VIDEO: Paranormal Activity at Haunted Australian Mansion

There are a lot of stories about haunted houses and places and ghostly appearances. While most people think that there is no such things as ghost and that it can’t happen, others strongly believe in their existence, especially those who live in these haunted houses.

The family that lives in the Monte Cristo manor from Junee, Australia is convinced that ghosts exist because they feel their presence and see weird things happening every single day.

According to dailymail.co.uk, in this house, a pregnant maid pushed from the balcony, a stable boy burned to death as he slept and a baby girl was thrown down the stairs.

These are the sinister tales that the Ryan Family believe still haunt the hallways of Monte Cristo – a Victorian manor in Junee that is arguably the ‘most haunted house in Australia.’

Olive Ryan, who has lived in the eerie homestead for 50 years said that she has felt the presence of the home’s original owners, Christopher and Elizabeth Crawley, who are believed to have haunted the house since their deaths in 1910 and 1933 respectively.

‘I’ve had a hand on my shoulder,’ said Ms Ryan. I’ve had my name called when I’ve been here by myself. It’s nothing to hear footsteps on the balcony and you go out and there’s no one there.’

According to Ms Ryan, the peculiar happenings stared when her and her late husband moved in and  found the house was completely lit up, despite having no electricity connected to the home.

‘By the time we got up here every light went out’. That is when Ms Ryan said she realised ‘there was something different about the place’.

Ms Ryan’s son Lawrence spent his formative years growing up in the eerie mansion and he said he knew from an early age that something wasn’t quite right about Monte Cristo.

He said there had been a series of accidents in the house that were too creepy to be coincidence.

There are also reports of a young stable boy burning to death in his straw bed, a caretaker being shot dead in 1961 and tales of the housekeeper who tied his mentally unstable son in the outhouse for more than 30 years.

Interestingly, Mr Ryan’s wife Sophia, who has lived at the home for four years, believes her connection with the haunted house runs much deeper than she first expected.

‘I’ve had a past life here,’ she said. ‘I’ve learnt that I was one of the maids here.’  She said she has seen ‘shapes’ and ‘visions’ of the maids and often feels Ms Crawley’s presence.

Some people insist they have been touched by a ghost during a tour run by the Ryan family, however science writer Philip Ball said he has an explanation for the phenomenon.

‘There is one theory for how some of these feelings that people have got of hauntings might come about and that’s to do with something called infrasound.’

He said the frequency of the sound is too low for the human ear to hear however, ‘our bodies can detect it’.

Mr Ball said experiments have proven that the sensation of infrasound is particularly ‘unsettling’ for people which could explain the ghostly feel.