"Never let the truth get in the way of a good yarn."
Eric Bana as Mark "Chopper" Reid
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A local friend of ours, let's call him Max, told us of an frightening experience his Mum once had. One night, Max's mother got out of bed because she couldn't sleep. She walked into the lounge and switched on the TV. There was no other light on in the house other than that coming from the TV. Out of the corner of her eye Max's mother saw something move quickly across their front verandah.
She got up and turned the lounge light on, and looked out the windows that ran along the whole length of the verandah. She didn't see anything, so leaving the light on she sat back down on the couch and continued watching TV. After a couple of minutes, she saw it again. This time, she stayed where she sat and just moved her head. When she looked at the steps that led from the front gate to the verandah, she saw a blackened human head peering at her. It was as if a burned man was sitting on the bottom step staring at her.
She couldn't see a body, and her logic kicked in as she realised that if there was a body to it, she would be able to see it because the steps weren't that big.
She got up and went back to bed quite shaken by what she had just seen.
Then the next day, she was telling her Max's dad what had happened. When she told him that it wasn't possible to only see a head if something was sitting on the step, he went very quiet. When she asked him what was wrong, he told her that a couple of years before they moved into that house, a man was driving his tractor out in one of the paddocks and it overturned. As the tractor rolled over, it cut the man in half and then burst into flames.
Had Max's mother seen a ghost? Is this the same tractor? Did I just make all this up? You decide. The truth is out there!
Whilst stopping for a couple of caches, check out the following:
The Katamatite Football Club
Nickname: The Tigers
League: Picola & District Football League.
Premierships:
Picola & District Football League 1950, 1996, 2001
Tungamah Football League 1979
Katamatite Museum
This local history collection includes a growing photographic collection of local World War I and World War II veterans. A shed added in 1995 houses farming machinery and tools of local interest.
Collections:
600 items plus photographs. Artifacts used by locals - trinkets, glassware, clothing, lamps, school work etc. Machinery shed with agricultural implements used in the "horse and buggy" days e.g. a furphy header, reaper and binder, wagon, separator, spring cart, single farrow plough etc.
Open:
On Sundays and public holidays from 2.00 p.m. to 4.00 p.m or at other times if you ring (03) 5865 1310.
The Cache:
Is a small container containing only log sheet. Please bring your own pen.
Unless things have taken a turn for the worse, you should not have to use any special equipment.
I also apologise if you meet Frankie Valli on your travels.