Fisher's Ghost — AusFigures supernatural humanoid dictionary

ENTRY 023 / PUBLIC

Fisher's Ghost

9
SPAN
1887–1960
MAPPED
3
SOURCES
3
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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.

SELECTED PUBLIC RECORDS

6 OF 9
  1. 01FISHER'S GHOST1960 / New South Wales
  2. 02FISHER'S GHOST1960 / New South Wales
  3. 03Fisher's Ghost in Australian Stories Retold and Sketches of Country Life1887
  4. 04Fisher's Ghost in Australian Stories Retold and Sketches of Country Life1887
  5. 05Fisher's Ghost in Australian Stories Retold and Sketches of Country Life1887
  6. 06Fisher's Ghost in Australian Stories Retold and Sketches of Country Life1887

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