Fremantle Prison
I'm a skeptic. Always will be. Never seen a ghost and I've read some interesting things about electro-magnetic fields and sleep paralysis that would probably spring to mind if someone mentioned them to me. Nevertheless...

Whilst travelling in Australia a few years back, we found ourselves in the Perth/Fremantle area for a week or so and duly elected to visit the (now closed) prison. And of course being the uber-hard, scared-of-nothing 19 year olds we were, we went on the night tour.

I'll admit I jumped a bit when a 'prisoner' suddenly jumped out of one of the cells. Being in the solitary cell with all the lights off in pitch darkness was pretty spooky.

But nothing could compare with the atmosphere inside the old gallows room. I didn't see anything; didn't feel 'cold' etc. Just the sheer dread of *knowing* that people had been killed in that room. I've never experienced anything like it before or since and don't really wish to again to be honest.

No apologies for length; apparently if you get it wrong the head can just fly off...
(beanojam isn't really Ricardo Flange, Mon 7 Jul 2008, 21:18, Reply)