Night Terrors Stalk the Streets of the 18th Century Penal Colonies of Early Australia.
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Night-time is always a dangerous time to be out on the streets of colonial Sydney and Parramatta. Drunken soldiers and absconding convicts haunt the townships in the hours after curfew. But recently another -- far stranger and more deadly -- force has taken to lurking in the shadows, occasionally striking... [click here for more]
French Occult Explorers Lurk in the Shadows of 18th Century Australia.
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The early days of the Australian colonies coincides with a period where France and England were bitter enemies -- sometimes at war. Although England has stamped its ownership by founding the settlement of New South Wales, the continent of Australia is a vast place and the French are known to be lurking in the seas nearby,... [click here for more]
Delve into the Shady Criminal Underworld of 18th Century Australia.
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The majority of the Europeans living in the penal colony of New South Wales are there because of their guilty association with the world of crime. This is just as true for the gaolers as it is for the convicts they guard. Not surprisingly, incarceration in a large and remote prison has done little to turn felons from their criminal... [click here for more]
"There's Gold in That Thar Penal Settlement!"
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Most people would be aware that the early colonial history of Australia included major gold rushes in the 1840s and 1850s. But what few people know is that decades prior to these great discoveries, a discovery of precious gold sent ripples through the very fabric of New South Wales. The find, made by a lowly convict,... [click here for more]
"Some Gentlemen Prefer Crime!"
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Not everyone who was sentenced to be a convict in the penal settlements came from the poorer, criminal classes of Britain. Some were wealthy men and women, sentenced to transportation sometimes because of their criminal ways, but other times because of their politics. And some of these so-called... [click here for more]
"Better Not Shout, Better Not Cry, Something Evil is Watching the Orphans. Something hungry."
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Perhaps the most vulnerable people in the penal colonies of early Australia were the (surprisingly many) unwanted and destitute children. Most roamed the streets, prey to wicked and degenerate sorts -- but a scant few of the unwanted... [click here for more]
"Who knows what unknown terrors lurk in the unexplored bushland of Australia?"
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Strange stories have recently been circulating in Sydney Town. Tales about a catastrophic event that caused widespread devastation to a staging point along the Parramatta River much... [click here for more]
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