Category: Dark history

With its treacherous roads and constant threat of assault and robbery by bushrangers… travelers to the goldfields of Victoria during the 1850’s had every reason to fear the journey through the dreaded Black Forest! In the mid 19th century, Australia had been turned upside down […]

During a drunken quarrel at the Alma Diggings, a man dragged the woman he lived with over to a nearby mine shaft. He held her by the legs over the sixty foot shaft, kicking her grasping hands away from the edges, then let her drop […]