Case file · Haunting
Fisher's ghost
A settler near Campbelltown said the ghost of missing farmer Frederick Fisher, sitting on a fence, pointed to where his body was later found.
1826 CE · -34.07, 150.82 · status: legend
The account
Fisher vanished in June 1826; his neighbour George Worrall claimed he had gone to England. Months later a local man reported seeing Fisher's ghost on a rail by a creek. Police found the body nearby, and Worrall was convicted and hanged. Campbelltown has held a Festival of Fisher's Ghost since 1956.
The sceptical view
The murder and trial are real; the ghost appears in later retellings and is not in the trial record.