(Photo: © 2010 the foto fanatic)
Built in 1851, the Grand View Hotel in Cleveland East of Brisbane looks like it must have a lot of history.
Most people in Cleveland and the Redland Bay area know the Grand View Hotel as a beautiful and iconic old pub with majestic views across Raby Bay to Stradbroke Island. According to the web site it is Queensland’s oldest licensed hotel.
(Photo: State Library of Queensland and John Oxley Library; #36418)
I didn’t know anything about the pub or it’s history when on holiday in Brisbane recently, I stopped there for a meal. I can say though, that when we drove into the surrounding area in Cleveland I felt the energy heighten and I immediately liked that piece of country. It gave me a ‘good’ feeling.
When we drove past the Grand View Hotel, its beautiful verandas and classic ‘Queenslander’ style caught my eye and gave me no hint at all that I would soon be dealing with a family of departed spirits within the walls of the hotel.
Before sitting down for a meal, I drew myself away from the relaxing and peaceful surrounds downstairs, to look at the art gallery upstairs.
As I walked up the old staircase, I approached the top stair landing and felt a shudder enter my spiritual aura. I was stepping into a sacred place. Someone had died here and I felt his or her presence directly behind me. I knew instantly that an earthbound spirit was in the building and wanted to show its presence. They knew instantly that I was able to sense their world and that I respected their circumstances.
At this point I should add that I’m not a “ghost hunter” like those seen on television. I’m not out to sensationalise or to create fear writing about spiritual earthbound entities. I simply respect the plight of earthbound spirits and I want to help them. I usually don’t ever refer to spiritual apparitions as ghosts, but I accept that most people are used to calling spiritual apparitions by this name.
As I walked up the top steps of the staircase I started getting spiritual impressions of a little girl who had ended her life tragically by falling down the top-most section of the staircase to the first landing halfway down. The little girl had brown hair, was dressed in an old-fashioned white dress and was curious about my heightened spiritual energy. (spiritual girls dress was something like the ones in the photo below but with no ribbons)
(Photo: State Library of Queensland and John Oxley Library; #40564)
I then walked into a room that also felt heavy and dense from another spiritual presence. A slim, well dressed man aged in about his early forty’s stood in front of me in a brown tailored suit. He carried a spiritual air of someone who had been in a position of authority and he also seemed to be aware that I knew of his presence.
Then a lovely spiritual energy of a teenage boy came towards me. He was full of excitement and also well dressed and when he was alive would have been a friendly, happy go lucky type of person.
The ghost of the little girl seemed to be indicating she had died at a different time. The man and teenage boy seemed to have died near the same time.
My partner, who doesn’t normally feel anything spiritual commented that he could feel the dense energy and wasn’t comfortable about being upstairs anymore.
We returned downstairs to the dining area where I asked one of the staff members whether anyone at the hotel was aware of the spiritual apparitions upstairs.
She was shocked that I had felt the ghostly apparitions, but openly shared that staff members had been experiencing strange ghostly encounters for years. I asked if she knew of anyone who knew the history of the hotel and what might have happened to the little girl.
She said that a staff member had seen the little girl on the staircase looking down at her and described the same white dress, small apron fabric that I was shown.
She went to find the manager and a little while later a warm and friendly lady approached us and welcomed us to tour the upstairs area of the hotel with her.
She shared a true-life story concerning the room directly facing the staircase I had first sensed the little girl. The room is now used as a guest room for anyone wishing to stay in the hotel overnight. A young couple staying in the room had awoken in the night to find a little boy ghost lying in the bed between them and holding their hands. They were so frightened by this that they checked out of hotel immediately, in the middle of the night.
There is also a small antique children’s rocking chair in the hallway adjacent to the staircase. Hotel staff have witnessed it rocking backwards and forwards when nobody was there. A small statue is also said to move on its own accord and has spooked staff.
Another staff member recalls locking up at night and switching lights off when she was alone, only to find them back on again a few minutes later.
When we walked through the area, I felt the little girl; the man and teenage boy follow me. We started the tour of the area and tuned into strong energetic currents leading from the stairway to the guest room and an adjacent room now used as an upstairs kitchen. This area seemed to me to be a vortex used by earthbound spirits to enter and leave the hotel, which is one of the few remaining older style buildings in the area and which might be a place of comfort for earthbound spirits from that era. The clothing worn by the spirits suggest that they were in the building somewhere between the 1870’s and the early 1900’s. At that time the building was also used as a boarding house as well as a hotel.
We then walked through a living room to a doorway leading out to the veranda. I felt that a man had died near this location. I felt strong physical violence here and felt that the man who had died violently in this place was not associated with the three spirits I had already met. As the man himself was not in the room with me, I feel that it was the memory of this event contained in the vibrational frequency of the location that I was picking up on.
We were shown a staff staircase in the back of the Hotel that also seemed to indicate a spiritual presence. There were energetic imprints all over the Grand View Hotel indicating that it had a lot of unfinished spiritual history.
As we thanked the hotel manager for our guided tour, I shared with her how someone like herself could help the earthbound spirits in her hotel to cross over.
Vine psychic was given permission to share this true life story by the Grand View Hotel management. We thank the staff for their lovely hospitality and generosity of spirit. Love and Light Vine
