Haunted Aradale Mental Hospital
Operators fear this may be the end of the road for the historic site.
Haunted aradale mental hospital. Aradale psychiatric hospital is infamous. Patients prisoners and staff included. This series was inspired by the fantastic history goes bump podcast. The aradale mental hospital originally known as the ararat lunatic asylum was built in ararat victoria australia.
Book your visit to aradale take a guided tour through the cavernous wall and halls of the institution that treated and housed victoria s mentally ill for over 126 years. In this episode we explore aradale mental hospital. Listen to podcast episode 56 of haunted places. It exists in ararat a charming town less than 3 hours outside of melbourne.
Haunted is a series that takes a look at spooky locations across the world. Visiting aradale mental hospital. Now australia s largest abandoned mental institution when ararat lunatic asylum or aradale mental hospital as it later became known was closed in 1997 it had seen 13 000 deaths in its 130 year history. The aradale mental hospital housed hundreds of thousands of people.
Known as the maddest place on earth the colonial government quickly ordered the construction of several mental health facilities outside of melbourne. The asylum along with its sister hospitals at kew and beechworth were founded in order to take care of the growing number of lunatics residing in the area. Aradale mental hospital on pandora the gold rush brought thousands of british migrants to australia in the 1850s. His mother psychotherapist sharn waldron.
Aradale psychiatric asylum is an imposing series of buildings reputed to be some of the most haunted in australia. And eerie tours manager nathaniel buchanan. Ghost tours and paranormal investigation events are run here by eeerie tours and i highly recommend both. Later renamed the aradale mental hospital it eventually closed in 1998.
Aradale mental hospital is a must visit place for anyone who is interested in the paranormal. Aradale asylum was an australian psychiatric hospital located in ararat a rural city in victoria australia. It lures thousands of tourists each year with the promise of ghastly tales and ghostly sightings. The main asylum enter the main building today and you begin to get a sense of what the future held for those that entered the ararat lunatic asylum.
The making of a haunted asylum is written by folklorist and federation university senior lecturer dr david waldron. Tours of the 152 year old aradale mental asylum have been cancelled due to lead paint contamination.