Ghost stories have fascinated and captivated people throughout history and across cultures.
Some ghost stories have a strong cultural and historical significance.
These tales also serve as cautionary tales, teaching moral lessons and warning against certain behaviors.
A festival attendee dressed up as a ghost at the Festival of Fisher’s Ghost.
Consequently, in 1815, Fred received a 14-year sentence of transportation to Australia.
He also ventured into the paper-making industry.
Among other properties, Fred Fisher secured a farm at Campbelltownat the time a remote rural outpost.
In 1825, Fisher had an argument with a local carpenter and was sent to prison.
On 17 June 1826 Fisher mysteriously disappeared.
Four months after Fishers disappearance a local man named John Farley came forward with a peculiar story.
Farley claimed that he had seen the ghost of Fred Fisher sitting on the rail of a nearby bridge.
Surprisingly, the remains of the murdered Fisher were discovered buried by the side of a creek.
Based on circumstantial evidences, George Worrall was arrested and charged with Freds murder.
Although George initially denied the charge, he later confessed to the crime, and was subsequently hanged.
Did Farley really see Fishers ghost?
Maybe Farley witnessed the murder and saw the body being buried.
He wanted to tell the authorities without implicating himself in the affair.
So he invented the ghost story.
Yet another likely theory is that the ghost story was a hoax a journalist invention by a Sydney-based magazine.
Indeed, there are no mention of a ghost in the trial records of the case.
Proceeding on, they came to a spot which had been recently disturbed.
Acting on intuition, the spot was dug up and Fishers body was discovered.
However the story of Fishers ghost came about, it has since entered popular folklore.
