ghost in Queensland, Australia
lf being situated on the elevated point of land already men- tioned, and commanding a beautiful view of the bay with its fine scenery all round. But— ** * Every leaf was at rest, and I heard not a sound ' from the uninhabited mansion. It looked like one of those haunted houses that one sometimes se…
- Record ID
- 1,765
- Year
- 1,861
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Index status
- Public search-ready
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Record context
- Record ID
- 1765
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Publication
- Queensland, Australia; John Dunmore Lang
- Published
- 1861
- Narrative type
- Ghost and Apparition Accounts
- Public-text label
- ghost
- Archive period
- Gold Rush Colonial
- Location
- Queensland (QLD): B
- State or territory
- QLD
- Source voice
- Source Grounded Section Record
- Publicness
- Public Text Item
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lf being situated on the elevated point of land already men- tioned, and commanding a beautiful view of the bay with its fine scenery all round. But— ** * Every leaf was at rest, and I heard not a sound ' from the uninhabited mansion. It looked like one of those haunted houses that one sometimes sees in England, and that nobody will occupy for fear of * the ghost ;' and when we reflected that it would probably cost from 1500/. to 2000/. to erect such a cot- tage, with all its appendages, in Sydney, and that it would rent, if there, at 200/. a year, our party named it ' Bigge's Folly,' and rode on. At short distances towards the.
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