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From: "G hammond" <>
Subject: Re: Ghost
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 21:31:24 EST

Hi Ron,
My great grandfather is supposed to be a ghost (unfortuantely I've never
"meet" him). He's even been written up in a few Australian ghost books over
the last couple of decades. My son thinks it's excellent, and has taken the
book to school to show all his friends. My g grandfather died a tragic death
leaving a young wife & children and the story, I guess grew from there. His
horse lost it's footing on a saltpan, he fell, breaking his back, he crawled
to his homestead dying in agony about 3 days later apparently. He is buried
on the property next to his infant daughter, who had died several years
earlier on. People swear they've seen him out riding... wish I had.
Regards,
Gina
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>From: Ron Atkinson <>
>To:
>Subject: Ghost
>Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 23:47:10 +1000
>
>Hi, has anybody discovered a ghost in your family tree, I have.
>When I was 7years of age, my father passed away and my mother sent me to
>live with her Uncle and his wife. They had no children, and we lived in
>Carlton, a Sydney suburb. Their names were Thomas Billington and Ethel
>Annie Pinn, he was a builder, built my mother two houses over the
>years.It was 1947 that my father passed away and it would have been
>about 1950 that we moved to Hurstville Grove into a house that he built
>himself. We remained in that house until about 1957 when he contracted
>hepetitus and subsequently died in the house while I was at school one
>day.
>While he was building the home he told his sister (My Grandmother) that
>he was putting a stache of money under the home to care for his wife
>should anything happen to him. When he died, I don't know how hard my
>mother and grandmother searched for the money but on the probate of his
>will he was almost broke, only owned the home he lived in.
>About a month ago I was in the Hurstville Grove area with my wife, I
>took her to show her the house and noticed the owner doing some
>painting, we stopped and I told him the story about living there, his
>wife told me that 'HE' is still there in the house, they have owned the
>house for 29 years and she has heard him in the house many times and
>even gave me a fairly good description of him.
>Ghost stories always happen to other people over the other side of the
>world, never thought one could be so close.
>Ron Atkinson
>
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