Sunday 25 February 2024

Guitar Playing Ghost

 Guitar Playing Ghost

 


In 1965 it was reported that the ghost of an Australian Army Lieutenant was haunting the hamlet of Kundiawa in the New Guinea Highlands. It was claimed the ghost had been identified as Lieutenant George Charlton Tuckey.
Tuckey died in 1945 while serving with the Angua Administration of the Kundiawa Territory and was buried in a local cemetery.

A local police corporal known as Arambi reported that he often heard guitar music coming from inside a police inspector's house. There were no signs of life in the home, which was in total darkness. Armabi investigated the grounds and house and could find no source for the music, but as he neared the grave of Tuckey, he noted that the music ceased.
 Arambi later claimed that he saw the ghost. It was wearing a white shirt and shorts. He knew Tuckey, as they had worked together for two years, and identified the ghost as him. Tuckey’s ghost shuffled through the compound, and Arambi followed it into the Kundiawa courthouse…where it disappeared.[1]

researched and written by Allen Tiller © 2024

[1] 'Guitar-playing ghost now walks about', The Canberra Times, (6 May 1965), p. 22.

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