Ghosts of the Sydney Harbour Bridge: Sydney:NSW

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IS THE SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE HAUNTED?

Sydney Harbour Bridge has a "ghost." Engineers say that they have a simple explanation for eerie wails, which are heard at irregular intervals, but workmen still call the phenomenon the "bridge ghost."

The uncanny sounds were heard first on the approach spans. They began faintly, then rose in volume and finally died away. They were first attributed to the siren of a vessel passing underneath the arch, but the persistence of the sounds soon attracted close attention. Engineers were informed, and endeavoured to explain the phenomenon.

Several theories were advanced and as quickly rejected. It was suggested that riveting machines were reacting upon certain steel members, causing them to take up vibrations in sympathy, in the same manner as a tuning fork. This was soon discounted, for the sounds came on as strongly as ever when there were no riveters at work in the vicinity.

It was then suggested that gusts of winds were responsible. On the roadway section there are several vertical pipes for drainage purposes and it was thought that, under the wind's influence, they were acting like the pipes of an organ. The recurrences of the sound on a perfectly still day exploded this theory.

A very simple solution of the problem has now been found. It has been observed that the wailing is heard only during which the temperature varies greatly. On a cloudy day, broken by short periods of strong sunshine, the wails are particularly noticeable. On such days there is considerable movement at the expansion joints of each steel truss. Due to the weight of steel bearing., on the plates on which each truss slides, friction is considerable. Movement then takes place in a series of backward and forward jerks. This irregular movement sets up vibrations in the members constituting the framework of each truss, which acts as an enormous tuning fork.

Nevertheless, there are some persons of an incurably romantic turn of mind who prefer to retain the supernatural explanation of a ghost.

Published by The Kyogle Examiner, NSW, Fri 6 Feb 1931


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However, there are rumors that the Sydney's Harbour Bridge doubles as a tomb for three workers buried inside. Officially, 16 people died during the construction of the famous Harbour Bridge. According to the stories, three men died during construction after they fell into the brick pylons of the bridge. However, since they were migrant workers, and because labor laws didn't seem all that stringent at the time, their disappearance wasn't noticed for weeks. Apparently, retrieving the bodies would have been too difficult, and were instead entombed in concrete and remain there to this day.

Some say this story is an urban myth?

But the fact remains 16 people died building the Sydney harbour bridge and only 2 by falling. The rest was in other industrial accident so i do do not think there was any cover up.

There is another story connected to the bridge?

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Kanacki

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Take, for example, the ghost diver of Sydney Harbour. According to the Very Scientific show The Extraordinary, old Ghosty MgGhost lives a mere 10 metres below the surface of our nation’s most iconic harbour. Local diver Eric Buchanan first spotted the spook while inspecting newly-laid underwater cables. As the theory goes, the diver was one of several fatalities that occurred during the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge

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Kanacki

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Northern Star (Lismore, NSW : 1876 - 1954), Monday 12 December 1932, page 5 reported the following.

THE FIFTEENTH

HARBOUR BRIDGE DEATH

SYDNEY, Saturday.

Shortly after 9 a.m. to-day a man jumped from the Harbour Bridge railings on the city side of the southern pylon and crashed to death 160 feet

below on Hickson road.

To-day's tragedy occurred within a few yards of' a similar one three months ago. It was the seventeenth leap from the bridge and the fifteenth death... The man was identified as Archin Ernest Russell, of Randwick.

Mr W/P. Dolierty,,of Pymble, witnessed the leap. He saw a man sit ting on the railing but before "he could reach him he leaped.Almost . every bone in the man's body was: broken; and the' corpse was the Most shattered the ambulance men had seen.


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