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Toodyay Tavern
86 Stirling Terrace
Toodyay WA 6566
Australia
The Toodyay Tavern has a long tradition of being haunted by a heart-broke spirit. The building is about 100 years old and there were no records of any unfortunate events except for what already has become a local legend. The story takes the form of a woman who was murdered by her boyfriend after being caught "in flagrante delicto" with another man. In his passion the jealous boyfriend kills her and throws her body into the well that is in the cellar underneath the Tavern. There is also a local legend of a Nun who committed suicide in what is now room 13.
Room 8
Room 8 has a steady but not so strong EMF reading compared to Room 10. Both rooms are adjacent to each other, so the same EMF output could be responsible. Both rooms had a temperature drop while in there.
Room 10
Room 10 at Toodyay Tavern had a continuous strong EMF reading which together with Room 8 has been confirmed by the publican to be rooms where guests reported unusual events and noises. One man complained after staying in the room that he felt "fingernails running across his chest" during his night stay and that no amount of alcohol consumption could produce the same sensation. There were no physical marks upon his chest.
Room 13
Sister Maria was a nun residing at a nearby convent. She was young and full of life and she was in love with a local gent. It is hard to keep love a secret but for Sister Maria it was imperative. Nuns were forbidden the pleasure of carnal knowledge or even a kiss. But as nature does, the drive of her love for her young man won out.
It wasn't too long afterward that her love affair was discovered. Sister Maria was shamed and forced to leave the convent. The only place available for a fallen angel was a room in the Toodyay Tavern. But her despair and shame would soon overshadow her prior feelings of love and joy. Sister Maria hung herself in the last shelter she would ever know in this life.
The room in which Sister Maria hung herself is today Room 13, although it is said by the innkeeper that the room had a different number during the days of Sister Maria. Perhaps it is by some paranormal influence that the room number would ultimately be renamed to room 13, as the number 13 has long beenassosiated with the paranormal. Ever since the suicide of Sister Maria, paranormalology has been said to have taken place. While not a believer in ghosts herself Margaret Wilson, the current Proprietor of the Toodyay Tavern, told me that workman have claimed to see things move on their own and buckets are sometimes thrown across a room.
While being open minded, Ms. Wilson has not experienced any event in her tavern that she would consider as paranormal or otherwise caused by the heartbroken spirit of an ex-nun. If there is a ghost of Sister Maria it does not bother Wilson in the least.
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