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October 6, 2025 11 mins

Hayley Pearson has a haunting ghost experience that scares her to this day, and Max doesn't believe any of it!

We hear from callers who share their ghost stories, as well as speaking with a ghost hunting professional from Haunted Horizons..

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
My Heart podcasts here more mixed one or two point
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app and strange.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
All right, Adelaide, listen up. I want to talk about ghosts.
I wanted to talk about this for so long. And
I have someone across the seat from me who hates
me talking about ghost because he doesn't believe.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
He's not a believer. It's just fantasy. No, let me
tell you this story. This will change your mind.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
So my uncle used to own a pub in Gaula,
and he lived upstairs with his family. And you'd come
downstairs and enjoy the pub, but he would go upstairs.
And going up those creaky stairs was one thing.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
As soon as you got to the.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Landing where they lived, you just felt this real heaviness
standing on the landing, going there is someone else here.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
You felt that, oh yeah, I am not alone.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
We all felt it, and even people who would come
to the pub in Gaula, they would sit having their
beer and go, what's that? And then hear this.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Like a crying child.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
So my other uncle, who is a photographer, we're all there.
One day he goes, I'm gonna go upstairs and I'm
gonna take a photo that hallway and we'll see what happens.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Took the photo, went home.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Got into his dark room, developed it old schoolway, held
it up to the light, and in the empty hallway.
I swear to God that there was nobody there.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Can I guess no, something involving a haunted child.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
There was a man and a haunted child.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Now it's serious. It's a true thing. Ghosts are real.
Is there any chance perhaps that your uncle maybe just
got a smarge on the photo?

Speaker 2 (01:51):
It was a full outline of a man and a
little girl that was wearing a white dress like full
old school way? And now this pub is completely deserted.
No one lives there, nor on works there. It's just
sitting there.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
You said that you could hear things upstairs when you're
at the pub.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
You also said that his family lived upstairs at the park,
lived upstairs. Yeah, and it was awful his family. No, no, no, no, this.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Is while they weren't living up there. They were all downstairs.
It's they would hear the scream upstairs when they weren't there.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
This sounds like maybe they just had a friend over
and they just left the friend upstairs.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
No, it was the man and the child. We have evidence,
and I love talking about ghosts. I find it so
interesting in the afterlife.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
I always love that the best evidence that we have
of ghosts is one blurry, black and white picture that
someone took in the dark, and that's the best evidence
we've got.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Well, it came up on a photo, and a photo
doesn't lie. This is before photoshop thirteen one O two three.
Can we get Adelaide's best ghost stories? I want to
hear the creepier, the better give us us. I was
just telling Max about ghost stories. I have a ripper
story from Gaula. My uncle's don'wn a pub there the

(03:04):
Gaula Pub and upstairs they lived upstairs. It was definitely haunted.
My other uncle, his brother, took a photo of the hallway.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Probably because it cost too much to refurbish it. Anyway,
Cheryl and Blakefews called him because we're doing ghost stories.
Have you seen one? You haven't, but do you think
you've seen a ghost? On thirty one two three.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
I am a real estate photographer and Adelaide have been
for about thirteen years, so I've got a few ghost stories.
But one that stands out the most. I got to
this house and the story was I met the agent there.
The husband had died, the mother had gone into aged care,
so they'd been there for millions of years. We got
in there and it was it was semi furnished. I

(03:44):
was photographing each room and the agent was standing in
the kitchen and it was one of those still glegs,
so he was in the kitchen. There was a table
to the side, a huge chandalier over the table, and
I was in the far corner in the bedroom and
the agent said something funny and I walked out of
the room and I cracked up, laughing, like really loud
as I am. As that happened, the schandelier left the

(04:07):
ceiling and just shattered in between the middle of us,
on the table between us, and you know when your
blood ghost cold. And then I heard this male voice
in my head say show more respect and I and
we're just froz like you know what. You don't move,
but you're just like did that just happen?

Speaker 1 (04:27):
Did anyone else hear the voice? So this was just
in your head?

Speaker 4 (04:29):
No, I was in my head, but the agent had frozen.
He wasn't moving, he was just it was in between
the tour of.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Us, so you shouldn't have been laughing. Yeah, I love
the ghost wasn't happy. They wanted you to get out, Cheryl.

Speaker 4 (04:43):
He hadn't long died.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Oh he was still there. Thank you so much for sharing.
That is an excellent story.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
Crazy speak in Cheryl's head.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Michelle in Burton, we are talking about ghost stories.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
What's yours?

Speaker 5 (04:56):
This happened to me, That's why I said it. So
maybe I had an obsession and so I wouldn't see
them every night, but it wasn't a regular face. As
a child, I was quite scared, so I'd pretend to
be asleep and kind of close my eyes but just
like had them open just a little bit so I
could still see. But for these ghost thought I was

(05:17):
asleep anyway. So I had a friend sleeping over one night,
and in the middle of the night, she woke up screaming,
so my dad rushed in. I rushed in, and we
couldn't know what's going on. There's an Indian standing at
the end of my bed.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Right.

Speaker 5 (05:30):
That was one of the figures that I thought. What
for someone else to actually witness it in our house.
It was not a figment of my imagination. It was
not me dreaming. Did somebody else had seen it?

Speaker 4 (05:42):
Also?

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Did you feel that it was a good happy pressens
or was it negative and bad and angry?

Speaker 5 (05:48):
I guess as a child it was quite scary. Yeah,
not not understanding and thinking, you know, is this real?
Is someone in my room? One night we went to
my cousin's over and Claire and they were telling us
ghost stories. Scared the hell out of me, got home,
got to bed and all night someone was pulling off
at the end of my bed, my bed covers and
there was no one in my room.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
Michelle, what suburb were you in when you run into
this Indian.

Speaker 5 (06:12):
And the I used to live at Ottaway?

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Okay, So an American Indian has somehow passed away in
the middest of America and everything and ghosted its way
over to Ottaway. Stop mocking her. It's a true story, Okay.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
And she's not the only witness. Yeah, Michelle, we love
you story, Thank you for sharing. Let's go to Crystalline
Old Ranella, Old Ranella. They'd have some ghosts, would't they.

Speaker 6 (06:36):
Well, when I was eleven, I lived in this house
for about three months that was haunted. So we saw
a lot of weird stuff happen. So one of the
things was that you know, the radio station, so that
who had hit someone in, oh my god, it would
have actually probably injured them quite badly. One of the
more sort of freakier things was I had a friend
over and we were just chatting, and it was probably
about eleven o'clock at night as well, and we just

(06:57):
both stopped talking and looked under my door and we
both saw a foot just appear, like a bright white foot,
clear as days, and then it started to morph into
like a hand like someone was going to peak on
at the door right off.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 6 (07:10):
And then as suddenly as it appeared, it just sort
of disappeared, and we only ever saw the one foot.
We didn't see too, and that hallway was really creaky
and you never actually could hear someone approaching without the
lawboards going, so that was also unexplainable. The other thing
was that it would turn off the TV if I
was watching it.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
After that with a bit of sounds like an absolute
nightmare to live in.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
Yeah, it was.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
It was do you know, like obviously you moved out, now,
do you know if it's still there or has it
been bashed down?

Speaker 6 (07:38):
It's been bashed down and it's now a childcare center.
So I'd be curious that they.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
Wo on the ground that's sour with ghosts. This this
I'm not only asking because there was a house around
the corner from us, and they would literally get a
new person every six months. Every six months, someone else
would come in and say the house's haunted, we can't
live here. And then it was bashed down and built
again because of that.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
It's true, Max, sorry is still going.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
I don't care what Max thinks.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
I care what I think.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
And ghost a real and paranormal activity is real. And
I just shared a ghost story that happened in Gaula
with my uncle's pub.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
Hello, how about you guys, hag.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
I am just so excited you're on the phone with
us right now. Can you share with us some of
the most haunting ghost stories here at Adelaide.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
We're going to tell you two stories. One of them
are and it thought to do with the Adelaide Jail.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
Yes, we've been there. Market is quite a haunted place.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
So a number of years ago the jail was going
to be closed down and there were desperate the volunteers.
They were desperate to keep it open, and a couple
of documentary filmmakers they wanted to make a film of
the ghosts of the Adelaide Jail. Now, they weren't believers
in the ghost they just thought it would make a
really good film, and unfortunately didn't get around to be
made in the end. But Alison thought it was gonna
be a great way of helping keep the jail open.

(08:56):
So she decided what she would do. She would take
them on a ghost tour. And as we were going
through one of the yards, one of the guys freaked
out because they said he had icy cold fingers go
down his cheek. Now, he said he knew it was
a female and not a male hand because the way
it felt it was definitely female and not male. Okay,

(09:19):
it could have been.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
I do have very baby hands.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
Yeah. So then and then nothing else happened until they
got to the new building. Now, the nilbuilding was the
last building that was built there in eighteen seventy nine,
And they were stood on the third step up on
the staircase there, which is in B wing, and she
was conning thember all the different things that's happened there
in the time that she was the head researcher, and
then it started. There were footsteps. Now, what's the case

(09:45):
of is that a footstep? These were heavy booted footsteps
coming along the gantry from a wing, which is where
you enter the building. You could hear the click of
the heel, you could hear the squeak of the leather
as the footsteps are walking. There was four of them there,
and there were all four were sat at those day.

(10:05):
So I was on the stair her backup, was next
to her, and the two guys that stood at the
bottom of the staircase facing them. What happened was that
the footsteps started to come down the stairs. Yeah, there
was nobody there, just the footsteps walking down the stairs.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
And pushed next on the iPod shuffle that was buying
the sound.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
No, they no, mother's side.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
It's all good, it's all good, It's all good.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Okay, cag where's the most haunted place in Adelaide?

Speaker 3 (10:34):
I had a really just a few weeks ago, I
had a ministant in said Water are Asylum. That Glend's side.
I've been working hunterizers for eleven years. I go around
the world with Ulson investigating. I've got no issue. But
what happened to me the other week when I was
buying myself actually freaked me out to the point where
I had to ring Allison because I walked in I'd

(10:55):
already been in the building for an interview. Then I
left it, went down to the service station, had a drink,
I got a drink, came back and as I walked
in again, i'd relocked it, I'd put the alarms back on,
and as I walked in, there was a figure it
looked like half a figure in the hallway. And because
I'm a very rational person, my I made it thought
was the National Trust have gone in and put something

(11:17):
in there? And I thought, oh god, this is a minute.
I've just been in the building. There was nothing there, Yeah,
because it's actually run by the National Trust. Now there
was light coming in from the root behind and I
could actually see it was a full figure standing in
the hallway.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
And I'm not kidding, honestly. I was by myself, and
my first thought was, again being rational, somebody had broken
in in the meantime.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
But as a ghost hunter, you know that they're real,
so why would you go hang on? Is surely that's
not real. Having you on the show, Adelaide haunted horizons.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
Thanks Jags.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
Excellent, no problem, Thank you.
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