Spooky and Weird Stories from Newcastle

Spooky and Weird Stories from Newcastle - Headless soldier

Ghost ships are part of spooky lore all over the world.
Who would have thought that we would encounter our very own ghost story right here in Newcastle!!

Part taken from a story that appeared in the Daily Telegraph May 1952

Australia is poorly served with sprites, wraiths, visitations, and suchlike.
But is this true?
For a young country, unfledged in ghost lore, we seem to be building up a fair kitty of spectres.

LAST November the ghost of a headless Nazi soldier in uniform "walked" the docks, of the Norwegian ship Templar, berthed at Newcastle.
By an old-fashioned process known as "separating the ship from the ghost" (later corrupted to "sheep from the goats") the Templar managed to sail without the Nazigeist.

He's probably wandering New South Wales looking for accommodation.
He should be happy enough in Sydney.
The ancient occult cantrip for ghost-raising — "fyre and fleete and candle-lighte" —is now a suburban commonplace.
But Sydney, in the blacked-out post-war years, has conjured up a few ghosts of its own.

Poltergeists (spirits who throw things) and other kinds of spooks have appeared in Balmain,
Mortdale, Longueville, Potts Point, Smithfield, Waterloo, Granville, and Gloucester Street, City.

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