<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>With a population of just over 200, everyone knows everyone in Cheshunt, Victoria.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>But no one seems to know who defaced a sacred site at nearby Paradise Falls in the Alpine National Park this weekend.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Almost two metres tall and several metres wide, the graffiti scrawled across the pristine rock wall appears to be of one or more artists' signatures or 'tags'.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/trump-announces-hell-sign-executive-order-that-aims-to-cut-drug-prices/e460c622-35b9-4d29-a28c-a988c1a5d8c6" target="_blank"><strong><span>Trump announces he'll sign executive order that aims to cut drug prices</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It's shocking. It's so shocking [...] shock is where I think most of the community is today," a local who asked not to be named told 9news.com.au.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Because when it started circulating last night, I think most people were really hoping that it was going to be photoshopped, that it was a prank."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><em><strong><span>Have you got a story? Contact</span></strong></em><span> </span><strong><em><span>reporter Maddison Leach at</span></em></strong><span> </span><a href="mailto:mleach@nine.com.au" target="_blank" title="mleach@nine.com.au"><strong><em><span>mleach@nine.com.au</span></em></strong></a></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/paradise-falls-victoria-graffiti-sacred-site-vandalised/494c8a6d-4409-495c-bc9e-dda6e91a82b6" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Located about three-and-a-half hours from Melbourne, Paradise Falls is a popular tourist attraction for its natural beauty.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The falls cascade from a conglomerate rock formation and the area is considered a sacred women's place by the Bangerang People.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Bangerang Country encompasses parts of north-east Victoria and Southern Riverina Murray region of New South Wales and at least ten clan groups form the Bangerang Nation.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A Facebook page titled 'Always Was, Always Will Be, Bpangerang Country' shared a photo of the graffiti on Sunday, calling it "thoughtless" and "disrespectful".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>9news has reached out to the Bangerang Cultural Centre in Shepparton, Victoria for comment.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/study-links-golf-course-pesticides-to-parkinsons-disease-us/b236849a-ec39-4e3d-b443-977a73425243" target="_blank"><strong><span>New study suggests link between golf courses and cases of Parkinson's disease</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The Cheshunt local 9news spoke to believes the culprits likely waited for the cover of darkness to graffiti the rock wall "when no one else was around".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Paradise Falls is a tourist hotspot and is typically packed with visitors on weekends, and the graffiti seemed to appear overnight between Saturday and Sunday.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I doubt that it was something that was done in daylight, I think it would have been done at dusk or dawn, or with some lights down there," she said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The resident also suggested that the vandalism may have been planned, as it likely would have taken multiple cans of paint to cover such a large section of rock wall.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"You don't just have [...] 20 cans of spray paint in your backpack to randomly decide to do something," she claimed.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"This has been planned."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She and other locals just hope that the paint can be removed without damaging the rock underneath, which has been there for thousands of years.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>9news has contacted Parks Victoria for comment and understands it is aware of the vandalism.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></em></strong></a><strong><em><span>: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. 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