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Archive: 9 November 2008
Boggo Road Ghosts
For over a hundred years Boggo Road Gaol was home to some of Australia’s most notorious criminals. The prison was shut down in 1992, and the guards and inmates were moved. But many believe that the ghosts of prisoners, and even a guard, haunt the disused gaol to this very day.
One ghost story tells the tale of the only guard ever murdered on duty in a Queensland prison. He was hit on the back of the head with an iron bar by a disgruntled prisoner. For years afterwards officers on duty claimed to see a faceless ghost dressed in a guard’s uniform. He would salute, and the officers would salute back…but then the ghostly apparition would slip away…
The most enduring and most chilling ghost story from Boggo Road is of the last man hanged in the prison. He was a 26 year old farm hand who murdered a young girl. He was hanged in 1913, and prisoners told of how he laughed as he took his last breaths. Following his hanging, prisoners reported seeing the man materialize in the night, walking near the cells, and knocking on their doors three times. He would then enter the cell and strangle the inmate inside.
These stories, and many more can be read in Jack Sim’s new book “the Ghosts of Boggo Road’. All the information about the book and ghost tours can be found on his website.
Contact:
“The Ghosts of Boggo Road’
Jack Sim
3344 7265
www.ghost-tours.com.au
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