"While Tyrrell’s strange sighting is now firmly entrenched in Yarralumla folklore, another historic ghost encounter, until now kept secret amongst an inner circle of former security guards, adds more credence to the property’s haunted reputation.
“It was bizarre, an entity rising out of the water near the jetty,” reports Mick Sutton, 79, who worked as a security guard at Government House in the early 1970s.
The jetty at Government House where Mick Sutton witnessed ‘the lady of the lake’ while working as a security guard in 1971.Credit:Tim the Yowie Man
Sutton, now of Murrumbateman, recalls his encounter with the “wispy wraith” in detail: “It looked like it had a white gown on, it definitely wasn’t a man, it was a female ghost,” he says, adding he “to this day can’t explain” what he saw.
“After it rose out of the water, it then slowly sank back into the lake,” he recalls."
A haunted official residence! Now that's a story you don't read everyday.
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