DICTIONARY ENTRY023 / PUBLIC
SUPERNATURAL HUMANOID FIGURE
Fisher's Ghost
Primary indexed name: Fisher's Ghost.
PUBLIC-TEXT OCCURRENCES90.21% OF PUBLIC CORPUS
LEADING REGIONNew South Wales3 coded records
DOCUMENTED SPAN1887–1960accepted dated records
MAPPED EVIDENCE333.3% geographically mapped
The best-known account describes a human-looking apparition in ordinary nineteenth-century clothing at a Campbelltown slip-panel, reportedly pointing toward the paddock where Frederick Fisher's body was later found. The archive also captures the story's repetition in books, newspapers, and local-history retellings. The accepted archive contains 9 records from 1887–1960. The largest coded regional group is New South Wales (3), and the largest source group is Internet Archive (5). These distributions describe archive coverage, not real-world incidence.
ARCHIVE SIGNAL
one dot per record / 1% threshold9OF 43 RECORDSEach filled point is one accepted public record.
DOCUMENT CLUSTERS
one point per record9records distributed across 2 coded decades
- 1880s5
- 1960s2
ARCHIVE COMPOSITION
source constellation / baseline bubblesSOURCE CONSTELLATION
- Internet Archive556%
- Internet Archive Advanced Search222%
- Wikidata222%
NARRATIVE BUBBLE BASELINE
- Ghost and Apparition Accounts556%
- Ghost Legends444%
RECORD COMPLETENESS
9 record sample2coded decades
3source organisations
1coded regions
DATED7 / 9
REGION CODED3 / 9
MAPPED3 / 9
SELECTED PUBLIC RECORDS
6 OF 9- 01FISHER'S GHOST1960 / New South Wales
- 02FISHER'S GHOST1960 / New South Wales
- 03Fisher's Ghost in Australian Stories Retold and Sketches of Country Life1887
- 04Fisher's Ghost in Australian Stories Retold and Sketches of Country Life1887
- 05Fisher's Ghost in Australian Stories Retold and Sketches of Country Life1887
- 06Fisher's Ghost in Australian Stories Retold and Sketches of Country Life1887