A Guide to the Decades-old Mystery Behind Picnic at Hanging Rock

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The main points of the article include

There is no historical evidence supporting the idea that the events actually happened.
The culprit could be supernatural, allegorical or ugly reality.
The Secret of Hanging Rock was the final chapter to the original book but was left out and published separately after the author's death.
The final chapter might have been a sort of commentary on the relationship between British colonists and the native peoples of Australia.
One theory is that nothing actually happened and that everything scene occurred only in Mrs. Appleyard's mind.
One explanation given was that space aliens kidnapped the missing people.
Other explanations included the girls falling off the rock to their deaths and being buried by a landslide or they were all kidnapped and killed by the two boys or by others.

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