Episode 242 - The Holmes Murders (1950)

Weird Crap in Australia

On an evening in August 1950, the small town of Toukley was awoken late at night to search for a pair of missing girls. Grace and Kathleen Holmes went for a walk that afternoon, and still had not returned.
What happened to the girls, and is the man charged actually responsible? Join Matthew and Holly as they look into this small Central Coast history, and the ghost story connected to it...
Sources Cited:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/134390304
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/143806163
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/157875985
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/18181676
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/201435115
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/212066857
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/244256184
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/248542739
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/248542739/27466819

A pleading woman and a phantom hitchhiker: The Central Coast's most haunted stretch of road
https://www.mamamia.com.au/jenny-dixon-beach-ghost/
Graves of murdered sisters Kathleen and Grace Holmes to get headstone after 64 years
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/central-coast/graves-of-murdered-sisters-kathleen-and-grace-holmes-to-get-headstone-after-64-years/news-story/33d812c2455dc805f8d7b9910cd17c54

The Jenny Dixon Beach Ghost
http://www.unexplainedaustralia.com/homepage/21-ghosts-hauntings/45-the-jenny-dixon-beach-ghost

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