Strange and Bizzare Ghost Stories from Newcastle

Strange and Bizzare Ghost Stories from Newcastle - A Haunted House?

I am a ghost hunter - with no where to go because of COVID 19!
My sites are all closed and we are all in self isolation.

So - I thought I'd dig into my research and share some ghost stories that appeared in the local newspapers from our past.

This one comes from 1908 and deals with a 'ghost sighting' in Newcastle.
Please note that when you see the word CELESTIAL it refers to those people of CHINESE decent who had arrived in Australia.

A HAUNTED HOUSE

Daily News ( Perth Western Australia)
Tuesday 28th March 1905

A Haunted House Supernatural or celestial

Photo: Sydney Living Museum

As a rule a ghost has the effect of compelling people of all ages and types to urgently to perform the movement known as 'making themselves scarce' but, the iron nerved miners of Newcastle, New South Wales, have been cast in quite another mould.

A few weeks ago a report began to circulate that a certain unoccupied cottage at Hamilton was haunted.

First one or two, then large numbers of people, took it into their heads to visit the locality to see the supposed ghost, and some of these, ongoing amongst their friends, maintained the truth of their story, what they regarded as a joke, or because they did not wish to appear to have been foolish.

This led to a nightly crowd of would be sightseers, frequenting the place and so great is the nuisance they cause that the police have advised the municipal authorities to initiate a number of Prosecutions for loitering.

Sergeant Windsor, officer in charge of the Hamilton station has investigated the case of the alleged Supernatural visitor and failed to find anything convincing in it.

Ashfield, (Sydney) has it's own apparition which has caused quite a sensation at Haberfield.

Hundreds of people turned out nightly and watched eagerly for a glimpse of the Ghostly figure and hundreds did not!!
The female residence of the locality showed no curiosity

The strangest part of the matter is that several of the watchers are able to describe the figure and it's movements.
Tall and white with flowing garments and an outstretched arm the Ghost appears suddenly to rise out of a nursery and flit across the Long Cove Canal and then disappear.

A probable explanation of the Affair is that the Chinamen occupying a Market Garden close by have suffered from some petty pilfering of vegetables and one of their number has nightly perambulated the vicinity covered in a sheet, and mounted on stilts, hoping in this way to maintain his vegetable possessions.

Chinese Market Gardens Early 1900's - Wikipedia

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