Is This the CREEPIEST Forest in Australia?

With its treacherous roads and constant threat of assault and robbery by bushrangers... travellers to the goldfields of Victoria during the 1850's had every reason to fear the journey through the dreaded Black Forest!
In the mid 19th century, Australia had been turned upside down with gold fever. People were coming from all over the world to seek their fortunes on Victoria’s newly discovered goldfields.
After arriving in Melbourne, people travelled by foot, horseback or dray to go try their luck searching for gold.
But the road from Melbourne to the world-renowned Mt Alexander and Bendigo diggings took travellers directly through the infamous Black Forest!
The scenic beauty of the Mount Macedon area was always accompanied by the apprehension travellers felt as they neared the dreaded woods.
Notorious for its perilous conditions and the bushrangers who lay waiting in the shadows, the Black Forest had quickly gained a fearsome reputation.

[@Ful-OGold]

The lady’s visit to the goldfields was a great read.

[@goldfieldsguide]

One of my favourites! 🙂⚒

[@buzzbladz7142]

What a great channel, I would definitely love a look into Clacy, Ellen (Mrs. Charles) I can see this channel blowing up. Thanks for the amazing content.

[@goldfieldsguide]

Thank you, much appreciated! 🙂 Clacy’s book is available to read online for free, it’s a brilliant book which offers many valuable insights into the early years of the gold rush. You can check it out here: adc.library.usyd.edu.au/data-2/p00057.pdf

[@Detectaddict]

Camped in the area a few times prospecting, definitely has an eerie feeling lol

[@thomaswhitelake]

Legend (from my mum) has it that there's a treasure still hidden in the Black Forest from a bushranger who was shot while escaping from police.

[@benbrown2470]

Aren't they lucky they travelled Victoria in the days before chairman Dan.

[@jerichothirteen1134]

Ahh yes also known as Dan of the Balck Forest a horrid beast that screams gibberish into the empty wilderness and has his feet on the wrong way so it looks like he's going forward when he's really going backwards.

[@stevemurrell6167]

What a knob you are.....or is that 'snowflake'? Keep you're political sooking to yourself.

[@theGoldWolf]

I left a detector at Blackwood ...... had to drive back that night!

[@goldfieldsguide]

Oh no, that’s no good! Glad you got it back 🙂

[@theGoldWolf]

@@goldfieldsguide Yep I found it, middle of winter, no-one about, ended up doing an extra 200 kms that day. Cheers!

[@matthewsaleman58]

I got bored at the pub and went out drunken detecting midnight in WA and changed location by a few hundred metres and left the detector on the ground at the first spot. I had marked where I was on the phone. Then the phone went flat. I had to go back first thing the next morning and found it sitting there. Was lucky I didn't run it over.

[@anthonycarmody5253]

The Black Forest would be like paradise, compared to the goldfields of Western Australia.

[@billgabriel8042]

Why were you there lol

[@Barbzy]

this was great! thanks

[@goldfieldsguide]

Cheers Barbzy 🙂⚒

[@r.s.dissendissen6752]

Aha! ..... I didn,t know that ! 👍