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Four months after Fisher's disappearance a respectable local man named John Farley, ran into the local hotel in a very agitated state. He told the astonished patrons that he had seen the ghost of Fred Fisher sitting on the rail of a nearby bridge. Farley related that the ghost had not spoken, but had
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The annual ten-day festival is celebrated in
Campbelltown, every November. It includes a parade through Queen Street (Campbelltown's main street), Fisher's Ghost Art Award, Fun Run, Street Fair, Carnival, Craft Exhibition, music, competitions, open days, children's events, fireworks and the Miss
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Initially Farley's tale was dismissed, but the circumstances surrounding Fisher's disappearance eventually aroused sufficient suspicion that a police search of the paddock to which the ghost had pointed was undertaken - during which the remains of the murdered Fisher were discovered buried by the
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Contemporary police and court records do not mention the ghost story. The legend of Fisher's ghost has since entered popular folklore and the creek beside which the body was discovered is known as Fisher's Ghost Creek, although it has now, however, been converted into mostly a storm water drain.
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has written the ghost story may have originated from an anonymous poem in 1832 which fictionalised Fisher and
Worrall. The poem, "The Sprite of the Creek!", has since been identified as the work of James Riley (1795-ca.1860), who would republish it with explanatory footnotes in 1846 under the
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