Grave Tales Australia: the series

Dying young, Sylvia McArthur would make her mark, documenting in letters to a newspaper’s children’s page what life in r... Read more

Some bushrangers became folk heroes, others were opportunistic thieves, but the Clarke Brothers were murderous thugs who... Read more

Madam Weigel's patterns dressed the women of Australia for nine decades but in the large cemetery plot bought for three,... Read more

Mark Jeffrey lived with the 1100 or so deceased residents on the Isle of the Dead, tending his own plot. But how did he ... Read more

Little did Professor Theodore Flynn and his wife, Lily, of Sandy Bay, Tasmania, know that their son, Errol Flynn, would ... Read more

A story that has passed into folk law – how bushman Bernard O’Reilly put his mind to finding a missing aircraft with sev... Read more

In the days when ‘freak shows’ were entertainment, Mrs Augusta Rewald, a Queensland resident, was exhibited as the ‘bigg... Read more

For more than a century, Sam Knott was one of the best-known faces on advertising billboards. But how did this unconvent... Read more

On a beautiful summer’s eve, January 1924, in the Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, five people's lives were about to change. ... Read more

If it wasn’t for a persistent father, Walter Lindrum might never have risen to World Champion. He was nicknamed the ‘Don... Read more