History tells the story of the world and of our lives.

Sometimes that history goes bump in the night, broadcasting from the Central

of Audity and the Supernatural in Central Florida. It's the History Go's Bump Podcast.

Hello you spooktacular people. Welcome to History Go's Bump Redux. I'm your host

Diane. And this is Kelly. Kelly, on this Redux, we're going to be revisiting

Australia's Quarantine Station, otherwise known as Q Station. Are you ready to go back?

I'm ready. Quarantine Station or Q Station, as it's more commonly known, is a heritage site

located in Manley, which is a suburb of Sydney in Australia. This site was used as a quarantine

station from 1833 until 1983 to help prevent illness from entering the country. Many people died

during quarantine and conditions weren't great. After the station closed, it reopened as a historic

park with a hotel. This site is reportedly one of the most haunted locations in all of Australia.

Join us as we explore the history and hauntings of the Quarantine Station.

The expanse that the quarantine station is located on was once an area that Indigenous tribes occupied

and also used as a burial ground, known now as North Head. These Indigenous groups are

believed to have arrived in Australia around 70,000 years ago, and they refer to this area as

Carangel, meaning Saltwater Country. The first European visitor was a Dutchman by the name of Willem

Janzoon, and he arrived in 1606. The Dutch continued throughout the century to explore Australia,

and they named it New Holland. The United Kingdom sent explorers as well, and in 1770,

Lieutenant James Cook chartered the East Coast of Australia and returned to Britain announcing

that it would be a good idea to colonize the continent. The UK did just that, but not in a very

favorable way. They decided to send their cast-offs to Australia, and so in 1788, the first fleet

arrived in Australia in the area that would become Sydney with a cargo of convicts. As was the case

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