From Old Parliament poltergeists to a mysterious force pinning people against the wall in the film archive building, to a ghostly ex-prime minister at historic Hotel Kurrajong, Canberra reportedly has the lot.
And they're all featured in a new paranormal travel guide, Haunted and Mysterious Australia, compiled by Canberra's Tim the Yowie Man.
"Some people say Canberra has no soul, especially in the Parliamentary triangle," the Yowie Man said, "but the reality is that there's hardly a national institution that's not harbouring a pesky poltergeist or two."
Tim the Yowie Man has spent the last decade travelling the country in search of Australia's most haunted places.
He changed his name formally to Tim the Yowie Man after spotting an unidentified black hairy creature in Canberra's Brindabella Mountains in 1994, and has since carved out a career as a mystery investigator.
Collecting stories from colonial-era towns and capital cities alike, the Yowie Man has presented them state by state in his new book, which is a first for Australian paranormal enthusiasts.
But it’s the ACT that boasts the highest number of ghostly reports per capita, and the Yowie Man says the region is the haunting ground of a particularly significant entity.
"The most famous ghost belongs to ex-Prime Minister Ben Chifley who chose to live at the Hotel Kurrajong in Barton instead of living at The Lodge, because he wanted to be known as a working class man," he said.
"He suffered a fatal heart attack in his room at the Kurrajong and there's a constant stream of reports, even as recent as the last couple of weeks, coming out of the Kurrajong of people seeing a grey-suited man pointing towards old Parliament House."
Queensland Premier Peter Beattie once said that Mr Chifley's decision to live at the Kurrajong came from a desire to be near the ghost of his wartime predecessor, John Curtin.
The book also lists Old Parliament House as one of the capital's most haunted buildings, with ghostly pairs of legs seen wandering the courtyards and windows mysteriously going up and down.
"Quite a few security guards over the years have requested transfers because of things going on in there, like they've had walkie-talkies ripped off their belt and thrown to the other side of King's Hall when they've been doing the graveyard shift," the Yowie Man said.
"As to who haunts it, it's a bit of a mystery. The Clerk of the Court did die there once, but I'm not exactly sure who belongs to these mischievous ghosts."
During the celebrations of the opening of Old Parliament House in May, 1927, an airman's plane crashed on the site of the modern day National Library and in the library’s basement many have reportedly seen the image of an airman.
Perhaps the most fiendish of all Canberra's ghosts, though, comes from the National Film and Sound Archive, which is built on the site of the former National Institute of Anatomy.
"Quite a few people get pinned up against the wall by an unknown force in the basement. If that happened to me, I wouldn't be too happy," the Yowie Man said.
"They struggle for breath as if someone's gripping them around the throat in a headlock and jamming them up against the wall.
"So that's probably a malicious ghost as opposed to the mischievous ghosts at Old Parliament House," the Yowie Man said.