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    Haunted Places in Ipswich

    2 cataloged locations in Ipswich, Australia. Uncover historical records and field investigation details.

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    Ipswich General Cemetery

    IpswichAustralia1840s–present

    Ipswich General Cemetery is one of Queensland's oldest pioneer burial grounds, dating back to the 1840s prior to the official separation of Queensland from New South Wales. Located directly opposite the site of a former mental asylum, this historic graveyard holds thousands of early pioneers, convicts, bushrangers, and notable regional figures. The cemetery is celebrated across Australian dark tourism circles for its dark history, eerie pioneer atmosphere, and long-running urban legends, including the famous 'Boy Made of Stone' monument, ghost sightings near the wall of the old saloon, and spectral figures wandering among weathered sandstone headstones.

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    St Mary's Catholic Church

    IpswichAustralia1849–present (Current church 1904)

    St Mary's Catholic Church in Ipswich, Queensland, is an iconic neo-Gothic sandstone landmark and one of the largest regional parish churches in Australia. Constructed between 1900 and 1904 to replace earlier 19th-century churches on the site, the grand church is famous for its intricate stained glass, historic 1915 pipe organ, and towering spires. Widely regarded by local historians as one of the most haunted places in Ipswich, St Mary's is renowned for supernatural legends surrounding its pipe organ playing unassisted late at night and reports of spectral figures in the choir loft.

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