It started simply enough with three knocks at the front door … but no one to be found outside. Next came unexplained tapping in time to family sing-alongs. Then, an invisible force began rattling crockery and windows, thumping on walls, banging on floors and rocking beds. These mysterious incidents would force one Rockhampton family to…
Today we are all connected to the information superhighway. Information we stumble upon in this electronic ether may be accurate, of great benefit and, yes, sometimes even enlightening. Other information … well, not so much. So it seems too, information gleaned from that other ether, the world of spirits of the dead, may prove to…
A woman prepares for bed, on her mind is an upcoming train journey. Then, as she joins her husband beneath the bedclothes, she notices something. A faint light glows by the bedroom door. The perplexed woman watches this strange light for several minutes, wondering to herself whatever could it mean. Her husband, lying beside her,…
Around 1891, Peter Stein, a “hard headed, practical, frugal German,” sold his property at Wagga Wagga, packed up his family, including his adult son Jacob, and set off in search of new property in the Dubbo district of central western New South Wales. On arrival in the district, Peter and his son, Jacob, took up two…
In Murderer fingered by Fisher’s Ghost, an encounter with the ghost of Frederick Fisher sitting on a railing and pointing to a spot up the creek where his body would soon be found led to the conviction and execution of his murderer, George Worrell back in 1826. In 1850, at Maitland, in the Hunter Valley…
A successful farmer disappears in the dark of night. The missing man’s neighbour and close associate claims he has left the country and immediately begins taking over all his business affairs. Suspicions turn to foul play. Four months later, a ghostly encounter leads to the discovery of a man’s body buried in a boggy creek.…
In early 1887, the Large family, living on a remote Cooyal property near the central west NSW town of Mudgee, was terrorised by an inexplicable nightly rain of luminous stones falling, and sometimes floating, inside their house. At first, some of the Large’s 15 children were suspected of larking around, but it soon became apparent…
