Around The Rocks

Horror fans and fright fanatics, this one's for you. After a super successful debut year, which attracted 115,000 Sydneysiders and visitors to The Rocks, the historic precinct's immersive Halloween fest is back – this time with an upgraded program and spooky-as-hell parties running well into the night. Here's everything you need to know about Ghost Festival 2.0.Back in June of 2024, something spooky cropped up in The Rocks, with visitors spotting what appeared to be a ghost looming in the windows above Sydney’s oldest pub. After a lot of speculation, the “ghost” was later revealed to be a cheeky teaser for a huge Halloween festival, which first popped up in The Rocks last spring. Now, the organisers behind Ghost Festival have confirmed that the huge precinct-wide spook fest will be returning for a second year.Kicking off on October 30, Ghost Festival 2025 will take over The Rocks for four terrifying nights – transforming the entire historic precinct into a spine-chilling phantom’s playground for four days of haunted feasts, spooky storytelling and supernatural experiences. Though the event will play into fantastical Halloween tropes – with “zombies” roaming the streets and tentacles protruding from buildings – it will also lean on the eerie history of The Rocks, with interactive experiences taking inspiration from the precinct’s history. During the daytime, The Rocks will play host to an immersive Halloween market – with stallholders slinging spooky goods and food trucks...