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Jack Sim

Brisbane-based dark historian, author, and founder of Ghost Tours Australia, Crime Tours Australia and Boggo Road Gaol tours (est. 1998), known as the "Man in Black".

Oct 23, 2026

55:10
But is it Halloween Australian or is it not?
55:15
Yeah.
55:16
I mean, it's one of those things, isn't it? You would have heard it a million times.
55:19
People go, I don't like Halloween.
55:21
It's not Australian.
55:22
It comes up all the time.
55:24
And on YouTube, I've got a video answering this question, is Halloween Australian? And look, it was a lot of fun to put it together, Dan.
56:57
Right.
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Yeah.
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These men were experts of, um, cattle, cattlemen and farmers and real estate speculators.
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Well, Francis was so impressed with Cleveland that he bought land and built infrastructure, including, uh, a w- a, a wharf, um, various buildings.
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He pushed really hard that Cleveland would be the capital of any future colony-
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Wow
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...
58:07
in the end, um, uh, visiting, uh, James, uh, Lang, the famous Scottish migration, um, champion, um, he, he went and visited the point, Cleveland Point in 1854, and he took one look at, um, Bigge's little, little, uh, hotel and said, "Oh, it's just a fle- he's just a, it's a complete folly." [laughs] And so he went back in New Sou- back in, well, not back in New South Wales, it was all still part of New South Wales.

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