Watch the creepy moment a ‘thirsty ghost’ smashes wine bottles and glasses at a ‘haunted hotel’
Mysterious breakages and shadowy figures at the Carlisle Castle Hotel, Australia, have been captured on CCTV – and staff say weird stuff happens there all the time
Creepy video footage appears to show ghostly figures and bottles of expensive wine flying off shelves in a ‘haunted‘ Australian hotel.
The Carlisle Castle Hotel bar, in Newtown, New South Wales found itself serving a different kind of spirit, as surveillance cameras captured the moment bottles fell to the floor behind the bar with nobody near them.
Licensee Peter Bradbury says that if it is a ghost, it has high-end tastes.
"Red wine seems to be the choice, apparently he likes the red," he told the Australian Telegraph.
"Expensive wine too, he picked a Kilikanoon last night, which is about $27 a bottle."
In another creepy clip, bartenders and locals are given a fright as a wine glass falls from a high shelf, smashing on the bar. A third video appears to show a ghostly figure dancing in front of the cameras.
Staff say spooky things have happened at the hotel "many times", with one saying they’d seen a beer tap turn on of its own accord.
Bradbury has started posting footage of what he describes as a "thirsty ghost" on the hotel’s Facebook page, inviting locals to speculate about what might have caused the paranormal activity.
Local Cat Stuart suggested it could be the work of a man who used to live in the building.
"It might be old Peter," she said. "He used to live upstairs and helped around the Carlisle [in the] early 1990s. I think his bust is still displayed behind the bar."
Some regulars say the wine bottles were probably knocked over by vibrations in the floor – with others suggesting it might all have been set up in an attempt to drum up custom.
But Bradbury remains open-minded, telling a local newspaper: "When we saw the bottles and glasses just start flying off shelves, we saved it and put it up on our Facebook page for a bit of a laugh, really – but we don’t know what it is."
source: www.mirror.co.uk
breakage – törés, töréskár
CCTV – closed-circuit television, zártláncú TV-rendszer
creepy – hátborzongató
haunted hotel – szellemjárta hotel
spirit – 1. szellem, kísértet, lélek; 2. szesz, töményital
surveillance cameras – biztonsági kamerák
licensee – üzemeltető (az üzemeltetési engedély, azaz a license birtokosa)
to have high-end taste(s) – kifinomult ízléssel rendelkezni
to give a fright – ráijeszteni valakire
spooky – kísérteties
beer tap – sörcsap
of its own accord – magától, kérés nélkül
footage – felvétel
bust – mellszobor
to display – kiállítani, kihelyezni
to drum up custom – felpörgetni az üzletet
open-minded – nyitott, befogadó, elfogulatlan
Match the words with the definitions.
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1. of one’s own accord |
a) to visit, or appear to in the form of a ghost or other supernatural being |
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2. footage |
b) receptive to new and different ideas |
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3. haunted |
c) by one’s own choice, without coercion |
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4. open-minded |
d) to present or hold up to view |
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5. to display |
e) an amount or length of film or videotape |
answers: 1-c 2-e 3-a 4-b 5-d
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