The Ballarat ghost busters of the 1880s

By Alex Hamer
Updated June 6 2014 - 5:50pm, first published 5:27pm

BALLARAT had its very own ghost-busting forces in the last quarter of the 19th century, with the city council calling on police and vigilantes to stop both pranksters, criminals and deviants dressing up as ghouls, prevalent all the way to World War I.

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