Urban Ghost Stories: The Place Where Happiness Was
One of the most unsettling urban legends in Sydney concerns ‘The Place Where Happiness Is’…
Luna Park, Milson’s Point.
On the 9th of June, Jenny and James Godson were taking their two boys on a family vacation to Sydney. Having already visited Taronga Zoo, they caught the ferry to Circular Quay in order to get to Luna Park at Milson’s Point.
It was whilst they were there that they encountered a busker — dressed in animal skins and a great horned headdress — and the infamous photo of Damien Godson was snapped. With the horned man’s arm around him, it was the last photo that would ever be taken of the boy.
Later that night before leaving Luna Park, the Godson’s realised that they had extra ride tickets left and the boys wanted to ride the Ghost Train with their father. Jenny — for some reason — had a craving for ice-cream and decided to give the ride a miss.
Shortly after, when Jenny returned to the Ghost Train to meet with them, she was confronted with smoke and flames erupting from the ride. Although they tried, firefighters couldn’t adequately combat the fire — in the end having to pump water from Sydney Harbor itself — and seven people died in the blaze.
