Taken from historic newspaper articles, The Odd History of the Berwick Pakenham region chronicles the lives of our more unusual bush pioneers. These true stories include unsolved murders, a lost child in Upper Beaconsfield and a family of giants born in the bush near Bunyip. There are tales of accidental death and inebriate asylums, the devotion of dogs in Gembrook, a haunted parsonage and a bootlegger in Berwick, a firebug in Toomuc Valley and a female recluse who was brutally murdered in Officer.