The article below was published in the daily newspaper Adelaide Express and Telegraph, Adelaide, South Australia, on May 19, 1898.
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Melbourne, May 17.
A peculiar "apparition" has made its appearance in the Avoca district. The locality is Lilieur, and it takes the form of a body of shadowy light gliding over the ground at a rapid pace. Two young ladies were driving across the plains one night last week when it appeared, causing one of them to faint. The following night two horsemen saw it, and their horses became so frightened that they trembled and shook for over an hour. Fully a dozen people have seen it, but all efforts to solve the mystery proved futile.
