A historian of Australian folklore, ghosts and phantom cats. David Waldron is Associate Professor of History at Federation University. On the Tantanoola Tiger of 1895, he is quite convinced the animal was an alpine dingo, and reads the old label of Assyrian wolf as an echo of Byron rather than a species. He researched Victorian ghost hoaxing, including the 1904 Ballarat Ghost, caught by constables dressed as women, and adapted the case into a Call of Cthulhu scenario. His big cat research inspired Public Record Office Victoria to revisit the Kamarooka panther of 1907. With Reeve, he co-wrote Shock! The Black Dog of Bungay (2010).
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Co-author with Reeve of Shock! The Black Dog of Bungay (2010)
Pro earlyAssociate Professor of History, Federation University; favours the alpine dingo theory
Pro earlyHistorian who researched Victorian ghost hoaxing and adapted the case into a Call of Cthulhu scenario
Pro earlyBig cat folklore researcher whose work inspired the PROV episode