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FEB-14-1900 [WED] Mysterious Disappearances (Hanging Rock, Australia)
FEB-14-1900 [WED]LOCATION:
WHAT HAPPENED:
While on a school picnic, four teenage girls and a female teacher, and in full sight of everyone there, vanished when they took off to explore a rock face in the bush. To add to the mystery, a cloud of pink substance was seen floating near where the party disappeared. Three of the five were never seen from again. One girl returned and seemed to be in a state of very deep shock. Another, in the same state of shock, returned a week later. A 1975 movie, "Picnic at Hanging Rock" (directed by Peter Weir and based on a 1967 novel of the same name by Joan Lindsay) was supposedly based on the disappearances. RESEARCH NOTES: (1900-02-14/2015-06-21) [TOP]
The only original source material that we can find for this event is the book, "Picnic at Hanging Rock", by Joan Lindsay. There's the movie by the same name of course which was based on the book and directed by Peter Weir of course, but it's filmed based on the same assumption that these mysterious disappearances actually did happen. At present, neither of us have read the book, so all we have to reference is the movie which we both finally got to watch today in it's entirety, so until we actually do get the book and read it, we'll have to assume that what happened in the movie is the same thing that happened in the book. Which brings us to the one major problem we have, along with everyone else who is skeptical that this happened, is that around the time this event was suppose to have happened, there are no official records to back the claim that this did actually happen. with both the book and the movie and that is that around the time of the alleged incident, The problem is that none of the characters in both the book or the movienames or descriptions or even any reports anywhere that such an event actually happened, nothing like that has ever been found about any of it. That's why many of the people at the tourist stops near Hanging Rock tell the tourist it didn't happen. It's a fantasy of Joan Lindsay and Peter Weir's imagination. And for what it's worth, what they're saying could possibly be true, but on the other hand, there's nothing about the story where a change in names and location couldn't make it more possible and probable. With that said, all we are left with until we get the book is the movie., which is what we're watching right this minute. It's a period piece (1900) that we both thought was not only visually stunning, but also very sensual and sureal, all at the same time. We can only guess what the book would be like. Dave doesn't like the idea that a movie about a missing person is something sexy. He didn't like that at all, but he did admit that despite that, and despite the thousands of hours he had the movie in the DVD player, playing, this is the first time he actually has watched the movie from beginning to end, all at one time, and he doesn't think it was really that bad of a movie. "On Sturday 14th February 1900 a party of schoolgirls from Appleyard College picnicked at Hanging Rock near Mount Macedon in the State of Victoria. "During the afternoon several members of the part disappeared without a trace... " And that flute (De Pan, Played by Gheorghe Zamfir), that flute is part of what gives the movie that overall sureal feel to it.
BIBLIOGRAPHY/SOURCES: (1900-02-14) [TOP]
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