Stay updated with the latest beauty tips, trends, and news from our salon experts. Our blog is your go-to source for all things beauty.
A plaque has mysteriously appeared at the grave of a young woman who was murdered and initially buried in soil excavated to build the Mt Victoria tunnel in Wellington, nearly 100 years ago.
Her name was Phillis Symons, she was 17 years old, and pregnant, when she was killed by her lover George Errol Coats in 1931.
Coates was later found guilty for her murder, and was hanged.
"Something rather unusual has happened here in Karori cemetery and that is a plaque has recently appeared on the grave, formerly unmarked grave of Phillis Symons,” Wellington historian Gabor Toth said.
The headstone was installed without a permit. Phillis' descendants had been planning to install one, but this was not it.
"Putting a plaque or a headstone on a grave without the permission of the cemetery, and without the permission of the family involved, is something that just shouldn't be done,” Toth said.
To this day, motorists in the capital sounded their horns as they drove through the Victoria Tunnel, some in the belief it was to honour her.
"It's in memory of a girl who was killed and buried there,” a Wellingtonian said.
"Someone died and you honk to scare off the ghost,” anothersaid.
As for who was responsible for the mysterious plaque, that remained a mystery, for now.
