Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tristan Lavalette is an Australia-based reporter who covers cricket. On the eve of the first Test, ahead of a blockbuster ...

In the early 1990s, a series of horrifying discoveries in Australia’s Belanglo State Forest revealed the work of a brutal serial killer targeting young backpackers. The man responsible, Ivan Milat, ...

Films tend to set up and solve mysteries. But in Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), based on Joan Lindsay’s 1967 novel and evocatively orchestrated with Gheorghe Zamfir’s maddeningly ...

Woodford Academy, set in the Blue Mountains, offers a dark and often chilling history. With witnesses reporting numerous sightings of inexplicable presences, the Haunting: Australia team take to the ...

Residents of Picton often cross paths with ghostly figures. While shadows in windows, ghost dogs roaming the graveyard and a railway tunnel haunted by the women killed in it all scream ‘Halloween ...

From around the world they have come. The best ghost hunters in the business have descended on Australia in a quest to obtain evidence of the afterlife. Difficult terrain, terrifying ghosts and ...