A ghost with a taste for red wine seems to have appeared at the Carlisle Castle Hotel in Newtown

Weird breakages and bumps in the night have rattled a Newtown Hotel and CCTV footage is raising more questions than answers. Take a look.

YOU may assume a pub ghost would be after the spirits but if these videos are anything to go by, $27 bottles of red wine are the drop of choice.

Peter Bradbury, licensee of the Carlisle Castle Hotel in Newtown, noticed bottles and glasses falling to the floor with no one near them on two separate occasions last night.

He said the mysterious breakages and unexplained bumps in the night have become increasingly regular of late so the hotel has opened up the issue for speculation on its Facebook page.

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"We have the cameras on when we're doing the tills and we've seen a few strange things," he said.

Bartenders surveyed have reported unusual things "many times" including one who saw a wine glass fall off the rack and turn a beer tap on.

Pesky ghost or plain weird? A wine bottle falls and smashes behind a staff member. Picture: Facebook.

Staff and patrons jump after glasses suddenly fall and smash at the Carlisle Hotel. Picture: Facebook.

The hotel has uploaded CCTV footage of some of the odd incidents.

"It's all very strange. I don't know how long it's been coming but it's become quite a regular in the last few weeks. There's been a few bottles of wine falling off the shelf," he said.

Mr Bradbury said if it was a ghost, their visitor had high-end tastes.

"Red wine seems to be the choice, apparently he likes the red," he said.

"Expensive wine too, he picked a Kilikanoon last night, which is about $27 a bottle."

After posting video's on their Facebook page, a number of theories have been suggested by patrons.

Carlisle Castle Hotel bartenders say strange things have been happening at the old pub.

Some say it may be "Old Peter", who worked in the pub in the early 1990s.

Others suggest it's Mr Bradbury's predecessor Johnny Hoy, while another punter likened the appearance to a Scooby Doo mystery.

More cynical souls have suggested the drinks fell due to the vibrations of a fridge motor, the footsteps of a passer by or even lazy shelf stacking.

But Mr Bradbury is yet to be convinced by any single theory.

"I really don't know what it is," he said. When we saw the bottles and glasses just start flying off shelves, we saved it and put it up on our Facebook page for a bit of a laugh really but we don't know what it is."

Post by Carlisle Castle Hotel.

HAUNTED INNER WEST PLACES

Newtown cemetery and Camperdown Memorial Park

The graveyard at Newtown has two well-known ghosts wandering its grounds.

This historic cemetery founded in 1848 was the main general burial ground for Sydney for two decades with more 18,000 souls laid to rest there.

When it was turned into a public park, most of the bodies buried were not removed, and remain under the parkland, leading to numerous creepy tales of activity in the grounds.

Among the urban legends are reports of ghosts in the cemetery. The include the Bathsheba Ghost, a matron of the Sydney Infirmary buried there in 1868 and sightings of the wife of Sydney Harbourmaster Thomas Watson in a corner of the graveyard in search of her lover.

The very gothic Abbey in Annandale.

Inside one of the Abbey's 50 rooms.

The Abbey, Johnson St, Annandale

This one is private property so best to admire from street level only.

The Abbey has been a stalwart in Sydney ghost stories, with reports of a "lady in white" walking the 50-room gothic mansion.

Built in 1881, the design and architecture of the property lends itself to spooky tales with its gargoyles, turrets and gothic fixtures and Freemason symbolism.

Callan Park was one of the first asylums in the Colony of NSW.

Callan Park, Rozelle

Built as the Callan Park Hospital for the Insane in 1878, it continued to operate as a hospital until 1994 but now many buildings are unoccupied or neglected.

Witnesses have reported screams and moaning in Ward 18 and paranormal groups have investigated sightings of apparitions and voices in the chapel, as well as activity in the grounds.

The Street with no Name, Annandale

"The street with no name" is an overgrown, narrow pathway that runs alongside a light rail viaduct in this inner west suburb.

Deserted and overgrown, several murders have occurred in the vicinity including a three-year-old child in the late 1960s and more recently, a homeless man.

Several paranormal investigators have visited the site, where visitors have reported feeling overwhelmed by fear, anxiety and foreboding, feeling unable to breathe, hearing footsteps and strange odours.