For two terrifying decades, glamorous yoga guru Anne Hamilton-Byrne ruled with an iron fist over the stolen children she sequestered away in a tree-shrouded country Victoria mansion outside of Melbourne as acolytes of her doomsday cult, The Family.
Palestine-born, Sydney-raised Shammas, whose character lives on a boat moored on the lake, agrees. ‘Like the Blue Mountains, this place comes with so much folklore,’ he says of the eerie location. ‘When I grew up, people always told me the mountains are haunted. And you know what? When you think about it, all of bloody Australia is haunted.’
