Ghost

Also indexed as apparition, apparitions, ghosts.

PUBLIC-TEXT OCCURRENCES49611.63% OF PUBLIC CORPUS

LEADING REGIONVictoria90 coded records

DOCUMENTED SPAN1854–2026accepted dated records

MAPPED EVIDENCE10922.0% geographically mapped

ARCHIVE SUMMARY

Apparition accounts describe recognisably human figures, voices, silhouettes, or presences associated with a deceased person or a particular house, road, mine, prison, or homestead. Many survive as place-linked anecdotes and later retellings rather than direct witness testimony. The accepted archive contains 496 records from 1854–2026. The largest coded regional group is Victoria (90), and the largest source group is Internet Archive (183). These distributions describe archive coverage, not real-world incidence.

OCCURRENCE TIMELINE

records by decade

1850sPEAK 1332020s

REGIONAL FIELD

256 region-coded records

51.6%of this figure's records include a coded region

01Victoria9035.2%
02New South Wales5019.5%
03Tasmania4919.1%
04Queensland218.2%
05South Australia207.8%
06Western Australia124.7%
07Northern Territory103.9%
08Australian Capital Territory41.6%

One cell equals 1% of the region-coded subset; exact record counts remain listed at right.

SOURCE CONCENTRATION

22 organisations

36.9%held by the leading source

01
Internet Archive
183
02
Project Gutenberg
153
03
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
49
04
Project Gutenberg Australia
47
05
Open Library Search API
19

SELECTED PUBLIC RECORDS

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