I’m not sure how I got talked into taking a night time tour of a prison, the Fremantle Prison in Perth, Australia. But, my friends who are visiting wanted me to take them there. They said they did some research about the more unusual touristy things to do while in Perth. I picked them up at one of the better hotels Perth has to offer the hundreds of tourist it receives everyday. They were all excited, but I was leery.
When we arrived, there was already a small gathering of tourists. As we approached the prison we heard a terrifying scream pierce through the darkness, which gave me the heebie-jeevies and my friends gave out a small yelp. Then, just a few seconds later there was the noise of a dull thud, it was a male corpse hitting the net above us. My friends screamed, as did most of the other tourist, I almost peed my pants. Luckily, the dead male body was never alive, but was a fake body pushed out of the 3rd floor balcony that was a row of cells in the prison. Now, for the screams, they were the spooky antics of the staff running the tour of this maximum security prison. It was built by the convicts sent over from Britain. It closed in 1991 after 136 years of being a prison. Back in 1852 to 1860 they had the convicts construct the structure out of limestone, which to me seem quite odd, considering how soft a material limestone is. We found out after a tour of courtyard and cell lit by torchlight only that the chilling atmosphere with the supposed suicide attempt (the fake dead body) was a common occurrence at the prison. As the evening went on, the tour got scarier and scarier with seeing the gallows and the whipping post.
After the night-tour was over, I was really glad to be out of there and driving my friends back to their hotel. My friends wondered why I’ve never done the tour before now, and I looked in my rear view mirror and gasped, my friends jumped in their seat and grabbed on to each other saying ‘what?’, ‘what?’. I just laughed and said ‘got ya!’