Inside the making of the ABC EXPOSED investigation into the Ghost Train fire at Sydney’s Luna Park in 1979

During the filming of interviews for her new documentary series, EXPOSED: The Ghost Train Fire, Caro Meldrum-Hanna experienced something that has never before happened to her in more than a decade of investigating difficult and shocking stories, including the disturbing Four Corners program into the NT juvenile justice system which triggered a royal commission.

She was lost for words.

“In several of these interviews, particularly in episodes two and three, what people allege happened [at Sydney’s Luna Park 42 years ago] had me absolutely speechless, I was stunned,” she says.

“And this has only happened to me on this project, usually I can always think of what to say or I move on to the next question, but during these interviews, there were…