A CAPE YORK MYSTERY
Far north Queensland can rightly lay claim to some of the country’s most spectacular rainforests, picturesque coastlines, beautiful coral reefs and romantic holiday islands. But almost swept under the carpet and appearing in few of the hundreds of tourist brochures is one of its more dubious attractions — and one of the nation’s most mysterious and notorious landmarks — Black Mountain.
AN EERIE HISTORY
Located around 25km south of Cooktown on Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula, local Indigenous people believe this huge pile of black granite rocks is haunted by an unfriendly phantom.
It’s rumoured to be alive with devils and ghosts, snakes, poisonous plants, dangerous boulders and foul gaseous smells. Some people have lost their lives here over the years, and even some search parties have been reluctant to go there.
Police records show that at least four people
