What is Dark Stories?

Dark Stories specialises in city based True Crime Tours that returns you the scenes of the crimes from the dark past. You will get to retrace the steps of the most infamous from the city's crime history, uncover the forgotten stories that are both 100% unbelievable, but 100% true.

What variety of experiences does Dark Stories provide?

Dark Stories offers a diverse range of immersive experiences, including True Crime Tours, True Crime Cruises, Murder Mystery Parties, and Dark Theatre Shows. Additional services include Private True Crime Tours and School Excursions. Book now in a Crime History experience and judge for yourself.

Where do the Dark Stories True Crime Tours take place?

Dark Stories True Crime Tours operates in Adelaide, Brisbane, Fortitude Valley, Fremantle, Maitland, Melbourne, Newcastle, Perth and Sydney with several additional specialist crime history boutique offerings.

What makes Dark Stories a unique provider for a True Crime Tour?

Dark Stories stands out as a unique provider of True Crime Tours by offering immersive and engaging experiences that delve into the dark and often hidden crime histories of the city's past. Crime History is not just about recounting facts. Dark Stories brings to life the forgotten stories through the art of storytelling, all the while retracing the footsteps of the dark past.

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Explore Our City Based True Crime Tours

Adelaide’s True Crime Tour

Adelaide may be known as the City of Churches, but it might also be known as the City of Crime. Beneath its quaint charm lies a dark history filled with intrigue and mystery.

Brisbane’s True Crime Tour

The glamour of current-day Brisbane tries to hide its brutal and bloody past, but there is only so much the bright lights of Brisbane can mask.

Fremantle’s True Crime Tour

Fremantle has a history filled with more than just the salt of the sea. Beneath the lively port town lies a darker side forged in the shadows of its wharves, rough streets, and the notorious men who called it home.

Maitland’s True Crime Tour

Small towns hold the biggest secrets. Maitland is an old town with an incredible history full of True Crime stories that time insisted were lost to the dustbin of history…until now.

Melbourne’s True Crime Tour

Rip away the fabric of polite society and take your chance to travel back in time to unearth the buried secrets that lurk beneath Melbourne’s streets.

Newcastle’s True Crime Tour

Relive the history of Newcastle’s hidden past and darkest moments as this grand old town’s Novocastrian skeletons beg to come out of the closet.

Perth’s True Crime Tour

Perth, where black swans grace the waters, but with a history shaped by black swan events at the hands of Australia’s most notorious criminals.

Sydney’s True Crime Tour

Take a trip back to old Sydney town, which might seem like heaven to you now but was once populated by the desperate, the destitute, and the dastardly.

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Fortitude Valley’s True Crime Tour

Shine a light on Fortitude Valley and join us for a memorable trip down the glamourous, glitzy, and corruption-laden past. Will you be in on the joke?

Sydney’s Razor Gangs Crime Tour

Relive Sydney’s Razor Gang era – a time of gangsters with larger-than-life personalities brutally engaged in the sharp edge of a fully fledged gang war.

Dark Stories True Crime Gift Cards

Give the gift of darkness to that special someone this year – the perfect gift for True Crime lovers. Valid for any True Crime Tour in any town we operate.

Dark Stories Private Functions

Enquire today about a Private Function for your special occasion, such as a Private True Crime Tour, a Murder Mystery Party, or even a School Excursion.

About Dark Stories True Crime Tours

Join our expert guides on a journey through the dark and sinister side of your city. Discover the hidden stories, unsolved crimes, and chilling tales that lurk in the shadows. Experience the thrill of returning to the scenes of the crimes and uncovering your town’s darkest, most notorious, and most captivating true crime stories.

What Our Guests Say

A Great Night Out

Our guide was knowledgeable and fun. It was interesting to learn about Brisbane’s dark past. A great night out!

Amazing and Interesting Night!

Walking around won’t be the same after having this experience. It was an amazing
experience learning about all the dark crime that has gone on in my hometown.

Great local adventure

It was a fun experience with our lovely guide. You learn quite a few things about how criminals got dealt with in the past. In quite a few spots, I was surprised at the amount of the old buildings that are still there. A nice evening walk too.

Great Rocks Tour and Amazing Guide!

Our guide has to be one of the most enthusiastic and engaging guides I have ever met. This tour was a very nicely priced great way to get an overview of the rocks area, and I learnt new things and saw new places, which I wasn’t sure was possible.

Great Experience for Something a Bit Different

This tour was fantastic!! We toured around some really interesting unknown alleyways around the Rocks area and we were guided by an amazing, insightful and great storytelling guide. Would highly recommend this to anyone to enjoy a the combination of history and true crime thrills.

Great Experience

I thoroughly enjoyed this night. Tour guide was informative and totally enthusiastic in her story telling. Her passion for true crime history was clearly evident mixed in with some great humour that you just had to laugh at.

Unique Experience

Our tour guide was just fantastic. The tour was worth every cent and incredibly unique. We loved hearing all the true crime razor gang stories, learning about the key players of the underworld and seeing their stomping ground.

Fun Night Out

Our guide was full of energy and so engaging in her story telling of the Razor Gangs. So amazing to hear their stories and see where they lived and conducted business.

Razor Gang Tour

We wanted to try something a little different and that’s just what we got! Our tour guide was super bubbly and a natural story teller and we enjoyed walking around areas that we never even knew existed, learning about the Razor Gang stories of the 1920’s and 1930’s.

Will be Recommending the Crime Cruise to Everyone!

I loved the stories told by our hosts! They were delivered with enthusiasm and were super interesting. I did not know about any of the true crime stories. It was a gorgeous sunny day, perfect for being out on the harbour.

Relaxing and Educational

Excellent tour combined with being on the Sydney Harbour for the morning, made for a relaxing experience and we did indeed learn alot from Sydney’s sordid past.

Fantastic! Thank you.

We had a wonderful time. The Stories were great and told with great character, with very warm and caring service, felt valued.

Top Marks

We had a terrific night with the tour. Our guide was informative and clearly loved her role and the histories of the stories she was telling. And it had just the right amount of theatrics backed by fact.

Tour Guide was Awesome!

The tour was great! Really interesting stories, great locations, friendly, attentive and engaging
guide, and overall a great evening and experience. 😊

Thoroughly Researched and Presented Making the Stories Come Alive

I’ve been a crime reporter for various UK newspapers for many years and worked at the Old Bailey and High Court so I appreciate detailed knowledge. Our tour guide always had answers to questions extending the stories and that was great, as she was not simply regurgitating a script.

Historically Fascinating

A fascinating recount of Fortitude Valley’s shady past. The crime, the corruption,
the movers & shakers of the time make for a truly interesting experience.

We loved it and will definitely do more tours!

We loved the little details and how the dominoes all fall at the end. We been on tours before that discuss briefly crimes like the whiskey a-go-go but had no idea how deep it ran and how all these events were interconnected.

My Appetite has been Whet

Our guide was brilliantly educated on the content, and extremely engaging and entertaining. We had an amazing experience learning about OUR city and the dark past that I was thankfully oblivious to when growing up in the 70s and 80s.

Truly a fascinating tour!

I didn’t know this side of Newcastle’s history and it’s really interesting! Our guide was excellent
guide and very knowledgable, and her sense of humour was quite grand indeed! All around,
quite an awesome tour, with an awesome guide, and fascinating history.

Night Tour of the City!

Highly recommend a tour of the city in the night with Dark Stories. I saw Newcastle in a different way. Historical, factual and quite remarkable. Our guide was EXCEPTIONAL going above and beyond and so full of knowledge. I had a very enjoyable time. Thank you.

Terrific Tour

A friend and I had a wonderful tour with our guide. She was so warm,friendly and knowledgeable. The stories were so fascinating and left us wanting more. One story in particular was the stuff of a Stephen King novel! I can’t wait to revisit Newy to do the tour again! Highly recommended!

Awesome Crime Tour

Great tour! Our guide was delightful and witty. Wear comfy shoes, and don’t worry, you’ll
walk into dimly lighted corners of the town, but we weren’t murdered.

Great Night Out With Friends

The whole tour was fantastic; our guide was both entertaining and informative. Such a great
way to check out this beautiful town and learn some of Maitland’s dark history

Interesting and Entertaining

We did the Maitland True Crime Tour with a lovely guide. She gave us all the story
information with a delightfully entertaining, sometimes quirky twist.