Research, stories and accounts detailing various uniquely kiwi paranormal phenomenon. Here you will find articles, interviews and submissions exclusively prepared by the Haunted Auckland team covering New Zealand Cryptids, UFO sightings, Famous Haunted Locations and local Urban Legends, as well as real-life stories of the supernatural from our readers. This is Paranormal New Zealand!
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Haunted Auckland Updates, Opinions and Theories, Paranormal New ZealandHere's a somewhat interesting one that caught me by surprise today whilst enjoying the 10 am session of the latest Mission Impossible movie. As I Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, Hotels and Businesses, Investigations, Paranormal New ZealandOn Saturday, June 3rd, I (Mark) flew south to join up with paranormalist, Bruce Mahalski from Dunedin's own chapter of the Strange Occurrences Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, Investigations, Paranormal New ZealandOn Saturday night the team (ignoring a storm warning) headed back out West to spend another overnight session in a location we've been returning to Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Locations of Interest, Paranormal New Zealand, Urban LegendsMyers Park, opened in 1915, is a narrow park hidden amongst towering concrete and steel in central Auckland. Unknown to many living outside of the Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Locations of Interest, Paranormal New Zealand, Urban LegendsToday I thought I'd beat the looming cyclone and spend a couple of hours revisiting and photographing one of Auckland's more intriguing urban Read more...
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Haunted LocationsGrand Chateau Tongariro is a New Zealand hotel and resort complex located close to Whakapapa ski-field on the slopes of Mount Ruapehu. It is also Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, Investigations, Paranormal New ZealandIS THE HARRINGTON THEATRE HAUNTED? Despite the wild and wet weather we've been having in Auckland, the Paranormal NZ team visited the Read more...
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Abandoned Buildings, Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, Investigations, Paranormal New Zealand, Urban LegendsWe had a great day revisiting one of our historic local favs today. Every year or two, the team has climbed the central Auckland cliff-face to Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Historic BuildingsAnother return visit to the old former Carrington Psychiatric Asylum / Unitech to further document and try to preserve this beautiful old stunner's Read more...
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Haunted Auckland Updates, Opinions and Theories, Paranormal New ZealandSam and I were invited to the special VIP opening event for the superb Yokai Parade: Supernatural monsters from Japan exhibition, which I'll be Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Paranormal New Zealand, True Ghost Stories, Urban LegendsThere's a suburb in Lyttelton that is thought to be haunted by a young girl who was horrifically murdered in 1875, her body was dumped in the bushes Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Paranormal New Zealand, True Ghost Stories, Urban LegendsAn old 1900s-built house in Cressy Terrace, in Lyttelton, is believed to be haunted and is quite known to the locals. The house was originally built Read more...
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Haunted Auckland Events, Haunted Locations, Historic BuildingsSaturday night's public event at the Helensville Museum was great fun. The light rain that decided to join in for a bit didn't dampen the spirits Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, Investigations, Paranormal New ZealandLast night the team headed back to one of our regular West Auckland research favs, the Helensville Museum. Looking forward to returning again next Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, Locations of Interest, Paranormal New ZealandWent back to document the current decay status of the old Carrington Psychiatric Asylum/Hospital. A beautiful historic location we've visited for our Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, Investigations, Paranormal New ZealandOut investigating again this weekend. Keeping busy and staying active as usual, on this chilly Friday night. We returned to one of our fav' local Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, Investigations, Paranormal New ZealandJuly 23rd, 2022, Haunted Auckland returned to one of their favourite local research locations, the Lake House Art Centre in Takapuna. A location that Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, InvestigationsOn Saturday night Natasha, Aimee, and Mark returned to the Lake House Art Centre in Takapuna, one of our regular research locations that give us Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Paranormal New Zealand, Urban LegendsHeinz Wattie's Limited (or simply Wattie's) is a New Zealand-based food producer of frozen and packaged fruit, vegetables, sauces, baby food, cooking Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Paranormal New ZealandBuilt-in 1861 and designed by Samuel Coleridge Farr (1827-1918) at 208 Hereford St, Perry's Occidental Hotel and livery stables were popular with the Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, Hotels and Businesses, Investigations, Paranormal New ZealandOn Sunday, the team headed south to the Waikato region to spend the night investigating the historic Rangiriri Hotel, (also known affectionately to Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Hotels and Businesses, Investigations, Paranormal New ZealandLocation: Rangiriri Hotel, 8 Rangiriri Road. Date: Sunday 26 th June 2022 History of the Location: Research indicates that there were two Hotels Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, Investigations, Paranormal New Zealand, Project PuhinuiOn this gloomy, overcast, and wet Saturday afternoon, I decided to head back to possibly one of my favorite Auckland haunts, the Howick Historic Read more...
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Abandoned Buildings, Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, Investigations, Locations of Interest, Urban LegendsOn a weekend investigative trip down to Dunedin recently, the team took some time to check out the allegedly haunted and decommissioned Caversham Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, Locations of InterestHey all, We thought we'd share a few photos of our weekend visit to Larnach Castle, in Dunedin. This was our third time exploring and documenting Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, Hotels and Businesses, Investigations, Paranormal New ZealandIf you like your holiday accommodations historic, with helpful staff, good value, and paranormally recommended by us here at Haunted Auckland / Read more...
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Abandoned Buildings, Haunted Locations, Investigations, Private Residences
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Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, Hotels and Businesses, Investigations, Paranormal New ZealandWhen the Leviathan Railway Temperance Hotel was built in 1884 it was situated beside the harbour, beside the original railway station, on land, which Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Historic BuildingsDuring the Queens Birthday long weekend, we finally managed a trip down to the South Island to investigate the local, 1961-built Globe Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, Investigations, Paranormal New ZealandSunday evening the team headed West to Glen Eden to re-visit the much loved, Playhouse Theatre, a location we had spent time investigating in back in Read more...
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Historic Buildings, Locations of Interest, Opinions and Theories, Paranormal New Zealand, Urban LegendsAn entry from Mark Wallbank's Haunted New Zealand Roadtrip book. (New Holland Publishing) The time-old tradition of tooting the car horn whilst Read more...
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Cryptozoology, Kiwi CryptidsIn Māori tradition, the Maero (or Mohoao) are an iwi-atua or supernatural people from New Zealand. They are sometimes described as giants and they Read more...
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Hauntings, Opinions and Theories, Paranormal New ZealandFollowing a death, Māori custom requires the body of the dead to be returned to its whānau (family) as soon as possible. The whānau is then called Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, Investigations, Locations of Interest, Urban LegendsEvery year or two, Haunted Auckland's Mark Wallbank has climbed the central Auckland cliff-face to further document an old decommissioned WW2 Read more...
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Haunted Auckland Updates, Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, Paranormal New ZealandHaunted Auckland have spent a few years researching the various buildings within the Howick Historical Village, a living museum in Auckland, New Read more...
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Haunted Auckland Updates, Historic Buildings, Kingseat Hospital, Paranormal New Zealand, Private ResidencesTwo investigations to round off the year. Have to say that even with the lockdowns, it's still been a busy year for us. Looking forward, next year Read more...
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Cemeteries, Paranormal New Zealand[gallery size="medium" Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Urban LegendsMeola Reef, or Te Tokaroa in Māori, is a thin finger of lava flow forming a reef peninsula jutting out into the harbour between Western Springs and Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Urban LegendsWharariki Beach is a beautiful, but remote, wild and windswept region of coastline on the northwestern tip of the South Island that is considered a Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Locations of Interest, Opinions and TheoriesAbbey & Hazel’s first Haunted Auckland overnighter, a spot along the coast of ghosts. - By Hazel - Haunted Auckland. I am not one to pass up on Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Urban LegendsGHOSTS AT THE RIVER'S CONVERGENCE There are stories that tell of the lonely figure of a person standing on the bridge that overlooks the Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Historic BuildingsResearching on a piece for the next book and hoping for a little input from any of our followers that have lived, worked or spent time in this Read more...
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Hauntings, Paranormal New Zealand, True Ghost Stories, Urban LegendsIn 2010, we began our research and Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, Hotels and Businesses, Locations of Interest, Paranormal New Zealand, True Ghost Stories, Urban LegendsThe YMCA Backpackers Hostel in Pitt St, in the bustling Auckland CBD has had its share of spooky occurrences through the years. Whether the stories Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Hauntings, Paranormal New Zealand, True Ghost StoriesIn Palmerston North's old Carlton Hotel, late at night on July 23, 1998, a cleaner named "Jazz" Hayes, working late, heard a woman screaming Read more...
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America, Cryptozoology, Cryptozoology News, International Paranormal, Kiwi CryptidsVery sad waking to the news that a good friend and valued Crypto-researcher has passed away. Respected aquatic cryptid researcher Scott Mardis Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, Hotels and Businesses, Investigations, Paranormal New Zealand, True Ghost StoriesThe Dilworth Building is a heritage mixed-use (residential apartments and shops on the ground floor) building at the corner of Customs Street and Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Hauntings, Historic Buildings, Hotels and Businesses, Locations of InterestFamous Flora's, one of Auckland's most colourful and dynamic brothels, had occupied a building on Pitt Street for over 30 years when it closed in Read more...
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Abandoned Buildings, Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, Locations of InterestWharekuri This was a busy village as early as 1865. There was a post office, a store and a coal mine. A school was established in 1889 for 24 Read more...
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Cryptozoology, Hauntings, Investigations, Locations of Interest, Paranormal New Zealand, Uncategorized, Urban LegendsRecently, whilst travelling down South I went on a bit of a mission to try and find a little known about, secretly hidden and covertly Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, Investigations, Locations of InterestA great investigation session last night. We headed out South again to carry on with further research of the Mercer Jailhouse, cemetery and Morgue Read more...
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Ghost Hunting, Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, InvestigationsAnother return visit to one of our fav' local haunts, the LakeHouse Art Centre. Always a pleasure to get back there to try out new experiments, Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, Hotels and Businesses, InvestigationsIn April 2021, Haunted Auckland Researcher Mark Wallbank headed down to the lower South Island to spend a night investigating the Cardrona Hotel, one Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, Hotels and Businesses, Investigations, Paranormal New ZealandEarlier this month, Haunted Auckland were invited to investigate the ongoing activity at the 1904 built Chalet Backpackers hostel, a former Hospital, Read more...
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Haunted Auckland Updates, Historic Buildings, Investigations, Locations of Interest, Paranormal New ZealandIt started with a morgue... and became a mystery, with some fantastic surprises along the way so far. Welcome to the start of the Haunted Auckland Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, Investigations, Paranormal New ZealandSeacliff Lunatic Asylum (also called Seacliff Asylum and Seacliff Mental Hospital), situated about 20 miles north of Dunedin in an isolated coastal, Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, Locations of Interest, Paranormal New ZealandSeacliff Lunatic Asylum (often Seacliff Asylum, later Seacliff Mental Hospital) was a psychiatric hospital in Seacliff, New Zealand. When built in Read more...
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Cemeteries, Paranormal New Zealand[gallery size="medium" Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Hauntings, Opinions and Theories, True Ghost Stories, Urban LegendsOn our way to St Bathans to investigate the notoriously haunted Vulcan Hotel, we stopped in at the Muddy Creek Cafe in Omakau, for a fish and chip Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, Paranormal New ZealandFeb 20th 2021, Haunted Auckland’s Mark, Aimee, Sam and Guest Investigator Clint Lawson spent a night investigating various buildings within the Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, Investigations, Locations of Interest, Paranormal New ZealandFrom the www.heritage.org.nz website: The former McCaw Homestead stands on the site of an earlier dwelling, which formed the centrepiece of the Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, Hotels and Businesses, Investigations, Paranormal New ZealandOn Feb 27th 2021, Mark, Sam, Aimee, Barbara and Natasha, piled themselves and a heap of equipment into two cars and made their way to beautiful Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Historic BuildingsWe have been enjoying our ongoing investigation Read more...
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True Ghost StoriesMy parents built our three bedroom family home when I was 8. We are the only family to have lived in it since 1980; Mum, Dad, myself and my 2 Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Locations of Interest, True Ghost Stories, Urban LegendsA few kilometers south of Alexandra, deep in the Central Otago region of the lower South Island, while travelling along Highway 8, (or Read more...
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Kiwi Cryptids, Opinions and Theories, True Ghost StoriesOn several occasions while walking and driving through thick native and isolated bush around New Zealand, my partner (Kel) and I have Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, The PumpHouse TheatreThe PumpHouse Theatre is located in the picturesque Killarney Park which sits on the edge of the equally beautiful and intriguing, Lake Pupuke. The Read more...
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Opinions and Theories, True Ghost StoriesIt is never easy losing a loved one. Grief hits us all in different ways, but for most of us the concept of continuing life without that person and Read more...
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Hauntings, Opinions and Theories, True Ghost StoriesWhen my daughter turned one, we moved into a deceased estate, complete with a wildly overgrown garden, multiple extensions and the smell of a year of Read more...
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Cemeteries, Haunted Locations, Hauntings, True Ghost Stories, Urban LegendsThere are stories that tell of a mysterious alleged ghost ''bride'', that is witnessed from time to time standing , or wandering along the railway Read more...
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Hauntings, Opinions and Theories, True Ghost StoriesFor those Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Locations of Interest, Urban LegendsSince moving to the north shore of Auckland around 15 years ago, I've picked up a few intriguing local stories of possible paranormality and high Read more...
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Kiwi CryptidsLake Pupuke is a heart-shaped freshwater lake formed around 140,000-150,000 years ago, occupying a volcanic crater between the suburbs of Takapuna Read more...
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True Ghost StoriesThese intriguing NZ shadow experiences were sent in by one of our wonderful followers.... I’d like to document An experience, here’s one out of Read more...
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True Ghost StoriesThis was sent in by one of our followers. We've heard a few other stories coming from this location. Sounds like an interesting place! My one and Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, Hotels and Businesses, Investigations, Opinions and Theories, Paranormal New Zealand, True Ghost StoriesI thought I'd share this here. It's a chapter from my Haunted New Zealand Roadtrip book on an intriguing old histoical Pub / Hotel down in the Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, InvestigationsOn July 25th, 2020, the team returned to follow up on a location we had investigated back in 2014. The mid 1800s built Massey Homestead; situated in Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, Investigations, Locations of InterestA few members of the team road-tripped out West to spend a fun night investigating the allegedly haunted Whatipu Lodge, where the ‘’Pink Lady’’, Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, Investigations, Paranormal New ZealandFRIDAY 10TH JULY 2020 Haunted Auckland investigates the Onehunga Blockhouse to try to uncover what spirits may be residing in this Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, InvestigationsFRIDAY 10TH JULY 2020 Onehunga is a suburb of Auckland City in New Zealand and the location of the Port of Onehunga, the city’s small port on the Read more...
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Haunted Objects, Paranormal New ZealandI thought I’d share the story of this little girl that sits in my ‘’haunted items’’ room. I was hoping to return her back to her homeland of Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Hauntings, Investigations, Locations of Interest, Paranormal New Zealand, Urban LegendsWhatipu is a remote beach on the rough and rugged West Auckland coastal bay, at the southern end of the Waitakere Ranges. Swimming there is Read more...
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True Ghost StoriesThe following true story was shared with us by Sean Muir on our NZ Paranormal Research group. Part One - An evil house OK, I don't talk about Read more...
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Kiwi Cryptids, Urban LegendsIf you ever find yourself around the Halfway Bush area of Dunedin, you might just be unfortunate enough to stumble across a short but menacing, Read more...
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Cryptozoology, Kiwi Cryptids, Locations of Interest, Opinions and Theories, Supernatural News, Urban LegendsJust recieved this book in the post. It's a story I've loved for a while now, as it tells the chilling folkloric story of human interaction Read more...
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Hauntings, Investigations, Paranormal New Zealand, True Ghost Stories, Urban LegendsOne historic ghostly Read more...
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Haunted Auckland Updates, Kiwi Cryptids, Opinions and TheoriesAs a researcher of Cryptids (mysterious and elusive animals that avoid study), I am fascinated by all rare creatures, be they considered folkloric or Read more...
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Haunted Auckland Updates, Opinions and Theories, Paranormal New ZealandAn occasional web series from Haunted Auckland, featuring paranormal based banter with other like-minded researchers, team members and any random Read more...
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Abandoned Buildings, Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, Locations of Interest, Urban LegendsOne of the misconceptions in the research that we do, is that we can gain special access to any building we desire. If there are reports of possible Read more...
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Locations of Interest, Opinions and Theories, True Ghost StoriesSo, here’s my story. It happened to me at work and for the life of me, I can’t figure it out! I told my wife about my little incident. She has Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Paranormal New Zealand, Urban LegendsThe subject of ghosts and the spirit realm in Maori culture is often considered a tapu subject, yet much of Maori folklore bears mention of ghostly Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Historic Buildings, Investigations, Project PuhinuiOn March 29th of this year, it was Marlene's turn to conduct a solo overnight stay at Puhinui Homestead, one of our favourite, and possibly one of Read more...
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Haunted Objects, Urban LegendsWhat's the story behind the crying boy painting? There is a lot of myth surrounding this iconic series of paintings. The portraits, dubbed the Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Locations of InterestThe Ōtuataua Stonefields show how the early Maori adapted to their new environment. New Zealand’s shorter growing seasons and colder mean Read more...
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Abandoned Buildings, Haunted Locations, Historic BuildingsIt was a privilege and thrill to finally get the chance to explore this iconic historic Wellington landmark. The former Wellington Fever Hospital Read more...
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Cryptozoology, Kiwi CryptidsThere are stories that travel far back into Māori folklore, and forward to quite recently, of a mysterious entity, half man half goat, that has been Read more...
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True Ghost StoriesI’ve seen him more than once. A few times in some of the houses that we’ve lived in before, but the time I remember most clearly was when we moved Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Hotels and Businesses, InvestigationsOn July 29th the team headed off on another road trip, this time up north to Dargaville, to spend the night investigating ongoing paranormal activity Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Hotels and Businesses, Paranormal New ZealandHaunted History According to hotel staff, a man hanged himself (100+ years ago) in one of the upstairs rooms. Two or three other people have passed Read more...
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Haunted Locations, Hauntings, Locations of Interest, True Ghost Stories, Urban LegendsI heard an intriguing story while doing the Transalpine Rail trip between Christchurch and Greymouth recently. The onboard commentary tells of a Read more...
