What does it take to be a ghost hunter or paranormal tour guide?
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00:00What makes someone chase ghosts down dark alleys and stumble through cemeteries with
00:12a pack of tourists on Halloween night?
00:14Well, I spoke to some of Australia's spookiest tourism operators to find out why they love
00:20what they do.
00:21It's so interesting to see what sort of people come on the tours.
00:24No two tours I've ever run have been the same.
00:27It's always a very different group of interesting people that will come, and I find that everyone
00:34that comes on these ghost tours has always got very interesting stories.
00:37Ice Ice Baby, that's not her real name, leads silent disco dance parties through Castlemaine
00:43in country Victoria.
00:45Ghouls and goblins and monsters and mischief and vixens come out in hordes in Castlemaine
00:52to robe the streets, howling and eating brains.
00:59She runs these tours with her company Detour to make the people around her smile.
01:05We were zombies and we went into the local Chinese restaurant and the owners were wondering
01:15what was going on and filmed us.
01:16It's fantastic how outrageous everybody's acting and people love it.
01:23But there are some on-the-job risks.
01:26I've always been very interested in the supernatural, but I hadn't had my own experience until one
01:34of the stories that I share on the tour.
01:36I was standing in the middle of the road, telling a ghost story on the tour, and then
01:43I saw out of the corner of my eye this 1920s style car turn up the road and came speeding
01:50towards me.
01:51It was coming so fast I didn't have time to move out of the way, and I felt it hit me.
01:55And then I looked at everyone in the group and they all appeared to me like I was going
01:59crazy and it disappeared.
02:02And I was honestly so excited when that happened because it was my first proper experience.
02:07So would you want to be a ghost hunter or a Halloween dance captain?
02:13I would love to be a ghost hunter.
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