Is the National Film and Sound Archive
Australia’s most haunted building?
Graphic courtesy of Andrew Dyson
Dr Jeff Brownrigg presents his book Heaven, Earth and Canberra (2023) in serialised form, with a new chapter offered to readers every two weeks. The first offering also contains a Foreword by Tim the Yowie Man, a well known Canberra personality, Ghost tour guide and author of Haunted and Mysterious Australia.
The Table of Contents below shows all of the chapters to be offered, with links to available chapters underlined and black.
Contents
Preface: A Guide to some of Canberra’s busiest Ghosts
Prologue: An overview. The Bare Bones of a Haunting
Introduction: Granny Dwyer’s Conversations with the Dead
Case Studies
1. A Crowd in Sepia or The Man in the Bowler Hat
2. Bumps in the Day or Where there’s Smoking there’s…
3. Bumps in the Night or Cause for Alarm...
4a. Bumps on the Head or The Skull in the Safe…
4b. Bumps on the Head or A relique of decapitation…
4c. Bumps on the Head or Mapping the geography of the brain…
5. Noises from the Forensic Darkroom or An Imp in the Corner…
6. Sceptical or Sensitive? or Is this the ‘spooky sleepover’?
7. The public and the paranormal (1) or Spirits of Old Canberra
8. Public access to the paranormal (2) or An Evening with a Psychic Dog
9. Trouble in the North Gallery or Two clicks a Night
10. The Pyjama Girl or The Blonde in the Sub-basement
11. Filming Phantoms or Training an enquiring Spirit
12. The Light at the End of the Corridor or That Symphony’s a Surprise
The trying Taxonomy: drawing things together
Coda: A Dowser’s Divinations…
Acknowledgements
Illustrations