This site of interest is a mere 10 minute drive from where I live. It's a large house known as "Glengallan Homestead", built in the 1860's and once the centre of a large, wealthy estate.
It sits between the towns of Allora and Warwick, in Queenslands historic Darling Downs region.
Glengallen was never completed. The founder of the estate died bankrupt and broken and the full potential of Glengallen was never realised. After passing from owner to another it was soon abandoned and left to become a ruin. For 70 years it rotted away into a further state of disrepair until eventually it was saved and bit by bit is being restored to it's former glory by a group of dedicated volunteers.
The house is open for visits and many people have reported eerie feelings when inside the house as well as the feeling of just needing to "get out". One day I hope to conduct a proper investigation on the house and outside areas - the place where the servants quarters burned down, and the still standing woolshed but most of all the site where the "ghost gate" once stood.
The nearby Gate that allowed passage to travellers and visitors to the homestead in it's day was seemingly plagued with ghost stories from the start.
Tales of the gate mysteriously opening and closing for people passing through as well as the presence of a white owl upon the gate baffled all those who witnessed it first hand or even heard ot it .
A stockman quoted he was "off the grog" for weeks after an unknown apparition opened and shut the gate for him one night as he galloped through.
Another man by the name of Edward Sparksman had been playing fiddle for a dance held in the Glengallan woolshed one night when on his way home experienced the same peculiar happenings.
Some "victims" noted a white owl perched upon the gate and said that when it flew away the gate would open. The force of an owl taking off would not be enough to open a heavy gate like this one. and still leaves the silent shutting of the gate once the passer by was through unexplained. The owl must have had some connection to the gate or the spirit no doubt, but it is unlikely it was the cause of the opening or shutting.
It seems a goodwilled (or even cheeky perhaps?) spirit occupied the gate and I imagine must have enjoyed the reactions of his (or her) efforts.
Today the gate is gone, but the site is marked by a monumental white owl and a signpost on the backtrack reads "Ghost Gate Road". Could the helpful spirit still linger down Ghost Gate Road, waiting for travellers to pass by? That's something that I would love to find out.
It sits between the towns of Allora and Warwick, in Queenslands historic Darling Downs region.
Glengallen was never completed. The founder of the estate died bankrupt and broken and the full potential of Glengallen was never realised. After passing from owner to another it was soon abandoned and left to become a ruin. For 70 years it rotted away into a further state of disrepair until eventually it was saved and bit by bit is being restored to it's former glory by a group of dedicated volunteers.
The house is open for visits and many people have reported eerie feelings when inside the house as well as the feeling of just needing to "get out". One day I hope to conduct a proper investigation on the house and outside areas - the place where the servants quarters burned down, and the still standing woolshed but most of all the site where the "ghost gate" once stood.
The nearby Gate that allowed passage to travellers and visitors to the homestead in it's day was seemingly plagued with ghost stories from the start.
Tales of the gate mysteriously opening and closing for people passing through as well as the presence of a white owl upon the gate baffled all those who witnessed it first hand or even heard ot it .
A stockman quoted he was "off the grog" for weeks after an unknown apparition opened and shut the gate for him one night as he galloped through.
Another man by the name of Edward Sparksman had been playing fiddle for a dance held in the Glengallan woolshed one night when on his way home experienced the same peculiar happenings.
Some "victims" noted a white owl perched upon the gate and said that when it flew away the gate would open. The force of an owl taking off would not be enough to open a heavy gate like this one. and still leaves the silent shutting of the gate once the passer by was through unexplained. The owl must have had some connection to the gate or the spirit no doubt, but it is unlikely it was the cause of the opening or shutting.
It seems a goodwilled (or even cheeky perhaps?) spirit occupied the gate and I imagine must have enjoyed the reactions of his (or her) efforts.
Today the gate is gone, but the site is marked by a monumental white owl and a signpost on the backtrack reads "Ghost Gate Road". Could the helpful spirit still linger down Ghost Gate Road, waiting for travellers to pass by? That's something that I would love to find out.
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ReplyDeleteI have been to Glengallan on a photography shoot with my mum. Usually I'd have my audio recorder with me, but this time all I had was my iPhone. Got a crystal clear EVP of a woman approx 7mins into recording. I told whichever spirits that they could "talk into the recorder and I'd be able to hear them..." not 5 secs later you hear this woman's voice saying "hi." There WERE other people in the homestead at the time, but none near where I was and everyone was quiet. :) This EVP was captured in the nursery. I hope to go back soon and actually be prepared to do more EVP :)
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ReplyDeleteWe've just left the homestead. As we walked up the stairs, we wrapped around amd had a look at the rifle then walked into the room on the left and as we entered Rachael felt the urge to not enter the nursery but i stayed on the door as i was convinced to not enter by a feeling. As i looked at Rachael, we both felt an urge to leave immediately and left onto the verandah. We then walked abruptly down the stairs and out the back feeling very nauseous.
When I was a very little child I use to see a lady dressed in white standing on that very verandah. I would tell my mum but she thought I was always seeing things. I would see this lady nearly everytime we went past
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