Who knows how they start out, but we’ve all heard of a great Melbourne urban legend.
Maybe it’s real, maybe it’s clearly proven to be incorrect… maybe it’s such a terrifying urban legend that you’re just unsure what to make of it. We’ve heard them all – ghostly presences, cemetries, strange occurrences from Melbourne’s past returning to haunt everyone…
Have you heard a fantastic Melbourne urban legend from a family member – the type of thing you’d read about on the Snopes website? Let us all know here, and, um… spread the misinformation!
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Re Johnnie Shakespeare – this is true, I knew him. When he sawed his leg off he professes he said “Amen” and God took the pain away, he would often come over to our house in Carlton and hang out, smoke bongs or get pissed. To contextualise this, we were Early 20 something uni students and he looked like a very old, one legged santa that wore a Koori head band and banged on about God…
Finding a cab in the CBD after 10pm!
Teddy Whitten’s state funeral being set up after newsprint lockdown time by ex Kennett staffers. By the time Jeff woke up next day he was a talkback hero and couldn’t back out.
I also like the massive St Arnaud police complex set up in the declining country town early in 70s because someone checked the wrong box when they meant St Albans.
How many deceased people had their ashes buried at old VFL grounds and their souls still haunt the area surrounding the grounds.
Johnny ‘Shakespeare’, the infamous Melbourne poet, apparently sawed his own leg off while crazed on acid.
The South Car Park of Melbourne Uni was used for the garage scenes in Mad Max 1. George Miller studied there. (this is true)
Yeah, that’s the rumour but they filmed the 9 minute short in a hospital basement near Leigh Whannell’s house in Melbourne. Leigh and James Wan were media studies students at RMIT where they became friends. The bottom floors of RMIT remind me the low budget foreign horror films they play on SBS.
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I believe they filmed a 10 minute short there along the same lines, which they used to get the funding.
I think Lee did media arts at RMIT.
While I was at RMIT, it was thought that they filmed the movie “SAW” in the basement of the RMIT city building.
Any of the old Squizzy Taylor Legends, from underground tunnels in his Fitzroy house, to undergrounds tunnels in his Holiday house on the Mornington peninsula. Will try and think of a few more ones from the 80′s.
Probably the one about the giant black cats roaming around wild in the suburbs. LOL. I’ll admit to being irrationally afraid.
That the plans for Flinders St Station got mixed up with another building which wound up being built in India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flinders_Street_Station#Current_building