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Post by auntym on Jan 27, 2016 13:11:49 GMT -6
www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2016/01/testimony-from-grave-wollombi-ghost.html Tuesday, January 26, 2016 Testimony From The Grave: The 'Wollombi Ghost' Investigation By Jon Wyatt Did the spirit of a missing person provide testimony from the grave about her murder near Wollombi, NSW, Australia, in 1857?The Hunter Valley 142 kms (89 mi) N of Sydney is an historic and picturesque region, but it's also flood prone. In August 1857 a record flood devastated the district and when roads eventually reopened news of the Wollombi ghost haunting reached Maitland, 56 kms (35 mi) NE of Wollombi, and from there the wider world. The materialisation allegedly occurred on a grand agricultural estate several miles NE of the village of Wollombi. The (now defunct) 'Quorrobolong Estate' of 4,520 acres was owned at the time by the well-connected Edward Charles Close Jnr (1825-1887). The property, among other things, produced fine wine and thoroughbred horses. Mr Close purchased it in 1853 however the land grant titles dated to the 1830's and 1840's when convicts were assigned to work there. The ghost seer Mrs Laskett an unassisted immigrant who'd arrived in the country in recent times, lived in a former convict hut near the Sandy Creek. The Maitland Mercury newspaper published a report of the haunting in September 1857 and as the matter was being investigated by police, two names were blanked out. The article says: CONTINUE READING: www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2016/01/testimony-from-grave-wollombi-ghost.html
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Post by lois on Jan 27, 2016 20:21:42 GMT -6
www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2016/01/testimony-from-grave-wollombi-ghost.html Tuesday, January 26, 2016 Testimony From The Grave: The 'Wollombi Ghost' Investigation By Jon Wyatt Did the spirit of a missing person provide testimony from the grave about her murder near Wollombi, NSW, Australia, in 1857?The Hunter Valley 142 kms (89 mi) N of Sydney is an historic and picturesque region, but it's also flood prone. In August 1857 a record flood devastated the district and when roads eventually reopened news of the Wollombi ghost haunting reached Maitland, 56 kms (35 mi) NE of Wollombi, and from there the wider world. The materialisation allegedly occurred on a grand agricultural estate several miles NE of the village of Wollombi. The (now defunct) 'Quorrobolong Estate' of 4,520 acres was owned at the time by the well-connected Edward Charles Close Jnr (1825-1887). The property, among other things, produced fine wine and thoroughbred horses. Mr Close purchased it in 1853 however the land grant titles dated to the 1830's and 1840's when convicts were assigned to work there. The ghost seer Mrs Laskett an unassisted immigrant who'd arrived in the country in recent times, lived in a former convict hut near the Sandy Creek. The Maitland Mercury newspaper published a report of the haunting in September 1857 and as the matter was being investigated by police, two names were blanked out. The article says: CONTINUE READING: www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2016/01/testimony-from-grave-wollombi-ghost.html Too bad they did not find a body. If she was murdered she had no coffin. Casper be sure and read this one.
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