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The main points of the article include:

The article talks about tourism and Hanging Rock and how some tourists return pieces of the rock that they took illegally, saying the pieces brought them bad luck.
Some people claim they had encounters with the spirits of the missing girls. (This is rather interesting since the Picnic at Hanging Rock story is fiction, not fact. There is only one way that this type of thing would be possible and that is if, in an alternate reality, the events really happened and that Joan Lindsay, who was considered a mystic, picked up on the events during her dreams. The story, by the way, came from a series of dreams she had.)
Time is a factor in Picnic at Hanging Rock.
People did research of articles of that time and found nothing to substantiate any such disappearance as in the book.
The article talks about the book The Murders at Hanging Rock.
The article notes various theories for the disappearances such as UFO abduction, parallel universe, a supernatural event or even a conventional murder.
The actual ending, as covered in 18th chapter The Secret of Hanging Rock, which leaves many people unsatisfied.

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