A ‘ghost’ has been photographed standing behind the front bar at a pub which has been the scene of death many times since it opened in 1840.
An apparition of a figure wearing a hat appears next to a wall at the Royal Mail Hotel in the Ipswich suburb of Goodna, south-west of Brisbane.
Addie Cafe, 24, who runs the historic pub on Brisbane Terrace with her father Andrew said closing time at 11pm was a particularly creepy for her.
A ‘ghost’ has been photographed standing behind the front bar at a pub which has been the scene of grisly deaths since it opened in 1840
Addie Cafe (left) who runs the historic pub on Brisbane Terrace with her father Andrew (right) said closing time at 11pm was a particularly creepy time for her
‘It’s scary at the end of the night by myself,’ she told Daily Mail Australia on Wednesday. ‘I just feel I’m not alone.’
Addie, who lives on the premises, said she had heard creaking floorboards and was baffled earlier this year when gig posters fell off a wall.
‘Things just move around,’ she said. ‘It’s a strange feeling.
‘We had one wall that was covered in posters and they were all on the ground.’
Addie said two friends who ran the pub for a few nights were confronted by doors closing.
‘There’s always weird noises. The pub creaking, things moving,’ she said.
Addie, who lives on the premises, said she had heard creaking floorboards and was baffled earlier this year when gig posters fell off a wall
Since the Royal Mail Hotel opened in 1840, it has been the scene of deaths from heroin overdoses in the upstairs rooms and a fight outside the front
‘They were scared witless. They were happy to hand back the keys, they were terrified.’
Psychic Kellie Wright, who runs weekly psychic nights at the pub, said bizarre circumstances could be the spirit of someone who died at the tavern in mysterious circumstances.
‘Predominately, it’s been males who have passed away in the hotel,’ she said.
The death toll includes heroin overdoses in an upstairs room during the 1980s and an employee who died in a fight outside the front of the pub in 1986, after hitting his head on a kerb.
An 11-year-old boy was also shot on a horse during the 19th century.
However Kellie Wright said the figure in the picture, taken in March, was more likely that of a woman who was the hotel’s licensee during the early 20th century, called Mary O’Reilly.
Psychic Kellie Wright, who runs weekly psychic nights at the pub, said bizarre circumstances could be the spirit of someone who died at the tavern in mysterious circumstances
Psychic Kellie Wright said the figure in the picture was more likely that of a woman who was the hotel’s licensee during the early 20th century, called Mary O’Reilly
‘In the photo, you can actually see an apparition of a woman,’ she said.
‘I’m pretty sure it’s her. It’s definitely a female and it turns out I was right: there’s a Mary O’Reilly.
‘She’s just a residual energy. She’s not really doing anything.’
The psychic was the unexplained events in the hotel were more likely that of an unidentified male ghost.
‘The energy’s not of good feeling. It’s very prominent, domineering,’ she said.
‘It’s just a feeling you get in the hotel when you’re in there, like you’re being watched.
‘You can hear noises and doors opening and closing in the actual hotel, you can actually hear men talking yet there’s nobody in the pub.
‘At night time it seems to change. You do get their weird vibe.’
However Andrew Cafe, who took over the pub in 1986, said it he had become used to the unexplained phenomenon.
‘I’m a skeptic. I’ve been here so long. I might have felt a presence years ago, I don’t feel that anymore. I’m not in fear of anything,’ he said.
However Andrew Cafe, who took over the pub in 1986, said it he had become used to the unexplained phenomenon at the Royal Mail Hotel