Dark History
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Choose Dark History Crime Tours, from our list of intriguing, interesting, and chilling Dark History Tours around Adelaide and South Australia. Browse our tours below for more information and for bookings. Don’t let anybody ever tell you again that history was boring!
Old Adelaide Gaol
Help us trace the footsteps of a number of inmates who had a fateful journey to the gallows. Visit the gallows and the cemetery where 45 of our murderers were executed and buried.
Duration: 2hrs Cost: $35
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Adelaide Dark History
Murder, mystery and tragedy, Adelaide has certainly had more than its fair share over the years. Bushrangers, forgotten executions… who said history was boring! Please note street tours are seasonal.
Duration: 2hrs, Cost: $30
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Z Ward Asylum
Meet some of the historical ‘criminally insane’ murderers who found themselves locked in Z Ward. Follow their stories, their crimes, meet their victims and finally learn of their fate. Let us put the face to Z Ward.
Duration: 2hrs, Cost: $35
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Gawler Dark History
Gawler has a rich but sometimes darker history. Stroll with us and learn some of it’s quirkier and tragic tales. Visit 471 people who were buried, mainly children, in a place you’d least expect. This tour is seasonal.
Duration: 21/2hrs Cost: $30
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Glenelg Dark History
Let us walk you through ‘The Dark Side’ of this beach resort and reveal some interesting and, at times, grizzly tales of times gone by… you will never look at Glenelg quite the same way again!
Please note these tours are seasonal.
Duration: 2hrs, Cost: $30
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Contributing Authors
Alison Oborn,
This Adelaide Author and award-winning tour operator is also a history & heritage enthusiast. She has been a volunteer guide, Information Officer and Researcher at the Adelaide Gaol since 2002.
Alison also loves a good mystery, and authored her book ‘Ghosts of the Past’ on the 10 years of paranormal research that she and her team, Paranormal Field Investigators conducted at the Adelaide Gaol.
She also runs Adelaide’s Haunted Horizons, which operates Ghost Tours and Dark History Tours in the Adelaide Gaol, at Z Ward, National Railway Museum, Tailem Town, Adelaide Arcade, Moonta and Burra.
Kag Allwood: The paranormal has always been a life-long interest of hers, but not something she ever thought of taking up seriously. She now works for Adelaide Haunted Horizons as part of the Management Team. Kag is also a lead guide, event organiser, as well as researches and writes her own tours.
She is an experienced, active paranormal investigator and have investigated numerous known haunted locations throughout the world.