Black Rock House Paranormal Tours

18/07/2025

1 more week until our first Friday 2-hour paranormal investigation! The night is SOLD OUT, but if you prefer Fridays to our usual Saturdays, we have some tickets left for our November investigation (also on a Friday).

www.trybooking.com/CEJOA

17/07/2025

Lots of issues have been selling out! If you want to grab a copy, head to: https://shop.llifs.com.au/10-magazines

We will post it to you anywhere in Australia!

Limited copies available on select tours. If there is a specific issue you are planning to purchase at a tour, let us know so we can make sure we have it.

While we await the next issue of Haunted Magazine, now is the perfect time to catch up on the spooky goodness you might have missed! With stories from investigators, historians, and haunted minds (like mine!), Haunted Magazine is packed with ghostly tales, thought-provoking articles, and paranormal fun.

Grab a copy (or five), revisit your favourite articles, and embrace the spooky. Purchasing through me also supports LLIFS!
Head to: https://shop.llifs.com.au/10-magazines

* UPDATE: Issue 43 has now SOLD OUT. Only 1 copy left of Issues 27, 37 & 39. Once gone they will not be restocked.

* Australian Postal Addresses Only, AfterPay and PayPal available at checkout. Once issues sell out they won't be restocked. If an issue is missing, it means it is Sold Out.

(Haunted 47 should be out Early September with pre orders opening toward the end of August)

For all other countries, visit hauntedmag.com

16/07/2025

Investigate Black Rock House with us! https://www.trybooking.com/CEJOA

15/07/2025

The history of Black Rock House is a fascinating story from its builder to past owners to visitors.
Next year we celebrate 170 years of historic Black Rock House being built with the suburb named after the house.
The ‘Friends’ group would like to ask the greater community for assistance in sharing their story and/or any photos that we could include in our exciting book we’re working on.
How fortunate we are as a community to have this little piece of history still standing.
Please email [email protected] if you’d like to share anything with us.
We know there’s many families in the area with a connection to Black Rock House.
*Picture of BRH as a boarding house.

The history of Black Rock House is a fascinating story from its builder to past owners to visitors.

Next year we celebrate 170 years of historic Black Rock House being built with the suburb named after the house.

The ‘Friends’ group would like to ask the greater community for assistance in sharing their story and/or any photos that we could include in our exciting book we’re working on.

How fortunate we are as a community to have this little piece of history still standing.

Please email [email protected] if you’d like to share anything with us.
We know there’s many families in the area with a connection to Black Rock House.

*Picture of BRH as a boarding house.

15/07/2025

For a long time we have tried to validate any sort of known deaths connected to Black Rock House. With the amount of people that lived at Black Rock House when it was used as a boarding house, it would be likely. What we do know is there is at least one confirmed birth at the property, but again given the times there were likely a lot more.

A newspaper article published on the 16th of July 1927 talks about 2 possible deaths connected to the property - although didn't take place at the property itself. It also mentions the verified birth.

"The record of the house has been faithfully kept by more than one person still living, including Mrs. H. Edgar Glennie, of Toorak, niece of the builder, Charles Ebden, and Miss Eillie Cullinane, of Black Rock, who was the first baby born under its roof, which, as far as I can make out, has known only two deaths in its whole history. One of these touched the edge of tragedy, but that had nothing to do with the builders, or with any family concerned. It was just the wreckage of one of those ships that pass in the night."

The old house has known many merry meetings. There they entertained the officers of the Fortieth Regiment before they left to take part in the battles of the Indian Mutiny, and there, to bid a last good-bye to his friends came the gentle William John Wills, the explorer, before he went to die under a tree at Cooper's Creek. If the ghosts of the old days ever revisit the glimpses of the moon there may be interesting shades in the deep night shadows of the spreading Moreton Bay figs of Black Rock House."

Full article available on Trove: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3867174?searchTerm=black%20rock%20house&searchLimits=

Image: William John Wills Image Source: portrait.gov.au

14/07/2025

Famous Faces of Black Rock House: Tom Horan
Thomas Patrick Horan was a famous cricket player who represented both Victoria and Australia. He was born in 1854 in the town of Midleton near the Irish city of Cork. He immigrated to Australia with his parents when he was a young child. His father James Horan was a carpenter. Not just any carpenter. The carpenter who was entrusted with building Black Rock House. While Tom was only a young child when his father worked on Black Rock House, he likely lived on the site while construction was taking place (as most families did). Tom went onto become one of Australia's most famous Cricket players from that era.

12/07/2025

Tour guides Ragnarr and Laila set up helping out at the Seer And Sorceress stall at the 7th Cheltenham community market. Come on down say hello and grab yourself some amazing items.

11/07/2025

While Black Rock House was built for Mr Charles Ebden, he didn't spend a huge amount of time at the property. While it stayed in the family for many years, it went through several owners. One of these owners were the Stubbs who acquired Black Rock House around 1919/1920 where it was used as a guesthouse/boarding house.

"About eight years ago the property was acquired by Mr. G. Stubbs, of Riversdale-road, Hawthorn. and has since been used as a holiday guest house. The spacious grounds have been subdivided, and modern dwellings now stand on the allotments. Some of the original pear trees in the orchard still stand, although the vinery and fine garden have disappeared. The large cellar also remains in tact, but there is no evidence of the subterranean passage which was said to have run from it to the beach about 150 yards away. Most of the legends associated with it are also said to have no truthful foundation."

Wednesday 6th July 1927 Daily Telegraph

10/07/2025

These might not last till our next tour so if you are after a copy of one of these issues of Haunted Magazine, get in quick! We will post anywhere in Australia (price already includes postage with some issues priced to clear)

https://shop.llifs.com.au/10-magazines

07/07/2025

Our Friday Night Investigations sold out so quickly, so we added one more for November! Tickets available here: https://www.trybooking.com/CEJOA

06/07/2025

The night a bushranger visited Black Rock House!

One story published in a local newspaper on the 19th of September 1931 spoke of a close call with a local bushranger who had escaped from gaol!

"a bushranger once made an unofficial call. He had escaped from gaol shortly before, and he was desperate. Mr.O'Neil, Mr.Ebden's steward, was in charge of the house at the time with his daughter. It was a stormy night, and, according to the custom at the homestead, the stranger was given shelter. Miss O'Neil saw the man gripping the butt of a huge pistol in his coat pocket, and she warned her father by speaking to him in Irish. Mr. O'Neil, who was a former revenue officer from Cork harbour and had protected his life and property on the goldfields during a "rush," took no chances. He drew his own pistol and compelled the bushranger to leave the house. The outlaw did not return.

Full article available on Trove https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/4412315?searchTerm=black%20rock%20house%20cellar&searchLimits=

04/07/2025