Australia also has its own local urban legends and people from other countries, as a rule, have never heard of them. All of them are based on completely real events and are only slightly embellished with details.
Schneider Alley
In the early 1900s, a certain Dr. Michael Schneider moved to a suburb of Adelaide. For himself, his wife and two growing up beautiful daughters, he bought here a pretty old mansion Clifton Manor, which included, together with a park, 40 acres of land.
Dr. Schneider specialized in psychiatric illness and his patients were mentally ill. It is necessary to additionally point out that in those years psychiatric patients were people without rights and could practically openly perform any manipulations over them. They were "treated" with current, doused with cold water, and had brain surgeries. Even patients who had rich relatives did not avoid this fate, and there is no need to talk about the poor.
Dr. Schneider received patients in the same mansion, but in a special office, located away from the living rooms, so that his wife and children would not encounter these patients and not be afraid of their appearance.
The Schneiders lived in this house for five happy years, and then an unspecified accident happened, as a result of which the doctor's wife and both daughters died. And Schneider after that completely changed, or rather, went crazy.
The doctor became a sadist who took out all his pain and bitterness on unfortunate patients. His doctor's office in the mansion turned into a real torture chamber for them. From now on, the doctor performed all operations without the slightest anesthesia, and the neighbors regularly heard eerie groans and screams coming from the doctor's mansion.
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Each time the screams became more painful and scary, the patients themselves could not tell anything, and the neighbors were afraid to call the police. Rumors soon spread that the doctor had dismembered some of the patients alive.
Only after the doctor died (or killed himself) one day, the police were called, who searched the mansion and found the dismembered and dried parts of the bodies of his wife and daughters in the house, which he kept with him as relics. It is possible that it was he who killed them; there were a lot of rumors later.
Since then, this entire site, and especially the picturesque alley leading to the mansion, has been actively visited by the ghosts of Dr. Schneider himself and his victims. officially this alley is called Andrews Alley, but locals call it Schneider Alley. Ghosts have been seen here more than a hundred times.
Andrews Alley (Schneider).
The story of the miniature pinscher
In a suburb of an unspecified city in about the 1970s, there lived a woman who owned a Miniature Pinscher dog. One evening a woman came home from work and saw that her dog was barely alive in the house and it was very difficult for him to breathe.
The woman took the dog to the veterinarian and he, upon examination, said that something had hit the dog deep in the throat and a serious operation was needed. The woman left the dog with the doctor, and she went home with tears.
Before she got home, the veterinarian called her home phone and his voice was very disturbing. He said that the case was very bad and that the police had already been called to her house, and it was advisable for her to wait with the neighbors, and not be in her house when they arrived.
The frightened woman did just that, and while she was sitting with the neighbors, the police arrived. They said that the woman's house should be thoroughly searched, but the reason was not given to her. It was only when the vet called again that everything became clear. He stated, "When I started the operation, I found a human finger stuck in your dog's throat."
While searching the woman's house, the police found a man in a black mask of a robber in the closet. He was still gripping a knife in one hand, and blood was flowing profusely from the other. Three fingers on this hand were missing.
Could it really be that a small dog 25-30 cm tall at the withers crippled the robber or he cut off his fingers for some reason, history is silent. As well as about where the other 2 of his fingers went, because they were not found in the dog's stomach.
Ghosts of Picton
Picton is located 80 km south-west of Sydney. It is a historic city in the Wollondilly Shire area with a population of just over 4,000. Moreover, this town for some unknown reason is inhabited by a large number of ghosts. Here are the main ones:
Several ladies in white roaming the streets looking for the people who killed them.
The ghostly ladies who lure people towards the railway bridge. It is deadly to walk in their direction.
In the local maternity hospital, the cry of an invisible baby is often heard. And women in labor in the wards from time to time complain about an evil ghostly woman dressed as a nurse who comes to them at night and tries to strangle them.
In the place of the Imperial Hotel there is an old jukebox that can play by itself. Sometimes even being unplugged.
At the local cemetery, two ghost children, a boy and a girl, are often seen. They are dressed in vintage clothes from the late 19th century and just run and play. They say that they have been photographed more than once, but these pictures cannot be found on the network.
But the most famous local ghost is the crippled girl from the Picton railway tunnel. There is a legend about her that in 1916 a certain Emily Bollard walked home late at night and really wanted to go to the toilet in a small way.
The Picton Tunnel at the beginning of the 20th century.
At that moment, she was just passing the tunnel and did not find anything better than to go into it and sit by the wall. But as soon as she did this, a train passed through the tunnel and the poor thing was pulled under the wheels.
The train dragged her mutilated body for many hundreds of meters, and only when it stopped at the station did people see the bloody remains of a corpse between its wheels.
The Picton Tunnel today.
Since then, near this tunnel (long abandoned) or in the tunnel itself, you can meet the unlucky Emily, who again and again tries to escape from the train.
