Snow and haunted history: Kiandra’s wintry graveyard

As snowflakes fall over Kiandra, Tim the Yowie Man traces the stories of a vanished gold rush town and the resting places of those who never left.

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00:00Kyandra graveyard must be one of the most windswept desolate graveyards in Australia

00:10we don't know exactly how many people are buried here thoughts are at least 50 we need to be

00:16vandalized or lost in the barren environment the headstones that is one that we do know is here

00:23is the grave of Robert Harris Robert was a butcher in Kyandra and in March 1898 he had an injury he

00:33accidentally cut his hand while butchering now there's two versions of what happened next one

00:39suggests he got gangrene and died and the other suggestion or the other report is that when he

00:45cut his hand off he cut an archery and he blaked to death either way a tragic story but

00:52if it's any consolation his grave on top of the hill here in Kyandra is visited by hundreds of

01:00people hundreds of curious onlookers every year despite the weather conditions