Garradunga Hotel owner Ian “Cambo” Campbell is throwing a free ghost into the sale price of his Far North Queensland pub. 

Campbell told the Cairns Post: “Everyone said he was a really nice bloke. He’s definitely friendly.

“I saw him walking up the hall one night. I said, ‘A-a-a-a-athol’, like that and he looked around at me and walked straight through the wall.

“A lot of people say they see a light flying around their room, or sometimes feel something pushing on their chest. But he’s never done any harm.”

About 10 years after Athol died, the Cairns Post reported one of many sightings of the old man. A patron revealing he was singing at the bar when a man dressed in the style of the ’50s or ’60s with dark slacks told him he used to live here years ago.

“I looked over my shoulder and he just faded in front of the wash basin — sort of quickly.”

The pub, which is located few minutes’ drive outside Ingham, was built in 1888 and rebuilt in 1935 after being burnt down. The sale also features the bar, publican living quarters, a commercial kitchen and seven hotel rooms.

“It’s a great little pub, it’s a little gold mine,” Campbell said. “It (has) an area for caravans and we get plenty of grey nomads.”