In winter 1950 a dark old house in Melbourne — owned by an elderly dying widow — was terrorised by nightly visitations from a fiend who was nicknamed \"Jack The Rapper\". Like something of out a classic horror movie, the sensational story included frightened nurses, traps laid by cops, vigilante mobs stalking the streets, voyeuristic ghostbusters and a stake-out orchestrated by a tabloid reporter with his own war-time ghosts. As the disturbances spread beyond the original \"haunted house\", Jack The Rapper became national front page news — and the \"answers\" offered posed only more questions. For more information: www.forgottenaustralia.com
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