Fremantle Arts' Centre and Museum

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This location is the best known haunted building in Western Australia. Previously a mental asylum then a womens' refuge centre. We visited the place in an autumn morning. Both by visitors and staff there have been numerous reports of ghostly presence, apparitions and even physical contact, eg. being kissed on the cheek or the feeling of being "pushed along" the staircase. The most common events according to staff happen on the first floor and in and around a couple of particular rooms on the same level. Local folklore says that during the building's Asylum era a woman who has been admitted here after her daughter's kidnapping fell into deep depression and committed suicide by jumping from a first floor window. It is said that she is still searching for her child in the building. We had numerous EMF readings and temperature drops at daytime, particularly in one side of the stairwell and two rooms of the first floor, the exhibition room with childrens' musical instruments and a display of an old classrom. The pictures taken show the locations of the EMF readings and particular cold spots. About an hour into us entering the building the activity increased and thought not unpleasant but a strong feeling of being followed around by invisible "spectators" was obvious. We must have caused a small commotion.