Grave of Unknown Traveller - QLD

Believed to have passed away after choking at the Min Min Hotel around the turn of the 19" century, not a lot of information is known about this traveller. However, what is known is that the Min Min Hotel was a slab-built shanty which was situated alongside the track leading to the largest property in the district at the time, Warenda Station. Built as a Cobb & Co change-over station and local watering hole for many a stockman and shearer, the Min Min Hotel consisted of several rooms, a bar and an eating area. Food served at the hotel generally consisted of hard corned beef partially sun-dried and on special occasions a concoction of goat chops stewed with rice often described as an Irish Stew. The hotel was brought to fame after a passing stockman claimed to have been chased by the famous Min Min Light. Not long after the hotel burnt down in the 1920s, the stockman was riding from Lucknow station into Boulia at about 10 o'clock at night. The man was riding past the graveyard at the hotel when he saw a luminous light rise out of the cemetery. The horseman gathered pace and was headed at great speed for Boulia. When he turned around in the saddle he saw the light was following him. He described the lignt to be bounding through the air, darting from side to side like a football being kicked. He rode straight to the Boulia Police Station in a lather and after much coaxing told police of his terrifying encounter with the mysterious light. The Min Min Light is still seen to this day, however, its origins still remain a mystery.