Fireball over New Zealand

You can watch this fireball in the sky video over at New Zealand's TV3 news site. The fireball looks pretty much exactly like the Polk County Fireball Video.

Great play of sunlight.

Poltergeist caught on video in Aucks, New Zealand

Woot something from my own country, don't get to much stuff from down here. I don't know, looks pretty cool, but the quality is so bad I don't think I'll analyze it to much.

I can't really make out what the "poltergeist" is doing and to me it could just be a person hidden in the noise of a bad quality camera.

Hidden Camera catches Paranormal activity in NZ. - Ghosts.


(Via - Phantoms and Monsters)

UFOs over Westport NZ

It's not often that you hear about UFO sightings down here in New Zealand, especially on the nightly local news. The news report was very brief, only reporting that it was strange, and that there was no air activity in the area at the time.

Basically the video shows two lights drifting across the sky, not much more than that.

Makes me feel like trying out my little spot, seems like it would be a great place, no light pollution with a huge view of the vista, only problem, the place freaks me out.

ufo's over Westport New Zealand

Report a UFO sighting in New Zealand

I was going to post about this when it was all over the news a few months back. If your in New Zealand and want to report a UFO sighting the NZ based site Ufocus NZ is the place to go, they have a sightings report form that you can fill out and send them, they'll investigate and add it to the site if you want.

Other than that there's some cool articles and stories on the site.

Sir Ed, just plain world famous

We have a lot of Kiwis that are "world famous" in New Zealand, but Sir Edmund Hillary was truely world famous.

Sir Edmund Hillary died yesterday at the age of 88 as most of you probably know, his was a life that most could only dream of, one of the last great adventurers in my mind.
Being a kiwi myself Sir Ed is part of New Zealand's collective psyche, I've always known who he was and what he did and I'm dang proud of it, I'm sure many Kiwis and people from across the globe feel the same way.

You'll be missed.

Tribute to Sir Edmund Hillary

A place that smells like rotten eggs

So I've been away on holiday and I totally forgot to let anyone know, sorry about that. I went on a road trip to Rotorua with a stop off in Lake Taupo, both located in the North Island of New Zealand.

The weather was stinking hot and Rotorua was just stinking, I had passed through Rota Vegas before but I never noticed the smell, good reason for it smelling though "geothermal activity", it was pretty surprising to see steam rising from the ground in the middle of the main street, pools of hot bubbling mud on the front lawns of the houses we passed and the ever wafting smell of rotting eggs.

It felt as if we were in the middle of some ancient land, the threat of dinosaurs and erupting volcanoes was always on the imagination, though the city is pretty large and very touristy.

I'll let the pictures do most of the talking.

Mt Ruapehu on the why up, first time I've actually seen it, it's usually covered in clouds when I pass by.

What looks suspiciously like a nuclear silo, New Zealand is nuke free so I wonder what it is, it was big that's for sure.

Rotorua Bath House which is now the Rotorua Museum is a beautiful place.

Here's a few photos of the hot pools and mud pools located around Rotorua.






We were driving along and noticed some hunters had been lucky that day.

Mt Ruapehu on the way home.

Notice the creepy face?

It was a great trip, totally refreshed me, though coming home the same old problems are around, I think it's time for a proper change.

Prints of Darkness, Big Cats of NZ

Down here in New Zealand one of our more well known mysteries is that of big black cats that are said to roam the Canterbury high country in New Zealand. Plenty of eye witnesses and even some footage. I wrote about this before briefly with interest in a documentary a couple of university students were making.

The documentary is out I think and it's called Prints of Darkness, I'm guessing if you want it you'll have to get in contact with the makers, I'd say it's burn to order.

The website has loads of information about the mystery black cats, Pip Walls and Mark Orton whos film it is and the inspiration and background of the film. You can also view the trailer for Prints of Darkness here.

Haunted Mansion Attractions

I wish I had of known about The Haunted Mortuary sooner, it would have made a great Halloween post.

The Haunted Mortuary looks like loads of fun, I don't know much about it apart from it's located in New Orleans in an old real life mortuary, actors all dressed to the teeth in all kinds of scary costumes, bloody props, just your all round haunted house.

The place is actually supposed to really be haunted and they have proper ghost tours on offer as well. The video below looks like a behind the scenes promo vid, crossed with some Blair witch.

The Haunted Mortuary, New Orleans


I remember as a kid the ghost train rides and haunted houses at the local fairs, boy were they crappy, never lived up to what I was expecting and left me wanting my hard earned pocket money back.

Lucky though that New Zealand has something very similar to the haunted attraction above called Spookers, pretty much the same, actors in make-up, props, scaring the living daylights out of their customers. Though it looks like apart from the haunted mansion they also have a haunted forest and haunted maze, seasonal though. It's in Auckland, quite aways from me, but a quick phone call to my cuz and I got me a place to stay woot.

A little photo video of someones time at Spookers

Sensing Murder Online Episodes

I just finished watching a New Zealand show called Sensing Murder, the premise of the show is to take cold case murder investigations, detail what is known about them though reenactments and in the second half of the show psychics come in to try to solve the case basically.

Tonight's one was pretty good, it was about a little girl who went missing in 1992, without a trace, they usually use two psychics in every show but this one had three, they do their thing individually and on different days.

The conclusion on this episode left me wondering if there would actually be an arrest, all info provided by the psychics seemed to be very consistent between each of them and even jogged the memory of the mother of the little girl which pointed to a man the psychics described.

Now I don't want to ruin it just in case you want to watch it. The TV channel that it is on provides pretty much every New Zealand made show for download which I think is just amazing, the downloads are big, 700mb, Sensing Murder is and hour and a half long, though that's with ad breaks. You can check out all the current series episodes of sensing murder at the link.

Just to warn you it's an addictive series.

Aussies in search of the Moa

There's a couple of Aussie cryptozoologists coming down to new Zealand in November in search of the giant flightless native NZ bird the Moa.

May be of interest to some, if you want to read more here's the link, Australian researchers in search of moa.

I've never been to Fiordland but from what I've read it's a pretty big wilderness area, though it also attracts a lot of tourists.

Black Panther of Canterbury New Zealand

John Campbell is a nightly current affairs show here in New Zealand and it regularly features paranormal related stories.

Last nights show had a story about The black panther of Canterbury which is in New Zealand, I missed it because of work but luckily they put the video of the segment up on their site, you can view the Black Panther segment here. I'm not sure how long they keep videos archived so that link may be redundant in a couple months.

The video is about a couple of uni students who are studying and putting together a documentary about the black panther, the video shows a few pictures of big cats and has accounts from a few people who have spotted the big cats themselves.

I think that a Black Panther roaming the Canterbury Back country could be plausible, it's got some big forests, plenty of birds to eat and it's a huge area of the country.

Some of the theories mentioned in the video about how it may have been introduced were giant feral cats like the reports in Australia, escaped animals from zoos etc, abandoned exotic pets or introduced way back when, by the settlers.

I really don't know which theory I like the best.

New Zealand Paranormal links list

I made a post about half a year ago asking, New Zealand paranormal sites, where are they?, well I think it is time to put the list together, I didn't go out of my way to build this list, I bookmarked them as I found them.

So here's a list of active paranormal sites in New Zealand.

Ghosts and Other Haunts, New Zealand - Probably the biggest and most active site about ghosts in NZ, lots of great stories and a very large collection of ghost photos. There is also a very active forum and from reading some of the threads has some interesting stories, great site.

PINZ - I found this one while browsing the GOHNZ forum mentioned above, they have just recently got together for a paranormal investigation near where I live, it's a great read.

Spooks Paranormal Investigations - Nicely designed site with stories, pics and ghost cams. They also have a blog, woot.

UFO Investigator _in_Hawkes-Bay_NZ - It's not updated that often and hasn't been for awhile now, but it does have some interesting articles and stories especially this one about the Mohau - New Zealands Bigfoot
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Mysterious New Zealand - Nicely designed, but it looks as if the main page isn't being updated anymore, the forum looks active though.

Strange Occurrences - Profile site for a Wellington based paranormal investigation group.

Dang, I'm sure there are many more and there were in my bookmarks, but most of them were dead links. I was hoping for a bigger list so if you run a paranormal site or know of one that is based in New Zealand, please leave a comment along with a link to the site.

Edit: More added as I find them.

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