AUSFIGURESSUPERNATURAL HUMANOID DICTIONARY
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
ARCHIVE SUMMARY

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% threshold
9OF 43 RECORDSEach filled point is one accepted public record.
20.9%of the 1% archive threshold1% = 43 records
Scale describes archive representation, not real-world prevalence.

DOCUMENT CLUSTERS

one point per record
9records distributed across 2 coded decades
  1. 1880s
    5
  2. 1960s
    2
Individual points retain small-sample scale; they do not imply a continuous trend.

ARCHIVE COMPOSITION

source constellation / baseline bubbles

SOURCE CONSTELLATION

522
  1. Internet Archive556%
  2. Internet Archive Advanced Search222%
  3. Wikidata222%

NARRATIVE BUBBLE BASELINE

01556%02444%
  1. Ghost and Apparition Accounts556%
  2. Ghost Legends444%
Every constellation point is a record; bubble area encodes exact narrative share within this archive sample.

RECORD COMPLETENESS

9 record sample
2coded decades
3source organisations
1coded regions
DATED7 / 9
REGION CODED3 / 9
MAPPED3 / 9
Metadata completeness, not supernatural prevalence or evidential strength.