The Union Mill was established in 1855 by Harrison Brothers, opening on the site of their unsuccessful tannery. It was the second flour mill in Gawler. In 1863, it was purchased by Walter Duffield. In 1880, The Adelaide Milling Company bought the Union Mill. In 1933, Jeff Brothers leased the mill from the Adelaide Milling Company.
In 1864, the middle floor of the mill gave way. The western wall fell, and many of the windows were blown out by the weight of mountains of wheat. The destruction poured into what is now Julian Terrace. In the 1870s, a train siding, coming from the tram line in Murray Street, was built into the Union Mill yard. The rail line had its own turntable to spin trucks around and take them back the way they had come after loading and unloading. The mill also had its own weigh station. Fire destroyed much of the building in 1914. Rebuilt, but smaller. The mill ceased operations in 1968. In 1975, fire destroyed parts of the southern section of the building.
Centrelink and the CES were situated here in the late 1980s and early 1990s. There was a medieval-themed restaurant that operated on the second floor in the 1990s. Where Asian Central is located today, there was an open-air dining area, which was enclosed in the early 1990s.
Today, the Salvation Army, Pole for Fitness, Asian Central and Action Psychology occupy the retail spaces of the former Union Mill.
25 Murray Street was built for the South Australian Banking Company (later known as the Bank of South Australia) by builder Henry Brown. It was designed by architect Thomas English, who would later become Mayor of Adelaide and a Member of the Legislative Council. It opened on the 4th of April 1859.[1] The South Australian Banking Company operated from the premises between 1859 and 1892. The second owner of the building was the Union Bank of South Australia, between 1892 and 1928. It was then occupied by Rudall and Rudall circa 1928.
Rudall and Rudall was founded by John Rudall (1820 – 1897) in 1854.[2] John Rudall was Gawler’s first Town Clerk a position he held until 1881 when he was appointed the resident Gawler Magistrate. Samuel Bruce Rudall (1859 – 1945), John’s son, took over the position of Town Clerk in 1881, a position he held until 1914. He was also a State MP between 1905 and 1915. Samuel’s son, Reginald John Rudall (1885-1955), was a Rhodes Scholar in 1908. He was a state MP from 1933 until 1955, including a seven-year term as Minister for Education, and nine years as Attorney General under the Playford Government. Reginald and his wife suffered greatly during World War two when both their sons, Jon and Peter, were killed in action.
In 1955, the Rudall connection to the law practice ended when Reginald died. Lawrence McAusland Bills (1913 – 1975) then took over the law firm. He served Rudall and Rudall from 1937 until his death in 1974. His son, Anthony ‘Tony’ McAusland Bills (1941-2010), then took over Rudall and Rudall. Peter Ryan and Nick Pullman are today the partners of the firm and are supported by seven associate lawyers and seven legal assistants, making it the largest legal firm in the Gawler region.
Go underground via the link below.
Researched and written by Allen Tiller
[1] 'The Bank of South Australia', Bunyip (), (15 April 1892), p. 2. [2] Rudall and Rudall Lawyers, History, (2024), https://www.rudalls.com.au/about/history/.
The building located at 1 Tod Street, now Imprint Flowers, started as Taylor and Ponder Carpenters and Builders in 1855.[1] Ponder left the company, and a new partnership started with Alexander Forgie. Taylor and Forgie were carpenters and builders, and sometime in the 1870s, extended their business to include undertaking. In 1902, Alexander Forgie died, dissolving the partnership of Taylor and Forgie, however, Alexander’s sons, Alexander junior and James Forgie, took over the business.
In 1908, The Bunyip newspaper reported that a fire gutted the ground-floor offices of Taylor and Forgie, but it did not penetrate through to the boarding house above.[2]
There is a belief that this site was used as a morgue – and there may be a little truth in that - occasionally bodies were stored here, but the reality was, in the Victorian era, when people died their bodies were prepared for funerals in their own homes. This was generally due to there being no refrigeration storage, so people were buried within a few days of death. This changed once embalming became the norm, and this is more likely the period, in the early 1900s, that bodies were stored here temporarily.
Taylor and Forgie moved to Cowan Street, Gawler, in 1968. Since then, the shop has been a coffee house, a secondhand store, a baby shop, Bake and Brew, Fairy Secrets, and a flower shop.
Built in 1877 for owner John Pile by Mr J. J. Peek of Gawler South.[1] The shop on the end that was most recently B Music was built by Taylor and Forgie Carpenters around 1880.[2] This retail shop has been F. Lines and Sons Butchers, W. Miller Butcher, and Arthur T. Hewett Butchers. The Commercial Bank of South Australia, Stewert Music Emporium, and H.B. Crosby have all occupied the premises; as have many other businesses, including R.J. Lavis Draper and Grocer, Gawler Curtains and Blinds, The Salvation Army, Stratco, Malcolm Buckby M.P., Reminisce Photography and a family-run deli.
International movie connection: Frank Thring Sr. worked at H.B. Crosby, making boots. Thring married Gawler born Grace Wight while they were both actors in the Gawler Theatrical Club. Frank and Grace's daughter, Viola, known as Lola, dated future Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt before dumping him and marrying his father! Thring later founded EffTee Pictures - a massively successful movie house. Frank Thring's son with his second wife Olive, went on to star as Pontius Pilate in Ben-Hur, and starred in the movies The Howling 3, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and a host of TV commercials.
In the early 1980s, artist Audrey Emery opened the Brownstone Jazz Cellar, a coffee shop in this basement. The Brownstone Jazz Cellar only lasted a couple of years; it was incredibly successful, but with success came rent increases that priced it out of the cellar. It closed circa 1983.
Go Underground and visit the basements via this link
Coober Pedy, South Australia is, known for its
opals and underground housing. The outback location was originally home to the Antakirinja
Yunkunytjatjara people, who knew the area as ‘Umoona’. Europeans first called
the area the Stuart Range Opal Field, named after John McDouall Stuart, who
explored the area in 1858. In 1920 a post office was established at the
location, so a new name was chosen, ‘Coober Pedy’ which is an aboriginal term
for ‘white man in a hole.’[1]
On the outskirts of the town of Coober Pedy
sits the Olympic Opal Field. It is claimed that during the late 1980s, in the
evening, miners would report seeing the ghost of an old miner wearing a wide-brimmed hat, carrying a lantern, walking across the field. The miners would
investigate, only to see the apparition disappear before their eyes.
It is not known who the apparition may have
been in life, but 3 men have died on Olympic Field. Those three men, Yanni
Vosvouris, Nick Nathanael and Gregory Digaletos were killed when a cave
collapsed on them in 1980. A cross marks the location of their deaths.[2]
Kapunda, dubbed the 'most haunted town in Australia,’
after a 2001 documentary, is full of history, mystery, and the paranormal.
In 2019, MSN.com voted the North Kapunda Hotel the 8th most haunted hotel in
the world. Kapunda’s hauntings were featured in the documentary Kapunda:
Most Haunted Town in the Western World and the television series Haunting:
Australia.
What makes Kapunda, a historic mining town in South Australia, so
haunted?
Join paranormal investigator, historian, and researcher Allen Tiller as he
dives into 20-plus years of research into a town his ancestors helped
establish. Read about a one-legged pushbike riding ghost, a haunted lolly shop,
murders, mining accidents, the truth about Dr Blood, Haunting:
Australia’s paranormal investigation in the North Kapunda Hotel, and
Allen's connection to some of the most haunted buildings and ghosts in Haunted
Kapunda!
Belalie North is famous as the birthplace of R.M. Williams.
It was a town that sprang up when the train line from Peterborough (then Petersburg) to Jamestown was built. It was at the time, the highest train
station above sea level in South Australia, which made it hard for steam
engines to climb the steep hills. The line was eventually re-routed around
Belalie, and the town went into decline.
All that stands today is the ruins of the former general store
and the entrance pillars to the town which contain a memorial to local men
lost in World War One.[1]
It has long been rumoured that Belalie is haunted. Legend
tells of two brothers who fell in love with the same woman. During a heated
argument, it is alleged one brother shot and killed the other. Once a year, on
the day of the murder, the ghost of the brother, it is said, can be seen
standing where he was killed. In a rage, he stands on the road and shouts, ‘I’ll
kill you, you bastard!!”
On the Horrocks
Highway, between Leasingham and Watervale there once stood a landmark, a bent
tree, which marks the spot of a tragic accident.
Andrew Sands came to Australia on board the passenger
ship Epaminondas, arriving at Port Adelaide on 2nd August 1852.
Andrew was a 30-year-old Scottish-born Miner, his wife, Margaret was 28, they
had (at the time) three children, David, aged 8, James, aged 4; and 1-year-old Margaret.[1]
The couple had one South Australian-born child, Archibald in March 1866.
On Tuesday 2nd
February 1869, Andrew Sands was thrown from his horse during a thunderstorm, near
the Bent Tree, a local landmark at the time. Sands was found and taken to the
Auburn Hotel, where he was attended by Doctor Wall. He was diagnosed with a
severe concussion of the brain.
On 4 February 1869, Andrew Sands died. Sands
had a fractured skull, and his brain had swelled, eventually killing him. He
was buried the following day 5th of February 1869, in the Auburn
Cemetery, overseen by Reverend Crawford.[2]
Since his untimely
death, a local legend states that on moonlit nights, the exact spot where he came off
his horse, the ghost of Andrew Sands appears. Before the time of motor cars, it was claimed
that Sand's ghost would try and stop passersby. He walks with his arms out,
pleading for a lift. Horses would rear up at the sight of the ghost, bolting,
and often throwing their rider to the ground, just as Sands horse had done many
years before.
Sand's ghost is not seen as much these days. As cars speed by
on the Horrocks Highway, but every now and then, a report of an oddly dressed
man, arms outstretched, as if pleading, begging for someone to stop and save
him, is seen…
[1] Robert Janmaat, ‘Epaminondas’, The Ships
List, SA Passenger Lists, 1847-1886, (2008), https://www.theshipslist.com/ships/australia/epaminondas1852.shtml.
[2] 'AUBURN.', Kapunda
Herald and Northern Intelligencer, (5 February 1869), p. 3.
In August 1880,
Kadina on the Yorke Peninsula was haunted by a ghost. The ghost was seen in the
evenings. It purposefully scared women and children, jumping out from behind
trees, and around corners.
One evening, Foot
Constable Murray of the Kadina police patrolled the streets. He
spotted the ghost as it floated through the town and followed it. He approached
the ghost, and grabbed it, expecting to pass through it - as you do – but the
ghost was solid. He unmasked the Kadina spectre, a man in a white bedsheet, and
took him to the police station! FC Murray may have been South Australia’s first
‘ghostbuster!’
Hosiah Clark was charged by Foot Constable Murray with
‘unlawful use of a disguise to frighten women and children.’[1]
Clark was deemed idle and disorderly, he was sentenced to pay 15s for his
crime and serve fourteen days in the Wallaroo Gaol.[2]
Join Me on Saturday 11th of May for a late afternoon talk about Gawler's Dark History!
I'll be detailing some shocking local murders, suicides, nasty accidents, and maybe a ghost or two! This event is strictly 18+ as some of the details are rather gruesome!
This is a fundraiser event for the Gawler National Trust Museum to help raise some much-needed money for the upkeep of Gawler's historical museum.
I'll also have books available for sale and signing (EFTPOS available).
$15 per person, 11 May 2024 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM.
Tickets are almost sold out so get in while you still can!
Gawler National Trust Museum - 59 Murray Street Gawler, SA 5118
Cream Puff Corner is located at Upper Yorke Rd, Wokurna,
near Port Broughton. The location got its name from two returned servicemen,
Cedric Witty and David Richards, who began a carrying business at this location
in 1946. According to a sign at the location,
‘When local folk asked the boys how they managed “batching”,
the answer was always the same. “Real good, living like lords, we knock up a
batch of cream puffs every Sunday morning.”
From then on, they were always asked “How’s the cream puffs going?”
“Real good,” they’d answer, “but we only manage them on Sundays.” When asked
the whereabouts of their bachelor cottage, they’d laconically answer, “Cream
Puff Corner of course!”
It has long been reported that the location is haunted by an
unidentified man in a checked shirt. Have you seen him? Do you know who he
might be?
On dark and stormy nights, a phantom walks Port Wakefield Road, hitchhiking to Adelaide. He wears a long, Australian Air Force jacket, with a RAAF uniform underneath. He hitches a ride, and then vanishes from the car…who is this ghost that has been reported since the 1940s? Is he the only ghost walking Port Wakefield Road, and what other spectres are seen in the area?In Haunted Adelaide Plains: South Australia, award-winning historian and paranormal investigator, Allen Tiller investigates this ghost story, and others from the region; including the ghost of a soldier in Mallala, phantoms in Alma, Balaklava, Dublin, Pinery, and Two Wells… and, an unusual sighting of Princess Diana in Mallala at the time of her death.
Allen Tiller focuses his research on true ghost stories drawn from historical sources, interviews, witness statements and his own paranormal investigations. Allen Tiller is a former volunteer at the Mallala Museum and the Adelaide Plains Historical Committee. His family are pioneers in the region and can be linked to two hauntings on the Adelaide Plains, which Allen discusses in this book. Haunted Adelaide Plains: South Australia, investigates the paranormal through fact-checked historical information that adds authenticity to some stories and debunks others; valuing evidence-based stories over psychic hearsay and giving an unbiased, factual account of local hauntings on the Adelaide Plains.
Parabanks at Salisbury was developed in 1962 when Arndale Developments
negotiated with the Salisbury District Council to acquire 30 acres of land near
the Salisbury CBD. Historical houses including that of Salisbury founder, John
Harvey were bulldozed for 'progress’. Also lost in the razing of buildings was
the original Hepzibah church and presbytery.
I have been contacted many times about unexplainable
incidents in the Parabanks. One of the more common stories is that of a ghost
of a child seen on the western side of the shopping complex, so I was intrigued
when South Australian Ghost Investigations invited Karen and I to investigate
with them at Kandy House.
I was aware of the
alleged haunting, as a friend, Alex had put me on to it. I had watched the alleged
paranormal activity videos on the Kandy House Facebook with interest. We
investigated at Halloween. We spoke directly to the owner and staff about what
they believed had been happening at the shop. We had a visiting psychic, Bea,
who felt a presence, which would later prove an interesting connection to a
local crime.
We used a variety of meters and received
no interaction. While in the back storeroom, which was reported as highly
active, I personally witnessed a very strange light. I tried through various
means to recreate the light and could not – I am still intrigued by the light,
as it made no sense how it could be where I witnessed it!
We concluded our investigation. We were told a few days later
that the alleged paranormal activity had subsided after our initial visit, but
we will be remaining in contact with the owner to evaluate if further
investigation is needed.
In the meantime, check out Kandy House online – they have an
awesome range of hard-to-get lollies!
South Australia Ghost Investigations: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1539033312782383
Built in 1866, the main building of the Kapunda Museum served
the Kapunda Baptist community until 1948. From 1949 until the mid-1960s the building was utilised as a technical school. It was then sold to the Kapunda
Council. The council donated the building to the Kapunda Historical Society
which reopened the building as the Kapunda Museum in 1971. In the years that
followed the nearby building that once housed the Kapunda Herald newspaper was incorporated
into the museum and renamed Bagot’s Fortune.
The museum hosts
Kapunda’s mining, religious and business history, and is considered one of the
finest folk museums in Australia. I have my own personal connection to the
collection with my grandmother, Audrey Tiller (nee Tremaine) donated numerous
items from her properties around Kapunda, including her bedroom suite, my father’s
schoolbooks, and my great grandfathers, H.J.B. Tremaine’s crystal radio set.
Other items in the museum include photos of my relatives from the Hazel, Cole, Rowett,
Datson and Adams families.
In the Hawke Gallery, one can see foundry products from an
era long gone, including a cross-compound steam engine. The museum contains a collection covering every facet of Kapunda's history including an
extensive display of machinery, agricultural equipment, an old local Kapunda Ambulance, and a collection of old record players, including wax cylinders.
Karen and I were invited by Chris and Deano of Spirit Crew
South Australia to investigate with them at the museum on September 29, 2023.
We started in the main building on the ground floor. Karen and I also tried to
contact my grandmother in the room set up as her bedroom, but there were no discernible
responses. Eventually, we head into the basement.
The basement was
quiet. At one point in the evening, we noted what sounded like footsteps
walking through the room above us, when everyone present was accounted for and in eyesight of each other in the basement. However, this could easily be disregarded
as temperature changes in the late evening affect the woodwork in the
building.
At the roadside end of the basement,
there is a small schoolroom display consisting of some desks, mannequins, and
a blackboard. It was in this room that movement was noticed. First was a chain
moving of its own volition. Ghosts? Possibly, but there is also the chance one
of us knocked it and did not notice, or that building movement, or airflow
caused the movement.
While investigating this schoolroom
display movement was noticed near the mannequins. It seemed as though a dark
shadow moved from the right to the left wall behind the mannequins. We tried
our best to communicate but received nothing. We then tried to recreate the movement
but were unsuccessful. We do not have a reasonable explanation as to what caused
the shadowy movement in the schoolroom display – further investigation is
required.
It has previously
been reported that the museum is haunted. Many years ago, local Reggie Rawady
(R.I.P) told me he once experienced the ghost in the old newspaper office. He didn’t
elaborate much on the ghost, only that it was in the rear of the building where
a movie plays (a movie featured Reggie!)
This building is also infamous for the
suicide of former newspaper editor, Leonard Samuel Curtis. In 1911, 52-year-old
Curtis was found dead in his office by his apprentice, Albert Patterson. Curtis
had swallowed a large quantity of Lysol and then shot himself in the neck four
times with a revolver. No note was left… Curtis’s ghost is sometimes reported
to be seen peeking out the window of the building.
If you get the chance to visit Kapunda, do consider spending
some time in the museum. There are some amazing displays, including an operating
table from the Kapunda hospital and out the back, and an old hearse!
As part of the South Australia History Festival, paranormal historian Allen Tiller presented a talk on ghosts, hauntings and other paranormal events in the Town of Gawler for the Gawler History Team.
Munno Para West District Council Office – 9 Adelaide Road - Hidden Secrets.
<Transcript>
If you live in Gawler you’ve probably driven past the little building on the corner of Adelaide Road and Twelfth Street a thousand times but never given it a second thought. Currently, the building is Creative Outdoors Display Centre, previously it has been used as a second-hand store and a tax agent, but none of these were its original purpose.
Bound in the south by the Little Para River, and in the North by the Gawler River, The District Council of Munno Para West Was formed in 1854, a year after the District Council of Munno Para East was formed. The council included the towns of Virginia, Smithfield, Penfield, Angle Vale, St Kilda and Gawler Blocks. Gawler Blocks were later to be known as Gawler South and removed from the District Council of Munno Para West in 1899.
The District Councils of Munno Para East & West were united to become the City of Munno Para in 1933, with some sections going to the Town of Gawler, and others going to the District Council of Salisbury, the rest were merged with the Munno Para East Council.
The building that stands today was originally built to be a chapel in 1855, however, it was bought in 1861 to become the District Council of Munno Para West’s head office, whilst the District Council of Munno Para’s East office was in Murray Street Gawler – you may recognise it as the building currently next door to Elders.
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Since publishing this video, I have been informed that this small building was the home of a family of ten during the 1950/60s. It has also been used as a computer store (information supplied by Robby Cummins), a sex toy store, and a second-hand store. In March 2019, Creative Outdoors ended their lease at the location. It now sits empty awaiting its next use.
In 2021 - the location is now a Real Estate Agent: Raine and Horne
In 2018, the owner of the former Hamley Bridge Railway
station, Ms Jenny Lee-Justine, decided to sell her property. News coverage in
the Advertiser newspaper claimed the home was haunted!
The original Hamley Bridge railway
station was further north of the 1880-constructed station located at 9
Railway Terrace.[1]
Originally, the station was known as Alma Station, but this caused confusion and
numerous complaints were received, which resulted in a name change to Hamley
Bridge Station.[2]
The foundation stone for the Hamley Bridge over the River
Light was laid by Mrs Hamley on Saturday, 25th of July 1868.[3]
His Excellency, Lieut-Colonel Hamley, Acting Governor at the time, and a small
group of Government Ministers travelled from Adelaide to witness the foundation
stone laying.[4]
In 1898, 28-year-old William Woods was killed at Hamley
Bridge Station. Woods had previously worked at Gawler Railway Station, close to
where he lived and was described as 'a careful and conscientious servant of the
Railway Department.’[5]
In December 1910, the guard of the 3 o’clock train from
Hamley Bridge to Port Pirie, while readying his train for departure, noticed
something under the train between the station and carriages.[6]
Upon closer inspection, he discovered the mangled body of a male. M.C. Hannam of
Gawler was called for. Papers on the victim identified him as James Ried. It
was believed Reid had fallen under the train and lost consciousness, the train
being readied for departure had moved further along the platform, dismembering Reid's
body and killing him.[7]
The Hamley Bridge station closed in 1984 and became private
property. The owner of the property in 2018, Jenny Lee-Justine, claimed that she
once had a lady stay with her in the former railway building who was woken by a
ghost. The ghost was wearing a railway uniform and carrying a lantern. Ms.
Lee-Justine had a few photographs of railway workers at the station from 1911
from which they were able to identify the ghost.[8]
[1] 'Latest News.', Evening Journal, (14 April 1869), p. 2.
[2] 'TO CORRESPONDENTS.', The Express and Telegraph, (15 January 1870), p. 2.
[3] 'GENERAL NEWS.', The Express and Telegraph, (22 July 1868), p. 2.
[4] 'NEWS OF THE WEEK', South Australian Chronicle and Weekly Mail, (25 July 1868), p. 10.
[5] 'HAMLEY BRIDGE ACCIDENT.', The Express and Telegraph, (20 January 1898), p. 3.
[6] 'MAN KILLED AT RAILWAY STATION.', Daily Herald, (22 December 1910), p. 6.
[7] 'FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.', The Advertiser, (22 December 1910), p. 6.
[8] Lydie Kellner, ‘Historic railway station-turned-home for sale in Hamley Bridge.’, The Advertiser, (Feb 2018), https://www.realestate.com.au/news/historic-railway-stationturnedhome-for-sale-in-hamely-bridge/?rsf=syn:news:nca:aa:article.
Haunted Salisbury: South Australia is the culmination of many years of research into the haunted history of Salisbury, South Australia by award winning paranormal historian, Allen Tiller. In this book, Allen Tiller investigates the origins of historic local hauntings and crimes, Salisbury’s founding, and the people who shaped the City of Salisbury, some of whom, are now alleged to haunt the places they lived and worked. Allen Tiller is a university educated, award-winning paranormal historian from Gawler, South Australia. He was a member of the cast of television show Haunting: Australia, and the best-selling author of The Haunts of Adelaide: Revised Edition, and Haunted Adelaide, the first book in this series about hauntings, history and crimes in Australia.
Waterhouse Chambers was built by successful grocer Thomas Greaves Waterhouse, who had invested heavily in the Burra Mines and made a small fortune in return.
Waterhouse used his earnings to construct the impressive building, which was so iconic at the end of Rundle Street, that the corner became known locally as “Waterhouse Corner”, before being usurped as “Beehive Corner”, when the even more impressive “Beehive” building opened across the road. The building has seen many uses, including, at one time, being used as the head office of the South Australian Mining Company.
The building left the ownership of the Waterhouse family in 1919 after A. Waterhouse sold it to F.N. Simpson of Gawler Place through realtor J.S. Kithor. In 1921 Kithor would on-sell the building to tobacco merchants “Lawrence and Levy” who remodelled the ground floor shop front.
After ninety years of occupying a section of the building, Shuttleworth and Letchford moved their offices to the YWCA building on Hutt Street.
The building has seen many tenants over the years but perhaps one of the best-loved was the 44-year occupation by the iconic confectioner, Darrell Lea before the current Tennant, Charlesworth Nuts took over in 2013.
Ghost Stories:
Long rumoured to be haunted amongst the local paranormal community, ghost stories for this particular building are very hard to come by, but it would seem, that the majority of stories that have surfaced involve the upstairs section of the building. It has been reported that staff do not like the feeling of the upstairs room, reports of paranoia, smelling phantom pipe tobacco smoke when clearly no one is smoking, and hearing loud footsteps in rooms have surfaced. At one point this led staff from a downstairs shop, which used the upstairs as storage, to abandon the upstairs section as no one wanted to enter the rooms for fear of the unknown. If it is haunted, it has yet to be investigated by a professional paranormal investigation team or group of sceptics to find the cause of fear and paranoia!
Trivia: Before the imposing Beehive building was built the corner of King William Street and Rundle Street was known locally as “Waterhouse Corner”.
This story was originally written for the Adelaide City Library project "Haunted Buildings in Adelaide." For a more complete history of the building and eyewitness accounts of ghost stories at this building please refer to my book "Haunted Adelaide" available via Amazon here: Haunted Adelaide
The original Greenock Hotel was located on the other
side of the road from the one we see today. It was moved to its current location
in 1956 by Mr G.E. Schluter into a house and corner shop that was once the
General Cash Store, built in the 1850s by James Jackman.
Prior to the hotel, the building had also
been used as the local post office.
In the 1960s a young married couple went to stay at
the hotel with the new husband’s aunt. After closing, the couple retired to
their bedroom. The newlywed wife awoke and went into the kitchen for a drink
of water. As she passed the former living room, now a lounge, she witnessed a
large coffin draped in black cloth and a host of people dressed in black
standing around the coffin, silently weeping.
Over the years, other guests have also
witnessed the same mourning event in the room.
Guests have also reported small objects, like keys
going missing, only to find them in another place, far from where they knew
they had been placed. Cold spots and doors opening and closing of their own
volition are also reported.
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