Adelaide Gaol Ghost Tour and Paranormal Investigation: Explore Adelaide's Most Haunted Site

Experience an unforgettable ghost tour and paranormal investigation at the Adelaide Gaol, South Australia’s most haunted site. Discover its dark history and encounter ghostly inmates.

Duration: 2 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Adelaide Gaol - Be incarcerated in Australia’s longest continuously operating gaol. Discover the ghost of Governor Ashton, whose body was dropped through a window, Sister Mary MacKillop’s link with the Gaol and the spirit of South Australia’s most sadistic killer still stalking his prey.
    With 45 hangings and a burial site in Murderer’s Row, it’s no…
What's Included
  • Local guide
What's Not Included
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Food and drinks
Additional Information

As one of the two earliest public structures in Adelaide, Adelaide Gaol carries the reputation of being the spookiest spot in South Australia. Embark on a nocturnal guided tour of the prison, explore its past from the dawn of settler history and you may even encounter spectral prisoners.
Scheduled tours occur on chosen dates each month. Your preferred…

Location
18 Gaol Rd
Gaol Road
Adelaide Gaol, 18 Gaol Road , Thebarton, S.A.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Michael_e
Aug 22, 2025
Great - Great tour and good fun. The young lady was fantastic. I would recommend anyone to do the Ghost Tour.
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Aadi_m
Jul 11, 2025
Eerily Wonderful - The guide and her assistant were both great! They were super friendly and knowledgeable about the jail. I had the best time. I took the dowsing rods for the ghost hunting part and it was crazy. The spirit was actually responding and I am skeptical guy, I would find an explanation for the movement of the rods if I could. I didn’t connect the dots there BUT the spirit I was talking to was female and was falsely accused of something. That screams elizabeth woolcock to me. 10/10 tour and the guides. Would definitely recommend anyone coming or staying in Adelaide to do the tour. You can even enjoy if you go alone like I did!
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Andraya_j
Jan 31, 2026
A good something to do which is a little different - It’s a little out of the way to get to but the guides were very enthusiastic with good stories . Good to test out some ghost hunting equipment!
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Michelle_a
Sep 14, 2025
Was a fun night, however... - Was a fun night, however I felt that at some points, we were treated like children, I was scolded for taking a photo, and told to listen to a story...I can actually do two things at once, and felt this soured my night.
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Maed601
Jul 11, 2025
Learned the history of the Gaol and its inmates. Experienced two ‘lockdowns’ in chosen cells. - Very interesting and informative! Loved using the equipment while inside the cells. Would love if torches were provided though.
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Travel02099317986
May 24, 2025
Great! - Very informative tour, loved hearing all the stories of the inmates and their crimes. Wish we had seen some ghosts though!
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89fergalw
Nov 4, 2025
Cool location, great concept, poorly executed. - Overall, the ghost tour was a fun experience. I enjoyed the spooky dark atmosphere of the Jail and despite the planes flying overhead the stillness of the jail was super earie. My only complaint was of the actual guide. While one of them was good at interacting and had showed great engagement, the other would not really grasp how you should treat a tour group, often yelling and shouting at us to keep moving or screaming at us to gather round as if we were children. I got the very strong impression she was anticipating someone to make an error such as talk while she was talking just so that she could call out to them. Not to mention that the stories had some amazing material that'd be horrifying to hear around a camp fire, but the telling of these stories were delivered in such a dull and uninspiring manner that you'd think you were listening to some luke warm gossip about some high-school drama. "and then like.. and then like.. and like.." I somehow managed to zone out during a talk about how there's a scary lady in a dress that roams the prison. In summary, was a great experience (despite the fact we never saw any ghosts), however poorly delivered.
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Reneef912
Jul 11, 2025
Interesting but Rushed - Interesting tour but felt rushed through. Particularly in museum section, only got to view half. Tour was booked for 2 hours but completed in 1hour and 40 mins.
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Katherine_w
Mar 28, 2025
Bot enough time to use gadgets and too much talking - I did enjoy the tour however it seemed more of an historical tour of the gaol, not a ghost tour, it also seemed like lots of talking and little time to use the ghost instruments. Even though the information was interesting, I think a little less info and more time to use the gadgets would be nice, just the speech at the start takes ages before you even enter the gaol. I guess I was just expecting it to be more ghost stuff.
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Utternutta
Aug 24, 2025
Don't recommend - Quite disappointing. Wouldn't consider the tour as what it's portrayed... More of a "History Tour" with very little time for actual "investigating", tops 20mins from the entire tour.. Would rather it be smaller groups with a larger time frame for investigating the paranormal, with more up to date paranormal equipment.
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Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).