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hotel staff a run for their money. "[Alex] still hangs around there and treats it like his castle on top the hill, despite the fact that he's been dead for over a century now," he said. "Alex died of natural causes. He developed dementia later in life and it's my understanding is that he died in hi…
- Record ID
- 4,056
- Year
- 2,019
- Source
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Index status
- Public search-ready
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- Record ID
- 4056
- Source
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Publication
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Published
- 2019-04-04
- Narrative type
- Ghost and Apparition Accounts
- Public-text label
- ghost
- Archive period
- Digital Era
- Location
- Princes Park, TAS (TAS): B
- State or territory
- TAS
- Source voice
- Place First Public Page Record
- Publicness
- Public Media Page
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hotel staff a run for their money. "[Alex] still hangs around there and treats it like his castle on top the hill, despite the fact that he's been dead for over a century now," he said. "Alex died of natural causes. He developed dementia later in life and it's my understanding is that he died in his bed at home." Staff at the Lenna of Hobart Hotel declined to comment about Alex and his wife. Battery Point's oldest ghost Narryna in Battery Point is an 1830s merchant's house, but now operates as a museum. It apparently has the area's "longest-serving" ghost, who was a young convict girl named Polly. Mr Imbriotis said it is not known exactly how Polly died. "She was a young convict staff member who died when she was pregnant," she said. "She either was pushed or fell down the stairs." Polly, the reported ghost at Narryna House, was a young convict girl who is said to have died on these.
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