In the late 2000’s Box Hill Institute
staff were converting their cassettes to CD when they stumbled across a strange
cassette along with a Polaroid. All that was written in the inside cover was;
‘Saltman – Lessons in Suburban Life & Death’. Staff were intrigued to find
out that ‘Saltman’ was never registered as a teacher and none of his students
can be traced. The only reference on the recording is to an ex teacher, Chris
Gafney who retired in 1999. Chris was contacted and only recalls sighting a
tall blonde man loitering on the top floor of the Whitehorse road campus late
at night talking to 3-4 Indonesian students, assuming he was either a cleaner
or cheap security guard. All that’s left are these bizarre recordings, a man
who is clearly living on the edge of the night and is heading towards insanity.
His lessons are not only disturbing but enthralling and historical, giving us a
glimpse into a lost world of the eastern suburbs.