It’s not just staff and tourists who climb the narrow stairs of Mudgee’s Colonial Inn Museum: Up to 30 ghosts are believed to haunt the 160-year-old building.
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Sceptics and believers will decide for themselves when Mudgee Gulgong Paranormal hosts a walk-through of the building following the success of its first ghost tours at Gulgong’s Prince of Wales Theatre.
“I’ve always been interested in the building, I always had some kind of attraction to it I felt like there’s something here,” medium and paranormal investigator Kylie Delaney said.
Long before Kylie approached the museum to host tours, staff had reported unusual experiences, one lady adamant she had been pushed while walking down the building’s narrow staircase.
That shove may have come from the spirit of a woman who died in one of the upstairs bedrooms, Kylie said.
“I feel that woman haunts the staircase. Also she could be a little ashamed of her death also but also personal attachment to the building because she was a resident here for a while,” she said.
Having been a shop, a hotel, a private residence, a boarding home and ‘lying-in accommodation’ for women from isolated areas awaiting to give birth, the building has been the place of many natural deaths.
“[The other spirit upstairs] we call him Mr Phillips, we’re not sure of his real name but even if we did have his real name we have respect for those that are living that are related,” Kylie said.
“He was at least six foot tall and he passed away in the building, apparently upstairs and he was so tall the undertakers couldn’t fit him down the staircase. And so they had to lower him over the balcony and I feel that he haunts upstairs because he’s a little bit embarrassed about his death. But also that he had some personal attachment to the building and likes to hand around.”
Kylie is hoping tour-goers will walk away with a spooky experience just as the attendees of the Gulgong tour did.
“A lot of people experienced paranormal phenomena [during the Gulgong tours]. We did experience some spirits walking around back stage,” Kylie said.
“There were sceptics on the tour but they’re not sceptics any more.
“A lot of them loved the idea of having a piece of paranormal equipment they could use and the opportunity for them to also wander around on their own under the watchful eye of a paranormal investigator.
“But they also loved the history, they felt that the history side of the tour gave them a visual image and it connected with the haunting that they experienced.”
Mudgee Gulgong Paranormal Ghost Tours will be held at Mudgee’s Colonial Inn Museum Saturday, February 20 at 6.30pm to 8pm and another at 8.30pm to 10pm. Tickets are $30, attendees must be 15 years and over and enclosed shoes must be worn.
Tours will also be held at the Gulgong Prince of Wales Opera House Saturday, February 13, 6.30pm to 8pm and another at 8.30pm to 10pm.
Bookings are essential and can be made by phoning 0455 737 968.
