Sydney's Most Haunted Cemetery: The Truth Behind Castlereagh's Dark Past

Nearly stepped on a brown snake there! Just be careful guys… it’s not the ghost that will take you out!!

The dead don't haunt cemeteries.

That a bush cemetery

Should be the government reopen and clean it up and keep it clean all the time,and reopen for public to buried people there that how to keep it popular again

Makes no sense for a graveyard to be haunted unless people died there

Great video mate!!

i lived in hixman rd in 60 and 70 when i was in my 20t and did not know it was there until now

Better recheck your history of the First Fleet and please get someone to teach you maths
1788 to 1833 is not 60 years

🤗 more South west Sydney paranormal videos whoop whoop… just found this video on my recommended. These are few good cemeteries out our way. Looking forward to your content

Didn't think you could get to it anymore - new here, great vid

I am an Australian Catholic and believe some ghosts are souls stuck in purgatory because of their own sins, hoping for anyone who sees or hears them to pray for them so they can be released into heaven. Other ghosts can be demented fallen angels, trying to lure unsuspecting souls to hell.

So, I strongly encourage anyone who encounters a ghost to pray for the repose of that restless soul.

“May perpetual light shine upon this soul and may he/she rest in peace. Amen!”

some of my ancesters are there 1st fleeters

I was walking past frenchs forest bushland cemetery 2 years ago at midnight and heard loud crying and screaming from the cemetery but couldn't see an alive human

Sydney founded 1788 not 1786 and the first governor was Arthur Phillip not Macquarie.

Well done 👍

Very interesting! Nice to hear Australian accent- from Wollongong Gal😊❤

I would like to learn more about this place and I would like to help out with cleaning it up who would I have to talk to about it

Very interesting content mate. Congrats. A couple of minor historical errors re date of First Fleet (1788) and first governor (Phillip) but that wasn’t the focus of this video. Keep it up.

I would go walking there enjoyed the old cemetery the history and worked just up the road so the man I cared for lived around the corner on 5acres so going there didn’t feel spooky when we both entered the graves we viewed.

My ancestors (Field) are in there, pretty cool finding intact graves of the very first of my family to arrive to Australia. Following a few generations in Castlereagh, the Field family were granted land in Hartley. They owned a few farms in Hartley and are burried at Hartley Vale Cemetary.

We walked in there about 3am one cold winters morning and the mist was about a metre off the ground, about two minutes in we heard this ungodly moan and chains rattling. We didn’t bother hanging around to see what it was.

That was about 1985.

Sarah Simpson (Marshall) is my 5th great grandmother. It is said that John married her at graveside so she is without sin after death. I live in Newcastle, would love to go to Sydney to pay my respects to her one day.

Cemeteries are simply places where the deceased have been placed. There are so many burial sites we are unaware of.
Nothing to be scared of. Its simply our imagination .

ol Sarah's grave!! anyone that's out west knows about this did the exact same thing as you when i was 17-18 one of the boys just got their Ps and got to borrow the car and trying to find something to do or explore. Heard so many stories of things happening but nothing much happened to us but there was some sort of motion in there, we walked all the way to the back and the track split into 2 and instead of going any further we turned back and i was at the front and heard bushes moving and sticks snapping in front of us in the direction where we were walking it was the worst lol late at night pitch black still young and the rumour of the person next door coming out of the house with a shotgun if he heard any noises

North Head on the clifftop up the hill from Q Station. A lot of first fleeters died on the ship or shortly thereafter in quarantine. Makeshift graves were dug – the undertaker would throw lime on the body (to help it break down), wrap it in cloth, then race up the hill on a horse & cart for swift burial. These people never made it to their destination – their graves overlook the ocean past the heads from where they came.
Burials were expensive so paupers were often buried by family in unmarked graves just outside the marked boundaries of cemeteries. Some were eventually marked, eg the back of St Stephens Newtown in the park. The creepiest place is always around the perimeter because you unknowingly walk on top but their spirit is there, when you feel that sudden cool breeze.

To me there's no spirits or ghosts in a cemetery.
If and when i die why would i hang around reading my name and birth and death dates every day..
My life is the dots in between birth and death dates.
Cemeteries are piece full and blessed.❤

The British sent their criminals to Australia- every white Aussie still denies none of there ancestors was a criminal😂, and they still support the British Monarchy who sent there ancestors there- I wonder what there ancestors will think about that- will they be happy with it? And what will happen to Australians if Aboriginals had the power to kick them out of Australia?
Oops sorry I forgot the Aboriginals are still destabilised since the British did that, so they can forget about their land. Tragic

Just guessing and i think Rookwood at Lidcombe would be scary AF, especially at night. My mum is buried there. Once i went to the Info Office asking re actual location of my mums grave as had been many years. I said to the guy serving me, you must hear some interesting stories working here. He replied with.....Daily. The sort of persons i would love to interview and pay for his lunch. I read few yrs back they found some unknown graves in Rookwood going way back tho i dont know any details. I always tell ppl who dont believe in ghosts to go to a cemetary at night. Funnily enuf, they always say, No lol

I have family buried there in the 1830s and 1840s.

I used to live in Liverpool, but now I'm down in the Shoalhaven... soooo many old Cemeteries down this way.
I love old Cemeteries. I walk into each one with a peacefull heart and mind. I have great respect for every grave I pass. I take each and every grave as a history lesson. They can truly teach you so much.❤
Love your sense of humour.and character. Best of all luck in your future😊

I just found your channel and subscribed im a fan :) i cant wait to see more haunted places !

any evidence?

The pommy woman thay got murdered hated men afterwards i wonder why poor thing 🤔 they probably bashed her and raped her went in turns terrible 😢no.wonder she haunts around the grave yard

Great to meet another Australian You tuber..great content.For paranormal lovers Old Queen Victoria Hospital @Blue Mountains will be interesting.Thanks for sharing

You never looked at Sarah’s grave the first fleet grave is of Sarah rope pulley it has a plaque on it

Ghosts haunt where they died not where they are buried.

I live in the Fairfield LGA and have always wondered if any spots here are haunted. You wouldn't have any idea?

I used to love exploring cemeteries as a teen as well. Great vid. I noticed towards the end you were in a great hurry to get out of there. Did something creep you out?

Feel the sadness of these early graves there families never knowing what happened to there relatives.

My 5th-great-grandmother is buried in there. She arrived as part of the First Fleet.

Lived in the area nearby all of my 60 year life and I never knew about this cemetery. Will have to visit.

I thought the drag strip got built first.

The first burial was not in the 1840's, it was actually in 1811 and the oldest headstone still standing (Mary Ann Smith) dates from 1814. I like your enthusiasm but please do a little research first mate. Wrong information can tend to be taken as fact over time. Cheers.

I went there, it so dangerous going there because I see 7 Eastern browns snakes and 3m king brown.. in the summer time but go on winter.. it was really good and I feel ghost and saw 2 beautiful ghost, I’m deaf but my friend got ear popped by ghost.. please be careful going there and wish council provide pest control and repellent..

Do you know how many dead are berried there ?

The story behind Sydney town hall now to which the location was Sydney`s original Cemetery and is said that ghost from there can be seen from time to time in the town hall. Just speculation on the second hand information I have heard over many many years.

Hartley Cemetery is one spooky place use to go there and read being a BM FELLA cheers mate for for the video.

The Hotel Gearins in Katoomba heavy presence in there upstairs.
The reason why cast iron was put around the Grave so the spirits could get out. Check out the Gulley in Katoomba that use to be the Indigenous Gundungurra people. My ancestors are buried in Rookwood Cemetery. The D’Arcys are where my Ancestors are Buried. Cheers mate. Strongly Believe in the Spirit World.