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Whatipu Caves exploration and investigation – Session 119/10/2019Haunted 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 considered risky due to all the currents and rips. The region has a dark and tragic past. mysterious deaths, suicides, drownings and murder. Tragedy occurred in 1863 just inside the Manukau Harbour entrance south of Whatipu. The ship HMS Orpheus ran aground in the biggest shipping disaster in New Zealand history, causing the deaths of 189 people on board. Many washed up dead along the shoreline with the tide. Since that devastating event, many people have claimed to have witnessed apparitions along the coastline. Mysterious lights are also seen flitting through the dense bush at night in areas deemed unreachable. There are reports of the sounds of guttural screaming being carried along on the wind with no apparent source. Many say the area of the tragedy feels heavy and emotional. Much sadness, fear and uncontrollable despair is apparently felt in certain areas. One such witness was former Waitakere City mayor Bob Harvey who, after his own personal experiences there, refers to the area as a ‘coast of ghosts’. The original settler homestead of the area, now called Whatipu Lodge, was built in 1860. Local mill operators, the Gibbons family built the home and resided in it until moving away in 1929. Many years, and a few owners later, the Auckland Regional Council took it over in 2002. A former owner, as well as previous tenants, has reported strange activity while living in the home. One common spirit that many have described in detail is the ‘Pink Lady’. It is thought that the mysterious ‘glowing, translucent woman’ with a ‘pink aura’ who appears mostly during the daytime is that of one of the original occupying family, Matilda Gibbons. On Oct 19th , 2019 Mark and Sam from paranormal research team Haunted Auckland journeyed to this intriguing rugged but beautiful West Auckland region to spend time exploring, camping and conducting further research within the allegedly haunted caves that pierce the coastline, in the hopes of experiencing interaction or documentation to accompany the stories that span many generations. The largest of the caves was once used as a secret social gathering site; complete with a large wooden kauri ballroom dancefloor, now buried beneath five metres of shifting sands. For more than 60 years, from 1899 onwards, party-goers trekked across the rugged Whatipu coastline to Te Ana Ru cave to mince across the lamp-lit floor and steal away into dark corners. Paranormal activity experienced in these caves – Shadow people and apparitions seen walking around, the sounds of talking and singing. Also the rhythmic thumping of hard shoes on timber; as if someone was dancing, perhaps? [...] Read more...

Waiouru Military Camp08/07/2015Haunted LocationsWaiouru Military Camp is a camp of the New Zealand Army in the central North Island near Waiouru. All New Zealand Army soldiers complete their initial basic training at Waiouru Military Camp. History In mid-1940, 800 construction workers from the Ministry of Works built the training camp with capacity for 7000 soldiers. Within six weeks 25000 tons of building materials had arrived at Waiouru Railway Station. 450,000 tonnes of earth was shifted to make a flat area. At the same time, hundreds of soldiers camped under canvas in the snow and completed extensive field training. By Christmas 1940, there were 230 buildings constructed, served by 20 km of streets. By mid-1941, seven regimental camps housed 7000 soldiers. There was a bakery, a hospital, two theatres and five “institutes”, each with a concert hall, library, writing room and tea-rooms. However, there were no bars; soldiers had to go to Taihape to buy a beer. More land was required for the camp by 1949. Plans were made to upgrade the Desert Road track through the artillery range to a major State Highway and build a high-voltage power line to transfer power up the Moawhango valley. The Army Schools at Trentham were to be transferred to Waiouru, compulsory military training was about to commence and, as defence responsibilities shifted to South-East Asia, the Army needed forests for jungle warfare training. These considerations resulted in another 250 square kilometres of land to the north and east of the camp being acquired by the New Zealand Government. Compulsory military training was carried out at Waiouru from 1950 to 1958, and balloted national service from 1962 to 1972. In 1978, the National Army Museum opened at Waiouru, and in 1985 the Officer Cadet School of New Zealand. These were busiest years at Waiouru. 100 recreational clubs were active in the 1970s and 80s: the Ski Club alone had 300 members. At the time, Waiouru had a population of 6,000 people, including 600 children. Reported Hauntings Army recruits stationed at the camp have reported seeing shadowy figures at the end of their bunks at night as well as sounds of tapping on their metal bunk frames. Faces have been seen outside the windows at night after curfew. In another tale, a presence known as “Harvey” has been felt in one of the shower blocks were a young man was said to have hanged himself, and his spirit is said to appear each year on the anniversary of his death. On one of these anniversaries, several recruits reported an intense feeling of cold in the middle of the night, and a pressure forcing them down on their bunks so that they could not move or speak. One also reported the sight of a dirty white mist, blurred and vaguely human-shaped but without arms or any identifying facial features. Whether these stories are true, or just tales to frighten new recruits, we may never know. But many agree there appear to be something lingering in the barracks and dormitories of the Waiouru Military Camp. [...] Read more...

Puhi Puhi / Hapuku River Bridge ghosts – South Island08/10/2021Haunted 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 intersecting Puhi Puhi and Hāpuku Rivers, near Kaikōura. There have been numerous deaths in this region, through the earlier years of the 1900s up until more recently; from river drownings, to motor vehicle tragedies, along this lengthy strip of New Zealand State Highway 1 which snakes it’s way down the South Island east coast. The Puhi Puhi River is a river of the Marlborough Region. It flows southwest, roughly paralleling the Pacific Ocean coast, from its source 12 kilometres west of the mouth of the Clarence River, and reaches its outflow into the Hāpuku River 5 kilometres from the latter’s mouth at Hāpuku. The Hāpuku River begins in the Seaward Kaikōura Range of New Zealand and flows south-east to enter the South Pacific at Hāpuku, between Clarence and Kaikōura. The name comes from the Māori word hāpuku or hāpuka, a deep-water marine fish. Its main tributary is the Puhi Puhi River. At the intersection of these two rivers is the State Highway 1 bridge. Drivers have reported a figure (possibly a woman) in white standing alone on the bridge in the darkness looking mournfully out towards the river. Hikers and cyclists traversing this area have also heard what sounds like voices, or someone “calling out”. I remember a story from a local fisherman, sitting on the bank one day, seeing what he claimed was a person (possibly a woman) crossing the river from left to right. However, the river level had recently increased due to recent heavy rain and there was no way a person could’ve just walked across at that point. The most unusual part of the description, was that the figure was apparently walking at about knee depth. Where, at that level the water should’ve been well over their head. An impossible crossing at that time according to the witness. The figure disappeared from view when reaching the other side. Could this be the ghost of someone that had drowned in the river? [...] Read more...

Kinder House, Parnell – Auckland11/10/2015Haunted Locations / Historic Buildings / InvestigationsKinder House is located in Parnell, Auckland. Built in 1857, Kinder House is one of Auckland’s most notable stone buildings. It was commissioned by Bishop G.A. Selwyn and designed by Frederick Thatcher, the architect for many Anglican buildings in Auckland. The house was the residence of London-born John Kinder, a former teacher, painter, photographer and reverend of the local Church of England Grammar School. He occupied the house with his wife and the six children of his brother Henry Kinder, who was murdered by John’s sister-in-law and her lover. The house was opened to the public as a gallery in 1982. The house is also used for wedding receptions and other functions. Kinder House, sometimes known as “The Headmaster’s House” was built in 1857, commissioned by Bishop G. A. Selwyn and designed by Frederick Thatcher, architect of many Anglican buildings in Auckland. The house is a Gothic-style, double-storey mansion built of grey volcanic stone quarried from nearby Mount Eden. The schoolmaster’s house is of rubble construction, basically using scoria from Mt Eden, with dressed stone at corners and openings thought to have been quarried at Mt Wellington. Michael Dunn wrote an article in 1982 for the publication Art New Zealand which is available on the net at art-newzealand.com and incorporates a number of historic photographs. He notes that Kinder House was the grandest of three stone buildings constructed in Parnell by the master mason, Benjamin Strange, in 1857/8. It cost £1404, a considerable sum in those days. This was not surprising, as it was unusual to build in stone or brick at the time, particularly stone, there being a shortage of masons of sufficient skill. This is evidenced by structural difficulties which were experienced following the construction of a number of stone churches in the region at the time, namely the earlier St Thomas’s on the corner of Kohimarama Road and the original St Stephen’s chapel in Judges Bay. The schoolmaster’s house, on the corner of Ayr Street and Parnell Road, was sold by the church and remained in private ownership through to the 1970s. On the death of the then owner it became available on the open market. Councillor Sheila Horton and Deputy-Mayor Dr Lindo Ferguson convinced the Council to purchase the property because of is heritage value. The Civic Trust Auckland was also active in helping convince the Auckland City Council to purchase the property. The Kinder House Society was formed to manage the property and operate it as a gallery. Its first Chairperson and driving force was Sheila Horton, who is commemorated by a sundial and plaque in the garden. The Ground Floor rooms are devoted to the display of watercolours, photographs and sketches by John Kinder (1819-1903). It is claimed that the house is haunted by the apparition of a man. The house’s spooky resident is reportedly a black, shadowy figure said to be Kinder, or perhaps his brother. [...] Read more...

Undisclosed Residence, Henderson27/09/2013InvestigationsHaunted Auckland were contacted to look into, and try to document, strange and apparently ongoing activity in a converted warehouse residence, nestled amongst a busy industrial region of West Auckland’s Henderson. The night was warm and had just seen a light drizzle as the small team of three arrived at the unit which was in a small and very quiet No Exit street. A Pet food factory being the main and largest tenant in the street. The current tenants, a couple, have been experiencing unusual activity since they had moved into the unit about six years prior. Before that the unit had been used by light industry. The building is a high-ceiling commercial building which has been converted for living space. The ground floor has a large entertaining room, a large curtained off storage area, toilet & bathroom, kitchen and living area. Upstairs was a lounge area, office area, hallway and two bedrooms. A master and a spare. The unit was two stories and a set of steep stairs joining them located just inside the main door. The entertaining room is built out of a large downstairs room, directly under the hallway, spare and master bedroom areas. The couple living there were the only permanent residents who actually lived in the area. One of the residents is an artist and there was evidence of that throughout. As a result the home/industrial unit mix seemed to work well. Based on historic aerial photography of the region it was at the southern end of a rural property in the 1940’s which was subsequently developed as Auckland grew. After further historical digging the team discovered that the surrounding land appeared to have been part of an orchard at one point. The tenants of the property have been told that the land was significant to Maori as there is a river nearby which was used for gathering food and travelling. They believe that Maori people would have used this area routinely as a path to get to the river. Alleged activity: The owners have described a small, diminutive entity with spiky hair. They have nicknamed it “Spikey”. He often peers around the corner of the hallway and over the stairway partition at them while they are sitting in the lounge. We asked the couple to sketch a picture of what Spikey looks like. They have felt something small walk around the bed at night. They are sure it isn’t their dog. A sudden weight has been felt on their bed. Again, they are sure it isn’t the pet dog. They have both often felt a sense of something standing beside the bed at night. Whist they are sitting downstairs, footsteps have often been clearly heard walking overhead, along the hallway above the kitchen dining area. Hallway doors open by themselves. The front door is heard opening and closing by itself. They claim to have seen a few times, a long dark shadowy form, blacker than black, crawling its way upstairs towards them. They have described it as being long and very dark black. No facial features, and a body like a torso with truncated arms. It appears to trail off at the end, much like a lizard with no back legs. It is seen disturbingly dragging itself by its ‘elbows’, shuffling its way up the stair well from the bottom floor to the top, using what were described as folded ‘winglike’ arms. We asked the couple to sketch a picture of what the entity looks like. At times they feel as if they are being followed when going upstairs The sound of breathing is sometimes heard, which was not their own.. The clients related a story regarding “Mist Walkers” which were apparently seen on foggy mornings in nearby Plumer Domain. We will endeavour to research and investigate this fascinating story. There was also a drainage ditch behind the property linking to the domain and the creek which ran through it. This could be linked to the theories around paranormal activity occurring near to running water. The Investigation: Investigators present: Barbara, Mark and Matthew The lounge, spare room, hallway and stairs were the areas where the owners felt that there may have been something due to activity being seen or heard. The Entertaining Room was also interesting. We spent a lot of time in these areas taking photos and audio recordings both with and without team members present. Mounted Infrared video cameras and motion capture cameras were used in the stairwell, hallway, spare and master bedrooms. While investigating in the workshop at the rear of the building Matthew had what felt like a spider’s web brush across his face. It only occurred once and no trace of web was left on him. While there were plenty of cobwebs in that area of the building, they were mostly in the corners in and not in the specific area he had walked through. We were advised by the clients that the particular spot was frequently walked through as items were stored there. It is difficult to say whether this was paranormal however, given the number of cobwebs in the vicinity. At one stage during the evening (while standing downstairs beside the stairs) Barbara claimed to feel a cold spot on her shoulder which stayed with her for two minutes, before the sensation left. Barbara felt that the downstairs area and the stairs felt fairly neutral to her, however once upstairs she immediately felt “on edge”. Barbara comments “I felt uncomfortable and on edge while upstairs. It felt like there was something there but I don’t think it was human.” Barbara and Mark sat upstairs sitting and listening for noises for a while then left an audio recorder running to continue monitoring while they began another audio session downstairs in the Entertainment room. Nothing unusual was noted on review of the audio. Barbara tested her Stud-finder downstairs, turning it on whilst she and Mark conducted an audio recording session in the spare room upstairs. The entire investigation was continually audio and video recorded for review. Whilst spending time in the spare room, both Matthew and Barb commented that they had seen a white dress hanging on a clothing rack move while they were standing in the room. However, it was dark in the room and vision was very limited, so it was left decided that the movement may have just been a trick of the light and the dark playing tricks on their eyes. A video camera was positioned in the room set to night shot to try to capture further movement, however no movement had occurred on review. Summary: The Haunted Auckland team completed a full investigation of the premises including setting up infra-red video cameras in targeted areas, taking hundreds of photos and hours of audio recordings. A full audio / visual and data sweep of the building was also done to ascertain that high EMF readings were not contributing to the occupants feelings of paranormal activity. A Spirit Box and field generator were also used but were not successful in capturing any type of activity. Despite this we did attempt several communication sessions but these also appear to have been unproductive. It is unfortunate that at the time of our visit there was no activity so we were not able to witness nor document what was claimed to have been happening in the unit. We do know, however, that the residents of the home are not suffering from EMF sickness as the levels in the unit were the lowest we have ever noted! The people who lived there were very open-minded and practical thinkers and had a good idea of what we were looking for so answered our questions with the information we needed (rather than giving us details which bore no relevance to the investigation). Unfortunately due to the dog being present and whimpering, most recorded attempts at capturing an EVP weren’t useable. We found that the EMF readings were very flat over the whole property (base lined to near zero) and the only spikes we noted during the night were generated by one fluorescent light upstairs and the area around the internal power meter box. Given its industrial nature it must have been very well wired. Temperature readings were constant throughout the house, although the end master bedroom was slightly colder than the rest of the home. The team took hundreds of photos and many hours of video and audio recordings. Upon reviewing all this we didn’t discover anything that we couldn’t eventually explain. The team did not manage to gather any hard evidence which would indicate that this house is haunted. Barbara – “I thought that the upstairs area definitely had a feeling that there was something there. However despite taking numerous photos, recordings and videos, no sign of anything paranormal was discovered. This certainly does not mean that the unit does not have any activity, just that we were unable to capture any evidence of it during the time of our visit. I suspect that if we were to return at a time when the activity typically occurs we may have a different outcome, however at the time of our visit I found no evidence of any haunting.” Matthew – “I believe we were thorough in the time we had available. Given some of the claims and their specific locations, this may have benefited from longer term monitoring with a DVR system over several days, however this may not be possible with the equipment we have available at present. Is the building haunted? It is difficult to say in this case. The claims of the creatures seen were not like your standard haunting case, and sounded more elemental. The reported footsteps failed to occur when we were there and the other claims seemed to be personally linked to the occupants.” Mark – “It was a good, relaxed investigation and it was good to sit and chat with these people about their odd “visitors”. At this time however, I unfortunately didn’t see, feel, hear, or was able to experience or document anything unusual at this session to indicate that there was anything paranormal going on in the house. I would have to say that on first impressions, that the house isn’t haunted. Having said that, the couple are adamant that they are experiencing these things, while they are wide awake and alert and a lot of the time, they both experience these things at the same time. The couple are not dependant on any stimulants or hallucinogens, are not drug or alcohol reliant and seemed rational, intelligent and lucid. Though they do take basic medication for depression, this would not have the side effects of causing such experiences, so I do not consider this a contributing factor. The couple consider themselves Antitheists, so religion and spirituality had no real bias in their claims. I believe the couple are being honest in their claims and feel that the building could do with a further follow-up investigation in the future, if the activity continues. We have requested the clients log any further occurrences to determine whether there was any trend or pattern to the phenomena, which might allow us to target more active times in the future. [...] Read more...

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“I have much respect for the level of study Mark and his team have put into the paranormal phenomenon through the years. His work is interesting and very well researched.” – Murray Bott, U.F.O Researcher & NZ’s MUFON representative.

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Paranormal New Zealand is the home of Haunted Auckland, a Paranormal Investigation and Research group.

Whether you’ve been aware of Mark Wallbank’s research work since the 1980s, attended his early 90s discussion events, received the quarterly newsletters, subscribed to his popular mid-2000s online blog BizarreNZ, followed the Haunted Auckland team since 2010, or just recently discovered us; WELCOME and thanks for joining in the fun, learning, and adventures.

We are a dedicated group of paranormal researchers, all having one thing in common – a passion and drive to find out as much as humanly possible about the mysterious and unknown field that is the Paranormal, as well as documenting New Zealand’s historical buildings and landmarks in their current state.

Paranormal (păr′ə-nôr′məl) adjective.
Paranormal events are purported phenomena described in popular culture, folk, and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge, whose existence within these contexts is described as beyond normal experience or scientific explanation. The term “paranormal” has existed in the English language since at least 1920. The word consists of two parts: “para” and “normal”. The definition implies that the scientific explanation of the world around us is “normal” and anything that is above, beyond, or contrary to that is “para”.

We’re always learning new things, so hope to pass that knowledge on to you all so that you might learn as we do, in this crazy but fascinating world of the paranormal.

Our primary reason for existing as a team is to experience first-hand and document any perceived paranormal activity so that we may learn to better understand the phenomena and the misconceptions surrounding it. Our aim as a research team is to study these phenomena as closely as possible to form more educated opinions via experimentation, documentation, and simply being present at the moment to record and respond accordingly to it and wherever it may lead us.

Firstly a few things you should know about Haunted Auckland. We’re a small Auckland based team of friendly, dedicated, well seasoned and enthusiastic researchers with differing levels of experience, knowledge, skills and expertise. Our investigators are intelligent, honest, compassionate and possess critically thinking (yet wide open) minds. We’re also very good listeners.

We work closely with Property Managers, local Councils and Historical organisations to help preserve local histories, bring further awareness and raise funds by running public events.

In our time, the team has successfully raised many (much needed) thousands of dollars, to assist with the upkeep and general running of these wonderful historic locations. Something we are very proud of.

We are also very proud to have worked alongside and assist both the NZ Police and NZ Fire Services with our work.

Haunted Auckland has it’s roots deep and strong. Going back to 1984, with a team (Auckland Ghost Hunting Group) formed by H.A founder, Mark Wallbank; making them NZ’s longest running Paranormal field-research entity.

What we aren’t:

We aren’t Ghost Busters, Ghost Hunters, Exorcists, Mediums, Clairvoyants or Psychics and we don’t do clearings, blessings or the ridding homes of alleged demons. We don’t do prayers, rituals, or bring in any religious elements to our work. We aren’t mental health experts or sleep disorder professionals, though we do work closely with mental health professionals.

We travel that spooky road, between sceptic and believer. We are happy to sit right in amongst it all and take the research wherever it may lead us.

While we are sceptical and doubtful of certain cases and ideas, we have seen and experienced enough in our time to realise that dedication to the research is definitely a worthwhile cause. Instead of blindly believing (or disbelieving), or just accepting what we are told is true and real, we prefer to seek out the answers ourselves through first-hand, “boots on the ground” investigation. Experimentation, observation and documentation. We don’t have all the answers and we don’t consider ourselves experts.

We don’t make bold claims we can’t back up with evidence or reliable data.

The team prides itself in being quite a bit different from other paranormal investigation teams out there. We tend to stay away from the mainstream gadget fads.

Research time in locations is valuable and a privilege, so wasting it on pointless flashy boxes that offer no accurate data in return or are vague and open to interpretation (as well as mis-interpretation) is counter-productive and a poorly used opportunity. Thinking outside of the ‘’box’’ confinements of the popular T.V and social media- lead mainstream is something, the team sees as important if the field is to move forward and gain any serious credibility or traction within scientific or academic circles.

The team utilises a combination of old-school thinking and techniques, coupled with a modern way of thinking. Simple and stripped back yet embracing current technology to work though theories and ideas that may find their way into our research. We don’t make claims we can’t back up with evidence or reliable data.

We pride ourselves in keeping it real. No faking evidence or embellishing of facts. If nothing happened, nothing happened.

Why we don’t offer Clearings and Banishings

We decided many years ago to stop offering clearings and cleansings, as the more we learned, the more unethical (even damaging) we could see it was on a few levels.
We wanted to experience and observe these ”beings” and learn about them. Learn from them directly, if such a thing is possible.
To hopefully interact and document as much as we could of it to advance the study of the paranormal.

If the theories on spirits are correct, then clearing, or ”banishing” becomes nothing more than a punishment, torture, an eviction from a home, or even a death. Death to a person (possibly living in an alternative dimension we are yet to even understand or comprehend), that has as much right to exist as ourselves.
Until ghosts, spirits, negative energies, and demons have been sufficiently verified to actually exist, (to which they as yet haven’t, outside of belief, possible misinterpretation, and superstition) it would be unethical to assume a position of knowledge and superiority enough to think we have rights that far outweigh theirs. That we may enter their home and try to evict or eradicate them as if they were cockroaches or some other household pest.

It’s about respect, understanding and compassion; on both sides.

What we are, is “real world” researchers. Learning by doing. If we don’t know something, we say so.

We don’t charge anything for what we do. The opportunity to investigate a location and hopefully further our research is its own great reward.

We follow the Scientific Method as closely as we are able to; though it’s not always easy to create a fully controlled environment and the fact that true paranormal activity is sporadic and very rare means we don’t always have a lot to go on. Still, we do our best with what we have to work with at the time and go wherever it takes us.

We go to where the stories come from in order to see for ourselves. We talk to the people involved to get their sides to the occurrences.

Our conclusions are never really final and we find multiple return visits yield the best results; so have built up trusting relationships with quite a few locations within the historical communities in this country.

Our clean and respected reputation within historical circles is something the team prides itself on, as it has grown over the last decade and is based on well over 200 investigation sessions within that time.

For a full listing of References & testimonials, please visit our TESTIMONIALS page on this website.

Exploration – Observation – Experimentation – Documentation … Ultimately leading to Interaction, Understanding and Conclusion.

KEEPING IT REAL

Please check out our website and don’t hesitate to make contact if you have any queries or would like to know more about what we do.

We’re always happy to talk about spooks!

Through the years the team have investigated:

Auckland

Auckland Civic Theatre
North Head
The Auckland Town Hall
St James theatre
Victoria Theatre
The Howick Historical Village
The Smith & Caugheys building
Kinder House
Lopdell House
The Pumphouse Theatre
The Bluestone Room
Fort Takapuna
Massey Homestead
The Hard To Find Bookshop
Hollywood Cinema
Avondale Town Hall
Spookers
Alberton House
Bell House
Theatreworks
Carrington (Unitec)
The Queens Ferry Tavern
Regent Theatre
Ewelme Cottage
Laishly House
Onehunga Blockhouse
Puhoi Centennial Hall
Kingseat Hospital
Puhinui Homestead
The Kentish Hotel
AUSA Building
Helensville Museum
Waiuku Museum
Lake House Art Centre
Molloy’s Antique Centre
Whatipu Caves
Capitol Theatre
Gibbons Homestead

Wellington

Dixon Street Basement
Private Residence
Inverlochy House

Northland

Dargaville Central Hotel

Coromandel

The Junction Hotel
Mount Moehau
Bella Street Pumphouse

Waikato

Hawkes Bay

Central North Island

Chateau Tongariro Hotel Jubilee Pavillion – Marton

Northern South Island

Trout Hotel

West Coast and Central South Island

Seaview Asylum
Otira Stagecoach Hotel

Canterbury

The Old Shipping Office (Akaroa)

Otago

Cardrona Hotel
Vulcan Hotel (St Bathans)

Dunedin

Seacliff Asylum
Chalet Backpackers
Globe Theatre
Leviathan Hotel
Larnach Castle

United Kingdom

The Drovers Inn – Scotland
Traquair House – Innerleithen
Ancient Ram Inn – Wooton-Under-Edge
30 East Drive – Pontefract
Boleskine House – Scotland
Ballachulish Hotel – Glencoe
Chillingham Castle
The Golden Fleece – York
Bunchrew House – Scotland
Oswald House – Kirkcaldy
The Skirrid Inn – Abergavenny
Halston Hall – Carlisle
Airth Castle
Dalhousie Castle
Barcaldine Castle – Oban
The Witchery – Edinburgh
Edinburgh Vaults – Scotland
Touchwood House – Scotland
Greyfriars Kirkyard – Scotland
The Hellfire Club – Ireland
Ostrich Inn – Slough
Caynton Caves – Shropshire
Four Crosses Inn – Staffordshire
Torwood House – Scotland
Dalhousie Castle – Scotland
Windhouse – Yell, Shetland
Swan Hotel – Wooton-on-Edge
Weston Hall – Staffordshire
Clava Cairns – Inverness, Scotland
The Queen’s Head Hotel – Troutbeck
Haunted Antiques Paranormal Research Centre – Hinkley

Australia

YHA [Katoomba]

Hartley Village [NSW]

Quarantine Station [Manly]

The Russell Hotel [Sydney]

Maitland Gaol [NSW]

Kilmore Gaol [Melbourne]

Aradale Lunatic Asylum [Melbourne]

Hawaii

Kaniakapupu Palace Ruins – Nuúanu Pali – Manoa – Oahu Cemetery [Oahu]

Norfolk Island

New Gaol – The Crank Mill – Bloody Bridge

Cryptozoological Field Research

YOWIE RESEARCH: Blue Mountains [ Australia] – Kanangra Ranges [Australia] – Blue Mountains Exploration: Research Area – Bullaburra [Australia]

MOEHAU RESEARCH: Coromandel Ranges [New Zealand] – Urerewa Ranges [New Zealand]

LAKE MONSTER RESEARCH: Loch Ness [Scotland]

… as well as many private home visits around Auckland and surrounding towns and extensive investigation and exploration internationally.

Some of the services and experience we have on offer:

Research and Investigation of buildings, historical locations and businesses

Photo & video analysis

Photographic enhancements

General paranormal consultation

Historical Research

Conferences / Public speaking

Educational talks & fundraising for historical locations

Media interviews