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Haunted LocationsThis part of the site lists reported locations which may be haunted around the country and abroad. *Please use the Report a Haunting page to let us know of any possible locations.*
Haunted SwingA HAUNTED playground swing that rocks backwards and forwards on its own for days has scientists baffled.
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From Ken Milsom Location: 114 Hereford Street, Christchurch, New Zealand. Activity: Ken says "As soon as you get on the 3rd floor for me ... well. It's an unusual feeling of a strong presence. You just know you're not alone".
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From K Johnson Location: Godley house, Diamond Harbour, Christchurch. Location type: House. Activity: K Johnson says "Apparently a ghost of a maid that used to work the there, haunts the 2nd floor."
Dunedin
It was built between 1871 and 1876 for Australian born merchant, banker and politician William J.M. Larnach, his heiress wife Eliza Jane and their six children. No expense was spared. Top quality materials were acquired ¢ marble from Italy, glass from Venice, tiles from England ¢ then punted across the harbour and dragged up the 1,000-foot hill by ox-drawn sleds. Glass enclosed Colonial style verandas wrap around the first two floors of the Gothic Revival stone castle. Inside are the only Georgia hanging staircase in the southern hemisphere, a priceless Venetian glass wall, ornately carved plaster ceilings and many other noteworthy features. Amid all this finery, though, ghosts are believed to wander. Both the first and second Mrs. Larnachs, who were half-sisters, died in the castle at age 38. The first Mrs. Larnach died alone of apoplexy, all other members of the family being away at the time. She is said to make her presence felt near the bedroom in which she died. The Larnachs' daughter Katie is said to haunt the ballroom, built to celebrate her 21st birthday in 1886. She died just a few years later of typhoid. The spectre of Larnach himself might linger in the castle. In 1898, after learning of an affair between his young third wife and one of his sons from his first marriage, he ended his life by shooting himself in the head. Some guests are relieved to learn that their rooms aren't actually in the castle, says Sophie Barker, whose family currently owns the property and who admits to having had her own eerie experiences in the castle. Guests are accommodated in the separate Larnach Lodge, built in 1982, which has 12 individually decorated rooms with panoramic views of the harbour. Breakfast is available in the adjacent converted stable, but guests may arrange to have dinner in the castle dining room. Anton Heyrick-GHNZ
Granity
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Napier
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North Island
According to legend, during the night hours, groups of spirits and individuals can be seen moving down the beach to a certain point and then disappearing. These spirits are apparently very focused on reaching a particular part of the beach and will not be distracted from their goal. Spooky. Anton Heyrick-GHNZ
Tutukaka Coast- Ngunguru - 9 years ago, august 2000, there was a man, George Marson, who killed his pregnant fiancé by leaving her inside a burning car outside his house,. He is incarcerated now. The house has been the victim to constantly being set on fire, until the council had it torn down. Magnolias trees and little plants won't grow on the land now. Psychics feel a sad overwhelming energy about the place with two unknown spirits hiding in the back of the yard, for some reason. The elderly locals who have lived there for 50 years do not feel much of this. Anton Heyrick-GHNZ
Tutukaka Coast- Wellingtons (Whangaumu) Bay - There is a pine forest that surrounds the area between Wellingtons Bay and the little village of Ngunguru and people often pass through this forest to get there when the tide is too high. For years people have gone out in the darker hours of the morning or gone to the beach fishing and feel disturbed and afraid, though nothing unusual happens. A tall golden human figure is seen now and then. It is attracted to people and it is very negative. Psychics feel the negative energy of the place though the locals do not. It is some sort of an entity and has been there hundreds of years and is very confused. Anton Heyrick-GHNZ
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Wellington- The Hotel intercontinental - The intercontinental hotel used to be the Old Park Royal, level two of this building and its rooms are haunted. You could feel someone is always watching you, and you can feel a certain Cold Spots and eerie feeling in Room 221. The staff reports one particular Hotel Guest committed suicide, and a few worker's being killed while the hotel was being build. Anton Heyrick-GHNZ
Wellington- Karori Cemetery - Karori Cemetery is New Zealand's second largest burial ground, covering nearly 40 hectares. It was the final resting place of about 80,000 people. Today, it is a wealth of Wellington history and a peaceful place to visit or is it?. The cemetery was established in 1891 to replace the overcrowded Bolton Street Cemetery. The Cemetery filled quickly and by the 1950s had nearly reached maximum capacity. Makara Cemetery became Wellington's principal cemetery in 1965. The only plots available now at Karori Cemetery are pre-purchased ash or family plots, and children's plots. Karori Cemetery's crematorium was New Zealand's first crematorium and is the oldest in Australasia, opening in 1909. It carries out about 450 cremations a year. The Karori Cemetery is a huge rather scary cemetery even in the daylight... It is the size of a large park, and the south side of it is where all the old graves are. Witnesses have seen an orange sort of floating light drifting among the graves. It was a clear night and there was no one else around, witness state you can hear dis-embodied voices, loud footsteps, apparitions, and cold spots.. and the feeling of being watched. Anton Heyrick-GHNZ
St. James Theatre
There have been numerous reports of several spirits or ghosts in the St. James Theatre. One of the most seen ghosts is that of Yuri, a Russian performer who supposedly fell to his death from the flies several metres above the stage. Another account, more widely accepted, says he was pushed by a female named Pasha, also a Russian performer. Yuri has been encountered playing with the lights, especially turning them all back on again once cleaners have left for the night. One projectionist says Yuri saved his life twice. While on stage, the lights went out in the auditorium. While searching for the light switch, he was pushed backwards by what he believed was Yuri. The lights turned back on and the projectionist realised he was only inches from the orchestra pit and if he had not been pushed back, would have fallen in. The second time he says Yuri saved him was when he was on stage with his infant son. He suddenly heard a beam collapse above him. The projectionist insists he was pushed back by Yuri and that his son was "carried" through the air for about 3 metres. Other than Yuri, many other ghosts have been reported in the theatre. The "Wailing Woman" is a frequent apparition who is said to wail throughout the theatre. According to accounts, she was an actress trying to make a comeback. However, she was booed off stage. She later slit her wrists, either at home or in her dressing room. She is also said to be the cause of many of the odd occurrences surrounding lead actresses in plays performed at the St. James; many actresses performing on stage have sprained their ankle, one fell from a ladder, one suddenly caught a cold and was hoarse for her opera part. Another ghost is that of Stan Andrews. He is often heard wheezing around the backstage corridors at night, checking on his ushers. Also, a boy's choir is said to haunt the auditorium. The choir played their last song at the St. James during World War II before sailing off on tour. Their ship was never seen again and workers at the theatre often hear their music in the stands. However, when they investigate the sound, it moves to a separate part of the seats. The reason why there is so much paranormal activity at the theatre is disputed, although there have been claims that the old choral hall was built on a cemetery or burial ground. This claim however, has never been proved. Jay Gibbons-GHNZ Wellington
Keep your locations comming in, and include any photos you might have taken or experiences you have had at the location. Regards Dave & Anton-GHNZ
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- Granity Hotel - An old hotel in a small town, this place provided accommodation upstairs for the coal-miners that worked close by in the 1890s. A fire broke out and 6 people died, in room 16, where a young man was killed, a glowing figure can be seen standing at the door, then disappears. Larnach's Castle - Larnach Castle is a most unusual hotel. The only castle in New Zealand, it is the centrepiece of a 35-acre property atop a hill midway along the Otago Peninsula, eight miles from the city of Dunedin on the east cost of the country's South Island.
- Granity Hotel - An old hotel in a small town, this place provided accommodation upstairs for the coal-miners that worked close by in the 1890s. A fire broke out and 6 people died, in room 16, where a young man was killed, a glowing figure can be seen standing at the door, then disappears.back into the room.
- - The Masonic Hotel - The hotel was built in the 1860s, and was 3 stories high. It was partially destroyed by fire in the 1890s, and was finally rebuilt 4 stories high. In 1931 there was a major earthquake, almost flattening the city and sending fire throughout the town killing 261 people. The Masonic was rebuilt once again, this time only three stories again. There was to be a fourth but they never completed it. The building is still a hotel to this day, with a restaurant downstairs and an Irish bar behind the kitchen wing. Before the bar is a series of passageways that were the old staff quarters, but now isn't used as one of the chefs died in the bath. In the hotel room there have been natural deaths as well suicides. Witnesses report music would sometimes come on by itself, in the cellar, lights would turn on ahead of them, apparitions, and cold spots..
- Far North - Spirits Bay -Spirits Bay is located at the northern end of the Aupouri Peninsula at the northern tip of New Zealand's North Island. At the western end of the bay is Cape Reinga, from which, according to Mâori legend the spirits of the dead leave for their journey to the afterlife (hence the bay's name).
- Waitomo Caves Hotel - Waitomo Caves Hotel was first originally called Waitomo House, then in 1905 the Tourist Department bought it and renamed it the Government Hostel. Waitomo Caves Hotel is situated on a site upon a natural point of limestone rock and there are a lot of glow-worm caves below it, with a running stream. This is a very touristy part of New Zealand's North Island, with many activities available for guests from black water rafting, to touring the glow-worm caves and horse riding etc. guests report unexplained happenings during their stay at the hotel. Some people have experienced the dining room going cold, laughter, the feeling of 'something' walking through them and even the noise of a maids trolley going along the long stretch of hall in the lower part of the hotel. Late in 2001, a program called "Hauntings" was screened on TV2; this was a series on all the hauntings throughout New Zealand, Waitomo Caves Hotel being one of them. There were two presenters with all the right ghost hunting gizmos. During the initial introduction of Waitomo Caves Hotel, the presenters were speaking with a staff member in the kitchen/gully, when the male presenter went suddenly rigid when walking toward the other people and claimed that he felt 'something' walk/brush through him....he went white as a sheet and was quite shaken up. After a tour of the hotel and after installing their equipment the presenters both chose a separate place in the hotel to bed down for the night. The male presenter slept in a small cupboard room near the infamous long, dark hall in the basement and reported that he heard wheels of a trolley and footsteps and the female presenter chose to sleep in the grand dining room, she got woken up with a start as something tugged hard at her big toe. They also got in a psychic and she claimed that there was a young girl standing by the fireplace in the dining room and that she could hear music, they then went up to one of the 'problematic' rooms and they couldn't get into the room, even though they had the master key to it, the psychic said that she felt a lot of anger coming from that room and that the man in the room was yelling that he just wanted to be left alone. Sometime later they were able to open the door to the room, only for the psychic to get very uncomfortable and had to leave, the door slammed hard behind them by itself, they tried the door again and it was locked.
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The present theatre was designed in 1912 by Australian theatre designer Henry Eli White. The theatre currently faces on to Courtenay Place, the main street of Wellington's entertainment district