What are the age limits?

The Family Tour is for ages 9 and up with a responsible adult. Ghouls Night Out and The Graveyard Shift are 18+ only, no exceptions — including for very mature 17-year-olds.

How does the adult-to-child ratio work?

On the Family Tour you need at least one adult ticket for every three children or teens. The booking form enforces it, so if the numbers don't work it will tell you before you pay rather than after.

What happens if it rains?

Light rain, we walk — bring a coat. If there's a thunderstorm or the surfaces are genuinely unsafe we cancel, and every guest on a cancelled tour receives a gift certificate for double the tickets they booked, valid for four years.

Tickets are limited to 240 across both nights, so refunds aren't automatic. Get in touch as early as you can and we'll do what we can to move you to another session or resell your spot.

Where do I park, and can I get public transport?

There's street parking around the meeting point plus nearby off-street options, and frequent buses from the city and Chatswood. For The Graveyard Shift, sort your ride home before you come — at 1:30am the timetable is not your friend.

How scary is it, honestly?

Nobody jumps out at you. It's the real detail that gets people: the names, the dates, the fact that it happened where you're standing. Most guests find the walk home more unsettling than the tour.

Halloween 2026 — 240 tickets, two nights, then it's over

Halloween Ghost Tours Sydney 2026

Halloween lands on a Saturday this year, which happens roughly once every seven, so we're running two nights instead of pretending one is enough.

Friday 30 and Saturday 31 October. Three tours a night, 40 tickets a tour, 240 tickets all up. When they're gone they're gone, and we don't add extra sessions because the history doesn't get any bigger.

Scarier than walking in Oxford Street Darlinghurst at 3.00am. Real research, real records, real locations. Nobody jumps out at you. It's worse than that.

Three sessions, two nights

40 tickets per session. Pick your night, then pick your poison.

The Family Tour

6:00pm - 8:00pm

Ages 9 and up, with a responsible adult

Trick-or-treating is done by six. The night isn't.

By 6pm the buckets are full, the kids have eaten their body weight in fun-size Mars Bars, and bedtime is a theory nobody believes in. Every other Halloween event in town is for adults. This is where the evening goes next.

Two hours of genuine Sydney history told properly, pitched so a twelve-year-old stays interested and the adults don't feel like they're at an assembly. The stories are true. That's the part that gets them.

Child (9-12)$28
Teen (13-17)$38
Adult concession$45
Adult$55

Booking rule: at least 1 adult for every 3 children or teens.

Ghouls Night Out

8:15pm - 10:30pm

18+ only

Adults only, and the stories are told without the edges filed off.

Same streets, no editing. The deaths, the inquests, the coroners' findings and the bits we leave out when there are ten-year-olds in the group.

Two hours of real history, and one hour of your mate insisting she wasn't scared. BYO scepticism. We'll take it off you at the gate.

Adult$70

Adults only. No concession rate on this session.

The Graveyard Shift

11:15pm - 1:30am

18+ only

Finishing at 1:30am is the point, not the catch.

The premium tour, and the one that sells out first every year. It starts when the last bus has more or less given up and ends at half past one in the morning, because that is when these locations stop performing and simply sit there being what they are.

Longer at each site. Fewer jokes, though not none. The archival material we don't hand around at 6pm. If you're the sort of person who reads the coroner's report to the end, this is your session.

Adult$85

Adults only. No concession rate. Expect to be walking at 1am.

What this actually is

A guided walking tour on foot, outdoors, at night, through real locations with real recorded histories: inquest transcripts, newspaper archives, cemetery records and council files. We've been doing this since 2008 and we've never once needed someone in a mask behind a bin.

There are no actors, no jump scares and no props. What there is: about 2 kilometres of flat-to-gently-sloping footpath over two hours, several long stops, and a guide who has read every source out loud so you don't have to.

Meeting point: Cammeray Square, Cammeray — Halloween Ghost Tours — exact spot confirmed in your booking email
Distance: Roughly 2km on foot, with plenty of standing stops
What to wear: Closed shoes you can walk in and a warm layer — it gets cold once you stop moving
Bring: A charged phone, water, and a jacket you don't mind sitting on a sandstone step in

Groups, hen's nights and the office Halloween thing

Hen's nights, birthdays, work nights out: a ghost tour is the rare group activity where nobody has to be good at anything. No karaoke. No mini golf scorecard. Just walking, listening and one person in the group who insists they felt something.

Friday 30 October is the night to take if you're organising something for work. It's a Friday, nobody has to be anywhere the next morning, and it's a considerably better use of the budget than a function room with a fog machine.

Groups of 8 or more, or after a private session on either night? click here! and we'll sort it out properly.

Halloween tour questions

What are the age limits?: The Family Tour is for ages 9 and up with a responsible adult. Ghouls Night Out and The Graveyard Shift are 18+ only, no exceptions — including for very mature 17-year-olds.
How does the adult-to-child ratio work?: On the Family Tour you need at least one adult ticket for every three children or teens. The booking form enforces it, so if the numbers don't work it will tell you before you pay rather than after.
What happens if it rains?: Light rain, we walk — bring a coat. If there's a thunderstorm or the surfaces are genuinely unsafe we cancel, and every guest on a cancelled tour receives a gift certificate for double the tickets they booked, valid for four years.
Can I get a refund?: Tickets are limited to 240 across both nights, so refunds aren't automatic. Get in touch as early as you can and we'll do what we can to move you to another session or resell your spot.
Where do I park, and can I get public transport?: There's street parking around the meeting point plus nearby off-street options, and frequent buses from the city and Chatswood. For The Graveyard Shift, sort your ride home before you come — at 1:30am the timetable is not your friend.
How scary is it, honestly?: Nobody jumps out at you. It's the real detail that gets people: the names, the dates, the fact that it happened where you're standing. Most guests find the walk home more unsettling than the tour.

240 tickets, two nights, no encore

The Graveyard Shift goes first, then Ghouls Night Out, then the Family Tour once parents realise what 7pm on Halloween is actually like. Pick a night, pick a session, get it done.