A Haunting at Olympic Field – Coober Pedy
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Coober Pedy, South Australia is, known for its
opals and underground housing. The outback location was originally home to the Antakirinja
Yunkunytjatjara people, who knew the area as ‘Umoona’. Europeans first called
the area the Stuart Range Opal Field, named after John McDouall Stuart, who
explored the area in 1858. In 1920 a post office was established at the
location, so a new name was chosen, ‘Coober Pedy’ which is an aboriginal term
for ‘white man in a hole.’[1]
On the outskirts of the town of Coober Pedy
sits the Olympic Opal Field. It is claimed that during the late 1980s, in the
evening, miners would report seeing the ghost of an old miner wearing a wide-brimmed hat, carrying a lantern, walking across the field. The miners would
investigate, only to see the apparition disappear before their eyes.
It is not known who the apparition may have
been in life, but 3 men have died on Olympic Field. Those three men, Yanni
Vosvouris, Nick Nathanael and Gregory Digaletos were killed when a cave
collapsed on them in 1980. A cross marks the location of their deaths.[2]
Researched
and written by Allen Tiller © 2025
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