Hanging Rock

The article can be found here.

The main points of the article include:

1. Hanging Rock is not the name of the entire area. It refers to a specific feature of that area.

2. The area was used for more than 26,000 years for tribal aboriginal gatherings.

3. Tribal initiation ceremonies at the area stopped in 1815.

4. No one in the tribes would climb they mountain as they felt harmful spirits lived among the rocks.

5. A death of a man in the area happened in 1901 and was ruled an accidental death.

6. The story is pure fiction.

7. The specific girls never existed and Appleyard Hall never existed.

8. The original book included the 18th chapter but the publishers removed it before printing of the book.

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