Great Ocean Road's Cape Otway Lightstation is Haunted by Ghost

The Great Ocean Road's Cape Otway Lightstation will once again host the International Lighthouse Weekend on the 15th August, 2009. Based on last year's close encounter with the ghost of a young girl, two paranormal Investigators and a psychic medium, complete with ghost-busting gear will attend and attempt to repeat the encounter. End Quote

Last year two of our girls were sitting on the floor in that room, so as not to intimidate her, and they both simultaneously heard a child's voice...

(1888PressRelease) August 12, 2009 - Great Ocean Road, Victoria - The Great Ocean Road's Cape Otway Lightstation will be buzzing with activity when the International Lighthouse Weekend takes place there this weekend. Two paranormal investigators and a psychic medium, all armed with ghost busting gear, plan to make contact with an "intelligent haunting".

Australian Ghost Adventures' paranormal detective Gary Sullivan and his team will offer two ghost-busting tours on Saturday, August 15th as part of a range of festivities planned for the weekend. The lightstation is currently the oldest surviving lighthouse on the Australian mainland.

Sullivan said while there were a lot of "residual hauntings" at the 1848 lighthouse and in surrounding buildings, "intelligent hauntings" were more exciting because they interacted with ghost-busters.

His team had a close encounter last year with the ghost of a girl.

"What's supposed to have happened is a young girl, aged four, died around 1870 to 1880," Sullivan says.

"They had to wait days and days for the coroner to arrive on horseback.

"They put her in a cupboard on the windward side of the house. She is an ‘intelligent haunting’ - she knows you're there and will interact.

"Last year two of our girls were sitting on the floor in that room, so as not to intimidate her, and they both simultaneously heard a child's voice, and we caught their reactions on camera. They're both mums with a motherly instinct and they both started crying."

Sullivan says he is looking forward to working with a psychic medium at the Great Ocean Road Lightstation.

"We call them psychic profilers because they pick up on residual hauntings – these ghosts are like an imprint, they won't ever go away," he says.

Sullivan says residual hauntings, of which there are many at Cape Otway, accounted for stories of ghosts that were seen in the same place many times by different people always doing the same thing.

Cape Otway Lightstation ghost tours require advance booking during International Lighthouse weekend.

For information regarding other exciting activities, festivals, and events held along the Great Ocean Road, visit www.visitgreatoceanroad.org.au

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