Suicide After Seeing a Fortune-Teller. On the 14 th of May 1901, the body of Bridget Dunn was found in Anderson’s Creek. The creek, near...

Mary Sullivan vs. Madame Valetta   – Psychic Fraud?   In 1889, South Australian fortune teller Louisa Valetta was charged by police for ob...

 Death by Brick   E. S. Wigg & Son stationers and adjoining buildings in Grenfell St, Adelaide, 1922 SLSA: [B 10365]   It was August...

 Lightning Strikes - Bagot's Head Station On November 22 nd , 1860, a thunderstorm blew through the Kapunda region in South Australia’...

  Lightning Strikes – Brooks Family     In February 1889, a severe thunderstorm blew in over Brookside, near Eudunda. Mrs Brooks decided...

  Lightning Strikes – The Death of Mr Carey  It was a Friday afternoon January 25 1901, Thomas Carey, a farmer near Templers, was returnin...

  Lightning Strikes – Penola Shepherds  In January 1907, James and his older brother Alex Patterson were mustering sheep on their uncle...