Some of the spookiest haunted places are those infused with a dark history of pain and suffering. Many of these locations just so happened to have fallen into disrepair as haunted ruins, and they invariably attract to them tales of of the supernatural. Such sites are custom made for it, looking like something from out of a horror movie and with the grim and often tragic past to back it up. We can find such a place out in a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, which was once an asylum for the raving insane and is now considered to be one of the most haunted places in the nation.
Montyâs last dance tells us about his home - and ours
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He danced as if there were no tomorrow. His legs pumped and his arms whirled. His body jerked and he seemed unable to stop.
The people of the little town of Heywood in far south-west Victoria turned out to watch this wild show in their main street, hooting and laughing and urging the dancer on.
Monty Foster at a family wedding.
I was a mere child on that day in the 1950s, in town with my Dad for supplies, but the sight of this manâs abandon never left me.