Tales from the Grave

Solomon Blay had a very distinct achievement in the early days of settlement in Tasmania, as the state's longest working hangman.

Australia's first police woman had to pick up her skirts and run for her life from a cocaine-runner.

A friendship that became deadly but righteous.

A forgotten asylum patient, a newspaper article from the 1980s, and a callout on a Facebook page adds up to an intriguing mystery.

A dispute between neighbours turns tragic after a night of drinking and Johann Georg Reitz is the victim.

It's not the first time Aussies have had to mask up.

A poignant poem from a grieving mother in 1923, sparked the fulfillment of a request nearly 100 years later.

To be assigned to his 16-year-old Aboriginal wife, is definitely one for the books.

Every family has its secrets, but the Hughes family, Australian royalty in the early 1900s, had one with permanent consequences.

It was a time where patriarchy ruled and sectarianism between the Catholic and Protestant churches was rife

James Johnson miraculously survived Australia's worst peace time marine tragedy

The story of John Lees is one of redemption and hope.

She was known as the 'Witch of Kings Cross' and Rosaleen Norton confessed to a deep interest in and practice of the occult

The sun, and a few storm clouds, kept us company this afternoon on our quest for the story of Arthur Beaumont Goard.

Recently at Broken Head, near Byron Bay on the north-east coast of NSW, the little wooden church of St Oswalds held its final service

Celebrating the life of the writer behind Dad and Dave and the movie On Our Selection.

What do Australia's most famous portrait prize, the now defunct Bulletin magazine and Hyde Park fountain in the heart of Sydney all have...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this story contains the name of an Indigenous Australian who has died.

Her articles on the health system in Victoria highlighted its shortcomings.

Early last year Tales wrote about the mystery of Somerton man. A case where the body of a man was discovered on Somerton beach on December 1