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The City of Playford is a relatively new area, but within the city are many older suburbs such as Smithfield, Angle Vale, One Tree Hill and Uleybury. Within these older towns lie some of the areas' most haunted locations.

Join paranormal historian Allen Tiller as he investigates ghosts, hauntings and monsters in the City of Playford. Learn about...

Kapunda, dubbed the most Haunted town in the Western World after a 2001 documentary, Kapunda is a town full of history, mystery, and the paranormal. The North Kapunda Hotel was voted 8th most haunted hotel in the world by MSN in 2019 and has been featured in the documentary, Kapunda: Most Haunted Town in the Western World, and the television...

Built in 1848 by the North Kapunda Mining Company, the North Kapunda Arms Hotel opened to the public in 1849. The original building was a single-story hotel with a double-storey accommodation wing for miners and travellers on Franklin Street (now Crase Street). The accommodation building still stands today and is the oldest original structure...

The Kapunda Congregational Church, located on Chapel Street, Kapunda, served the local community for more than 100 years. Many of Kapunda’s well-known citizens, including William Oldham, James and William Shannon, the Hawke family, and Sir Sidney and Lady Isabel Kidman, attended the church.

A Welsh Congregational Church, located on Stow Street,...

On dark and stormy nights, a phantom walks Port Wakefield Road, hitchhiking to Adelaide. He wears a long, Australian Air Force jacket, with a RAAF uniform underneath. He hitches a ride, and then vanishes from the car… Who is this ghost that has been reported since the 1940s? Is he the only ghost walking Port Wakefield Road, and what other...

The Pirate Bushrangers is a true story of murder, robbery, and bloodshed across three Australian States. Patrick O’Connor and Henry Bradley were convicts sent to Port Arthur in Tasmania. Both were noted for increasingly bad behaviour and sent to the notorious penal colony on Norfolk Island to be broken.

After serving their time in the infamous...

Haunted Salisbury: South Australia is the culmination of many years of research into the haunted history of Salisbury, South Australia by award winning paranormal historian, Allen Tiller. In this book, Allen Tiller investigates the origins of historic local hauntings and crimes, Salisbury’s founding, and the people who shaped the City of...

In Haunted Adelaide, Allen Tiller views ghost stories through a pragmatic lens. Rather than sensationalising the stories, Haunted Adelaide investigates the paranormal through fact-checked, historical information that adds authenticity to some stories and debunks others.

Unlike other paranormal research books, Haunted Adelaide values...

The Haunts of Adelaide: History, Mystery, and the Paranormal is researched and written by award-winning historian Allen Tiller.

This second edition of The Haunts of Adelaide has been completely rewritten with extra historical facts, footnotes, an index, more photos, and, most importantly, more ghost stories!

Join Allen Tiller, one of Australia’...

A collection of poetry, prose and short stories written by award-winning historian and paranormal investigator Allen Tiller over three decades. This collection includes many previously unpublished original works written by Allen in his early twenties.