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An Australian islet with such a funny bird name and by no means amusing, gloomy past located in Sydney harbor at the intersection of the Parramatta and Lane Cove rivers.
Currently Cockatoo, cluttered with old buildings from brick, is a historical site, and tourists are brought here. However, in 1839-1869 there was a prison on the island. High mortality of prisoners was considered a common thing in it, and often the prisoners simply disappeared, and their fate remained unknown.
By the end of the 19th century, the prison on the island was closed, but in its the premises placed a “school” for girls from Aboriginal families. Unhappy children were forcibly and brutally taken away from their parents and sent to Christian shelters – the so-called “mission”. On the the island turned out to be girls who tried to escape from these “missions”, and here they were treated only a little softer than before with inveterate criminals.
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It is not surprising, therefore, that on a cockatoo in the form of frightening ghosts restless human souls settled. Usually it is not foggy figures in shrouds, and shapeless eerie shadows flickering outside and inside buildings. These ghosts are very aggressive and they can easily push a visitor from a staircase or a great height. Quite often, a pungent odor appears in the corridors tobacco smoke; there you can hear children’s cries, screeching and stomping invisible small legs.
In rare cases, “classic” ghosts appeared here – translucent girlish silhouettes in dresses of the 19th century. However, much more often you can get into a kind of “cloud” where a person is covered by a sensation suffering and intense fear. Strange “cloud formations” as if are a concentration of pain and moral torment, once experienced by prisoners, and then by children. And these clouds suffering “is simply unique in terms of human contact with subtle afterlife.
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One of the most famous, albeit the most harmless, local ghosts believe the daughter of a prison director who died in childhood. Guides say this is a very friendly ghost, who likes to stroke people by their hair, to pester them. A group of students who once arrived on a two-day excursion did not could fall asleep at night, because to young people several times a little girl dressed in a white dress appeared, woke up and asked play with her on the street.
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Today, many tourists come to Kakadu; for schoolchildren here historical excursions are held. “Ghost Island” unusually popular, especially among young people, although those who are even once faced with local ghosts, prefer no longer come here …
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