port wakefield ghost???

[tregs]

has any one heard the story about the port wakefield ghost ? he was ment to be a raf pilot who was killed some where around the area ??

[Riksta]

Haven't heard of it but definitely interested in finding it now

If it exists!

[tregs]

yer i heard it on the radio they had a call in thing an there were lots of ppl saying they had seen him an spoken to him

[ogtrip]

Nah, never heard of it.

All i know is the witch's house of port rush road / tapleys hill road.

Been chased a few times from there in my younger days. hahaha poor thing...

[tregs]

Spirits having flown
PORT WAKEFIELD: Sightings of the Port Wakefield ghost have been reported at various times since the 1940s on Highway 1 between Port Wakefield and Adelaide. The spirit is said to be an airforce pilot killed in a plane crash during a training flight out of Malalla during World WarII. He still appears to drivers along this stretch of road in an air force uniform.

[poppa smurf]

yep! seen him once.....about 2 A.M. he was on the side of the road hitching....pulled up to give him a ride and he wasn't there no more

[GasoLane]

Originally Posted by poppa smurf

yep! seen him once.....about 2 A.M. he was on the side of the road hitching....pulled up to give him a ride and he wasn't there no more

Time to change your brand

[Charliewool]

Originally Posted by GasOLane

Time to change your brand

GasOLane... How many flats have you dragged through the Pilliga scrub at night, rather than stop and change a wheel?

[Riksta]

Originally Posted by Charliewool

GasOLane... How many flats have you dragged through the Pilliga scrub at night, rather than stop and change a wheel?

ROFL, is GasOLane just a little scared of ghosts?

[GasoLane]

Originally Posted by Charliewool

GasOLane... How many flats have you dragged through the Pilliga scrub at night, rather than stop and change a wheel?

Originally Posted by Riksta

ROFL, is GasOLane just a little scared of ghosts?

In over 38yrs of travelling through there I've never sighted a Yowie, I've even slept at the Tooley Creek parking bay (where they are supposed to originate) although I have often thought of borrowing an SES reflective suit and running across the road at night to see the reaction of others .

However the 'Pilliga Princess' was real and could now be haunting there as she died a few years ago.

[madwag]

Originally Posted by Charliewool

GasOLane... How many flats have you dragged through the Pilliga scrub at night, rather than stop and change a wheel?

Is this the same pilliga as the town in nsw with the hot spring in the middle of nowhere? if it is i camped out there last year and didn't see anything too crazy

[tregs]

Where abouts

[poppa smurf]

Originally Posted by tregs

Where abouts

I was heading toward Adelaide......roughly 8 click's out of port wakefield, outside lane.......it was where the tree's are just starting to get pretty thick in the medium strip just along the rabbit proof section

he was standing off to the left......windy, drizzly night.....hard to see him but he stepped out almost onto the road verge......I seen him clear as bell

I pulled up about 20 yards in front of him, opened the door for him to get in but he was gone

I got out of the truck to have a look for him, thinking I may have clipped him with the trailer but there was nothing there

I have to say it makes the heckles on my neck rise now just remembering it and that was a long time ago

it has stuck with me though and I can still see him standing there...I reckon I could show you the exact spot he stepped from

more things on heaven and earth than can be explained by mere mortals

[MWTB]

I don't believe in ghosts or anything of the supernatural or spiritual sort, so I'd be very interested to see this for myself.

[tregs]

I don't either I just keep hearing about it

[poppa smurf]

yep! heard it all before......but I know what I seen....drop into the first fuel station on the left heading into wakefield late at night and talk to a few heavy drivers

you'll quickly find that I'm not the only one that's seen him

also ask about the "light's" on the hill north of wakefield!........then there's the light's just outside Orroroo.....nullabor plain is another hotspot

more here than just us!

I used to be cynical!

[BENT_8]

My wife had an experience with this fellow.

It was about 14 years ago and she was very pregnant with our eldest child. At the time we were living on the yorke peninsula and made frequent trips to Adelaide, often late at night after work.
This particular weekend i had headed off early on the friday morning to get some things sorted out during business hours. My wife was to follow later that evening after work.
It was early winter at the time and the day itself was cold and windy with light drizzle, by the time she left Maitland at 7:30 it was dark and unpleasant to drive in.
She said it drizzled throughout the journey until she reached Dublin where it began to get heavier.
She had slowed down a bit when all of a sudden she saw a set of legs directly infront of her. she said she jumped on the brakes and shut her eyes expecting to feel the thump as she hit whoever it was but instead she simply came to a stop.
A car following her stopped and after a bit of a hunt around in the dark and wet they followed her to Adelaide.
She told me afterwards that she thought it was a skydiver from the nearby skydiving school as the person she saw was wearing a jumpsuit type outfit.

Years after i was told about the Pilot who frequented the highway and believe this is who she saw.

[ZA-289]

Spooky, Ill keep an eye out for him next time, we travel through port wakefield often, the wifey is going through on friday actually.

[LOWBA6]

Never heard of it but am interested now...

[toothless]

i want to see it get some videos happening asap

[gtfpv]

bastard of a ghost. wil stand there thumbing lifts , but simply refuses to give interviews or pose for photos and vids .

[poppa smurf]

she just scares the crap out of you by running straight at your truck!........heard about her.....never seen her

clare something was her name, or so I've heard!

slim reckoned there was something there......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-UjD-m6L9g

[Riksta]

It looks like a few of us are doing a Pt Wakefield run tonight (just for the hell of it). Will keep my eyes peeled on the return journey to Adelaide.

Will be interesting.

[mrghia]

sound like a midnight cruise is in order ;). I was told that he is lost thats why he wonders the highway. I have heard a few story's about him but havent seen anything yet.

[Fantome]

The pilliga princess did indeed exist. Her name was Claire Wibson, she was killed in 1993 when she was struck by a stock truck (Stockmaster from Tamworth if I remember correctly) on the Newell north of Coonabarabran. She is buried in Coona cemetery and her headstone credits her as "The Pilliga Princess". I think she was in her fifties when she died.

Although she never travelled further north than Narrabri rumour has it that she often got lifts with IPEC drivers to visit family near West Wyalong in her younger days. I once asked her where she came from and she said Gunnedah which I also heard from others.

And before you say anything Roger I engaged in no "personal servicing"!! Young lad though I was in those days

[Fantome]

While we are on a ghost thread have any of the Barrier Highway runners spotted "The Ghost of Dolo Creek" about 60 kms west of Wilcannia? Reputed to be the ghost of a drunk station worker swept away by flood waters while trying to rescue sheep in the 1890's.

Thought I saw him one night but on the next trip figured out that what I actually saw was the plinth for the commemorative plaque for the bridge! Yep, linehaul will do that to you!