Inside Australia’s Most Haunted Asylum: Aradale, Part Two | The Grave Talks
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🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to a Grave Talks Classic Episode—a chilling journey into one of Australia’s darkest and most haunted places: Aradale Asylum.
From the mid-1800s through the 1900s, “lunatic asylums” were common across the world. But few carry the same weight of tragedy, despair, and paranormal activity as Aradale. Built as a sprawling facility designed to lock away anyone deemed “undesirable” by society, its cold brick walls became a prison for thousands of souls.
At Aradale, mental illness was only one reason people were admitted. Speaking a different language, behaving “improperly,” or simply being unwanted was often enough to be sentenced to a life behind its doors. For many, that sentence was permanent. Death came long before freedom.
Today, Aradale is no longer a working asylum—but its halls are far from empty. Visitors and paranormal investigators alike have reported phantom voices, shadowy figures, footsteps in deserted wards, and an overwhelming presence of sorrow that lingers in every corridor. The spirits of the forgotten, silenced, and mistreated are said to still roam the asylum, making it one of the most infamous haunted sites in Australia.
In this episode of The Grave Talks, we sit down with paranormal investigator William Tabone to uncover the true history and the terrifying hauntings of Aradale Asylum. Step inside if you dare—the ghosts are still waiting. This is Part Two of our conversation.
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| 0:29.5 | A better help ad. |
| 0:31.5 | Lewis Capaldi partnered with BetterHelp to get word out about how important therapy can be. |
| 0:36.8 | I struggle most weeks to get up, get myself up and ready and go to therapy or whatever. |
| 0:42.2 | Even like to open the laptop to talk to, my therapist sometimes could be really difficult. |
| 0:46.6 | But I do it because I realise how important it is for me to continue to feel good. |
| 0:51.0 | I felt the best I've felt in a long time through therapy. |
| 0:54.8 | Learn more about online therapy at betterhelp.com. |
| 0:58.5 | Welcome to part two of our conversation about the haunted Aradale Asylum with paranormal |
| 1:03.2 | investigator William Tobon. |
| 1:05.2 | Do you believe that a majority of the spirits at the asylum were once residents there? |
| 1:10.5 | Or is there a mix of residence, staff? |
| 1:13.2 | I mean, you could have even family members that are coming to, you know, supposedly visit |
| 1:18.0 | their loved ones, you know, although that really wasn't such a thing for a majority of the |
| 1:22.6 | life of the asylum, maybe only more so towards the latter years. |
| 1:26.6 | Exactly. In the early days, I mean, it was, it was, for us, it's a, you know, two, two and a half hour, three hour drive, depending four hour drive where I come from. Sure. But in those days, it was, you know, a horse and carriage or a horse and, you know, it would take you days to get there. So, you know, a lot of people will put there and just locked up. |
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