Grave Tales is researched and written by journalists, Helen Goltz and Chris Adams between them they have years of experience in newspapers, radio and television production and reporting. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet and iOS. These people may have lived in the same suburbs, streets, and the same houses as exist now in the cities and towns along the Bruce Highway. Grave Tales: Great Ocean Road: Geelong to Port Fairy audiobook by Chris Adams, Helen Goltz. ' Grave Tales' features people who willingly or unwillingly were participants in events that made headlines. Stories like how two nurses in Maryborough in 1905 gave their lives to save a town from an outbreak of pneumonic plague the unsolved mystery of how Mollie Thompson's body ended up in an impossibly hard to reach water reservoir the migrant who created his dream and shared it with generations the mother and her five children who lost their lives in the Mackay cyclone how gold fever saved the state from going broke why the first person to be hanged in Rockhampton goal was a bent cop the inscription on a tree on the Sunshine Coast that reflects a tumultuous sea journey and the 13 RAAF members who came to rest permanently in Townsville, to name a few.

… And 11 more stories in this volume.' Grave Tales: Bruce Highway' will give forgotten events, heroes and victims life again by tracing the journeys that lead to their final resting places.

Murder by the Kenniff brothers: the most horrible murders in Qld police history – a constable and a property manager slaughtered by outlaws.

The Germans: the war in Europe had repercussions for the Scenic Rim’s large population of German immigrants and especially one German pastor.

Romeo Lahey’s flagpole: the man who gave us the great Scenic Rim National Park had another passion, a flagpole challenge to win.

Boy meets bushranger – Christian Schmidt: the boy who inadvertently told the ‘Wild Scotchman’ bushranger when to rob the mail coach.

Duty done: a medal no mother wanted to receive – a silver badge for sending multiple sons to war.

The Fassifern Giantess – Augusta Rewald: in the days when ‘freak shows’ were entertainment, a Boonah resident was exhibited nationwide.The Stinson crash: how bushman Bernard O’Reilly found a missing aircraft with seven people on board when no-one else could.Grave Tales reveals more than the headstone can ever convey by tracing the tumultuous journeys that lead to these final resting places. These stories hint at our history – tales of heroism, unsolved murders, love lost, mystery, tragedy, settlement, health epidemics, scandal and sacrifice. They may have lived in the same suburbs, streets, and even the same houses as exist now, or finished their days in this beautiful area.

Grave Tales: Scenic Rim & surrounds, Qld visits the cemeteries in Queensland’s Scenic Rim to tell of the everyday people who – willingly or unwillingly – were participants in events that made local and national headlines.

Grave Tales by Helen Goltz