Brisbane Dark Stories True Crime Tour: A Historic Exploration of the City's Infamous Criminal Past

Uncover the dark secrets of Brisbane’s criminal past on a guided walking tour. Explore the city’s infamous history of brawlers, fraudsters, and love triangles gone wrong.

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Brisbane - Our guide will take you to revisit the scenes of the crime, secret locations in addition to enjoying some breathtaking views.
What's Included
  • Knowledgeable Tour Host
  • 90 Minute Tour
Additional Information

Take a Walk on the Dark Side…\n\nDon’t be fooled by the bright lights and bustling city streets. This city has a past…a dark past…\n\nEnjoy a leisurely guided walking tour retracing the steps of the city’s most infamous men.\n\nTransport yourself back in time to a seemingly lawless world of brawlers, fraudsters, and love triangles gone wrong.\n\nUncover the dark secrets that lurk behind every historic building and alleyway.\n\nWander the city streets with your tour guide and experience firsthand the rich history that once reigned supreme around every corner.\n\nBook your ticket now for a unique investigation into the criminal underbelly that once plagued this fine city.\n\nThe glamour of current day Brisbane tried to hide its brutal and bloody past, but there is only so much the bright lights of Bris-Vegas can mask.\n\nForget what you think you know about Brisbane and join us for a jaw-dropping trip down a memory lane you never knew existed.\n\n…stories the city tried to forget…

Location
King George Square
Departure Point: Meets at the front entrance of the Brisbane City Hall in King George Square. Please arrive 15 minutes before your scheduled tour start time.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Tonlee2020
Jul 13, 2024
Amazing, interesting, and a wonderful experience - India had great knowledge and had the great experience. Highly recommend this tour. You will be surprised how much you didn’t know, until this tour
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Brookecr6438ix
Jul 13, 2024
Great murder tour - The night was so much fun and had our amazing tour guide India who was incredible. Tour was filled with so much interesting stories around places I would never have thought. Highly recommend doing this tour.
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701lyndal
Jul 7, 2024
Captivating story-telling and amazing customer service - Brilliant tour conducted by Maddy. She was engaging and captured everyone’s attention with her wonderful story-telling. Our thanks to David for accommodating our group of 11 and for his excellent communication. We loved our time in Brisbane.
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Explore43565032200
Jul 5, 2024
Informative, fun, relaxed night out for date night - Great night spent walking through the CBD and hearing stories of Brisbanes dark past. Maddie was a fantastic story teller and had me captivated with every stop we made.
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David_c
May 22, 2024
Great experience for locals and tourists alike. - As a local, great to get a better understanding of the city I call home, and a wonderful opportunity to see the city in a unique and interesting way.
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Arth299
Apr 4, 2024
Thank you Maddie for a great tour - Our guide, Maddie, was very energetic, knowledgeable, and fun to listen to. It was a great way to walk through Brisbane in the evening and learn more about the town.
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201holidayhappy
May 18, 2024
Something different after the sights and you find some hidden gems - Good story telling from our Guide. Interesting history of Brisbane woven into the stories. Walked around some of the city that I wouldn’t have seen otherwise.
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358jayneg
Apr 13, 2024
More animation/enthusiasm from the Tour Guide is needed - The stories were interesting, but the tour guide was not entertaining or engaging, which was disappointing. A more animated and enthusiastic tour guide would have made this experience far better.
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J1376quchristinem
Jul 12, 2024
Boring 🥱 - Not very exciting - boring 🥱 Guide was friendly enough but not very interactive. The whole experience was quite dull and it felt more like a school excursion.
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Natgazz
Jun 20, 2024
Very poor and unskilled “guide” - I’ve done many walking tours around the world so I was excited to try one in my home town of Brisbane. What a disappointment. Our “tour guide” had limited knowledge or storytelling ability but did enjoy sharing her political views with her incredibly hard to understand semi-American accent. Surely it’s not hard to find an actual local to conduct these tours? She shared some vaguely interesting stories but with limited-to-no surrounding context. She has a folder of badly printed photographs to show but that’s about it. These stories can be shared and bought to life by a good guide but this guide was just regurgitating some basic stories without any personality or intonation in her delivery. Her historical knowledge as we as her general knowledge of Brisbane was very poor and her conversation limited to anecdotes from past visitors on the tour. One of the other guests asked 3 times “What’s that building” and the guide just kept replying “The Services Club”. A quick google search revealed it to be an important historical building known as the “The United Services Club of Queensland”. Brisbane can do better than this and I hope in the lead up to the Olympics there might be some consideration of a tour guide accreditation scheme so individuals like this and the companies who hire them are weeded out. I would encourage you elsewhere for a walking tour, true crime or otherwise
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