ROYAL MAIL HOTEL, BOOROORBAN
RATED 4 OUT OF 5 HELMETS
Royal Mail Hotel
Cobb Highway, Booroorban, NSW Ph: 02 6993 0694
AS YOU HEAD NORTH on the Cobb Hwy from Pretty Pine, some 36kms on the left, at a place that once went by the name of Black Swamp, on a desolate stretch almost always fanned by a hostile westerly, there’s an area to pull off the road and view the silhouette memorial to the myth of the ghost of the headless horseman.
I’ll leave it to the 1928 roving correspondent of Melbourne’s Weekly Times to explain it:
“…. the Trotting Cob Ghost rounded up travelling stock on the Moonee Swamp-road, (and) it was very effective for the purpose. The apparition would rise out of the earth — a pale grey horse and its headless rider — confronting the drover on his midnight round of the mob. When it had created a stampede its mates, members of a gang
