Another ghost hunter reported the following in 2016.
The Bellbird Hotel celebrated its 100 year birthday in 2014.
The hotel is in Bellbird just outside of Cessnock in the Hunter Valley, near the vineyards.
Around the beginning of 2013 I took part in a series of stories being run by the Newcastle Morning Herald about ghostly encounters in Newcastle and the Hunter region. After having been interviewed on David and Tanya’s Breakfast radio on 2KO for a piece about my tours at Fort Scratchley, one of my friends, Angela Walton, who works with a team of paranormal investigators at Newcastle Ghost Hunters, of which I am also member, called me to say that she had just heard another person call in to the station who had some ghost stories to share.
It was Peter Wares, the licensee of Bellbird Hotel, Wollombi Road Bellbird.
He had experienced lots of ghostly activity in the four years he had lived and managed the Pub.
I thought that it might be an idea to call him and ask whether he was open to us coming out to check out his stories and gather some evidence. I had been planning to write a series on ghosts and tall tales about Pubs and Hotels in the Newcastle and Hunter area and thought that this would finally be the story that could kick it off.
I sent out an email to Peter and told my friend, Angela, not hold her breath. I had sent out many emails to local hotel owners with no response a few months earlier. No one seemed to want to talk to me about their pubs and the weird things happening inside.
But a response came in just a few days and Peter was very happy to speak to us. We were very excited and quickly arranged a day to drive up before he got to change his mind.
To be continued......
Kanacki