Haunted Picton...ghost town! NSW, Australia Southwest of Sydney is a small, rural town called Picton. This charming township is named after one of the generals at the Battle of Waterloo, and is steeped in history and interesting stories. Its believed that the town is one of the most haunted places in Australia, with many tales of ghostly goings on under its belt! A spectral lady moves shopkeepers’ signs around on the street and the railway viaduct is said to be home to invisible swimmers. The Imperial Hotel here has a jukebox that starts to play by itself, even if it isn’t plugged in! Two ghostly children, a boy and a girl, have been sighted dressed in old-fashioned clothes, disappearing behind the headstones of the local cemetery and appearing in photographs . The most notorious of Picton’s apparitions, however, likes to linger in the Mushroom Tunnel, an abandoned railway tunnel that is thought to be haunted by the ghost of Emily Bollard. She took a short cut through the tunnel in 1916—only to be hit by an oncoming train. The locomotive struck her and carried her mangled body caught in its cowcatcher all the way to the town’s railway station before she was noticed! Legend tells us you can see her ghost in the tunnel from time to time, forever trying to run from her oncoming doom! The maternity hospital here is haunted too. Crying babies are heard regularly and an evil matron attempts to strangle people in the night, her cold invisible hands gripping the throats of the unsuspecting visitor.
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 21:13:56 +0000
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