Case file · Haunting
Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney
Convict barracks designed by Francis Greenway and opened in 1819, later an immigration depot for single women and an asylum for destitute women. Staff and visitors tell of footsteps and figures in the hammock rooms.
1819 CE · -33.87, 151.21 · status: legend
The account
Up to 600 convicts slept here in hammocks at a time. The building is now a UNESCO-listed museum; its ghost stories cluster around the women who passed through after 1848.