Ghosts
This page groups search-ready records carrying the label “Ghosts” in public source text or archive coding. It preserves a discovery term without treating the label as proof, a biological category, or a claim that distinct cultural traditions are interchangeable.
- Search-ready records
- 116
- Public sources
- 7
- States / territories
- 8
- Dated span
- 1854–2024
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- Thirsty ghosts haunt Port Adelaide's pubs#4050Thirsty ghosts haunt Port Adelaide's pubs - ABC listen Skip to main content Skip to listen navigation, settings and search Explore the ABC ABC listen Search Loading Program: Thirsty ghosts haunt Port Adelaide's pubs Sou…
- The stories of Australia's ghosts#4029The stories of Australia's ghosts - ABC listen Skip to main content Skip to listen navigation, settings and search Explore the ABC ABC listen Search Loading Program: The stories of Australia's ghosts Source:774 ABC Melb…
- The stories of Australia's ghosts#4018The stories of Australia's ghosts - ABC listen Skip to main content Skip to listen navigation, settings and search Explore the ABC ABC listen Search Loading Program: The stories of Australia's ghosts Source:774 ABC Melb…
- Ghosts of Castle, Settlers hotels and Old York Hospital spook and delight tourists in WA town#4010Ghosts of Castle, Settlers hotels and Old York Hospital spook and delight tourists in WA town York is the oldest inland town in Western Australia — and some locals say it’s also the most haunted. ghost history york hosp…
- ghosts in Spooky stories from the Library#2700Room would sometimes ‘flip’ by themselves. The unimaginative insisted it was simply because patrons had lent to far back and the spring loaded backs had jammed, then released some hours later. But he recalled that the M…
- ghosts in Spooky stories from the Library#2699you looking over your shoulder the next time you visit Australia’s oldest public library. Beware: only read ahead if you like your blood to run cold… or if you’d like a giggle. How much you believe is up to you… ‘I reca…
- ghosts in Spooky stories from the Library#2696But he recalled that the Melbourne Museum preparators used to strip whale carcasses in the space (when it was a courtyard open to the sky), and he felt sure the whale ghosts were flexing on us.’
- ghosts in Spooky stories from the Library#2693‘I recall being told by several ex-staff who worked in the stacks of the Arts Library, today the new refurbished Ian Potter Queen’s Hall, that two ghosts occupied the area. A cold spot near the old piano was one area. A…
- The History of Port Arthur#3988The History of Port Arthur It's all gaol, ghosts and gothic allure as we delve into the dark history of our most infamous penal colony, Port Arthur. Operating between 1830-1877, it had the reputation for being the desti…
- ghosts in Ghosts in the old Palmerston Centre#4081Vollie News Thursday 26th May 2011 included "Ghosts in the old Palmerston Centre" and "Another ghost story". Peter Poole asked whether the old Palmerston Centre was haunted and said he never had trouble sleeping there.…
- ghosts in Canberra history and legends#3680and sugar, and to take an inventory of the deceased’s effects. While proceeding to the Washpen he was joined by Mr. Davis, who accom- panied him thither, being anxious to see the extraordi- nary white bull he had heard…
- ghosts in Steve Brown's Bunyip#2393n the morning. ‘There goes your aged friend,’ said a voice at my shoulder, which made me start with the unexpectedness of it. ‘Too hot and close to sleep,’ explained Treloar. ‘Come out for a breath of air.’ ‘Let’s sheph…
- ghosts in Steve Brown's Bunyip#2392Rainbow weren’t the chaps to leave much behind ’em. Leastways’—he quickly added, seeing his mistake, ‘so I’ve heerd say.’ Treloar gave me a look which meant ‘How now?’ but neither of us took further notice. ‘I’ve heard…
- ghosts in Steve Brown's Bunyip#2391the tomb! Why ’tis, in some sort, the story of our corporal life and death! ‘“Over the Mountains of the Moon, Down the Vale of Shadow, Ride, boldly ride,” the shade replied, “For there lies El Dorado.” Behold, my friend…
- ghosts in Steve Brown's Bunyip#2389the fire. Her hearth is wide to every gust That gars the dead ash spin— And tide by tide and ’twixt the tides Her sons go out and in. [Out in great mirth that do desire Hazard of trackless ways, In wi’ great peace to wa…
- ghosts in The Getting of Wisdom#3003"If you don't look well after Maggy and the bunnies, I don't know what I'll do. The chicks'll be all right. Sarah'll take care of them, 'cause of the eggs. But Maggy and the bunnies don't have eggs, and if they're not f…
- ghosts in The Getting of Wisdom#2996in them." Music was as fatal to Laura's equilibrium as wine would have been. Finding herself next Mr. Strachey, she now turned to him and said, with what she believed to be ease of manner: "Mr. Strachey, will you please…
- ghosts in The Getting of Wisdom#2995t Maggy and the bunnies don't have eggs, and if they're not fed, or if Frank treads on Maggy again, then they'll die. Now if you let them die, I don't know what I'll do to you! Yes, I do: I'll send the devil to you at n…
- ghosts in The Rising of the Court#2512fter all. Of course scholars know that Macbeth (or Macbethad) reigned for upwards of twenty years in Scotland a wise and a generous king--so much so that he was called “Macbathad the Liberal,” and it was Duncan who foun…
- ghosts in In the Roaring Fifties#2873n in the forward movement of his swing, glared open-mouthed, speechless; he felt his stiff hair stirring strangely under his hat, a pronounced uneasiness moved in the boat. Only one woman had fallen from the ship, and h…
- ghosts in The Last Chance#2595, or whatever it is to be—is finally decided upon. It can’t be so very dreadful after all.’ ‘Dreadful!’ cried Vanda; ‘it’s delicious. I’ll undertake the dairy—and we must have lots of lovely tiles, and such cream-pans,…
- ghosts in The Last Chance#2594re. Their gait was slow and faltering; with weak, tremulous steps they seemed as though doubtful of their ability to reach the point from which to survey the ocean—to look, if better was not to be had, upon the highway…
- ghosts in The Crime of the Under Seas#2222y meant, and told their women folk, who, as usual, spread the report abroad. Lancelot called on the Monday following their return, and Arthur welcomed him, if anything, a little too effusively. Guinevere crossed the roo…
- ghosts in The Crime of the Under Seas#2221ghbour, the man who, for the sake of my company, has done his level best to persuade me to give the place a further trial, has promised to come over and give us a hand, and if we three can't settle the mystery between u…
- ghosts in The Crime of the Under Seas#2214her trial, has promised to come over and give us a hand, and if we three can't settle the mystery between us, well, I think we ought to be ashamed of ourselves, that's all." 11 We'll certainly have a good try," I an swe…
- ghosts in Children of the Bush#2182up the tea-billy again, got out some currant buns, which he had baked himself in the camp-oven, and we were yarning comfortably like two old bushmen, and I had almost forgotten that he was “ratty,” when we heard the coa…
- ghosts in Children of the Bush#2180d glanced round in his frightened, haunted way. I never saw the eyes of a man look so hopeless and helpless as his did just then. “I’m sorry you’re going,” he said, in a hurried way. “I’m sorry you’re going. But—but the…
- ghosts in Children of the Bush#2179It was a rubble foundation: he was knocking off the thin end of a piece of stone to make it fit, and the clanging of the trowel prevented his hearing my footsteps. “Good day, mate,” I said, close beside him. I half expe…
- ghosts in Children of the Bush#2178Tell me what the trouble is. Tell us all about it. There’s a ghost, isn’t there?” “Well, I suppose so,” said Jack. “We’ve all got our ghosts for that matter. But never you mind, Harry; I’m all right. I don’t go interfer…
- ghosts in In Bad Company#2562his, astonishes me.' 'We get used to it, Mrs. Bayard, like the eels, you know. Somebody must do it, or who would buy the Barallan cattle, and get them to market?' 'Yes, I see; but I can't bear to think of nice people—of…
- ghosts in In Bad Company#2560ounted one, somehow, and took the other's bridle. I rode steady enough for a while, and then, hustling the poor brutes into a hand-gallop, kept along the road to Waranah till I reached the gate at the boundary of the ru…
- ghosts in Joe Wilson and His Mates#2147was a couple of miles out of earshot of any one. THE chinaman's GHOST. I79 * Murderers Gully was deep and pretty dark most times, and of course it was haunted. Women and children wouldn't go through it after dark; and e…
- ghosts in Joe Wilson and His Mates#2146sheet of bark had been taken off, would start out like a ghost from the dark Bush. And dew or frost glistening on these things, according to the season. Now and again a great grey kangaroo, that had been feeding on a gr…
- ghosts in Babes in the Bush#2636ave everything of our own in a few years if we are patient,’ said Wilfred; ‘and you damsels don’t want trips to watering-places, and so on. This life is better than Boulogne, or the Channel Islands, though it may be a t…
- ghosts in Babes in the Bush#2635bling formerly tenanted by many a gallant steed in the old extravagant days of the colony, when unstinted hospitality and claret had been the proverbial rule at Warbrok. ‘Oh dear!’ exclaimed Annabel from her chair, ‘wha…
- ghosts in Babes in the Bush#2634pect opened the creaking hall door, and casting a searching glance at Mr. R. Evans, made the strangers welcome. ‘I’m sure I’m very glad to see you, my lady,’ said she, bobbing an antiquated curtsey, ‘and you, sir, and t…
- ghosts in Over the Sliprails#2502e ran through the trees towards the foot of Long Gully. Bob and his mate followed; but, being unacquainted with the locality, they lost her. She ran to the edge of a granite cliff on the higher side of the deepest of th…
- ghosts in Over the Sliprails#2499eek, with his face like note-paper where the blood hadn't dried on it, and an old pistol in his hand--that he'd used, they said, to shoot Cossacks from horseback when he was a young dude fighting in the bush in Poland.”…
- ghosts in Eaglehawk and Crow#3608o duty for the crashing music indispensable to finish off most of the compositions in the Hiurtovre of civilisation. I CHAPTER XI SORCERY, SUPERSTITIONS, RELIGION Sorcery, superstitions, religion — Tiie bane of sorcery—…
- ghosts in Eaglehawk and Crow#3607ia — Sample of work at Billiminah Creek — Rock-carvings near Sydney — The Australian muse— Corroborees Pp. 125 — 141 CHAPTER XI SORCERY, SUPERSTITIONS, RELIGION Sorcery, superstitions, religion — The bane of sorcery — N…
- ghosts in Below And On Top and Other Stories#2437d Wellington boots. The stranger stood with his right hand thrust lightly in his pocket, and his left toying with the point of his long iron-grey beard, and he smiled broadly under the profusion of hair on his weather-t…
- ghosts in Below And On Top and Other Stories#2433e and some candles. Dickie was seized by one of the women. "Here's they boy Haddon!" she cried, dragging her prize along. Brother Tresize took him by the ear. Mr. Tresize was paid by the company to look after the mine w…
- ghosts in Below And On Top and Other Stories#2431nderstood that whatever latitude might be given mere mortals, ghosts were always expected to be absolutely correct in speech. "Are there any more of you?" asked the ghost. "On'y me an' Alfred Belman," said Dick. "Oh! gh…
- ghosts in Below And On Top and Other Stories#2430of a ghost was undergoing a process of rapid reconstruction. He knew that "Don't come no nearer" was a most ungrammatical expression, and he understood that whatever latitude might be given mere mortals, ghosts were alw…
- ghosts in Below And On Top and Other Stories#2305an' I'll get the candles an' I'll go first. Now who's game?" "I am!" said Dolf defiantly. So it was all arranged for the following night, and Dolf was sworn to secrecy with the magical rite of the wet and dry finger and…
- ghosts in Below And On Top and Other Stories#2304ured, "d'you believe in--you know?" He pointed down into the shaft. "Ghosts?" said Dick. "No--o--o! D' you?" Dolf compressed his lips, and nodded his head slowly. "Yah, that's rot!" said Dick. "But don't they say that s…
- ghosts in Below And On Top and Other Stories#2303e tips, but Dickie had an ulterior motive, and had cunningly shaped the conversation with that motive in view. He had talked of the old mine and its murders, and Dolf was worked up; he crept very close to his mate, and…
- ghosts in Below And On Top and Other Stories#2302and that revived the boy's keenest regrets. His goddess had parted with her last shred of divinity; and was become the commonest of clay, and now she betrayed a callousness that was hardly human. It had come to this: Si…
- ghosts in Australian Fairy Tales#3951ny caressed her and rubbed his cheek athwart her Roman nose. And indeed the boy felt as much amazed as any of them, and vowed to himself never to be discontented again; and Johnny Grudge kept his word. TWO GIANTS. The B…
- ghosts in Australian fairy tales#2379NLY DREAMED. TWILIGHT. CHAPTER I. BARON THIMBLE. A winter night, with a thick fog rising above the Sandridge marshes, and spreading itself over the city of Melbourne. People released from toil were hurrying home to tea…
- ghosts in Australian fairy tales#2370rs of naughty, disobedient children. Away down in the cool dells the fairies hold their councils and their balls, and many a merry frolic have they when the ghosts are asleep and snoring. I am going to tell you about gi…
- ghosts in Australian fairy tales#2369en said, the metropolis of Elfland. On those grand cliffs are caves where grim giants lie in wait ready to be summoned by the fathers and mothers of naughty, disobedient children. Away down in the cool dells the fairies…
- ghosts in Australian fairy tales#2368ny caressed her and rubbed his cheek athwart her Roman nose. And indeed the boy felt as much amazed as any of them, and vowed to himself never to be discontented again; and Johnny Grudge kept his word. TWO GIANTS. The B…
- ghosts in At Midnight and Other Stories#2248e scars the window casements were fastened; and when he went along the wainscot, rapping sharply on every panel, and standing still to listen for the effect, the sound died immediately, with no hint of inward echo. "We'…
- ghosts in At Midnight and Other Stories#2242view." "Haunted be blowed!" was Wingate's rude rejoinder; and he showed the rope, which was mysterious without being supernatural, and described how they had seen a man "scoot" round a corner of the house. "Besides," sa…
- ghosts in At Midnight and Other Stories#2241it. The conclusion they've come to is that the old house is haunted, sir. I don't hold with ghosts myself, but that's the common view." "Haunted be blowed!" was Wingate's rude rejoinder; and he showed the rope, which wa…
- ghosts in At Midnight and Other Stories#2240with Mr. Wingate that a midnight expedition was necessary. "Oh, you saw that light in the window!" he exclaimed, with much gravity. "I was wondering whether you would. I was out last night, looking at some traps, and sa…
- ghosts in In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses#2763w that there is something -- something crooked with my heart. Tom, my first child died. I loved her even better than the pen -- Tom -- and while the STAR was dying, why, I felt like I did THEN. . . . . . Listen! Like th…
- ghosts in In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses#2762nging out. They will take what they can get, and they will give what they can give, God alone knows how they manage -- God alone knows how they live! They are nearly always hard-up, but are cheerful all the while -- Men…
- ghosts in In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses#2757[Dec. -- 1890] Dan, the Wreck Tall, and stout, and solid-looking, A Prouder Man Than You If you fancy that your people came of better stock than mine, [June -- 1892] The Song and the Sigh The creek went down with a brok…
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