Picnic at the historic Hanging Rock mansion is still scary
Martindale Hall in Montaro, in the Clare Valley, South Australia, played the school in the 1975 Australian classic, Picnic at Hanging Rock. Photo: Isaac Forman/SATC It was 2011 and a visitor to historic Martindale Hall in Montaro, in the Clare Valley, South Australia, was having trouble keeping an eye on his young son who kept disappearing into a room on the first floor. Finally he coaxed her out but he was annoyed at having to leave his friend. “What friend?” And this is where the story – easily printed and placed over the fireplace in the room in question – gives visitors goosebumps. Helen Morse in the 1975 film. The boy insisted that he had been playing with a girl with long curly hair who “looked like an angel”. No such child was found. But a boy with long hair – just like fashion – spent a lot of time in the room more than 116 years ago. Valentine Mortlock, one of the six children of shepherd and politician William Tennant Mortlock and his wife, Rosye Tenna