Know Your Colonial Gaol History #14: The 2nd Rockhampton Gaol 1884-1948
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View ArticleA Damned Good Flogging
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View ArticleWhere Were They From? A 'Where's-Where' of Colonial Queensland Prisoners
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View ArticleBoab Prison Trees - Fact or Fiction?
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View ArticleA Boggo Road Great: John Banks, 1939-2014
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Time For an E-change
PLEASE NOTE: Articles on this blog are being archived or moved to the new website at 'Life & Death in the Sunshine State'.After five years at this address, the Boggo Blog is moving house to Life...
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Hanged & Dissected... For Picking a Man's Brains
The hard, early years of the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement were dotted with tales of murder, disease and suicide. This remote northern outpost had been established in 1824 as a place of secondary...
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Fatal Shark Attacks in Ross Creek, Townsville
What is the most dangerous city-side swimming spot in Queensland? If you’re talking about shark attacks, the answer is clear. I have written before about fatal shark attacks in the Brisbane River, but...
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Dissecting & Anatomising Moreton Bay Convicts
‘The sentence of the Court was that they should be taken to the place from whence they came, and on Wednesday morning to the place of execution, and there be hanged by the neck until they were dead,...
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Is Toowoomba the Most Haunted City in Australia?
A recent headline on the Daily Mail website described Toowoombaas ‘Australia's most haunted town’. Given that we have another source (falsely) proclaiming Brisbane to be the ‘second most haunted city...
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The Swagman & the Logan River Shark
'On the Wallaby', Cairns, c.1907. (State Library Qld)The rivers of Queensland have seen their share of fatal shark attacks, as noted in these stories about Townsville and Brisbane. The less-frequented...
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The Seven Devils of George Street
'Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.' (Mark 16:9)Anyone familiar with Brisbane's George Street will...
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History Gets the Finger at the Old Printing Office
During research for a recent article about the sandstone devils on the walls of the old printing office on George Street, Brisbane, I came across a couple of online reviews of a ghost tour that...
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Why Ghost-Hunting Should be Banned - Part 1
Agent Scully would agree with me.(Part 2 of 'Why Ghost-Hunting Should be Banned')It looks like we have finally seen the back of 'ghost hunts' at Boggo Road. And good riddance to them. The old prison...
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Why Ghost Hunting Should be Banned - Part 2
R.E.S.P.E.C.T.Respecting the dead: The memorial for John Pat in front of the prison walls of the decommissioned Fremantle Prison. It was erected in September 1994 "in memory of all Aboriginal people...
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Hobart Paranormalists Harass a Pensioner
Stone cottage, Hobart.Regular readers of this blog will know that from time to time I highlight some of the dodgy goings-on in the paranormal industry. There a few reasons for this. Sometimes...
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'They Don't Know What Death Is': Ghost Hunting at a Suicide Scene
WARNING: The following article contains details relating to the death of an Aboriginal man in custody at Boggo Road prison in the 1980s. Brisbane's Boggo Road Gaol has been home to a number of cheap...
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The Sad Case of the Belanglo Forest Ghost Tours
Well, well, well… only a week or so after my writing a few articles about the unethical nature of ‘ghost hunts’, there have been national(and eveninternational) headlines about disrespectful ghost...
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