Tiller Allen Rodney
| Type of person | Individual |
|---|---|
| Date of birth | 1976 |
| Place of birth | Gawler |
| Principal occupation | Historian, Paranormal Investigator, Library Assistant, Poet. |
Allen Rodney Tiller ALIAtech. DipFamHist.
Born 1976: Hutchinson Hospital, Gawler. Parents: Lionel Rodney and Lynette Dianne (nee Plate). Wife: Karen Tiller Children, Sarah and Chantelle.
<Allen Tiller> was born in Gawler, living with his parents at 16 Twenty-first Street, Gawler South. He was educated at Evanston Primary School, then Gawler High School.
Allen worked at Sutch Carpets, before moving to Queensland, where he worked for South Corp Wines, Linfox and Penrite Oils. After returning to South Australia in 2007, Allen worked as a forklift driver in various places, before spending some years at Clipsal (later Schneider Electric) at Gepps Cross.
Allen founded <Eidolon Paranormal> in 2007, <SA Paranormal> in 2009 and <The Haunts of Adelaide> in 2012. In 2013, Allen filmed the television show Haunting: Australia, which aired to an international audience. In 2014, Allen published his first book, The Haunts of Adelaide: History, Mystery and Paranormal”.
In 2016 Allen was invited by the City of Adelaide Libraries to be the inaugural ‘Historian in Residence’. The project, titled: “Haunted Buildings in Adelaide” was a world-first historical research project, looking into allegations of haunted buildings in the Adelaide Council zone. Allen was nominated for a history award in 2016.
In 2017, Allen was awarded the “Emerging Historian of the Year Award” by the History Council of South Australia. Also in 2017, Allen, in conjunction with the Port Adelaide Enfield Council, released a free, self-guided historically themed ghost walk of Port Adelaide called “Ghosts of the Port”.
The following year Allen, in conjunction with Anthony Frith and the Adelaide City Council and Adelaide Libraries, released a free audio-walking tour, called; “The Adelaide Ghosts and Ghouls Walking Tour”. Allen is also the author of Ghost of Port Walking Tour (City of Port Adelaide Enfield), The Haunting History of Salisbury Walking Tour, and the Foundation of a City Walking Tour - both written for the City of Salisbury, South Australia.
In 2019, Allen released his second book, a collection of poetry and short stories, titled: “<Shades of Black>”.
In 2020, Allen Tiller released a new book: " The Haunts of Adelaide: Revised Edition", which was released in paperback, large print, ebook, and dyslexic editions - a first for the paranormal community. (The Haunts of Adelaide: Revised Edition is available by <clicking here>. ) In 2021, Allen released the best-selling non-fiction paranormal history book 'Haunted Adelaide'.
Allen has appeared numerous times on the television show Today Tonight for paranormal-themed episodes, on SA Life, and in an unaired A Current Affair episode.
Allen is married to Karen Tiller (nee Paynter). The two met in a cemetery, and Allen later proposed in the same cemetery.
Allen was an Executive Member of the Gawler History Team Inc. from 2020. From 2021-2022 Allen was the Vice-Chairperson of the Gawler History Team. As of August 2022, Allen has stepped down from the executive and has become the website administrator.
Publications:
The Haunts of Adelaide: Revised Edition
Ghosts of the Port Self-Guided Walking Tour
Adelaide Ghosts and Ghouls Walking Tour
The Haunts of Adelaide: History, Mystery and the Paranormal
Please <click here> to view photos and media of Allen Tiller.
Humans of Gawler - Allen Tiller - The Haunts of Adelaide
“Some people suffer from resting bitch face, me, I suffer from resting grumpy face. I might look eternally annoyed, but if you see me around Gawler, say hello, you might be pleasantly surprised!” Allen was born in Gawler at the Hutchinson Hospital and was educated at Evanston Primary School and Gawler High School. Later he worked for Gawler Icons, Sutch Carpets and in his 20s he moved to Queensland to work for Southcorp Wines, then Linfox, returning to SA in the mid-2000s. He used to play as a kid at Dead Man's Pass, sailing little homemade boats along the creek and catching tadpoles - you can’t really do either today. He also used to play in the Jeff Bros Golden Crust Warehouse, on the corner of 18th and 23rd Streets which are now townhouses. "My mates and I used to go to the Mobile at Evanston, as it was the only 24-hour servo, there was no Gawler Green, no Evanston homemaker centre, no roundabouts, and the only traffic lights were the crossing at the servo - they also did an awesome gorilla dog!" In 2007 Allen founded a paranormal investigation team called Eidolon Paranormal, then in 2009 SA Paranormal. In 2012 he founded The Haunts of Adelaide, which spawned a book of the same name. In 2013, Allen starred in the television show Haunting: Australia, which was viewed by an international audience. Since then, Allen has twice been a Historian in Residence at the Adelaide City Libraries, writing two free self-guided ghost tours and a book of poetry and short stories. Allen works at the Gawler Library Service, and studies online at the University of Tasmania, working towards a B.A. in History, to further his knowledge on preserving local history, which is his passion. Allen’s father and grandfather both worked at the Gawler Railway Station, which Allen grew up near, living in the house his dad designed and built himself on Twenty-first Street. Allen’s uncle, Lance, was famous for being the penny-farthing rider for almost 50 years in the Adelaide Christmas Pageant.
First shared on Gawler in Photographs ‘Humans of Gawler’ series 15 July 2020.
Photographs by Daniel James Down. Please click here to visit the Gawler in Photographs Facebook page.
Gawler History Team Inc thanks Daniel James Down (Gawler in Photographs) and the subjects of ‘Humans of Gawler’ for allowing us to preserve their profiles and photographs for future generations of Gawlerites to enjoy.
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