[28] Spookers were finalists of the year's Tourism Industry Awards. "Like so many others, all we want is answers.. 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. Firefighters battled a blaze in a building that used to be an isolation ward in the old Kingseat psychiatric hospital, southwest of Papakura, on Saturday morning. Interestingly, its the nursing arena that seems to have provided fertile ground for ghost hunting at Kingseat. 'At one point it was hovering around Kels [another team member] head for a couple of minutes, before moving offAs I was measuring the field around Kel, I could feel an icy cold patch all around my hand holding the EMF meter,' he said. It is sited within the old Spinal Unit complex and is surrounded by electrified fences. As he takes the lead in Deep State, we explore his great supporting work. ", READ MORE *Through the maze: Our mental health journey *Spookers: More than cheap, twisted thrills *SpookersdirectorFlorianHabichton fear and family. When she sees those buildings, she remembers the screams and anguished cries for help. https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Kingseat_Hospital&oldid=26759. The site celebrated its 50th anniversary jubilee in 1982. 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. A very active Paranormal explore of a ex psychiatric hospital on a very large site with multiple large hospital buildings, Called Kingseat, Located in The No. Now another firm ZTK, which is understood to already own the former administration block, has purchased the remaining buildings. Kingseat Hospital is a former psychiatric hospital that is considered to be one of New Zealand's most notoriously haunted locations with over one hundred claims of apparitions being reported, as of 2011. You can rent them, I lived in the church. Kingseat re-visit. About Us; Careers; Employees; Call us to talk to a Registered Nurse. 'Big claims require big evidence to back them up. 'We could use the hours between meals to just clean up the dining rooms.. The New Zealand Heraldreported that former patient Stephen Lindsay had been traumatised by what he saw at the hospital. 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The notorious Morgue at Kingseat Hospital has long captured the imagination of those who know about the location. In the first overnight session, the team used Go-Pros, motion sensor cameras, and nightshot, UV, infrared and digital cameras to ensure that they caught anything paranormal on footage. Not breaking in, rather just wandering around and taking in the sights and atmosphere of the place,' Wallbank, told Daily Mail Australia. An enhanced face of a ghost supposedly captured in a photo in a bathroom at Kingseat Hospital. In 1973, a Therapeutic pool was opened by the then-Mayoress of Auckland, Barbara Goodman, four years before the main swimming pool was added to the hospital in 1977. Yes some had murdered, I hope God forgives anyone whom stayed here as a patient. Classification Hospital (Period Unassigned) Alternative Name (s) District Asylum For Aberdeen. 1.866.KINDRED | 1.866.546.3733. It is said that one of the reasons that no real paranormal investigations take place is due to the court cases of mistreatment going through the courts, that along with the sale of the place, the new owner did not want the idea the place was haunted to get out there. Kingseat Hospital was named after a hospital in Aberdeenshire, Scotland following Dr. Gray (the Director-General of the Mental Health Division of the Health Department at the time) returning from an overseas trip, who felt it appropriate to have a sister hospital with the same name in New Zealand. 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. We can start to see how the buildings of the hospital could hold such dark energies and have claims of paranormal within, the ones who complained are the lucky ones, the claims of the amount who passed away within the walls on Kingseat is in the high side. The promo for the 2014 season of local television show Shortland Street was partly filmed at Kingseat Hospital[23] as was a music video for I Am Giant. [7] 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. Back to the drawing board (Part 1) Could we be creating our own monsters. Kingseat Hospital was named after a hospital in Aberdeenshire, Scotland following Dr. Gray (the Director-General of the Mental Health Division of the Health Department at the time) returning from an overseas trip, who felt it appropriate to have a sister hospital with the same name in New Zealand. . [27] In 2007, Spookers received three Stevenson Franklin Country Business Awards nominations. While the building is now derelict, with walls still bearing old scratch marks and new graffiti, it reportedly once held over 800 patients, who were treated for illnesses and addictions within the grounds. The Haunted Auckland team did an initial 'walk through' of the property, before conducting the overnight investigations, bringing along a host of equipment used to detect ghostly presences and physical energies. Although living mainly in farmhouses in the district, I did reside for periods in the Nurses hostel. [22] In the following two years, Haunted Auckland conducted a further ten research visits within various buildings at Kingseat; including the notorious Maximum Security Wing. If you would like to hear them let me know! I closed my eyes and saw a bit clearer a picture of a women being pushed under the water, she said. In 2000, legal action was taken against the Tainui tribe for financial issues involving the former 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. 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. "For us" - former Kingseat patients -"it's a memorialbeing defaced," says Lampshire. Although patients, once considered forensic patients but having had their classification eased into a more rehabilitative category, will be able to be housed at the Bairds Road unit. What began with the discovery of a body on a bridge quickly became a worldwide obsession. With our Facility Locator, you can discover the nearest Kindred Hospital Facility. By 2004, more than two-hundred people had come forward to file complaints against the national government for claims of mistreatment and abuse of patients at New Zealands psychiatric institutions (including Kingseat Hospital) during the 1960s and 1970s. Kingseat Hospital is located just south of Auckland (New Zealand) at Karaka and is a former psychiatric hospital that is considered to be one of New Zealands notorious haunted locations with over one hundred claims of apparitions being reported. In 2010, New Zealand filmmaker Dale Stewart shot his horror film Compound at the former hospital property after receiving permission from Spookers, the current owners. [4] According to stuff.co.nz, Kingseat Hospital is considered one of the most haunted locations in New Zealand. Sure, the looming brick structure looks somewhat monolithic standing outside looking up at it, but once inside you can literally spend hours wandering around blindly, sometimes in circles, sometimes missing whole sections with disorientation due to lack of bearings in the dark and randomly discovering them a second time round. In 1968, certain nurses at Kingseat Hospital went on strike, which forced the administration to invite unemployed people and volunteers to assist within the hospital grounds with domestic chores. "Ithink it's really demeaning. One room would have a whole different feeling to the one right next to it. The sprawling compound at one stage housed over 800 patients, with a maximum security wing and a morgue onsite. As he takes the lead in Deep State, we explore his great supporting work. Cookie Notice 'The paranormal is a personal journey and needs to be experienced on a personal level to be appreciated or understood. From 1964, nursing staff at Kingseat were given name tags to wear on their uniforms. I cried with relief to learn this hospital has closed.'. [32] The three quantities of 6 (years, months, days) are a reference to 666, the Number of the Beast. I had heard something snap. In the early 1960s, John and Anne Hall worked as psychiatrists at Kingseat, and lived on the grounds with their two young children. "Take nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footprints". 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. The patients said that they had been given drug injections as a form of punishment, and were locked in 'solitary' in straightjackets for hours at a time. It was horrible living in the nurses home, it was horrible working in the huge main kitchen and it was worse working in the separate units. Save my name, email, and site URL in my browser for next time I post a comment. The Morgan Spurlock documentary where we meet people unashamed to have the surname Hitler. Juan Moritz and Discovery of Atlantean Dungeons. [25] In 2005, the haunted attraction Spookers opened in the area of the former hospital[2] in the former nurse hostel. I hope that after so much pain was felt there, that we can provide some fun for people in the properties new role! and Ohhhh How i had a blast:)) it was wicked, Alison Pascoe suffered abuse as a patient at Kingseat Hospital in the early 1950s. 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. Meetings have been held over the past three months to allay community fears. 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Climbing in, she sensed something terrible had happened. [8] 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. Heather Mcnab for Daily Mail Australia One of the rooms they used for storage used to have ice baths. [19], In 2011, ideas were proposed to grow the area in the Kingseat suburb tenfold for the area's equine industry. [34] In 2013, Spookers was named as one of "10 Awesome Auckland Attractions". The NEON YELLOW PRESERVATION SOCIETY is a fictional society. Kingseat closed in 1999, but the buildings remained(and arenow protected underthe Auckland Unitary Plan). In 1996, South Auckland Health sold Kingseat Hospital after government decisions to replace ongoing hospitalisation of mentally ill patients with community care and rehabilitation units. In 1973, a Therapeutic pool was opened by the then-Mayoress of Auckland, Barbara Goodman, four years before the main swimming pool was added to the hospital in 1977. The nurse then kicked him hard in his back and I heard something snap,' Mr Matthews claimed. 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. Hotels with Ghosts in NZ - Best Bits Kingseat Hospital was in operation from 1932. 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. 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[update]. Two investigations to round off the year. Kingseat was sold by South Auckland Health in 1996, after the Governments deinstitutionalisation policy insisted a move away from continuing hospitalisation of mentally ill patients in favour of community care and smaller acute and rehabilitation units. 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. if there are ghosts it would not shock me, when people where really sentenced to life behind a mental hospital door people did die here. 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? With over 100 reported ghost sightings at Kingseat, the most prevalent is The Grey Nurse who took his own life and now apparently dwells in the old nurses quarters. The new mental unit is secure. Paranormal investigation and research group Haunted Auckland, which has conducted a number of investigations at Kingseat, said to be the most haunted place in New Zealand, reports that more nurses died on the premises than patients, and that staff suicide was a common occurrence there. 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 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.'. 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