Phantasmal Crime Ep. 53 - The Legend of Fisher's Ghost
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
Diane Student
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🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Campbelltown in New South Wales, Australia hosts a very peculiar annual festival. This event is called The Festival of Fisher's Ghost. And not only is this a week long celebration(?), honor(?), commemoration(?) or whatever one wants to coin it about a ghost, but the Fisher referred to, was murdered.
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| 0:00.0 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:14.1 | True crime can be strangely fascinating. |
| 0:17.9 | This true crime is odd, macab, and haunted. I'm Diane, your guide into the shadows. Welcome |
| 0:25.6 | to fantastical crime. There is a town down under with a very peculiar annual festival. This is in Campbelltown in New South Wales, |
| 0:40.6 | and this event is called the Festival of Fisher's Ghost. And not only is this a week-long |
| 0:47.7 | celebration, honor, commemoration, or whatever one wants to coin it about a ghost, but the fisher referred to |
| 0:57.2 | was murdered. |
| 1:23.8 | Music. Campbelltown is a big city in New South Wales, Australia. |
| 1:30.7 | The town was founded by Governor Lachan Macquarie in 1820, and he named it for his wife, |
| 1:37.7 | Elizabeth Campbell. The Darawal people were here long before that, and they gravitated to the area because of the Georgia's River. Before Campbelltown was founded, the area was referred to as the |
| 1:43.6 | cow pastures, because a herd of wild cattle was discovered here in 1795. |
| 1:49.7 | Apparently, they had descended from a herd of cattle that escaped their ranch in 1788. |
| 1:55.1 | So how wild exactly are they? |
| 1:59.2 | I don't know if I would necessarily call them wild cattle. Governor |
| 2:03.3 | Macquarie was described as a craggy old Scott, and he apparently had a penchant for appointing |
| 2:08.6 | ex-convicts to high positions of trust, and really who was there to employ there because you had |
| 2:14.2 | a bunch of convicts in Australia. He was also very generous with land grants, |
| 2:18.9 | and London wasn't happy about this. Within two years, he was removed and returned back to London. |
| 2:24.6 | This man had had big dreams for Campbelltown, but none came to fruition. And the next governor |
| 2:30.5 | didn't do anything, so the town floundered. The year 1827 finally brought some order |
| 2:36.6 | and planning and building. The gold rush in Australia brought the railway through many areas, |
| 2:42.7 | Campbelltown was a major railhead by 1858. After World War I, the first major residential estate |
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