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A painted leotard was all it took to expose the cowards in our town
Anson Cameron Spectrum columnist, The Age October 23, 2025 — 11.25am Advertisement
When I was a kid, I lived near an old guy, Mr Lamont, a retired man who’d once been an accountant. He must have been short of dough because one year, when the Royal Agricultural Show came to town, he hired on as a skeleton. He turned up at the showgrounds where they dressed him in a bodystocking painted with luminous bones and paid him to leap from the darkness, scaring people as they rode the Ghost Train. At day’s end, I’d hang around his front gate and pester him for stories of these emaciated ambushes and their resulting panic.
He spoke of those Ghost Train adventures in lo
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