00:01Is your local haunted?
00:07Three historic Aussie pubs have gained a chilling reputation for ghostly visitors who never quite checked out.
00:16First stop, the Overland Corner Hotel in South Australia.
00:20Built around 1860 and once a post office, police station, general store and even a morgue,
00:27staff claim to hear fiddles playing in empty rooms and see shadowy figures drifting through the eerie sandstone halls at night.
00:35There are some children that have been running the halls there, playing music and doing a few weird things like turning lights on and off in the dining room.
00:47In Victoria's countryside, the Elephant Bridge Hotel traces its haunted legacy to Ada, a long-serving former licensee who, owners say,
01:04still whispers warnings in the corridor and peers from second-floor windows.
01:11And at Tasmania's Castle Hotel in Bothwell, patrons have reported phantom footsteps echoing through the corridors
01:19and sudden chills near the Heritage Bar, where locals insist a long-departed publican still keeps watch.
01:27I arrived in Tasmania at the Castle Hotel where, just moments beforehand, a wine bottle had flew off the shelf,
01:37healed itself in front of witnesses and smashed on the floor.
01:42Which, I must say, my travelling photographer and co-author, Gavin John, was very disturbed about because he would have rather have drunk that.
01:52I've drunk that.
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