Trove

Now, as noted in Part 1, stone-throwing outbreaks attracted much press attention.

While six issues of the Gyra Argus are missing from the start of April to mid-May 1921, the archives are otherwise intact dating back to 1902 and have been digitised by the National Library of Australia as part of its Trove database.

Using this, I searched hard for any mention of previous mysterious happenings involving stones being thrown in Gyra.

There was nothing.

His rudimentary investigation and unconvincing report have helped to ensure that the Guyra ghost has not been laid to rest.

A century later, people are still asking questions and the Guyra ghost remains Australian history wrapped in mystery.

Researching this episode, I have, as usual, made extensive use of the National Library of Australia's Trove database and relied on family, police and military records found at ancestry.com.au and at the National Archives of Australia.

What surprised me, given it's such a fascinating story, was how few detailed accounts there are of the Gyra Ghost.

However, we only know this thanks to the report being briefly referenced in other articles published elsewhere in the coming days.

That's because all copies of that issue of the Argus and the following five issues covering the entire mystery disappeared from the physical newspaper archives decades before they were digitized as part of the National Library of Australia's Trove database.

The motive? Who can say? A greedy souvenir hunter seems the most likely, but it's also possible the culprit wanted the whole matter forgotten for some reason.

Although the Argus isn't available to us now, then it was available to everyone in the district.

Another angle we'll examine next time is the notion that a poltergeist could have been responsible.

This word wasn't used in coverage of the Kuyel and Enmore cases.

Indeed, the word was next to unknown in Australia, appearing just 19 times in digitised newspapers at Trove from 1850 to 1900, and even then almost always in connection with overseas mysteries.

As the Gyra case evolved, the concept of a poltergeist would become far better understood.

The process I strive for is about expanding what we can know and then turning it into a narrative we can examine to hopefully arrive at a better understanding of crimes in their times and what they tell us about Australia then and now.

To make The Beast Must Die, I've read every article published about this case in the Canberra Times, the Queen Bee and Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Melbourne Age and the Perth Mirror, and other newspapers that are available online at the National Library of Australia's Trove database.

I visited the State Library of New South Wales to read every report in the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mirror, the Sun and Truth newspapers.

due to their publication dates they aren't available online and can only be read on microfilm you're also going to hear story strands that are based on military records found at the national archives of australia and on birth death and marriage records held by various state bodies to go deeper into a divorce that you'll hear about i accessed the original petitions held by museums new south wales at their western sydney record center All of my research was then confirmed against and underpinned by two Federal Attorney General's Department files I found at the National Archives of Australia.

And from there I went to the state library and looked up a lot of old newspapers.

Of course, I went onto, um, Trove with the Australian National Library, uh, Public Records Office.

Um, I contacted relatives of Alice Anderson that I discovered.

I went through the Lyceum Club archives because she was a member there.

thank you so much Brie and I hope everyone is listening I hope you learned something listen with an open mind and you know learn if you want to do more research on what Brie is talking Brie where did you get your resource from you know the well can they go and read it online is there a resource online that they can find the missionaries work their writings and everything

yeah definitely so thankfully the National Library of Australia They have that website Trove or the platform Trove.

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