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