Our Halloween tours are starting to fill up already....
Halloween is always the busiest time of year for Ghost tours, and this year is no exception.
If you are thinking about running a great night out for your business or social group this coming halloween month of October, or simply wanting to make a night of it with a few friends, We are running three sessions a night over the Halloween fortnight of October 21st to November 3rd
(OUR TOURS GO OUT IN ALL WEATHERS. PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU WEAR COMFORTABLE WALKING SHOES, BRING WARM CLOTHING AND BRING WET WEATHER GEAR IF NEEDED. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF OUR TOURS, CLICK HERE)
6.15pm - Family Friendly session
8.15pm - Adults only session
11.15pm - Graveyard Shift
please call on 02 8197 0363 and ask for Daniel. You need to book in now to avoid disappointment
If you are thinking about running a great night out for your business or social group this coming halloween month of October, or simply wanting to make a night of it with a few friends, We are running three sessions a night over the Halloween fortnight of October 21st to November 3rd
(OUR TOURS GO OUT IN ALL WEATHERS. PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU WEAR COMFORTABLE WALKING SHOES, BRING WARM CLOTHING AND BRING WET WEATHER GEAR IF NEEDED. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF OUR TOURS, CLICK HERE)
6.15pm - Family Friendly session
8.15pm - Adults only session
11.15pm - Graveyard Shift
please call on 02 8197 0363 and ask for Daniel. You need to book in now to avoid disappointment
Vote for " The Grey Ghost" William the Weimaraner's
Halloween 2013 costume - click here!
What is Halloween?
It would be easy to think that Halloween is a creation of the U.S.A, spread through television and movies, to other parts of the English speaking world.
But you would be wrong.
It goes back much, much further than that, to the Celtic peoples of Western France, Scotland and Ireland, pre-dating the Roman empire.
Halloween is an annual holiday observed on October 31. It has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain, that was taken over by the later creation of the Christian holiday All Saints Day, but is today largely a non-religious celebration.
Common Halloween activities include trick or treating, wearing costumes, and attending costume parties, carving jack-o-lanterns, ghost tours, bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, committing pranks, telling ghost stories or other frightening tales, and watching horror films.
History of Halloween
According to Wikipedia, historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while "some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, whose original spelling was Samuin (pronounced sow-an or sow-in)".
The name is derived from Old Irish, and means roughly "summer's end". A similar festival was held by the ancient Britons and is known as Calan Gaeaf ( pronounced Kálan Gái av).
The festival of Samhain celebrates the end of the "lighter half" of the year and beginning of the "darker half", and is sometimes regarded as the "Celtic New Year".
The ancient Celts believed that the border between this world and the OtherWorld / spirit realm, became thin on Samhain, allowing spirits (both harmless and harmful) to pass through. The family's ancestors were honoured and invited home, while harmful spirits were warded off. It is believed that the need to ward off harmful spirits led to the wearing of costumes and masks. Their purpose was to disguise yourself as a harmful spirit and thus avoid being harmed. Evil spirits were stated to go looking for bodies to possess – and dressing up as a ghoul was a way of discouraging them, by effectively hanging a “no vacancy” sign over your head. In Scotland the spirits were impersonated by young men dressed in white with masked, veiled or blackened faces. Samhain was also a time to take stock of your food supplies and slaughter livestock for winter stores. Bonfires played a large part in the festivities. All other fires were doused and each home lit their hearth from the bonfire. The bones of slaughtered livestock were cast into its flames. Sometimes two bonfires would be built side-by-side, and people and their livestock would walk between them as a cleansing ritual.
Another common practice was fortune telling, which often involved the use of food and drink.
The name 'Halloween' and many of its present-day traditions derive from the Old English era.
Origin of the name Halloween
The word Halloween is first attested in the 16th century and represents a Scottish variant of the fuller All-Hallows-Eve, that is, the night before All Hallows Day. Although the phrase All Hallows is found in Old English (ealra hálȝena mæssedæȝ, the feast of all saints), All-Hallows-Even is itself not attested until 1556.
SydneyGhostTour.Com's "Monster" Halloween Party
We celebrate the night of the year
that the barrier between the physical world and the spiritual world gets thin, with a "Monster" Halloween Costume party.
As the founder of the company is a former DanceSport competitor, and was one of the movie extras in the film " Strictly Ballroom", lots of amazing music, fantastic dancing , feasting and frivolity takes place at our celebration, in a Cemetery lit with flaming torches.
This party is an invitation only event, that we hold for our "Crypt Insider" Sydney Ghost Tours fan club, our friends and all of the people who have helped us go from a standing start in 2009, to being the leading Sydney Ghost Tours company today.
Every year we try to top the previous year with:
- Magicians,
- Amazing music that you just won' t be able to stay still to,
- group and individual show dancing, inviting top national and international dancesport dancers,
- known mediums and psychics to join the party,
- Sydney's spookiest Halloween party location,
- and with the best Australian produce, cooked on site, to create incredibly delicious food, worthy of any Roman Parentalia celebration, or Celtic Samhain Feast
More details are available to our Crypt Insiders:
if you want to be kept in the loop, and perhaps even score an invitation - click here! and go to the bottom of this page..
Halloween Songs
This is just a small sample of the playlist of our annual 'MONSTER" Halloween party - please enjoy!:
A Nightmare on my Street - Will Smith & DJ Jazzy Jeff
Abracadabra - The Steve Miller Band
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
AC/DC - Hells Bells
Addams Family Groove - MC Hammer
Alfred Hitchcock Theme
Bad to the Bone - George Thoroughgood and the Destroyers
Bewitched - Original TV theme sung by Peggy Lee
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered - Cher & Rod Stewart
Black Cat - Janet Jackson
Black Magic Woman - Santana
Boogie Monster - Gnarls Barkley
Boris The Spider - The Who
Born to be Wild - Steppenwolf ( From Easy Rider Soundtrack )
Dark Lady - Cher
Dead Man’s Curve by Jan & Dean
Devil Inside by INXS
The Devil went down to Georgia- The Charlie Daniels Band
Devil With the Blue Dress On by Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
Devil Woman - Cliff Richard
Ding Dong the Witch is Dead - Glee cast
Do You Believe In Magic by Aly & AJ
Doin’ the Zombie by Chubby Checker
Dry Bones by The Delta River Boys
Elvira by The Oak Ridge Boys
Evil Ways by Santana
Evil Woman by Electric Light Orchestra
Express Yourself by Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
Feed My Frankenstein - Alice Cooper
Friend of the Devil by Grateful Dead
Fright night by Elysian Fields
Ghost by Slash, Ian Astbury and Izzy Stradlin
More Halloween songs....
Ghost Voices by Mannheim Steamroller
Ghostbusters by Ray Parker Jr
Halloween Theme Song
Haunted House (From “Halloween”) by The City of Prague Philharmonic
Haunted House by Jumpin’ Gene Simmons
Haunted House of Rock by Whodini
He’s a Pirate by Klaus Badelt
I Put a Spell on You - Queen Latifah
I Put A Spell On You - Sonique
I Put a Spell On You by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
I Want Candy by Bow Wow Wow
I'm Your Boogie Man - K.C. and the Sunshine Band
In the Midnight Hour by Wilson Pickett
Kids of the Future by Jonas Brothers
King Tut by The Hit Crew
Kung Fu Fighting by Carl Douglas
Lil’ Red Riding Hood by Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs
Linus and Lucy by George Winston
Little Shop of Horrors by Jennifer Leigh Warren, Leilani Jones & Sheila Kay Davis
Love Potion No. 9 by The Searchers
Macho Man by Village People
Magic Man by Heart
Marie Laveau by Bobby Bare
Men In Black by Will Smith
Monster is Loose - Meat Loaf
Monster Mash - Bobby "Boris" Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers
Monster’s Holiday by Bobby “Boris” Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers
Munster's Theme Song
Nightmare On My Street - DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince -
Nobody Loves a Pirate by The Hit Crew
On Our Own - Bobby Brown -
Overture by Danny Elfman
Party Like a Rock Star by Shop Boyz
People Are Strange by The Doors
Prince - Batdance
Psycho Theme Song by Mannheim Steamroller
Remains of the Day by Danny Elfman
Riders of the Storm – The Doors
Rock Star by Prima J
Runnin’ with the Devil by John Cowan Band
Scary Monsters - David Bowie
Scooby Doo by The C.R.S. Players
Scream Dream by Ted Nugent
Sesame Street Theme by Elmo
She Blinded Me With Science by Thomas Dolby
Sittin’ Up With the Dead by Ray Stevens
Somebody’s Watching Me by Rockwell
Soul Man by The Blues Brothers
Spider-Man Theme by Michael Bublé
Spiderman Theme by The Hit Crew
Spooky - David Sanborn
Spooky by The Classics IV
Sympathy for the Devil – The Rolling Stones, or Guns N Roses
Super Freak by Rick James
Supernatural Thing by Ben E. King
Superstition by Stevie Wonder
Teenage Frankenstein - Alice Cooper
Thank God for Kids by The Oak Ridge Boys
That Old Black Magic - Sammy Davis, Jr.
The Addams Family by Kidz Bop Kids
The Blob by The Metrolites
The Cat Came Back by Fred Penner
The Cat Came Back by Rolf Harris
The Devil Went Down to Georgia by Charlie Daniels Band
The Legend of Wooley Swamp by The Charlie Daniels Band
The Munster’s Theme by Jack Marshall
The Omen Theme
The Pumpkin Twist by Victor R. Vampire and friends
The Purple People Eater by Sheb Wooley
The Reaper by Mannheim Steamroller
The Simpsons Theme by Hans Zimmer
Theme From A Nightmare On Elm Street - Soundtrack
Theme from Bewitched - The Hit Crew
Theme From Halloween by John Carpenter
Theme From Jaws - Lalo Shifrin
Theme From The Shining - Soundtrack
Theme From X-Files - Dust Brothers
They’re Coming to Take Me Away Ha! Haa!! by Napoleon’s Ghost
This Is Halloween by The Citizens of Halloween
Thomas the Tank Engine by The Goggle Box Band
Thriller by Michael Jackson
Time Warp by The Rocky Horror Show Original Cast
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor -J S Bach
Toxic by Britney Spears
Tubular Bells Pt. 1 - Theme From The Exorcist - Mike Oldfield
Twilight Zone by Neil Norman
Voodoo - The Neville Brothers
Walk Like an Egyptian by The Bangles
We Like to Party by Crazy Frog
Werewolves of London – Warren Zevon
When you’re strange – The Doors
When October Goes by Barry Manilow
Who Let the Ghost Out by The Hit Crew
Witch Doctor by Sha Na Na
Witchcraft - Frank Sinatra or Nancy Wilson
Witchy Woman by Eagles
Worms Crawl In by Robert Walsh
You Can Do Magic by America
(You're the) Devil in Disguise by Elvis Presley
