Fisher’s ghost is the subject of an Australian legend dating from the 1820’s. On the night of June 17, 1826, Frederick Fisher disappeared from his farm at Campbelltown, in New South Wales. His employee, George Worrall, told friends that Fisher had fled to the United Kingdom to escape a charge of forgery. But a few months later, another farmer, John Farley, claimed that he had seen Fisher’s ghost sitting on a fence and pointing to a field nearby. Policemen later found Fisher’s body in a shallow grave at the spot Farley said the ghost had indicated. George Worrall confessed to the murder of Fisher and was eventually hanged for his crime.
