Strange and Bizarre Stories - Ghost near Maitland

My search for ghostly encounters takes me out of Newcastle today and out to Maitland.

This story appeared in my NEWCASTLE GHOST STORIES book I bought out a few years ago and will be included in the updated version coming out on Kindle very soon.

Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate

(NSW : 1874 - 1880), Wednesday 4 December 1878

A Ghost near Maitland

Correspondent of Newcastle Herald

A SENSATIONAL story comes from Four Mile Creek.

One of the supernatural has been paying nocturnal visits in the vicinity, and if all said is true, the nightly visitant—whether of the spirit world or some one of the number of those in the flesh, playing up some pranks, has been the cause of frightening a gentleman belonging to a party of surveyors now engaged in that neighbourhood in such a manner that he has been very ill, and under the care of a medical man ever since.

The event mentioned happened about a week of ten days ago.

The ghost was said to appear near an old coal or saw-pit.

Two gentlemen of the party alluded to one might resolved to solve the mystery; accordingly at a late hour of the night, they set out, armed with axes, on their expedition.

In due time something white of a curious shape, about a man's height, made its appearance before them.

One of them advanced to it, got up quite close, struck at it, and it then instantly vanished down the saw-pit.

In a short time it appeared again--this time right between the two men.

It was again struck at by one of the men with an axe; it again disappeared, and one of the men then fainted from fear, and as stated above, has been ill ever since.

This is how the story goes.

It is stated that a party of police are going out to investigate the matter.

Something or somebody has been the means of causing a serious illness, and how the affair will end remains yet to be seen.

Picnic at Four Mile Creek (flickr)

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