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    • Episode list

  • Enter the Elephant – ep. 1
  • The Marble Man – ep. 2 (part 2)
  • The Marble Man – ep. 2 (part 1)
  • Have you seen my poncho cloak? – ep. 3
  • Champagne & Anarchy – ep. 4
  • Deadwood Dick & the Picture Show Panic – ep. 5
  • The Hatpin Menace – ep. 6
  • The Suburban Ghost – ep. 7 (season finale)
  • Agnes & Geraldine – Season 2: ep. 1
  • Buried Treasure
  • Tin-kettling
  • Clean Hands
  • A Bit of a Ventriloquist
  • What is Really Real?
  • A Pig in a Poke
  • Mr Denning’s Umbrage

    • The Marble Man – ep. 2 (part 2)

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    Wherein we continue to trace the curious career and prehistory of a ‘petrified man’ dug out of a New South Wales marble quarry.

    Further reading and links for this episode:


    Bathurst Free Press & Mining Journal, 21 May 1889, p. 2, columns 4-5
    Read the full article in situ and see what else was happening in district news that week.


    from The Legend of the Petrified or Marble Man by Harry Stockdale, F. Cunninghame & Co., Sydney, 1889
    Read the book online


    The Cardiff Giant, on display at the Bastable in Syracuse, NY, circa 1869
    (New York State Historical Association Library)


    The petrified Finn McCool, the Causeway Giant
    from The Strand Magazine (London), vol. X, July to December 1895, p. 646 (digitised by archive.org)
    See that photo in situ, featured in the fascinating article, ‘The Lost Property Office’

    And finally – click here to view images of Pompeii bodies, cast in plaster

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