Reports on locations visited, researched or investigated by Haunted Auckland. Here you will find photographs, audio, video, and the histories and stories behind the locations we visit, with opinions and quotes from team members giving their impressions of the events during each of our paranormal investigations.
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Investigation Date: 14-09-2024The old, now defunct Borders Bookstore was on Queen Street, beside the Aotea Centre, and in the same building as the Village Cinema complex. Nestled Read more...
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Investigation Date: 25-08-2024The Shakespeare, sitting prominently on the busy corner of Albert St in Auckland's congested CBD, was established in 1898 by Thomas Foley. Oddly Read more...
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Investigation Date: 18-08-2024Cedric Wilson, a keen Tararua hunter who went missing in 1945 somewhere near Mitre, is thought to be haunting a small isolated tramper's hut deep Read more...
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Investigation Date: 16-03-2024For this one, it was an overnighter at an iconic and much-loved local, the Manukau Cruising Club. A 102-year-old establishment that we'd all seen Read more...
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Investigation Date: 30-01-2024We had an Read more...
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Investigation Date: 19-01-2024Last night I did a solo overnighter session at the Lake House Art Centre, one of our ongoing research locations. This wasn't the first overnight Read more...
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Investigation Date: 03-06-2023On 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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Investigation Date: 29-04-2023On 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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Investigation Date: 28-01-2023IS 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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Investigation Date: 21-01-2023We 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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Investigation Date: 15-10-2022Another 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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Investigation Date: 03-09-2022Saturday 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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Investigation Date: 27-08-2022Last 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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Investigation Date: 21-08-2022Went 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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Investigation Date: 05-08-2022Out 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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Investigation Date: 30-07-2022July 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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Investigation Date: 23-07-2022On 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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Investigation Date: 04-07-2022We have a room here full of items passed on to us by people In similar situations. I've adopted quite a few haunted or cursed items through the Read more...
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Investigation Date: 26-06-2022On 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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Investigation Date: 26-06-2022Location: 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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Investigation Date: 18-06-2022On 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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Investigation Date: 09-06-2022On 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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Investigation Date: 09-06-2022Hey 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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Investigation Date: 05-06-2022If 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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Investigation Date: 04-06-2022When 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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Investigation Date: 04-06-2022During 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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Investigation Date: 13-02-2022Sunday 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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Investigation Date: 31-01-2022An 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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Investigation Date: 31-12-2021Every 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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Investigation Date: 30-12-2021Haunted 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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Investigation Date: 18-12-2021Two 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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Investigation Date: 03-10-2021Researching 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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Investigation Date: 19-08-2021The 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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Investigation Date: 24-07-2021The 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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Investigation Date: 24-07-2021Famous 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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Investigation Date: 15-05-2021Wharekuri 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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Investigation Date: 08-05-2021A 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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Investigation Date: 02-05-2021Another 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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Investigation Date: 26-04-2021In 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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Investigation Date: 26-04-2021Earlier 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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Investigation Date: 25-04-2021It 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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Investigation Date: 10-04-2021Seacliff 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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Investigation Date: 10-04-2021Seacliff 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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Investigation Date: 20-02-2021Feb 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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Investigation Date: 20-02-2021From 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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Investigation Date: 07-02-2021On 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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Investigation Date: 07-02-2021We have been enjoying our ongoing investigation Read more...
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Investigation Date: 18-01-2021The 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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Investigation Date: 29-07-2020I 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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Investigation Date: 25-07-2020On 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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Investigation Date: 18-07-2020A 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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Investigation Date: 10-07-2020FRIDAY 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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Investigation Date: 10-07-2020FRIDAY 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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Investigation Date: 03-05-2019Can spirits attach themselves to an item or location? Can an object become cursed, possessed or haunted? How could an object store something like Read more...
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Investigation Date: 30-04-2019Can spirits attach themselves to an item or location? Can an object become cursed, possessed or haunted? If one item can hold an energy / curse / Read more...
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Investigation Date: 28-04-2019One 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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Investigation Date: 10-08-2018[gallery type="thumbnails" size="medium" link="file" Read more...
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Investigation Date: 29-03-2018The principle goals of this project were to at first try our luck at ascertaining whether there may or not be some form of residual remnant, or Read more...
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Investigation Date: 29-03-2018On this night Mark, Barbara, Marlene, Sam and Lisa spent the night sleeping / investigating solo within the village. Each team member staying alone Read more...
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Investigation Date: 29-03-2018The team returned to the Howick Historical village for yet again a series of solo investigations – with a slight twist. Previously we had all taken Read more...
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Investigation Date: 29-03-2018On 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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Investigation Date: 29-03-2018The Howick Courthouse, Howick Historic Village Thursday 29 March/Friday 30 March This story actually starts last Halloween, when the Howick Read more...
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Investigation Date: 18-02-2018During the 1970s and 1980s, there were many places attached to Psychiatric Hospitals in New Zealand, where alcoholics were treated. Villa 11 here Read more...
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Investigation Date: 09-12-2017It 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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Investigation Date: 29-07-2017On 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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Investigation Date: 01-07-2017The team returns to the Junction Hotel in Thames for another overnight investigation. Check out our photo gallery from our interesting stay. Read more...
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Investigation Date: 10-06-2017Haunted 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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Investigation Date: 20-05-2017Last weekend a few of the team roadtripped down the line a couple of hours, to the beautiful (and refreshingly friendly) little town of Thames, on Read more...
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Investigation Date: 28-04-2017The St Stephens Houses have sat empty and tightly boarded up for about a decade and have a local reputation of potentially being haunted. There are Read more...
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Investigation Date: 23-04-2017History Canvastown, the home of the Trout Hotel, is 50 kilometres west of Blenheim, is a locality at the point where the Wakamarina River joins the Read more...
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Investigation Date: 11-03-2017The team roadtripped its way back down to the beautiful Hawkes Bay region once again to spend the night at the mighty Napier Prison. We were running Read more...
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Investigation Date: 20-11-2016After a year-long gap, (well, it was only around this time last year, but seems an eternity!) I figured it was time to revisit this intriguing urban Read more...
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Investigation Date: 07-11-2016Raetihi is a historic town in the central North Island of New Zealand. It is located 11 kilometres west of Ohakume. Founded in 1893, Raetihi Read more...
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Investigation Date: 06-11-2016Kimberley was once the largest hospital for the intellectually handicapped, in the Southern Hemisphere before it closed in 2006, and is now owned by Read more...
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Investigation Date: 22-10-2016Last nights return to the old Auckland school was interesting to say the least. We started at 8pm (but began our live Facebook feed at 9pm) and Read more...
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Investigation Date: 01-10-2016
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Investigation Date: 02-09-2016The team were called, in an attempt to document some of the unusual activity that has been reported through the years, right up until recently, Read more...
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Investigation Date: 10-07-2016The Helensville Museum is located at the Riverside Reserve, Mill Road, Helensville. The museum has been open to the public (apart from its current Read more...
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Investigation Date: 12-05-2016European settlers, Duncan and Maureen McNicol came to New Zealand in 1853 from the Isle of Arran off the west coast of Scotland after an unsuccessful Read more...
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Investigation Date: 30-04-2016Session Four: 30th April 2016 - Solo Overnight vigil by Lisa Ward. I thought it was a nice old house, very representative of the 1800s. I loved the Read more...
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Investigation Date: 09-04-2016Session Three: April 9th 2016 - Solo overnight vigil by Sam Collier. I was no stranger to Puhinui house itself. Being a local to the Howick and Read more...
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Investigation Date: 02-04-2016Session Two: 2nd April 2016 – Duo overnight vigil by Barbara & Karen. People have reported seeing the apparition of a woman walking up the Read more...
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Investigation Date: 19-03-2016Session One: March 19th 2016 - Solo overnight vigil by Mark Wallbank Feb 2016, I began working on a plan to investigate further, the almost regular Read more...
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Investigation Date: 30-01-2016The team were invited to join Medium Craig Wright at this beautiful secluded lodge near Mount Ruapehu to try and find some answers to the various Read more...
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Investigation Date: 28-11-2015The former gold and coal mining town of Saint Bathans, lies deep in the heart of the Maniototo District in New Zealand's Central Otago Region. The Read more...
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Investigation Date: 26-11-2015The Regent Theatre is a theatre in Dunedin, New Zealand with a seating capacity of about 1,650. It is in The Octagon, the city's central plaza, Read more...
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Investigation Date: 26-11-2015When 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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Investigation Date: 14-11-2015November 14th, 2015. Haunted Auckland headed back to this beautiful, yet allegedly haunted slice of bush land, for a third overnight visit Read more...
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Investigation Date: 07-11-2015The Cromwell Kilwinning Lodge No. 98 was founded in 1869 for the Freemasons of Cromwell, with the Lodge building constructed in 1900. The Lodge is a Read more...
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Investigation Date: 21-10-2015The team briefly returns to Unitec, the grounds of the former Carrington Lunatic Asylum, to further investigate the underground tunnels beneath Read more...
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Investigation Date: 11-10-2015Kinder House is located in Parnell, Auckland. Built in 1857, Kinder House is one of Auckland's most notable stone buildings. It was commissioned by Read more...
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Investigation Date: 27-09-2015[gallery type="square" size="medium" Read more...
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Investigation Date: 27-09-2015On the topic of prison, it’s more likely that you’d hear of those on the inside that can’t wait to get out. And then there’s us – those on the Read more...
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Investigation Date: 18-09-2015The team gained access for two research sessions within the long abandoned, dark and powerless, Regent Theatre and Auckland City central, to follow Read more...
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Investigation Date: 18-09-2015The team gained a second session within the mighty St James Theatre, to follow up on our recent exploratory session, with more indepth investigation, Read more...
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Investigation Date: 23-08-2015The Haunted Auckland team is privileged to have been granted rare access to the St James and Regent Theatres, now under renovations and major Read more...
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Investigation Date: 22-08-2015TWO SESSIONS : Sat 22 August 2015 & Fri 18 September 2015 I hadn't set foot in this stunning central Auckland city landmark for a good twenty Read more...
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Investigation Date: 14-03-2015The Cameron Blockhouse is a timber blockhouse in Wanganui, New Zealand, built during the New Zealand Wars in the mid-1800s. Farmer John Cameron built Read more...
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