Peter’s Ghost

 

Peter’s ghost is also alleged to haunt the Owen Road/ Aerodrome Road between four miles between Mallala and Owen. He is seen walking along the side of the road and sometimes hitchhikes.

It is thought the spirit is that of Peter Denis Kierse, a 19-year-old RAAF Leading Aircraftman (LAC), who was killed while on duty obtaining sand for operations at the Mallala Airbase.

According to the Mallala Now and Then website, “They were travelling in the open back of a three-ton tender. While travelling along Owen Road, the truck moved from the left-hand side of the road to the centre and passed over a rise, giving a sharp jolt and causing LAC Kierse to lose balance. He fell from the truck and was fatally injured.”^[1]

 

Have you experienced this haunting? I would love to hear your story. Contact me at eidolon@live.com.au.

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[1] RAAF No. 6 Service Flight Training School Fatalities, Mallala Now and Then, (2021), https://www.mallala.nowandthen.net.au/RAAF_No._6_Service_Flight_Training_School_Fatalities

 The Ghost of Edmund Bowman.

 

Edmund Bowman SLSA: [B 6912/ G6]

  Edmund Bowman, a wealthy pastoralist died on his property Werocata Estate near Balaklava in 1866. Bowman had walked out on an incomplete bridge, become unstable and plunged into the Wakefield River below, where he drowned.
 It is believed that in late August, near the date, that Bowman drowned, that his calls for help can be heard. The calls fade into the sound of gurgles as he drowns, then the area falls into an eerie silence.
Other people have witnessed Edward sitting on rocks near the pool, appearing to either be fishing or on some occasions in quiet reflection.[1]

  Edmund Bowman is associated with two other allegedly haunted locations in South Australia. Barton Vale House at Enfield (You can read more about this building and its hauntings in my 2020 book The Haunts of Adelaide: Revised Edition), completed in 1852.[2]

 The other location associated with the Bowman’s is Martindale Hall at Mintaro near Clare, which was built by Edmund Bowman junior in 1879.[3]

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Haunted Adelaide (2021) Buy it by clicking here

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[1] Gordon de L. Marshall, ‘Ghosts and Hauntings of South Australia’, (Jannali, NSW, 2012), pp. 150-51.

[2] SA Heritage Places Database ‘Barton Vale House’, http://maps.sa.gov.au/heritagesearch/HeritageItem.aspx?p_heritageno=1747

[3] Martindale Hall, Martindale Hall Historic Museum, (2021), https://www.martindalehall-mintaro.com.au/.

 

The Haunting of the Macclesfield Hotel

  The Macclesfield Hotel was built in 1841, with a second storey built in 1882.[1] The first publican was Matthew Linn junior in 1855.[2] This hotel was the second built in the town. There are numerous outbuildings on the property, including old stables.[3]


  In 2015, the then licensee, Mary Rhode, was interviewed by the media and alleged a woman named Rosemary was pushed down the stairs of the hotel, breaking her neck. It was alleged that a psychic visited the hotel and spoke to the spirit, with the spirit claiming that her murder was covered up by local police.[4]

  Rhode claimed, “She was pushed down the stairs and broke her neck. It must have been over 100 years ago. The pub was built in 1841 and the second level was built in 1875. She was having an argument with a man who wanted her to make money for him. She told him that she wasn't that sort of girl and so he pushed her.”
“She was really angry. She said he got away with it because he knew the coppers. The person who did the clearing for me was telling me she was so happy because she hadn't spoken to anyone for so long – she was angry and all alone.”[5]

Rhode also claimed that another psychic, who visited later and knew nothing of the pub, also experienced the ghost on the stairs. Currently, there is no proof of the alleged murder in the hotel.

Another ghost believed to haunt the building is a matronly lady. It is claimed this lady has attempted to push people down the stairs!

Macclesfield Hotel - SLSA [B 31754]

 
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[1] Macclesfield Hotel, Macclesfield Community History, (2015), https://www.macclesfieldhistory.com.au/macclesfield-hotel.html.

[2] JL Bob Hoad, Hotels and Publicans in South Australia, (1984), pp. 352-53.

[3] Anna Pope, DC Mount Barker Heritage Survey Part 4, (2004), p. 174., https://data.environment.sa.gov.au/Content/heritage-surveys/2-Mount-Barker-Heritage-Survey-2004-Part-4.pdf.

[4] Madison White, Adelaide Hills Ghost Stories, (2015), https://madisonwhiteportfolio.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/adelaide-hills-ghost-stories.pdf.

[5] Madison White, Adelaide Hills Ghost Stories, (2015), https://madisonwhiteportfolio.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/adelaide-hills-ghost-stories.pdf.

 

Adelaide Hills UFO Battle

On Thursday the 7th of February 1980, at 9:30pm, 10-year-old Phil Tindale and his twin brother Rob witnessed what they believed to be two UFOS battling for supremacy over the skies of Aldgate in the Adelaide Hills.

The two boys watched in disbelief from their bedroom window as a yellow object and a red object fought in the skies above Stirling. The two ten-year-old boys claimed they watched the objects fight for a good fifteen minutes.[1]
 The alarmed brothers woke their parents, but they told them to go back to bed. The following day, the boy's grandmother found a story in the local paper reporting on Daryl Browne who had seen a similar-sounding incident in the sky.[2]

Daryl Browne, a twenty-one-year-old farmhand witnessed a yellow object in the sky. The object crashed into the ground nearby. He went to investigate the crash and found the object that he described as, “a crescent-shaped 8-metre diameter, speed boat-shaped, yellow, half-moon thing”. He ran back to the house and called the police. By the time the police arrived, the object had disappeared.
 Browne was interviewed by UFO Research South Australia the next day and showed them the crash site. The UFO researchers discovered a 40-metre-high pine tree which had a big section of its demolished, as if from an impact.

 
Multiple government agencies and UFO clubs travelled to the crash site at Glenalta Stud on the Old Gully Road at Stirling. Browne was interviewed so many times, that during a final interview he stated, if he ever encountered anything like this again, he wouldn’t bother reporting it because of all the attention he received. He also stated he did not believe in UFOs.

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[1] Paula Ahillon, Two brothers say they're SURE they witnessed two UFOs 'battle' in the skies above the Australian Outback before one made an 'emergency landing' and crashed into a tree, Daily Mail Australia, (20 October 2019), https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7593141/Two-brothers-say-theyre-SURE-witnessed-two-UFOs-battle-skies-Sterling.html.

[2] Frank Chung, South Australian brothers say they witnessed two UFOs in ‘conflict’ before 1980 Stirling crash, (21 October 2019),  https://www.ntnews.com.au/technology/science/south-australian-brothers-say-they-witnessed-two-ufos-in-conflict-before-1980-stirling-crash/news-story/c752b6a3ef019990819d87fb72b7bd62?fbclid=IwAR0wwwEBU72HxcDnQQ0Kljk6M4OyQmUJkEK7hVP3K-bq_erNXTFBPsn8Zus.

 A Ghost in The Old Mill Hotel – Hahndorf

 

Old Mill Hotel - 98 Main Street Hahndorf
2021 - Allen Tiller

In July 2021, I presented a talk at the Mount Barker Library on ghosts and hauntings in the Adelaide Hills. That evening, Karen and I stayed overnight in the Old Mill Hotel at Hahndorf, where the staff told of us a ghost!

2021 - Allen Tiller

The hotel has recently been leased by the Meek family, who own the incredibly popular bars and nightclubs The Woolshed, Downtown and Blackbull. The Meeks have begun renovating the hotel, which as some of you may know, is alleged to be a trigger in some hauntings.
 The hotel now has several older cars, including Model T Fords as part of its unique decor.^[1]

The Mill was built in 1854 by Friedrich Wittwer, an earlier built mill on the site burned down in 1853.[2] It ran for 60 or so years and processed famous brands of flour such as ‘Pride of the Hills’, Windmill' and 'Phaultless’.^[3]

In 1971 it became a German food-themed restaurant with a motel at the rear.

 There used to be an old piano in the hotel. It is claimed that a spirit liked to ‘tickle the ivory’, playing piano tunes at random times of the day and night. When staff went to check who was playing, there was no one there. (The piano is no longer in the hotel).

For more information on the Old Mill, visit their website here: https://hahndorfoldmill.com.au/

 

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[1] The Forager, Nightclub owners bringing new life to Hahndorf's Old Mill Hotel, In Daily, (31 March 2021), https://indaily.com.au/eat-drink-explore/the-forager/2021/03/31/nightclub-owners-bringing-new-life-to-hahndorfs-old-mill-hotel/.

[2] Anni Luur Fox, 'Hahndorf - A Journey through the Village and its History', (2002), https://localwiki.org/adelaide-hills/Old_Mill_%28Wittwer%29_-_Hahndorf.

[3] Hahndorf, Old Mill Hotel, (2021), https://hahndorfsa.org.au/business/old-mill-hotel/.