Another expose of the ‘paranormal industry’ getting history wrong in Queensland.
Author Archives: Christopher Dawson
Ghost Hunting, Ethics, and the National Trust
Should the National Trust of Queensland really be allowing unethical commercial activities in their properties?
The Moon Man, the Headless Murderer, and Me
The extraordinary story of a Russian scientist visiting Queensland and what he did with the heads of four executed prisoners in Brisbane.
The Burleigh and Bilinga Sperm Whales
Read about the problems caused for Gold Coast authorities when dead Sperm Whales washed ashore in the 1920s and ’30s.
The Hempen Halter: Criticising the Boggo Road Gallows
Some very resounding criticism of the Boggo Road gallows (and superintendent Vivian Williams) from a Brisbane tabloid newspaper of 1903.
You Only Die Twice: Fading Memory in a Cemetery
For some of our dead, decaying headstones and fading photographs are a second death – a slow, gradual erasure of their history.
Colonial Columns: An 1860s Look at the Gulf Country
A description of life around the far northern settlements of Cloncurry and Normanton in the 1960s.
Clink Ink: The Craft of Tattoo Guns
The intriguing craft that went into make illegal tattoo machines in 1980s Queensland prisons.
Colonial Columns: Mount Coot-tha in 1929
A description and history of Mt Coot-tha, Brisbane, from 1929.
The Number’s Up for Malaita Men on the Boggo Road Gallows
Why were Malaita Islanders the single largest national demographic of executed prisoners at Boggo Road, Brisbane, from 1883-1913?
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