit energy. Whatever it is, scared the crap out me after I took them!
Few memorable stories:
- Apartment above an old hardware store that was owned by an immigrant couple cannot be rented to men. Apparently the immigrant husband died unexpectedly and the wife grew to have a hatred of men. To date, every time the apartment is rented to men, there have been happenings of flying saucepans and one man even coming home to find all of his knives laid out on the table and no one had entered the apartment.
- At the library, previous worker known to haunt the building still. He liked to pull the book spines to the front of the shelves for display. Now that he has passed, the books are pushed all the way to the back of the shelves. On numerous occasions, librarians will come in to find sections of booked pulled toward the front of the shelves.
- Antique store with various hauntings. Interesting one is that one summer night, with no wind, just still air, tour guide giving her schpeal on the steps up to the store and all of a sudden the doors began to rattle behind her! Freaked not only her out but the tour as well!
- Mushroom Tunnel is an abandoned tunnel just under 1300 feet long. We all get to walk just inside the tunnel. Told to line up so can see and have to turn off all light sources (flashlights, cameras, cell phones). After few moments, white light appears to flicker in the background. Slowly makes it way forward, coming about half way up the tunnel and appears to be taking a shape. Stays there for a little while and eventually makes its way to the back of the tunnel. Imagine standing in pitch blackness for good 10-15 mins seeing this light coming at you! Other stories told was that light has come within meters of the group. People have been known to have "felt" things brush by them. One paranormal actually had a "freak out" saying he was possessed. That's the most extreme story we heard all night. The tunnel is off limits to the public ($350 fine if caught there) and is about a five minute walk through the woods on a dirt access path to reach.
The ghost tours were started by a woman Liz who was a historian and as she began talking with townspeople all these stories came forward. Eventually, she started this tour and as the popularity grew, she trained staff that still runs them today. Liz passed away in 2009 and is known to "return" to Picton as well.
Few images to ponder below.
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