An obstacle race involving zombie attacks and known as Run for your Freakn Life was held by Spookers on 15 April 2012, in a Fun Run in celebration of being open for 6 years, 6 months, and 6 days on that date. In 1939, the Public Works Department and Fletcher Construction Company, Ltd. agreed on the construction of a two-storey nurses home at Kingseat Hospital, with the government to provide the steel for the building. He was so frightened of that place, she said. https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Kingseat_Hospital&oldid=26759. Kingseat was opened in 1904 as the Aberdeen District Asylum. Enjoyed my time there. [17] In 2009, the owning company of the former hospital claimed it would proceed with plans to disconnect the water supply of residents within the local region, leaving many to either pay large fees for a different supply or to install new water tanks. With a tragic backstory, Kingseat Hospital is said to be the most haunted place in New Zealand. Thanks, Mark Wallbank [email protected]. [7], Kingseat Hospital was in operation from 1932. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. He said he saw his friend being thrown to the ground by a male nurse and brutally kicked in the back after Matthews had taken a piece of bread. [19], In 2011, ideas were proposed to grow the area in the Kingseat suburb tenfold for the area's equine industry. According to stuff.co.nz, Kingseat Hospital is the number one haunted spot in New Zealand. It has also been reported that at least two patients had vanished whilst at the hospital and little is known about what happened to these people. Random photo 2018 gallery, Spookers visit with Steph from Smash! As of 2007, the most common apparition reportedly seen at Kingseat Hospital was the Grey Nurse, believed to be a former staff member, in and around the former nurses home. Mark Wallbank, the operator of Haunted Auckland, conducted three separate paranormal investigations on the property last year at the request of the new owners. A family living in one of the villas told the Haunted Auckland team that spirits regularly showed themselves. Police claimed to have found footprints leading in to the water in the case of Mitchell, and the only evidence found of Collins was a shoe in a paddock. Readers' Ombudsman: Your chance to shape the journalism rule book, Terms and Conditions for Subscriptions (excluding Home News Delivery Subscriptions), Evening Express and Press and Journal combined site. Perhaps youd like to be interviewed about it? "Spookers wasn't here when there were any patients here," she says. Everything if your name is Steve Hitler. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. And during a visit to a former nurses house, another team member claimed to feel dizzy and nauseous when she touched a bathtub. 'Every time we went to see him he was covered in bruises,' John Mitchell, Bruce's brother, told the New Zealand Herald. A former psychiatric hospital which has fallen into disrepair has been sold. In 2011, ideas were proposed to grow the area in the Kingseat suburb tenfold for the areas equine industry. According to the New Zealand Herald, a coroners hearing into Mitchells death was never carried out, and there is no record of his death. South Auckland Health insists local Otara residents have nothing to fear. [32] The three quantities of 6 (years, months, days) are a reference to 666, the Number of the Beast. Kingseat was built in Karakafrom1929 and opened in 1932,a rural refuge away from the toxicity of city life where patients could reside while returning to health. 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Hotels with Ghosts in NZ - Best Bits Kingseat Hospital was in operation from 1932. 'The EMF meter suddenly went off. Wikid ! Some former patients continue to live with the trauma of their time there. [25] In 2005, the haunted attraction Spookers opened in the area of the former hospital[2] in the former nurse hostel. For 18years, from age 17, Debra Lampshire lived at atKingseat Hospital -the building where Spookers is now based. We dont run the Spookers attraction, so if youre interested in employment it may be better to check on their website. We do not condone or encourage the breaking in and entering of secure buildings. "Take nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footprints". Kingseat Psychiatric Hospital in Auckland is claimed to be New Zealand's most haunted site with over 100 ghost sightings reported While the building is now derelict, with walls still bearing. on Edge TV was challenged to visit the notoriously haunted Spookers Haunted Attraction at the former Kingseat Psychiatric Hospital. 'Big claims require big evidence to back them up. Kingseat re-visit. I had heard something snap. i mean no disrespect entering the grounds im just extremly intrigued after hearing my step dad talk about it and my boss etc, Awesome place to explore at night me and some mates meet a man who lives in one of the administration blocks.We were able to gain access to the shock ward building at night,spent 3 hours in there 10pm till 1am was an unusual but very airy feeling,would love to be able to explore more abandoned/places like this :) Amazing. Your email address will not be published. What was Kingseat Hospital used for? We were sure he was being beaten, but were always told by hospital staff he had walked into a door., I think something happened to him. Here's what we know about 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' returning According to an article onStuff.co.nz, Kingseat Hospital is the number one haunted spot in New Zealand. Auckland City Hospital on Edge TV, Kingseat Photo Gallery Maximum Security, Kingseat Maximum Security Third Overnight Session, Carrington former Psychiatric Asylum / Unitech Revisit, VIP opening event for the Yokai Parade: Supernatural monsters from Japan exhibition. 'We could use the hours between meals to just clean up the dining rooms.. The team recorded several unusual incidents, including hearing the name 'Stephen' very clearly when they used a 'spirit box' to communicate with ghosts in the room. Some of the old hospital buildings now form the central area of the village of Kingseat . Wallbank said that while some people may not believe in or understand paranormal phenomena 'the majority haven't spent any time out in the field looking, and experiencing first hand.'. Site Number NJ91NW 56. and our They weren't in those places, they don't have any idea what it's like," she says. This involved propositions of rezoning to residential a majority of the land around Kingseat Hospital although certain buildings, structures and plant life on the former hospital site were protected due to historic and cultural value. The team also discovered the diary of a former staff member, who described the terrible conditions the patients were forced to live in. 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' will be back for its sixth season at its home on SBS VICELAND. However, we still need more evidence to make a call as big as whether or not the location is actually haunted,' Wallbank said. But, in this building there are definitely detectable levels of difference within each room. In 1973, a therapeutic pool was opened by the then-Mayoress of Auckland, Mrs. Barbara Goodman, four years before the main swimming pool was added to the hospital in 1977. But we can support our own staff.". South Auckland Health managers say such fears are unwarranted and unjustified. My family live in one of the hospital at kingseat . Mr Robertson questioned the then Minister of Health Bill English on this histories of 16 patients destined for the Bairds Road unit, but until today remained at Kingseat Hospital. Do not cause damage or steal from locations. The site of the former Kingseat Hospital in 2008, nine years after closure. The site celebrated its 50th anniversary jubilee in 1982. If its useas a hospital is finished, it doesn't really affect mewhat they use it for now," he says. In 2000, legal action was taken against the Tainui tribe for financial issues involving the former hospital. How they treated the elderly and mentally handicapped people back then was horrible.. Daily updates on UFO sightings, ghost encounters, conspiracies, mysterious phenomena and everything crazy and weird. Ref Watch: Was VAR operational for Ryan Kents punch on Aberdeens Liam Scales and why wasnt ref Nick Walsh sent to monitor if it was? We reckon these films and TV shows, streaming now at SBS On Demand, will have your Dad on the edge of his recliner. Juan Moritz and Discovery of Atlantean Dungeons. They decided to convert the former nurses quarters, rather than a treatment facility orpatient accommodation. The mates I lived with there used to live in the building next to the morgue. The air felt heavy and thick to walk through. 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Mr Ford said: Regardless of ownership the imperative is to get the development completed, including the provision of a childrens play park, as soon as possible. The plan sparked debate over which buildings and their park-like surroundings should stay as a reminder of its past, with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust requesting better protection of heritage values of buildings and plants. [7] During the 1950s, Dr. Henry Bennett (the man whom the mental health wing at Waikato Hospital is named after) was a senior medical officer of health at Kingseat Hospital. After the closure of Kingseat Hospital in 1999, the grounds were initially considered as a potential site for a new prison, able to accommodate for six hundred inmates. But some residents insisted that the complex represented a sad past and shouldnt be highlighted as heritage. Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) - 535 East 70th Street. The move to the Bairds Road unit is controversial with local residents having fought its establishment at Manukau City Council hearings committee meetings and in the Environment Court. What began with the discovery of a body on a bridge quickly became a worldwide obsession. The paranormal investigator said that he understands people being skeptical of the notion of the paranormal, and that 'we are all a bit sceptical at times, ourselves. During the five years she spent there, Pascoe says she suffered abuse from staff and residents, and was consistently intimidated and threatened. The site celebrated its 50th Anniversary Jubilee in 1982. Structurally it reminded me of some of the buildings at the old Waipukurau Hospital. But in its 67 years of operation, some patients faced psychological and physical abuse, asdocumented in the 1988 Mason Report, and the 2007 report of the Confidential Forum for Former In-Patients of Psychiatric Hospitals. Local company Haunted Auckland, which specialises in the investigation of 'ghosts, UFO's, urban legends and forgotten histories' of the area took a special interest in the site after the hospital, which adjoins the morgue and nurse's living quarters, was bought as a place to conduct after-dark paintball games and erect a 'spook house' run by company Spookers. Anomalien.com (anomaly + alien) is one of the most popular websites with the latest breaking news and articles on UFOs/UAPs and all the unexplained and paranormal since 2013. Kingseat Hospital (New Zealand) Kingseat Hospital was a psychiatric hospital that is considered to be one of New Zealand's notorious haunted locations with over one hundred claims of apparitions being reported, as of 2011. [40], In July 2013, there was a record outbreak of Dutch elm disease in two hundred trees at the site of the former hospital. The Morgan Spurlock documentary where we meet people unashamed to have the surname Hitler. [10] His case was reopened by police in 2004, 36 years after his death, after . Kingseat Hospital was a psychiatric hospital that is considered to be one of New Zealand's notorious haunted locations with over one hundred claims of apparitions being reported, as of 2011. The hospital grew throughout the mid-late 1930s and 1940s to such an extent that by the beginning of 1947, there were over eight hundred patients. We could use the hours between meals to just clean up the dining rooms.. It is located in Karaka, New Zealand, south of Auckland and since 2005 has been used as a site for Spookers; and since 2013 a site for Asylum Paintball and Laser Combat; three New Zealand attractions. Flower gardens, shrubs and trees were grown in the grounds of Kingseat Hospital, using surplus plants from the Ellerslie Racecourse and Norfolk Island pine seeds from Sir George Greys garden on Kawau Island. [20] In 2013, a property developer revealed a plan to transform the site of the hospital into a countryside living estate with four hundred and fifty homes. 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' will be back for its sixth season at its home on SBS VICELAND. The road around the hospital is probably haunted from traffic accidents caused by people living there. What's in a name? Community spokesperson Sue Watts says Otara people are not against mentally ill people but rather are concerned for the safety of their families should an escape be made from the secure unit. Unless the address is already mentioned in the article, we do not disclose addresses or locations of abandoned or derelict buildings. Mitchells siblings believe foul play may have been a factor in their brothers disappearance, and that he was being physically abused. [36] In May 2014, Spookers made plans to open in Queensland, Australia. I cried with relief to learn this hospital has closed.'. 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The old Kingseat psychiatric hospital is bulging at the seams. [7] Flower gardens, shrubs and trees were grown in the grounds of Kingseat Hospital such as surplus plants from the Ellerslie Racecourse and Norfolk Island pines originally seeds from Sir George Grey's garden on Kawau Island. Many of the special effects and props used at Spookers were created with assistance from Weta Workshop. Nearly ten years after the case was re-opened, the Haunted Auckland team decided to settle empirically whether the residence was haunted. During the 1970s and 1980s, there were many places attached to psychiatric hospitals in New Zealand where alcoholics were treated for their drinking addictions and Villas 4 and 11 at Kingseat Hospital served this purpose. 'The paranormal is a personal journey and needs to be experienced on a personal level to be appreciated or understood. Since the hospitals closure more than 200 people have come forward to file complaints against the government, claiming they were mistreated in New Zealands psychiatric institutions during the 1960s and 1970s including patients at Kingseat Hospital. 'I first heard about Kingseat in the 80's. "I havehorrible memories, and Ican't get them out of my mind," says Alison Pascoe, a 75-year-old who arrived at Kingseat in 1950, age 8. Even those rooms that branched off the same hallway. Another thing I noticed was that certain rooms felt different to others. Matthew Of course the building is decorated as a Haunted attraction, so dark, with props and fake cobwebs etc. A ruling from a . Who's that guy? Dr. Henry Bennett was originally the former owner of Kingseat hospital in the 1950s. It's overnow.' Nobody knows what it'slikeuntil they'restruck down with it," she says. And at the Kingseat villas, theres been some serious poltergeist activity with reports of shaking cupboard doors, tapping on windows, self-operating toilets and taps, and moving furniture. [31], An obstacle race involving zombie attacks and known as "Run for your Freak'n Life" was held by Spookers on 15 April 2012, in a "Fun Run" in celebration of being open for 6 years, 6 months, and 6 days on that date. Its alleged patients were subjected to horrific acts of abuse at Kingseat. Every time we went to see him he was covered in bruises, his brother John Mitchell, told The New Zealand Herald. , updated Mr Robertson asked whether any of the patients had been forensic patients as detailed under the Mental Health Act, and whether any of the patients had convictions of rape and other violent crimes. Spookers is believed to be Australasia's only haunted attraction scream park as of 2011[update],[3] and "the number 1 Haunted Attraction in the Southern Hemisphere". What's in a name? Mr Lindsay saw a nurse hit the boy after he stole a piece of bread while in line for dinner. A few years after my leaving I had a short horror story published entitled Bandages, using some of my experience of working in some of the back wards. Required fields are marked *. 'This disappeared as the field moved away from Kel. What began with the discovery of a body on a bridge quickly became a worldwide obsession. It was made to house mentally ill patients in a nice location just outside of Aberdeen, the hospital itself being made up of multiple largish buildings spread around over a fairly large area. Wallbank wrote in his initial report that the space was disorienting, and that there was a 'heavy energy', and reported an 'energy field' that kept moving. "Spookers can't change what happened here. It says having the patients at the Bairds Road unit allows them to b closer to their families, whereas Kingseat was isolated. [39], In 2018, Spookers was put up for sale. 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One of the rooms they used for storage used to have ice baths. [8] In 1973, a therapeutic pool was opened by the then-Mayoress of Auckland, Mrs. Barbara Goodman, four years before the main swimming pool was added to the hospital in 1977. [16] As of 2007[update], the most common apparition reportedly seen at Kingseat Hospital was the "Grey Nurse", believed to be a former staff member, in and around the former nurses' home. Who's that guy? The New Zealand Heraldreported that former patient Stephen Lindsay had been traumatised by what he saw at the hospital. The Haunted Auckland group returned to the Spookers building at Kingseat to look further into incidents which had happened on the previous investigation sessions, looking for explanations and to gather more evidence of the paranormal activity in this former psychiatric hospital.. Return Visit to Spookers / Nurses Hostel 7th April 2013. I am as yet undecided as to whether or not this would be due to natural causes or even something unnatural. Watson believes very few of the 80,000-90,000 people who visit Spookerseach year know about the building's former life, and the companyavoids mentioningit in promotional materialbeyond sayingit's "based in the former Kingseat Pshyciatric[sic] Hospital in Kingseat". Ithink it's evil,actually, andpeopleshouldstopmakingfun of mental illness. "Iwouldn't get worked up about that, personally.". In 2005 the old hospital once again had a lease of life and became Spookers a haunted attraction in the former nurses home and in 2011 opened a maize maze on the hospital grounds. Some are still fucked and need renos. In separate incidents, Bruce Mitchell and Kelly Haydn Collins allegedly wandered out of the hospital and were presumed dead by drowning in nearby Manukau Harbour, reports The New Zealand Herald. 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