DESCRIPTION
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Queen Victoria Market, Victoria Street Corner of Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3000 Australia
Our tour host will meet you at these world famous and old markets to begin your journey into Melbourne’s dark past, starting with her first cemetery.
Later, we stop at our first bar for a drink, but before that we learn more about Melbourne’s obsession with ghosts and the macabre.
Duration: 40 minutes
Stop At: The Oxford Scholar, 427 Swanston St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
Stopping outside one of Melbourne’s original gold rush pubs, we find out more about the history of morgues in Melbourne
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Old Melbourne Gaol, 377 Russell St, Melbourne, Victoria 3000 Australia
Learn about this Gaol gruesome role in executing more than 135 men and women, the most haunted part of the Gaol, and its most famous resident! We also talk about the first men hanged in Melbourne.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Chinatown Melbourne, Little Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
Enter the world’s oldest continuous Chinatown and discovery the scourge of crime, prostitution and opium that once plagued this area.
Later we’ll stop for a drink at one of the area’s hidden laneway bars.
Duration: 40 minutes
Stop At: Southern Cross Lane, Southern Cross Ln, Melbourne VIC 3004, Australia
Step back in time to Melbourne’s first marketplace – part farmers market, part freak show carnival – as we learn about the famous murder that took place here.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Pink Alley, Melbourne VIC 3004, Australia
Home to the ghost of a young lady, brutally murdered and with her killer still unknown!
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: The Capitol, 113 Swanston St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
Once home to the hottest bar during WW2, we also learn about the serial killer who terrorised Melbourne during the wartime period.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: 277-279 Flinders Lane., 277-279 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria 3000 Australia
Home to some of Melbourne’s best bars and restaurants, you might also find a scary tale or two here. We finish our tour with a drink at one of the area’s best cocktail bars.
Duration: 40 minutes
Stop At: Hosier Lane, Melbourne, Victoria 3000 Australia
Melbourne’s most famous graffiti laneway also has a dark past, and a ghost many believe may have been the most famous slasher of them all.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Fed Square, Corner Swanston and Flinders Streets, Melbourne, Victoria 3000 Australia
Once home to our first morgue, Federation Square has its fair share of dark secrets, including prostitute ghosts, dead fisherman and bodies in boxes!
Duration: 5 minutes
