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Dunmore House, Kiama, NSW

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The Headless Ghost of Dunmore House is reasonably well-known in Kiama.  The Chair of the Illawarra Business Chamber, Les Dion, of Dion Buses, sent a copy of the Dion family history to the Pilot’s Cottage, in which it is recorded one of his uncles witnessed the Headless Ghost while working as a bus driver on the last Kiama run of the night in the 1950s. According to this account he chased the Ghost with his bus, until it threw a rope up into the trees and disappeared.  Other ghost stories mentioned in the dusty old files include the Swamp Bull of Terragong Swamp, near the Honey farm at Kiama Downs.  It is recorded in the Honey family history that they went down to a hole in the swamp where they thought the swamp bull lived and blew it up with explosives.  Another ghost story mentioned is the sight of the boat coming down Minnamurra river in the early morning mist on Boxing Day, the same time every year as a famous tragedy on the river

Source: 
http://neil2decade.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/ghosts-and-other-tales-of-kiama-and-district/
http://kiamalocalhistory.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/tall-tales-ghost-stories-secret-societies-lost-treasure-and-big-fish/

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