Spectral Spare Parts All heart they live, all head, all eye, all ear, All intellect, all sense, and as they please They limb themselves, and colour, shape, or size, Assume, as likes them best, condense or rare. Paradise Lost, John Milton (English poet, 1608–1674) There’s only one thing more terrifying than seeing a ghost and that’s seeing a part of one. Many of Australia’s best ghost stories, such as ‘The Ghosts in the Glen’, feature disembodied faces, hands and other body parts — and so do these macabre tales. An oversized and disembodied face was witnessed by a group of five surveyors sent to the Coxs River near the present town of Wallerawang 120 or so years ago. On arrival the party decided to camp in an old house on the river bank while they carried out their work. The foreman described the house as convict-built, uninhabited and fast falling into ruin. A boundary rider from a nearby property joined the company around their campfire the first night and warned them that the old house was haunted.
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