Vera Kasal

Legends & Lore

Welcome to Legends & Lore

Hello, adventurers!

I’m thrilled to have you here for another week of stories, secrets, and discoveries. If you’re new, welcome — you’ve joined a community that loves adventure, folklore, and mysteries rooted in history.

Previously in Bushranger’s Treasure:

Michelle received a mysterious envelope — a photograph with an old bushranger symbol supposedly lost more than a century ago. Hoping for answers, she flew to the Gold Coast to visit her detective father, Steve Cruise, and the history professor Reginald Adler. She presented the mysterious photo at family lunch.

The Ghosts lights

Reg’s chin lifted slightly — the warning sign he was about to lecture. “Legends often start with a grain of truth.”

Michelle tapped the photo. “This carving was destroyed in the 1912 flood. Every article says so.”

“Correct.” Reg Adler nodded. “The river swallowed half the bank. Nothing survived.”

“So how did someone take a picture of it?” Helene asked.

Silence settled over the table.

Steve looked at them, eyes serious. “Hikers still report strange things along that stretch of river. One of my detectives investigated it about a year ago.”

“What kind of strange?” Michelle asked.

“Lantern lights,” Steve said. “Old‑fashioned. Moving against the current. A wailing sound… and a body was found near the water.”

Helene shot him a warning look. “Steve.”

“What?” he said. “She asked.”

Michelle’s pulse quickened. “A murder?”

“A cold case.” Steve shrugged. “Our pathologist put the time of death at a hundred and fifty years ago.”

Reg nodded slowly. “A bushranger was shot near the riverbank. Some say he still guards what he hid there.”

Helene rolled her eyes. “Ghost stories.”

“Probably,” Steve agreed.

Michelle slipped the photo back into the envelope. “I’m going to look into it.”

Steve sighed, but he was smiling. “Of course you are. I’ll call Martin. If you’re serious, he’s the one to talk to.”

“And you’ll need boots, a torch, and perhaps a little courage,” Reg added, raising his glass. “To curiosity. The family curse.”

Helene stood up. “Who wants a cheesecake?”

Everyone did.

They ate. They talked. They laughed.

But Michelle’s mind kept drifting to the river.

To the bushranger’s mark.

Something was hiding along the riverbank.

And someone wanted her to find it.

…to be continued…

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