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PORT ARTHUR PENITENTIARY

Tasmania, Australia

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The Parsonage Part 2

Shortly before the penal settlement was disbanded, Mrs Hayward's mother and sister came to visit. One night Mrs Price's mother was unable to sleep. The moon was shining through the window and as she lay with her eyes open she became aware that somebody had entered the room. It was a human figure draped in white. She lay still and watched the figure through half open eyes, afraid that it might be a burglar after her jewels.

The figure appeared to strike a match and then made its way to a cot in which a child was sleeping. After looking at the sleeping child for a moment the apparition turned and glided out of the room.

During the early 1980s a considerable amount of conservation and restoration work was undertaken at Port Arthur. Three builders who were renovating the Parsonage lodged in the building whilst carrying out the work. One reported catching sight of a woman dressed in old-fashioned clothing; he felt the temperature in the room drop and saw the curtains billowing even though the window was firmly closed. Another of the builders told of waking in the night, thinking he was being attacked by someone who was pressing down on his chest and forcing the air out of his lungs. All three reported hearing banging noises that could not be accounted for.

The Lady Blue is a young woman, probably a teenager, who appears around the accountant's house and the parsonage. It is thought that the girl is one of the accountants' wives, who died in childbirth. One young child, on the veranda, was in his mother's arms he started struggling and said, "Mummy, put me down." When the boy ran down the veranda and threw its arms up as if expecting to be picked up, his parents asked what was going on. He replied, "The nice lady who lives here wants to play."

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