Songs aren't the only sounds the DJ hears in haunted hotel

WHAT’S loud, scary and goes bump in the night? That would be the ghosts at the Criterion Hotel in Maryborough.

Criterion DJ Brendan has felt the spine-tingling chills from the in-house ghosts. Picture: Boni Holmes

WHAT'S loud, scary and goes bump in the night?

That would be the ghosts at the Criterion Hotel in Maryborough.

And no one knows that better than resident DJ Brendan Heit, who often works long into the night at the haunted hotel.

Often he is the last person to leave and he has heard plenty of odd noises that let him know that the paranormal residents of the hotel are not going anywhere anytime soon.

He said the ghosts were believed to be two children who died during an outbreak of illness, a settler and an old caretaker who died while Brendan was learning how to DJ a few years ago.

It did give him the creeps at first, but now he says he has adjusted to the eerie sounds in the middle of the night.

"Sometimes I used to get nervous, now I'm just used to them," he said.

"I'm the only nocturnal staff member who is there alone at stupid hours during the week, so I just had to toughen up.

One night Brendan heard an unnerving noise that sounded like someone trying to open the locked door - even though he was the only person in the building.

That was followed by a few thuds and bumps, he said.

Then often he will hear the noise of children running up and down the hall above his head.

While the creepy sounds might put a few people off, Brendan says he isn't afraid.

"They aren't there to hurt you," he said.