WEBVTT - Victoria's Most Haunted Pub

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<v Speaker 1>Apodjaye Production.

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<v Speaker 2>Welcome back to the Chills, the Spooky Story Podcast. It's

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<v Speaker 2>hard to believe unless, of course, it happened to you.

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<v Speaker 2>If you want to share a story, you can email

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<v Speaker 2>us at the Chills at podshape dot com, where you

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<v Speaker 2>can DMUs at the Chills pod. Today's story was sent

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<v Speaker 2>in by Die Peterson. Now Die didn't want to come

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<v Speaker 2>on the podcast herself, but she was happy with us

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<v Speaker 2>sharing her name and her story.

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<v Speaker 3>Our ghost encounter took place around nineteen eighty two. We

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<v Speaker 3>were twenty one years old at the time, in the

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<v Speaker 3>summertime in Victoria.

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<v Speaker 2>So we've had an actor read Die's detailed email to us.

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<v Speaker 3>A group of five of us dropped into the Clarkfield

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<v Speaker 3>Hotel just for one drink before going to a twenty

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<v Speaker 3>first party at a farm property twenty minutes down the road.

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<v Speaker 2>Now the Clarkfield Pub no longer exists. It's changed its

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<v Speaker 2>name and became the Coach and Horses. But if you

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<v Speaker 2>put it in Google, or better still, into YouTube, you

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<v Speaker 2>know that this story didn't just happen to Die. Let

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<v Speaker 2>me give you some background on the hotel. It's on

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<v Speaker 2>Station Street and it's a beautiful two story bluestone building

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<v Speaker 2>on the border of the Hume Rangers, and it was

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<v Speaker 2>built in eighteen fifty seven. Back then before morgues and

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<v Speaker 2>police stations were built. If a dead body was discovered

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<v Speaker 2>in a country town, hotels like the Clarkfield would keep

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<v Speaker 2>the corpse in the cool room. Let's go back to

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<v Speaker 2>Die's story.

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<v Speaker 3>At around nine pm, we entered the old bluestone Clarkfield Pub.

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<v Speaker 3>No one else was in there except the barman. Halfway

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<v Speaker 3>through our first drink, my friend Kristen and I asked

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<v Speaker 3>the barman where the toilets were. He kind of hesitated

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<v Speaker 3>and then said to go through that black door and

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<v Speaker 3>the female toilets are down the hallway on the left.

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<v Speaker 3>The hallway was dimly lit. We walked into the old

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<v Speaker 3>black white bathroom and we were amazed that this place

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<v Speaker 3>looked so old, but nicely painted and well kept to

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<v Speaker 3>its original state. Anyway, after going to the bathroom, we

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<v Speaker 3>decided to walk up the stairs as we thought this

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<v Speaker 3>old pub had character. We just wanted to check it out,

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<v Speaker 3>and at that time we never knew or heard rumors

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<v Speaker 3>the pub was haunted, otherwise we would have bypassed it. Anyway,

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<v Speaker 3>we opened the first door above the stairway and went

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<v Speaker 3>into the small dining room for a sticky beak. We

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<v Speaker 3>left the door ajar, but then we heard it close

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<v Speaker 3>on its own behind us. At that stage we thought

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<v Speaker 3>nothing of it. We both continued looking at the old

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<v Speaker 3>antique furniture and picking up some of the ornaments neatly

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<v Speaker 3>placed on the fireplace and the dining table. Then one

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<v Speaker 3>or two minutes passed, all of a sudden, a freezing

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<v Speaker 3>cold sensation entered the room. It felt like this strong

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<v Speaker 3>coldness went right through our bodies, and the room felt

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<v Speaker 3>very strange, with the heavy presence of something. No breeze,

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<v Speaker 3>just freezing cold. Without any hesitation or communication, my friend

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<v Speaker 3>and I just bolted out of the room at the

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<v Speaker 3>same time. As we approached the stairs, we both felt

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<v Speaker 3>this presence full force push us down the stairs. Our

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<v Speaker 3>feet could hardly keep up with us, so we scrambled

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<v Speaker 3>down the hallway and back to the bar. We told

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<v Speaker 3>our friends, let's get out of here, as something strange

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<v Speaker 3>happened upstairs. For many years afterwards, I still couldn't put

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<v Speaker 3>my finger on what occurred that night, though I felt

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<v Speaker 3>we had a very real and very strange, angry ghosty experience.

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<v Speaker 3>And then one day, sitting in a GP office, I

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<v Speaker 3>picked up a women's weekly mag and on the middle

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<v Speaker 3>page they had a two page spread all about the

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<v Speaker 3>haunted Clarkfield Pub. It gave me chills and the hairs

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<v Speaker 3>on the back of my neck stood up, and that

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<v Speaker 3>confirmed my ghost theory encounter. A few years ago. I

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<v Speaker 3>googled the Clockfield Hotel and then watched a couple of

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<v Speaker 3>YouTube videos about the haunted pub. The hotel publican in

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<v Speaker 3>the video was the same guy who served us our drink,

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<v Speaker 3>and he had a very similar but worse experience than ours.

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<v Speaker 2>After reading diace email, we went into the rabbit hole

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<v Speaker 2>of YouTube and devoured lots of stories of what most

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<v Speaker 2>called the most haunted place in Victoria.

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<v Speaker 1>The historic bluestone parbered Clarkfield, forty kilometers north of Melbourne,

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<v Speaker 1>has been haunted for as long as locals can remember.

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<v Speaker 2>It includes the story of the old owner.

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<v Speaker 1>So how long were you in the hotel before anything happened?

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<v Speaker 4>Three days? Three days we were there and what happened? Well,

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<v Speaker 4>we been working, uh, you know, trying to meet a

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<v Speaker 4>few customers. Only the wife and I were there, no

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<v Speaker 4>staff on and uh we'd worked you know, three to

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<v Speaker 4>one o'clock in the morning, and uh went upstairs and

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<v Speaker 4>popped into bed. I suppose it was about two o'clock.

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<v Speaker 4>I heard, uh, you know, bottles rattling and glasses being moved,

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<v Speaker 4>and I thought, oh, well, some of the locals, you know,

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<v Speaker 4>he was just taking the hotel over a lot of

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<v Speaker 4>country pubs that the locals walking and out when they

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<v Speaker 4>feel like it. So I went to uh go down

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<v Speaker 4>to investigator.

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<v Speaker 2>Frankie claimed back in nineteen eighty four, he was pushed

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<v Speaker 2>down the stairs by a force he couldn't see, just

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<v Speaker 2>like Die and her friend.

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<v Speaker 4>When I went to the hospital, they uh, they said

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<v Speaker 4>it was impossible for me just to fall downstairs, that

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<v Speaker 4>I would have had to fallen from a height, because

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<v Speaker 4>I was shattered in three places and I had to

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<v Speaker 4>have three steel pins and shirted. How long were you

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<v Speaker 4>in country some crutches for seven months?

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<v Speaker 1>Are you absolutely convinced that some supernatural force was the

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<v Speaker 1>cause for them?

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<v Speaker 4>Well, to start off with, I didn't think it was. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 4>I didn't want to go to the hospital, say the

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<v Speaker 4>ghost so throwing me down the stairs. It was the

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<v Speaker 4>things that happened to me later on that convinced me

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<v Speaker 4>that there was something there.

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<v Speaker 2>There's also been sightings from other patrons and staff about

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<v Speaker 2>a male person who was seen running down the stairs

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<v Speaker 2>as if being chased by somebody. It said that this

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<v Speaker 2>man could be a man called Patrick Reagan, who was

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<v Speaker 2>robbed and killed in the hotel in the gold rush days.

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<v Speaker 2>He was also said that he ran up and down

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<v Speaker 2>the stairs while trying to escape from his attackers. They

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<v Speaker 2>caught up with him the front of the building and

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<v Speaker 2>shot him dead. There's also the story of a young

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<v Speaker 2>girl who was between eight and ten years old who

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<v Speaker 2>was killed and left in a nearby well.

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<v Speaker 1>You'll see it's a nice country a country style, living

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<v Speaker 1>country scene. It looks really nice at this stage at

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<v Speaker 1>this time of the day.

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<v Speaker 4>But at night time, if.

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<v Speaker 1>You come up here, you just happen to be looking

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<v Speaker 1>out here. I don't know what it is. It's maybe

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<v Speaker 1>that well, there's a well down there, there's that tree there,

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<v Speaker 1>But you get a very cold feeling. It just comes

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<v Speaker 1>really chilly, blood chilling, and it comes all over your

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<v Speaker 1>body and you just can't stand any longer. You just say,

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<v Speaker 1>I can't explain why it is. Do you look through

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<v Speaker 1>that window anymore? Not up the first three times name.

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<v Speaker 2>N Lots of people have reported that when they visited

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<v Speaker 2>the hotel with their own children, their children would tell

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<v Speaker 2>them that a little girl was crying in the toilets,

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<v Speaker 2>but there was no one there.

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<v Speaker 4>The thing that frightened me the most I used to

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<v Speaker 4>have my name called out at night, and this had

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<v Speaker 4>happened two or three times a week. I'd get out

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<v Speaker 4>of bed and think and wants to buy some beer

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<v Speaker 4>after hours or something like that. You know, there'd just

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<v Speaker 4>be no one there. And then one particular night, I

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<v Speaker 4>was in bed in the room on my own, and

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<v Speaker 4>the door opened and something, the presence of something was there,

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<v Speaker 4>and the next thing of the leg and plaster and

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<v Speaker 4>the hand, a hand came on my leg and started

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<v Speaker 4>twisting it. And I grave hold of the crutches that

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<v Speaker 4>were beside the bed and was yeah, I get away,

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<v Speaker 4>get away. And it was not in darkness. It was

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<v Speaker 4>in darkness anyway. I got up and I put the

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<v Speaker 4>light on it, and the door was shut again, so

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<v Speaker 4>I put the deadlock on it, hopped back in the bed,

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<v Speaker 4>and the door opened, and that was it. I just

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<v Speaker 4>lay there and going hot and cold.

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<v Speaker 2>If you've got a story that could give us the

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