Skeletons on Rundle Street - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Skeletons on Rundle Street

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Reverend H. Howard first met each other on-board a P&O boat, en-route to Fremantle, Western Australia. 

The subject of ghosts came up, as it often did with spiritualists and paranormal investigators. During the conversation, a story surfaced about a real human skeleton photograph taken in Rundle Street, Adelaide.

  Mrs McElwin, a lady of Adelaide, was asked if she could find a copy of the photograph and have it sent forward to Mr Doyle for him to peruse and speculate over.

  There were, in fact, two human skeletons in Adelaide on display. Both skeletons were for sale at the time that Mrs McElwin began searching for the photograph of one to send to Doyle. Whether she found the photograph is unknown. What is known is that one of the skeletons could be found in the store of Kuhmels Piano Emporium at 134 Rundle Street in Adelaide

Although Kuhmel's was primarily a music business, he did on occasion sell items for other people. In this case, an articulated human skeleton (a real human skeleton) was for sale via a relative, who had two such skeletons in his possession. The other human skeleton was for sale in a suburb outside of the Adelaide City centre.

It is not known what happened to either skeleton, but during my research, we discovered these were not the only two human skeletons for sale in Adelaide!

Adelaide city of bones?

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Allen Tiller

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