The ghost said nothing to the startled man, he just pointed towards the creek (now known as Fisher’s Ghost Creek). The man claimed to have seen the ghost of Fred Fisher sitting on a fence on his property, there was a large wound on the apparition’s forehead. A story that was to become Campbelltown folklore.įarley’s story was incredible to say the least. Soon afterwards James Farley stumbled into a local pub, gasping for breath as he began telling his story. The local townsfolk and constabulary believed that Worrell had murdered his neighbour.Įarly September 1826, after a lengthy investigation provided no body or evidence of Fred having left the country had been found a reward was posted to encourage anyone with information to come forward. A local man was sold Fisher’s horse, when he questioned Worroll about his right to sell the animal, Worroll produced a crudely written and obvious forgery of Fisher’s signature, stating Worroll had power of attorney over the horse. Most of Fred’s possessions were found amongst Worrell’s property, the man had even begun wearing Fisher’s clothing.
Aboriginal trackers were brought in to search the two properties and claimed they could smell a dead white man, yet were unable to find a body. A local police officer Newland discovered blood splatter on a paling fence on Worroll’s property. The time was around nine o’clock and the men were about to start drinking, it was the last time he was seen alive.Īfter several days, people were suspicious of Worroll’s stories of Fisher returning to England and enquiries soon began into Fred’s whereabouts. On the night of JFrederick Fisher was last seen with Worroll by Jane Hopkins. Worroll had been telling people that Fred had sold him the farm and returned to England, so when the man returned and demanded his property be returned, Worroll decided otherwise. When the debt-collectors came and Fred was unable to pay his dues, he was arrested and imprisoned for six months in late 1825.Īfter serving his sentence, Fred returned home in June 1826, to find that Worroll had taken over the Fisher Farm and really was not expecting Fisher to return. Frederick agreed and soon Worroll officially owned the farm. He told Fred to sign the ownership over to him so when the debt-collectors came, he would not lose the farm. Worroll decided to help his neighbour by hiding the ownership of Fisher’s farm. Fred found himself in debt for £80 and was unable to repay them, he began to fret about losing the small house and land he had built. Worroll was also paroled after being transported to Australia, but had continued his criminal ways and soon included Fred Fisher in his dealings. The man who owned the neighbouring block of land was George Worroll (also Worrell or Worrall). He served his sentence and in 1822 was given a ticket-of-leave, this included a piece of land in Campbelltown. He was sentenced to transportation to Australia on July 26, 1815. He ran a successful business in London until he was discovered in possession of forged documents. Frederick George Fisher was born on Augin London. McCurdy’s mummy then went on a morbid mystery tour all around America before finally coming to rest in Long Beach. The undertaker’s scheme was ruined when carnival promoters posing as McCurdy's brothers showed up to claim him. People were charged 5 cents to see the corpse, which they paid by dropping a nickel in the cadaver’s mouth. McCurdy was embalmed by the local undertaker and apparently the guy was so pleased with his work that he propped up the corpse in the funeral home as evidence of his skills. The body was that of criminal mastermind Elmer McCurdy, who was killed in a shootout after robbing a train in 1911. Back in 1976, a camera crew filming an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man began to set up in the haunted house at the Nu-Pike Amusement Park in Long Beach, CA.Īs they were moving a "hanging man" prop, they accidentally knocked its arm off and discovered human bones inside. All the little kiddies at the haunted house had been poking and giggling at a real mummified dead body.Īpparently the smell wasn’t just coming from the convict manning the corndog stand.
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A prop at a carnival was discovered not to be made of the usual combination of papier mache and carni spit, but human skin and bone.
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