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Paranormal and Supernatural => Australian Hauntings Portal => Topic started by: KANACKI on January 02, 2024, 11:25:38 AM
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Greeting all its been a long time.
Old Kanacki is still living between the world of the living and dead. I have not posted in awhile so I promise to post more this year. In course of life I have met many people. And some priceless ghost stories are not just the ones that are found in newspapers but from the mouths of the people who experienced it.
The following yarn came about after giving christmas greeting and chatting to people. It can be surprising where a conversation can lead. A lady in early to mid 60's told me the following yarn.
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Kanacki
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The conversation I was dumbfound how it went to where it did fell onto the subject of ghosts. She had a gem of story to tell us. these events happened nearly or over 30 years ago in shopping centre at Warrawong the present Hair saloons did not exist then, the location is all been built out in renovations over the years. So there is no actual location there today.
Her story begins with her daughter at time was an apprentice hair dresser. Their was several hairdressers working in this hair salon. The back room of hair saloon was intensely cold. None of girls liked going in there as it always had a dark brooding atmosphere.
But that was mot the problem? The intense cold room had switch board and few stored items anf nothing else. And yet strange things started happening there?
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Kanacki
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There was smell of burning and fumes and fires broke out there several times. In fact the fire brigade was called there several times bewildered how the fires started as there was no ignition source?
Shopping Centre management was called in that sent electrician after electrician was called in none could find fault with wiring? There was no logical reason for the fires to be occurring?
The owner of the hairdressing saloon was baffled and bewildered but at first she suspected that one of staff was at fault starting these fires.
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Kanacki
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All the staff aovided the room like the plague as it was intensely cold and everyone felt a hostile intense hatred going into the room.
Even so under the watchful eyes of the owner fires still kept happening. Fire brigade still kept turning up. Suspicion had fallen onto the staff members.
The lady told me the story her young daughter was youngest there and focus of events was point to her accusation as she was newest member of the team? She was just a young girl learning an apprenticeship. She had no problems no issues like the job and was good worker. Her mum that told me story came there every day to pick her daughter up from work.
One day in saloon she entered the back room and felt an intense cold like walking into a freezer. She could not stay in the room.
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Kanacki
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But mysterious fires became more frequent. and in desperation The business owner turned to Physic who claimed the youngest staff member was releasing negative energy.
So the daughter was acted to take a break in essence stood down from her trainee ship because of poltergeist paranormal activity?
This would have been the first case in Australian history of some one being sacked for causing paranormal activity? The girl was devastated as loved her job and was a good worker.
Yet nothing was it seemed.
Kanacki
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While the you girl was away the fires continued and became more aggressive.
Further investigation of the staff it was revealed one of women had an affair up in Queensland with a young man involved in witchcraft in Warwick. They had broken up badly and it was suspected he had induced a spell on her haunting her. She had left the business but the fires the intense cold still kept happening.
The business owner in frustration hung a cross on the wall. On returning in the next morning it was hanging upside down? Two of the owners longest serving staff members had enough left.In frustration the business owner turned to a South American lady who claimed to be a witch from Melbourne.
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Kanacki
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This witch came from the Andean region of south America where local tribal made up spell to counter the evil that pervading inside the store room. she wash a hand made wreathe with holy water and entwined sacred herbs into with little prayer incantations on it. The witch claimed to see if this would work loaned the wreathe to the hair Saloon owner to hang up on the wall on the back wall.
There next morning the owner came in and found it strewn on the floor and another fire had burned on the wall. ankhs was symbol of death.Additionally, ankhs were traditionally placed in sarcophagi to ensure life after death. While the ankh is a widely known hieroglyph, its origins are somewhat unclear But her scorch mark on a cement block wall was was the was symbol of death.
Strange enough all strange occurrences stopped at the hair Saloon.
Yet that was not the end of the story.
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Kanacki
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Another physic claimed that before the shopping center was there an aboriginal family lived on the land and was murdered by the farmer who owned the land before? And there was a malignant linger spirit lingering in the same spot until the spot became a modern hair dressers in a shopping center?
But there was many questions unanswered?
Kanacki
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One it appeared the malingering spirit now followed the Hair dressing owner home?
What happened next? we do not know?
But inspired by the story Old kanacki felt the need to research further?
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Kanacki
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Here is a picture of Warrawong before any houses and shops and shopping centres was built. one the right hand said was site of the present day shopping centre.
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Kanacki
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Warrawong
Parish: Wollongong
County: Camden
Warrawong is a large residential and commercial centre on the northern shores of Lake Illawarra.
Land Grants
Surveyor General John Oxley marked out the first land grants in the region on 2 December 1816. He marked out large parcels of land surrounding Lake Illawarra which were named Illawarra Farm, Berkeley Estate and Macquarie Gift. Crops such as wheat, oats and potatoes were grown around the lake and dairying became the primary industry in the late 1880s.
In 1817, David Allan was granted 2,200 acres at Five Islands. His property fronted the ocean at Red Point and Port Kembla and was between Tom Thumb Lagoon and Lake Illawarra. The grant was called 'Illawarra Farm'.
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Kanacki
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Allan was Deputy Commissary-General of the colony from 1813 to 1819. He carried on his grazing interests on his 'Illawarra Farm' of which 600 acres were cleared. Produce from the farm was sold to the Government Stores. Allan left the colony in 1822 and he leased the farm "with good cottage and office" (Sydney Gazette, 22 June 1824).
In 1827 the property was sold to Richard Jones, who later sold it to William Charles Wentworth and it came to be known as 'The Five Islands Estate'. Wentworth died in 1876. leaving the property to his son D'Arcy Bland Wentworth.
In 1899, 500 acres of the land was resumed for the Port Kembla Harbour and a further 1470 acres was resumed in 1913 (Herben, 2000).
Was this alleged indigenous family murdered there in this period?
Kanacki
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The Wentworth Family had a long association with the Warrawong / Port Kembla area. William Charles Wentworth I purchased Illawarra Farm, later known as Five Islands Estate, from Richard Jones. He died in 1876 and left the property to his son D'Arcy Bland Wentworth. D'Arcy Bland died without heirs and his nephew, William Charles Wentworth III, inherited the Five Islands Estate.
W C Wentworth III sold some of the land to Australian Iron and Steel to enable them to move from Lithgow to Port Kembla, and some to a group of Sydney businessmen called 'Heart of Kembla'. The Wall Street crash of 1929 and subsequent Depression meant that Heart of Kembla became bankrupt, and as the land had not been paid for it reverted to W C Wentworth III (Lawson, 1991).
In 1935, W C Wentworth IV began to develop parcels of land from his estate for sale. He granted four acres of land for a new school at Steeltown (Warrawong) and built a new Kembla Estate hall at Port Kembla (South Coast Times & Illawarra Mercury).
When the land at Warrawong was subdivided, the Wentworths would not allow inferior structures to be built in case they developed into slums. The subdivisions included unusual features for the time such as wide streets, kerbing and guttering, and underground drainage, as well as recreational areas and parklands (South Coast Times, 30 August 1935).
Although the Wentworth family owned the Kembla Estate for over 100 years, they did not live in the district for any length of time. The land was leased or managed through a family trust.
Was this entity from an aboriginal family allegedly murdered in this time?
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Kanacki
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The South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus (NSW : 1900 - 1954), Saturday 3 May 1902, page 1 told the following story.
A TERRIBLE 0UTRA6E.
MURDER AT FIVE ISLANDS. MYSTERIOUS SURROUNDINGS, .
A dastardly outrage was perpetrated on the Five Islands Estate, Lake Iliawarra, on Wednesday night. Near Mr. j Frank O'Donnell's lived an old woman named Winifred Mannion, aged about 76, and an old age pensioner. She had been an old. servant with Mrs. O'Donnell's family, and after living for some time with her married son at Port Kembla, she asked and obtained permission to have a hut erected for herself?
Winifred Mannion had a habit of regularly going over to O'Donnell's for milk, but on Thursday she failed to put in an appearance. Thinking tlere was something the matter, Mr. F. O'Donnell went over to the hut (the door of which was open) and found the old Woman lying in bed unconscious, with a fearful wound across the forehead. From appearances the blow was dealt with a blunt instrument, and the only motive ? that can be assigned for the foul deed is that the perpretrator was after what money she had (if any). Nothing in the hut seemed to be disturbed The unfortunate woman was conveyed to the hospital and is still unconscious, and it is feared she will not recover.
The police are Out and a black tracker is on the scene, but the recent rains will make it very difficult to pick up tracks.
This spot was the very spot where a shopping center was later built and a hair dressing saloon was on the very spot where this murder in 1902 took place?
It was not a aboriginal family murdered. But an elderly women bashed and left to die in her hut. Was it her malice left seeking some redemption that was perhaps behind the haunting's at the hair Saloon?
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Kanacki
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There was more details of the murder and hut where the murder took place. her is rough plan of the location of the murder.
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Kanacaki
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Here is pictures of the South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus (NSW : 1900 - 1954), Saturday 10 May 1902 that gave more information of the story?
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Kanacki
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Here is more pages of the article.
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Kanacki
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Here is more information
Michael O'Donnell and his wife arrived in Sydney from Ireland in 1841. He became teacher-in-charge of the Wollongong Roman Catholic Denominational School in 1842. In 1843-1844 O'Donnell and a fellow school teacher undertook the management of Wentworth's 'Five Islands Estate'. In 1853 O'Donnell leased the Estate from Wentworth with a proviso that he would clear 500 acres of the land. Evidence suggests that the O'Donnell family still held a lease with Wentworth in 1900. The O'Donnell's farm house was built not on 'Five Islands Estate' but on 'Berkeley Estate' (Reynolds, 2001).
The land for the 'Steeltown Estate' was probably purchased from the O'Donnell family. The subdivision extended from the southern side of Five Islands Road to just north of Fitzgerald's homestead. The southern extent of the subdivision is midway between Cringila Street and Fitzgerald Street. It is presumed that this was the boundary between the O'Donnell family's property and Fitzgerald's property (Reynolds, 2001).
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Kanacki
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It appears Mannion Winifred Mannionwas murdered for a few sovereigns she had
Her hut was about 1/50 yards to the south east of the residence of Mr. F. O'Donnell (Mayor of Central Illawarra and lessee to the estate). The murdered woman was an old retainer of the family of Mrs. O'Donnell, and great was her delight, some nine months ago, when she was permitted by Mr. O'Donnell to erect on the estate, and within hail of the O'Donnell household, the hut in which she hoped to spend the declining years of her life.
The walls and roof of the building, which is 9ft 6in by 7ft 6in, are of corrugated ,-iron, with a door in the northern end (facing O'Donnell's), where the chimney is also placed, and at the back a wooden shutter on hinges, and fastened by means of two nails, did duty as a window. The old lady succeeded in making the interior fairly snug. A single bed was placed along the southern wall under the window, and from a cross-beam (about four feet from that end of the dwelling) were suspended cretonne curtains, which divided off, as it were, the sleeping portion of the hut. In the hut there were also an improvised table, a little dresser, a large tin trunk, and household utensils.
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Kanacki
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An excerpt for the news paper states
From inquiries made in various quarters, we have gleaned the following details : — 'On 'Tuesday, the old lady was at O'Donnells, and commissioned' David Carney (a youth in the employ of Mr. O'Donnell) to get her sundry articles in town. These were a 5 cwt; of flour and a box of cartridges, he having promised to do some shooting for her. She gave him half-a-sovereign, and he returned her the two shillings and sixpence change later on.
Carney avers that on the purse being opened he distinctly saw about ten 'shillings in large silver in one pocket, and as she opened the second pocket to get the half sovereign and noticed a couple of Sovereigns.
Was this David Carney a suspect?
There was answered questions with her son? Why did she leave her sons home 9 months earlier? He strange enough knew where his mother kept her money in the Following excerpt below.
The son states his mother usually put the purse at night in a little satchel at the head of the bed, where she also kept her rosary beads.
Mrs,. O'Donnell who had an' Intimate knowledge of the unfortunate women transactions surmises that ?
She must have been in possession of three or about 4 pounds, Which she had generally carried about in her in the purse Thus, it will be seen, we have fairly strong proof of the murdered woman having had money in her possession on the day pf the murder.
Senior-sergt. Banks searched the place, on Thursday night,
He found the purse, on the top ? shelf of the little dresser, empty. Search for the key. of the tin trunk was rewarded by finding it (with string attached) hidden between the corrugation of a sheet of iron and a batten, near the foot of the bed. Ail the money found I in the box was a three penny piece
Clearly the motive was murder?
But who was the guilty party?
New South Wales, Australia, Registers of Coroners' Inquests, 1821-1937 for Winifred Mannion in final statement in picture below.
Death by blow to the head murder by person or person unknown.
Did the spirit of Winifred Mannion manifest itself in a shopping center hair dresser a century later? If so what triggered the haunting?
MIND CANDY INDEED!
Kanacki
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It should be noted the site where this haunting occurred is no longer a Hair salon. The exact location is kept secret to foe people to pester the present shop owners.
Kanacki