Gympie's Glowing Tombstone

Well, if you are new to the region, this is an article from the Gympie times a few years ago regarding one of our favorite childhood experiences....

"EVEN if you're new about town, chances are you've heard about the eerie glowing tombstone standing high on the rolling hills of the Corella Rd cemetery.
For what seems like decades, locals have debated the source of the creepy light shining off George Argo's granite obelisk, be it a simple reflection of passing headlights and adjacent fixtures or evidence of something stranger at play.
Questions continue to cloud the circumstances of Mr Argo's 'accidental' early morning death in February 1895 - did he really fall down a mine shaft he knew 'like the back of his hand', or does a sinister truth remain hiding in the shadow of doubt?
Cemetery workers claim Mr Argo's tombstone no longer glows, but remain open-minded about just what that light could have been".

Image Craig Warhurst

So this is how it works.....you head back into town from the Forestry department late at night, and as you get to the entry gates on the left, slow right down....over in the middle of the cemetery, ahead on the left, the tombstone will suddenly light up! It is like a "glow in the dark". Contrary to what the cemetery workers say, it is still going strong as I have personally checked it our recently.

There was a rumor around years ago that it was caused by the exact refraction of a street light on the angle with what it is actually made out of, but we all checked this out in a blackout when we were kids and it STILL GLOWS!

Even if you don't live in Gympie, maybe next trip to Rainbow at night, it's worth a side-trip :)