ROYAL HOTEL, SEYMOUR, VIC

Once a courtroom courtroom, police lock-up and morgue, this country hotel has a long history of ghoulish guests.

If you’re brave enough to walk its haunted hallways, prepare to hear ghostly footsteps, an invisible crying baby, music playing when there’s no band and whispers coming from an empty courtyard. Room five is said to be inhabited by a spirit so scary, staff often refuse to go inside. If you can’t bring yourself to stay the night, enjoy a drink at the bar, where it’s rumoured the head of bushranger Dan “Mad Dog” Morgan, who was shot and killed near Wangaratta in 1865, was once displayed.

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