The best Halloween events in Sydney for 2026

Australia’s biggest Halloween street festival is back for its third iteration, complete with a haunted woods, spooky cinema, markets and more.

The Rocks is arguably one of Sydney's most haunted precincts, which makes it the perfect place for all things Halloween. Dubbing it "Christmas for the dead", The Rocks Ghost Tours company reckon October 31 is the perfect time of year to uncover all that there is to be spooked by in this historic pocket of Sydney.

With open minds and willing spirits, we invite you to explore Sydney’s most haunted sites. These former asylums, abandoned roads, converted gaols and chilly tunnels may not appear to be the stuff of nightmares in the sensical light of day, but one too many shadowy coincidences coupled with gruesome histories have inspired us to get our ghost-hunting gear together and investigate.

From unexplainable sensations to terrifying sightings, visitors on these ghost tours will experience the spookier side of our city’s history. We’ve contacted the tour operators to find out whose tours are the scariest, which ghost stories are the most horrifying and if anything strange has taken place on one of their outings.

We’re not being dramatic when we say that basically everything in Sydney used to be a cemetery. Train station? Cemetery. Government building? Cemetery. Your favourite park? Cemetery. Those who were buried in those locations probably assumed their eternal resting place was, well, eternal. How wrong they were.

Dendy's House of Horror is back for one night only with a stacked line-up of spooky movies.