An Unlucky Place, An Unlucky Name

By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
A family outing became the most unexpected moment when an otherworldly being made its presence known.

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An uninvited guest in the middle c.2014 (Source - Facebook)

Over ten years ago Kim Davison and Jessie Lu took their children to Murphy's Hole, a swimming spot at Lockyer Creek in Queensland, Australia. An unknown photographer took a picture of the group, and it captured an uninvited participant according to Davison. It's a fourth child, that was invisible until that moment.

She posted the strange photograph on Facebook, which was picked up by the Toowoomba Ghost Chasers.

It came to light that in 1915, 13-year-old Doreen O'Sullivan had drowned at that very spot. An hour had gone by before her body was recovered. The spot is over 20 ft. deep and had always been considered dangerous. Even then it was known as Murphy's Hole.

Davison said her daughter felt twice where her leg had been grabbed, and she herself felt something behind her as she walked out of the pool.

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Doreen O'Sullivan, nicknamed "Goo" drowned in 1919 at the Spit Baths

If that wasn't strange enough, four years later, a girl with the exact name and approximate age also drowned.

This Doreen O'Sullivan went by the nickname of "Goo", and she died at the Spit Baths in Mosman when she was 12 years old.

First her clothing was found at the baths, and then a girl fitting her description wearing a "bathing costume" was seen buying some cakes, and she left the shop without taking her change. The next day the police dragged the pool and found her body.

Her father Daniel who had just returned from the trenches of WWI, was so devastated by her loss he forbade anyone in the family to speak about her. She was buried in the Gore Hill Cemetery in the O'Sullivan family plot. 

In another eerie coincidence, in 1884, two children, age 1 and 4 drowned at Lockyer Creek. Their names were Jane and W.A. Schroder. It seems they fell down a steep embankment into the creek.

And it wasn't only the young who met their met death at Lockyer Creek, in 1888, Englishman John Sewell, 29, a state school teacher also drowned there.

What was it about this place that claimed the unsuspecting?

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