Strange and Weird Stories - Haunted Theme Park

Just a little out of the area but these haunting images came through to me on TROVE today whilst researching some new stories.

I remember Australia's Wonderland at Eastern Creek.

Very sketchy memories - I think it was where I got on my last roller coaster ride.
Not doing that sh*t again!!

Do you have any memories or photos of Australia's Wonderland?
And..more to the point... was it really haunted?

Tharunka (Kensington, NSW : 1953 - 2010), Monday 26 April 2004

Eastern Creek's new haunted amusement park opens.

The suburb of Eastern Creek has a new and exciting piece of infrastructure: Sydney's newest 'the old amusement park on the edge of town'.

With the closure of Wonderland Sydney, developers have leapt at the opportunity to create a derelict funfair that will provide world-class facilities to vandals, reclusive evil geniuses, organised crime networks and - of course - ghosts.

One of the park's exciting new 'themed lands' takes its cue from the 2002 Robert de Niro film City By The Sea, and another from Clockwork Orange.

Locals are viewing the new abandoned amusement park with some suspicion, however, noting that some laid-off Wonderland workers "went crazy were never seen again".

But in the event of madcap horror outbreaks, who will protect Western Sydney?

Not Scooby-Doo, it seems: the canine hero and his pals have been relocated from their Wonderland base to MovieWorld in Queensland.

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