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Throat cutting Ghost of Pimpama Creek: Ormeau: QLD
« on: November 08, 2020, 11:36:03 AM »
Can a murdered victim refuse to pass over to other side until they fell their killer or killers is brought to justice?

The once proud little town of Ormeau is rapidly being engulfed by the urban corridor that links Brisbane and the Gold Coast. In the 1870s Ormeau was the home of an odd character named (sorry we don't allow swearing on the forum) Edwards. Reputedly a well-educated man, Edwards lived as a recluse in a small hut on the banks of Pimpama Creek. He made a meagre living cutting wooden fence posts and roof shingles.

Periodically, Edwards would drown his sorrows in local rum. On what was to be the last of these benders, he was missing longer than usual. A neighbour went to his hut to investigate. He found a razor lying on the floor and Edwards’ decomposing body on the bed- his throat cut from ear to ear.

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Re: Throat cutting Ghost of Pimpama Creek: Ormeau: QLD
« Reply #1 on: November 08, 2020, 11:41:47 AM »
A verdict of ‘death by suicide’ was brought down at the inquest and the file on (sorry we don't allow swearing on the forum) Edwards closed, but within days local residents reported seeing his ghost wandering along the bank of the creek.

Today the site can be easy visited where this ghastly apparition was occasionally sighted....

The following picture below show the site of the alleged haunting....

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Re: Throat cutting Ghost of Pimpama Creek: Ormeau: QLD
« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2020, 11:47:18 AM »
In March 1878, two and half years later, the proprietor of the Pimpama Hotel, Simon Lipstone, had a very unnerving encounter with him. Lipstone was approaching the log crossing over Pimpama Creek on horseback at about nine o’clock one night.

A filmy figure dressed in white with a horribly scarred throat appeared beside him. The publican asked the spectre its name. The reply that came was a hair-raising scream the like of which Lipstone had never heard before. The terrified rider dug his heels in and galloped for home as though all the fiends in hell were on his tail.

Was it the vengeful ghost of Edwards caught between the living and dead trying tell us some thing?

Here is picture of the old Pimpama Hotel below.

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Re: Throat cutting Ghost of Pimpama Creek: Ormeau: QLD
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2020, 08:41:43 PM »
The story could have easily forgotten. Yet in in 1914  a fisherman by the name of William Smith sitting by the river back fishing when he detected a presence near him in the dark.  Looking behind him he saw a tall dark figure with his hand stretch out. As the startled fishermen try to say some thing the figure left out an unearthly scream and vanishing.

Needless to say William  never fished there again.

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Re: Throat cutting Ghost of Pimpama Creek: Ormeau: QLD
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2021, 10:23:05 AM »
But there has been modern encounters with this somewhat terrifying apparition. It seems after all these years his ghostly apparition can be seen along the river bank. Greg summers a young man in the 80's had taken his then girl friends at the time to make out listening to music on the car cassette player.

Like some B grade monster movie Greg recalled. When in the course of their love making his girl screamed as she could see a back outline of a figure standing looking at the car they was in. Thinking it was some kind of perv they yell abuse at the tall dark daunting figure that was standing there slightly swaying if drunk. Greg had a torch in glove box and shone the torch beam at this intimidating Creep. The bean shone through him but to their horror the figure turned out to be a gaunt elderly trying to talk but only made gurgling sounds from his cut throat.

In total panic he started the car and almost drove the Holden Kingswood into river in Panic.

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Re: Throat cutting Ghost of Pimpama Creek: Ormeau: QLD
« Reply #5 on: August 10, 2021, 03:01:24 PM »
It makes one think is this ghost still lurking there these days still trying to tell us some thing?

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