Are there any ghost stories associated with All Hallows?
There are plenty of rumours, probably linked to the active imaginations of some of the students, including: suicides from the top of McAuley Hall and from the Wall itself; a lit candle in one of the upper storey windows in the Main Building late at night; secret tunnels throughout the grounds; and other tales of murder and death! There is no evidence to support these theories. However, the laundry (built 1897) and yard (known as the bleach) was the site of the earliest cemetery of the Sisters of Mercy, where the first six sisters were buried and later reinterred in Nudgee Cemetery. It is believed that the yard was formerly in a different location closer to St Gertrudes grounds, and one source indicated that McAuley Hall now stands on the site of the original bleach. We also have over 1100 religious relics within the collection of the Mercy Heritage Centre. Relics are basically the bones of saints defined in more detail as the body, a part of the body, or some personal memorial of a sai
