As the country’s oldest inland city, most residents will boast of Goulburn’s heritage and history. What they might not share is the ghost stories. Each week the Post will be printing an instalment of their Ghoulish Guide to Goulburn, a tour of the city’s haunted history.
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To start the series, STEPHANIE ANDERSON explores the Goulburn Post building and its resident ghost, former owner Thomas Daniel.
THERE are plenty of reasons not to work late in the office of the Goulburn Post.
Many staff members I spoke to told of phantom footsteps at night, papers folding themselves and several sightings of a ghostly figure on the stairs.
This bearded apparition - according to eyewitnesses – is Thomas Daniel, the Englishman who first bought the Goulburn Evening Penny Post in 1870.
Photographer Darryl Fernance had his own hair-raising experience with Mr Daniel about 15 years ago when working late one night in the darkroom...
For the full story, please see Friday's Goulburn Post, available from our front office in Auburn St, or at all leading newsagencies across the Goulburn area.
Do you have an apparition lurking in your attic? Or does your workplace have a haunted history? Email your local ghost stories to stephanie.anderson@ruralpress.com and help the Post create their Ghoulish Guide to Goulburn.
