Lost Hotels: Black Horse Hotel, Leigh Street , Adelaide.   1926: Leigh Street, Adelaide. SLSA [B 3424]   The Black Horse Hotel was lo...

  Haunted Playford The City of Playford is a relatively new area, but within the city are many older suburbs such as Smithfield, Angle Val...

 Hallowe’en in Gawler.      In 1894, the Gawler Branch of the South Australian Caledonian Society held its Hallowe’en function in Gawler...

Beware of the Spirits  In 1936, Adelaide newspaper News printed an article titled Beware of the Spirits , which detailed an old custom from...

 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...