Port Fairy Ghost Stories

25/05/2026

GUIDED TOWN WALK GHOST TOUR
In association with the Port Fairy Winter Weekends Festival

Saturday and Sunday
6 and 7 June 2026
4-5.30 pm
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL - FROM THE WEBSITE ONLY
https://portfairyghoststories.com/.../guided-town-walk.../

$15 per person
Maximum of 20 people per session.
Meet at Railway Place, beside the Port Fairy Visitor Information Centre.
Parental supervision recommended for children under 15 years.

Visit the captivating places where Port Fairy’s chilling, thrilling ghost stories actually happened. Port Fairy Ghost Stories Inc. is a not-for-profit association and our activities are based on our popular book. Check out the second edition NOW.

04/01/2026

GUIDED TOWN WALK GHOST TOUR
In association with Port Fairy Tourism

Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday
27 December 2025 - 25 January 2026
4-5.30 pm

BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL - FROM THE WEBSITE ONLY
https://portfairyghoststories.com/.../guided-town-walk.../
$15 per person

Meet at Railway Place, beside the Port Fairy Visitor Information Centre.
Maximum of 20 people per session.
Parental supervision recommended for children under 15 years.

Visit the captivating places where Port Fairy’s chilling, thrilling ghost stories actually happened. Port Fairy Ghost Stories Inc. is a not-for-profit association and our activities are based on our popular book. Check out the second edition NOW.

28/10/2025

HAPPY HALLOWEEN from the most haunted small town in Australia.

Check out our book of chilling, thrilling ghost stories in the SHOP page on our website: https://portfairyghoststories.com/

Second edition available now. See our SHOP page for further details. “Stop!” thundered the client at the barber who was cutting his hair. Then he continued, in somewhat milder tones: “Why do you insist upon telling me these horrible, blood-curdling stories of ghosts and robbers

13/08/2025

Check out the online story on TROVE about the digitisation of early Port Fairy newspapers.

Trove often receives requests to digitise material from Trove Partner organisations who wish to digitise parts of their own collection. We also receive requests from organisations who are not Trove Partners but have an interest in digitising parts of Trove Partner collections to make them accessible...

26/07/2025

13/06/2025

WELCOME to the Port Fairy Ghost Stories Project’s latest Friday 13th promotion.

To win a $50 voucher at the Victoria Hotel in Port Fairy, send your answers to the questions below to [email protected].

Emails are timestamped and the voucher will go to the first correct submission.

You will need a copy of the second edition of our book to answer the following three questions:
1. What was the name of Port Fairy’s ghost ship?
2. In which year was the ship wrecked?
3. Where was the location of the wreck?

Good luck!

Second edition available now from our ghost friendly outlets and this website. See our SHOP page for further details. “Stop!” thundered the client at the barber who was cutting his hair. Then he continued, in somewhat milder tones: “Why do you insist upon telling me these

07/05/2025

The digitisation of early Port Fairy (Belfast) newspaper project is complete!! Check out the blog in the link for background information on the project and the early newspaper titles now available for searching on TROVE.

You can also check out the ghost stories and jokes we've been able to unearth from the early newspapers on our NOTICEBOARD page. Enjoy!

by Tracie Griffith The project to digitise early Port Fairy (Belfast) newspapers started with a chance conversation between myself and Claudia Matthews, Port Fairy’s head librarian. We were discussing how the library no longer had a reader to view the old newspaper microfilm

30/04/2025

Port Fairy Winter Weekends Festival 2025
Guided town walk ghost tour

Saturday 7th June 4-5.30 pm
Sunday 8th June 4-5.30 pm

$15 per person
Meet at Railway Place, beside the Port Fairy Visitor Information Centre.
Maximum of 20 people per session.
Parental supervision recommended for children under 15 years.

Purchase tickets at https://portfairyghoststories.com/shop/guided-town-walk-ghost-tours/

Visit the captivating places where Port Fairy’s chilling, thrilling ghost stories actually happened. Port Fairy Ghost Stories Inc. is a not-for-profit association and our activities are based on our popular book. Check out the second edition NOW.

Image courtesy of Vecteezy.com.

Second edition available now from our ghost friendly outlets and this website. See our SHOP page for further details. “Stop!” thundered the client at the barber who was cutting his hair. Then he continued, in somewhat milder tones: “Why do you insist upon telling me these

20/01/2025

CHECK OUT our audio ghost tours available now!

A FREE tour is available at https://portfairyghoststories.com/ghost-tours/ that features locations on the perimeter of town. We suggest you start there.

Then, if you're interested in finding out more, you can purchase a paid TOWN WALK tour - only $20 for 24 hours. Click the link on the GHOST TOURS page or you can access it via our SHOP page at https://portfairyghoststories.com/shop/audio-town-walk-ghost-tour/

We suggest you get together with family and friends to listen to our chilling, thrilling tales and venture out during the day to see the locations.

Many of the locations are businesses that provide food, beverages and entertainment, so you can enjoy Port Fairy's famous hospitality while you immerse yourself in our ghostly folklore.

And if you have a ghostly experience of your own while staying in Port Fairy, of course we would love to hear about it!

30/12/2024

HAPPY NEW YEAR from the Port Fairy Ghost Stories Project!

To welcome 2025, we are releasing a new audio ghost tour on our website. It is a TOWN WALK that includes many of the locations that feature in Port Fairy’s famous ghost stories.

The tour costs $20 for 24 hours of access and is available from our SHOP page. We suggest you gather with family and friends to listen to these accounts of our chilling, thrilling tales, and check out the locations when you’re sightseeing during the day.

And don’t forget the FREE audio ghost tour on our GHOST TOUR page, which features stories from locations on the perimeter of the town.

Our audio tour offerings are prototypes that are still in development, so we welcome any suggestions you may have for future improvements.

Best wishes to everyone for the year ahead!

https://portfairyghoststories.com/shop/audio-town-walk-ghost-tour/