Ghosts in the area DownUnder from Llandudno
This thread caught my interest due to a number of strange happenings in the research into my own extended family history.
The first issue is a normal household suddenly engulfed in smoke to the extent that the fire brigade is called, but no source is found for the smoke.
In a forgotten corner of Brisbane lies a tunnel which half a century ago became the scene of Australia’s most sensational ghost experience.
On Saturday 20 November 1965 a group of teenagers sparked an event still recalled by Brisbanites 50 years later.
They came to see if there really was a ghost in the old subway tunnel at Victoria Park.
One of them claimed to have seen it – describing it as an armless, legless, headless blueish-white, luminous, transparent thing that came towards him – The Thing of Victoria Park!
The story sent the media into a frenzy, within days hundreds decided they had to see it for themselves.
Following an article in the Sunday Mail on 21 November 1965, around 1,000 people gathered at the tunnel trying to spot the ghost.
By 22 November, there were 1500.
By 8 O’clock in the evening on 23 November 1965 the crowd had grown to 2000 people, who packed the subway to stare at the concrete walls.
Estimates put nightly figures of ghostwatchers gathering in the park as high as 5000 at any one time.
Thousands of people of all ages, including families and children made their way down into this rarely used part of Brisbane, to see if they could see the ghost.
The event took on a carnival air with fairy floss sellers and even Ice Cream Vans catering to the crowds.
People young and old donned sheets over their heads and dared each other to walk through the tunnel.
Brisbane, and indeed Australia, had never seen anything like it.
