A town in central Victoria, and the setting for two very different kinds of night-time strangeness. From about the 1870s until the First World War, locals went out in sheets, masks and glowing paint to frighten their neighbours. In 1886 the Ballarat Courier reported a ghost sighting, then printed a reply from the ghost itself. Early 1904. A glowing figure with a whip haunted the railway station. Decades later, in the Ballarat and Bacchus Marsh Twin Lights case of 1973, a man in Barkly Street watched two reddish yellow lights cross the town in silence, heading toward Melbourne.
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