MEGAscene • Issue 1 September 2015
S.A. PARANORMAL
Words and Photos by Allen Tiller When people think of the catch phrase for the “City of Adelaide”, indeed South Australia, they usually think “City of Churches”, the more macabre of us, sometimes refer to it as the “City of Murders”, but I often refer to it as the “City of the Paranormal”. We have an abundance of ghost stories, UFO sightings, alien encounters, miracles, supernatural phenomena and other paranormal events right across our state, more so than anywhere else in the country, including the one place everyone considers as the most haunted in Australia; Tasmania. I have visited many states in Australia investigating the paranormal for more than ten years, everything from Spontaneous Human Combustion, Stigmata, UFO’s, Time Slips and of course Ghosts and Hauntings. South Australia is a little more unique than the other States, we savour our history, and for the most part keep our historic buildings. This could be part of the reason our State features many more hauntings than anywhere else, another small factor could be the town of Kapunda and its links to our haunted locations. Kapunda, known for years as “Australia’s Most Haunted Town” has some unique features to its environment. The town lays on a bed of copper, something we use to help store or generate electricity in batteries. It also has natural quartz crystal deposits, another element used to store energy of a metaphysical nature – combine these two elements in Kapunda stone and marble and you may just have one piece of the puzzle as to why so many iconic locations are haunted in Australia. What is that puzzle piece I hear you ask? It is the stone used to build many places in 34
North Kapunda Hotel
Burra
Adelaide – Kapunda marble and stone has been used in such places as Old Parliament House, Carclew House, many buildings on North Terrace and loads of other buildings throughout South Australia . . . and does not the same ring true for another “haunted town” in South Australia, Burra. Here also features a number of haunted locations and ghost stories, but is not in the same league as Kapunda with the amounts and types of hauntings found there. Another of our really haunted locations in this State is Port Adelaide, once known as Port Misery. Port Adelaide does have a few connections back to Kapunda and Burra, with both towns transporting their copper to the Port for transportation overseas. The building materials here were mainly ship ballast brought from all over the world by transportation ships – so there may be something in the stone there as well!