Toowong Cemetery Ghost Tour - The Other Side

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Overview

Available languages

English

2 hours 15 minutes

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Discover more real ghost tales of Toowong Cemetery including Jack the Ripper, Hungry Ghosts, “Spook Hill”, “He Was Waiting” and more…

Discover even more of the haunted history, myths and legends on the Toowong Cemetery THE OTHERSIDE Ghost Tour. Is Jack the Ripper buried in Toowong Cemetery? Decide for yourself as we visit his possible grave, hungry Chinese ghosts, weird “Spook Hill”, a creepy crypt, and where the bones of Governor Blackall lie…on this 2 hour guided historic ghost tour of THE OTHER SIDE of Toowong Cemetery.

Brisbane’s original historic ghost tours (est.1998) operated by haunted-historian Jack Sim, author of Ghost Trails Series GHOSTS OF TOOWONG CEMETERY.

Additional Info

Service animals allowed

Public transportation options are available nearby

Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries

Not recommended for pregnant travelers

Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health

Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness

All children under and including the age of 15 must be accompanied and supervised by an adult.

Ghost Tours are not suitable for children under 10 years, and will not be permitted on any tour.

A moderate amount of walking up steep hills is involved.

All travellers must have be fully vaccinated to attend the tour (unless you have a valid exemption or under the age of 16) - Proof of vaccination or exemption must be shown at check-in or you will be refused entry. No refund granted.

Clients must be wearing flat-soled enclosed shoes. If you are wearing thongs, sandals or high heels you will be declined entry. No refund granted.

Each guest is required to bring their own torch. Torch apps on smart phones are suitable.

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

What‘s Included

A copy of book: Ghosts of Toowong Cemetery by Jack Sim RRP $25.00

GST (Goods and Services Tax)

Donation to Ghost Tours’ Haunted Heritage Fund

Transportation to/from attractions

Torch

What To Expect

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Toowong Cemetery

Is Jack the Ripper buried in Toowong Cemetery? Decide for yourself as we visit his possible grave, hungry Chinese ghosts, weird “Spook Hill”, a creepy crypt, and where the bones of Governor Blackall lie…on this 2 hour guided historic ghost tour of the OTHER SIDE of Toowong Cemetery.

2 hours • Admission Included

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Toowong Cemetery Ghost Tour - The Other Side

Reviews

3.88

24 reviews

Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor

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  • Is that a ghost or a person?

    KirstyHolld,

    Aug 17, 2025

    - Review from Tripadvisor

    5.00

    This tour is fun for those who love history and the chance to be scared. We had a great time. Glory was an awesome tour guide! Definitely will do more of the tours available

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  • Very fun walk and...

    Rachel D,

    Jul 20, 2025

    - Review from Viator

    5.00

    Very fun walk and informative stories told along the way. The tour guide was lovely and helpful and entertaining a very well guided tour. 10/10

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  • Toowong Cemetery, The Other Side Tour - 10/10

    157karleem,

    Jun 22, 2025

    - Review from Tripadvisor

    5.00

    Last night, I attended "The Other Side" tour with my best friend, and her partner. It was incredible! Our host, Glory (I apologise if spelt wrong or I mis-rememebered her name), she is truly made for this job. We all absolutely adored her enthusiasm, personality and story telling abilities (both scripted and personal ones). You wouldn't have thought she was relevantly new to being a guide. I really enjoyed learning the history of the people whos final reating place is within the massive but gorgeous cemetery of Toowong. Brooke and I have also done the Original Tour, which is also very highly recommended! Ps, Shout out to Jack Slim for all his hard work, due diligence, research and passion to the craft. 10/10

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  • Night of fun

    O4415KLjimmyc,

    Jun 8, 2025

    - Review from Tripadvisor

    5.00

    First time being on this tour and i had a great time and did take some photos aswell. A BIG SHOUT OUT TO GLORY our tour guide she was amazing with the knowledge she shared with us and beautifully interpreted the stories to us which set the tone in each spot we stopped at.

  • Could have been a lot better

    margaretkD269VQ,

    Apr 6, 2025

    - Review from Tripadvisor

    2.00

    This poor review is NOT for 'The Other Side' Ghost Tour. I think they need to show very clearly on their booking site that 2 tours run at the same time on the same night, but from different entry points. We all thought we had tickets in the same thing, but it turned out we didn't. The 'Goth' looking gentleman at the main gates welcomed us all onto his tour. I'm not sure if the 2 tours are run the same way. But what our group agreed we didn't like was that we got to 'see' very little. It would have been much more enjoyable if he'd had a decent light and lit up the grave /memorial he was talking about while he spoke. Instead we spent long periods of 10-15 minutes at a time standing still in the dark, seeing nothing, and listening to him recite in an uncomfortably loud unpleasant voice, overlong boring tales. I would recommend use your normal voice (it was much nicer), light up the subject your talking about while you're talking, and shine the light while you're walking on some of the other beautiful monuments graves etc so the group can see them, shorten the stories by half, and perhaps not word for word for whats written in the pamphlet. That cemetery has lots of bones in it, there must be more interesting factual stories about the people in it surely. The goth guide, was a nice touch. He himself was lovely, but I'd prefer to have him speak to us in his own voice, rather than shouting aggressively at us. If he spoke normally, cut the stories in half time wise, use a decent light to light up interesting features, and the subject he's talking about, it would have been a much more entertaining tour. The most entertaining bit was when 2 people (who clearly thought the place would provide a bit of privacy for them) tried to sneak away among the trees forming dark shapes in the background, and then found to get out they had to walk through our group. I recommend you revamp this tour, as in it's current presentation format I couldn't recommend it.

  • A Halloween experience not to miss!

    madkat989,

    Nov 12, 2024

    - Review from Tripadvisor

    5.00

    A great experience, Glory was personable and professional and very knowledgable. A thoroughly good experience. I do have a suggestion, would it be possible to consider a crime or history tour of Toowong Cemetery? I have done both ghost tours for Toowong cemertery now and there is just so much history left to learn!

  • Very entreaging And curious to learn more

    Sarah B,

    Aug 25, 2024

    - Review from Viator

    5.00

    Very unique experience. The guide was very knowledgeable and have been left with wanting to learn more.

  • Atmospheric informative unique experience

    Sharon W,

    Jan 4, 2023

    - Review from Tripadvisor

    5.00

    Loved our information tour by Nat. Pleasant walking through the grounds on a beautiful night, fireworks in the distance a nice bonus! Went with my family

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  • Save your money

    Kerrie J,

    May 1, 2022

    - Review from Viator

    2.00

    The male staff was extremely rude not even a hello before he was upset with us for being in the wrong place then 12 people all driving around looking for a girl standing in the dark under a tree in all black in a side rd with ni sign light Indicating where to go then they were both clearly annoyed as we overheard then complaining we didn’t know where to go . Maybe a hi how are you sorry you didn’t find us but welcome then when we approached to ask were we in the right spot to be cut off and said il be with you in a moment while they were winging was very uncomfortable I wouldn’t recommend this tour to anyone drWn out weird voice condescending tone for 2 hrs with no sense of fun or a inclusion of the group was just not worth the over 1 hr drive and $45 to do sorry would definitely not recommend

  • Fun night

    Vacation06318497888,

    May 1, 2022

    - Review from Tripadvisor

    5.00

    Thank you for the valuable information on the history of Toowong Cemetery. It was a fun night as well as being in entertaining in the ghost stories. It is a beautiful part of Brisbane.

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3.88
24 reviews

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