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. Privacy Policy. "People say, 'Why don't youmove on? Kingseat Hospital was named after a hospital in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, following the Director-General of the Mental Health Division of the Health Department (Dr. George Gray) upon returning from an overseas trip and he felt it appropriate to have a sister hospital with the same name in New Zealand. This is a search box on mobile. Some former patients continue to live with the trauma of their time there. Kingseat Hospital is a former psychiatric hospital that is considered to be one of New Zealands most notoriously haunted locations with over one hundred claims of apparitions being reported, as of 2011. For 18years, from age 17, Debra Lampshire lived at atKingseat Hospital -the building where Spookers is now based. It says having the patients at the Bairds Road unit allows them to b closer to their families, whereas Kingseat was isolated. [34] In 2013, Spookers was named as one of "10 Awesome Auckland Attractions". South Auckland Health insists local Otara residents have nothing to fear. 'The paranormal is a personal journey and needs to be experienced on a personal level to be appreciated or understood. Watson feels a strong responsibility for the wellbeing of her staff and guests. 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. It's overnow.' It was operational from around 1930 to 1999 when it finally closed its doors and the location was proposed as a site for a new prison that would hold 600 people but that did not go ahead. Copyright 2011-2021 Haunted Auckland. 50 relations. 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. One of the most high profile cases of alleged abuse at Kingseat Hospital is the death of 11-year-old Clement Matthews. Your email address will not be published. Ex patients of psychiatric hospitals in New Zealand in the 1960s and 1970s have claimed systemic abuse included beatings, sexual assault, and misuse of electric-shock therapy and drugs as punishment, according to the New Zealand Herald. Two investigations to round off the year. Kingseat Hospital is a former psychiatric hospital located in Karaka, south of Auckland. But some residents insisted that the complex represented a sad past and shouldnt be highlighted as heritage. One of the rooms they used for storage used to have ice baths. Website Admin for Haunted Auckland. 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. Planning officers have now placed an enforcement notice alleging that Avant has breached conditions at the site by not building the play park in line with the original planning permission. [18] By that year, the Freaky Forest of Fear, and CornEvil had been offered as on-site attractions. 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. Many of the special effects at Spookers were created with assistance from Weta Workshop. Daily updates on UFO sightings, ghost encounters, conspiracies, mysterious phenomena and everything crazy and weird. I have been pressuring the council to use whatever powers it has to that end.. Everything if your name is Steve Hitler. "Take nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footprints". Beth Israel Medical Center - 10 Nathan D Perlman Place. 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. It is sited within the old Spinal Unit complex and is surrounded by electrified fences. 'More nurses died at Kingseat than patients. Random photo 2018 gallery, Spookers visit with Steph from Smash! Interestingly, its the nursing arena that seems to have provided fertile ground for ghost hunting at Kingseat. Like there was an invisible cloud that I was walking into. The haunted history of an abandoned psychiatric hospital has been caught on camera, revealing a glimpse into the tortured lives of those who lived there for over 50 years. 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. Kingseat closed in 1999, but the buildings remained(and arenow protected underthe Auckland Unitary Plan). "Ifelt Iwas left in that place to rot and die." , updated The funny new Seth MacFarlane space comedy launches on SBS VICELAND 24 September 2018 and is streaming now at SBS On Demand. 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. Adam's Story: A Father's Fight Against Guillain-Barre Syndrome. [19], 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. [33] In October 2012, Spookers (which is open every Friday and Saturday night in addition to each Halloween), offered a bus to accommodate visitor transport for the occasion. In 2011, ideas were proposed to grow the area in the Kingseat suburb tenfold for the areas equine industry. We visit the Kingseat Morgue to photographically document the building in its current state. Unless the address is already mentioned in the article, we do not disclose addresses or locations of abandoned or derelict buildings. [30] In late 2011, Spookers opened the Amazing Maze n' Maize. Later that year, a billboard for Spookers, advertising the theme park in Parnell, Auckland was reported to the Advertising Standards Authority after complaint that it could be seen by children who were not the target market, but could be frightened by the advertisement. "Like so many others, all we want is answers.. 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. Please be safe and act in a responsible and respectful manner. 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The most haunting testimonyinSpookers,FlorianHabicht's recent documentary aboutthe south Aucklandhaunted houseattraction, comes not from a maniacal clown or a chainsaw-wieldingmadman, but from a middle-aged, red-haired woman named "Debra". [9] 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. But we can support our own staff.". One of the most prolific reports is of the 'Grey Nurse', believed to be the ghost of a former worker who died while the psychiatric hospital was still operational. The notorious Morgue at Kingseat Hospital has long captured the imagination of those who know about the location. ive been wanting to know ever since i had heard about this place. When I read that the place had closed down, about 20 something years ago, I started visiting. 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 Greys garden on Kawau Island. For the time being, former residential quarters have been turned into villas which are rented by members of the local community. 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. By The Orville is blasting off at SBS VICELAND All Rights Reserved. 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. Wallbank, along with his team, began gathering information from those who had worked at the hospital, and were told that both patients and nurses regularly died within the grounds. It is located in Karaka, New Zealand, south of Auckland and since 2005 has been used as a site for Spookers; a New Zealand attraction that is believed to be Australasias only haunted attraction scream park, and The number one Haunted Attraction in the Southern Hemisphere. [6] The construction began when twenty patients from a nearby mental institution came to the site along with twelve wheelbarrows and ten shovels. Mitchells siblings believe foul play may have been a factor in their brothers disappearance, and that he was being physically abused. During the five years she spent there, Pascoe says she suffered abuse from staff and residents, and was consistently intimidated and threatened. In 2000, legal action was taken against the Tainui tribe for financial issues involving the former hospital. People get really scared when they go to Spookers, based at Kingseat Hospital, 30 minutes south of Auckland in Karaka. It opened in 1912 with a few patients transferred from Porirua Hospital near Wellington, and closed in 1997. Who owns Kingseat Hospital? Some rooms had a heaviness that was instantly noticeable on entering. Now another firm ZTK, which is understood to already own the former administration block, has purchased the remaining buildings. We could use the hours between meals to just clean up the dining rooms.. We cannot discount the claims and reports though. 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In 2011, ideas were proposed to grow the area in the Kingseat suburb tenfold for the areas equine industry. Its alleged patients were subjected to horrific acts of abuse at Kingseat. Aberdeen Journals Ltd 2023. [35] In April 2014, the Haunted Auckland team requested former workers to share their experiences. Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) - 535 East 70th Street. The road around the hospital is probably haunted from traffic accidents caused by people living there. The funny new Seth MacFarlane space comedy launches on SBS VICELAND 24 September 2018 and is streaming now at SBS On Demand. 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. The small kitchen used to be the supplies room and on the . How do you get a job there? Great thrillers to watch with your Dad Take a photographic journey with us through some of the many wards and buildings that make up the Kingseat Psychiatric Hospital. 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. it just hits me out oh nowhere & Im a scardycat an its freaky cause the sadness will take over my fear & Im the biggest fag ever lol, oh wow they live there that amazing.have they ever heard the erie chilling women scream at nite its usually around 12 am and after.i experienced it and saw a figure running at me across the field. [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. The pair have since divorced, but bothfound the hospital to be progressive, with staff members who cared deeply for their patients' wellbeing. He used to panic when we left [Kingseat]. The sprawling compound at one stage housed over 800 patients, with a maximum security wing and a morgue onsite. Some received official apologies. There was definitely some kind of energy anomaly moving around in that area. "If it's really aimed at thinking about psychiatric patients as crazy peoplewhomight murder you at any minute, Iwould not be very pleased about that, to say the least," says Anne. "Spookers wasn't here when there were any patients here," she says. Inside Kingseat Hospitals maximum security wing, stained floors and scratched walls are remnants of real horror Source: Haunted Auckland / YouTube. The team also discovered the diary of a former staff member, who described the terrible conditions the patients were forced to live in. You can rent them, I lived in the church. Matthew Of course the building is decorated as a Haunted attraction, so dark, with props and fake cobwebs etc. Avant Homes confirmed ownership would be transferred at the end of November. Please respect the locations and the owners. One of the most high profile cases of alleged abuse at Kingseat Hospital is the death of 11-year-old Clement Matthews. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. 1.866.KINDRED | 1.866.546.3733. It is currently the site of residential villas, created from former patient housing, the Spookers attraction, located in the former Nurses' Hostel as well as several large disused and vacant hospital buildings. Kingseat Hospital is a former psychiatric hospital located in Karaka, south of Auckland. Today, Kingseat Hospital will be officially closed. Your email address will not be published. I hate the nursing staff for not telling us younger people so we could decide for ourselves to be exposed to some of the crap these inmates said to us. Today, people claim it is one of the most haunted places in New Zealand. Everything if your name is Steve Hitler This page was last edited on 1 August 2014, at 21:29. 'There was never enough hands to help the extremely handicapped eat, no medications to avoid being scratched or attacked nurses or kitchen or laundry staff a like-if having to go past the residents to clean up or stop them attacking each other,' the diary read. Staff suicide [was] common on the grounds,' read the team's report. Please sent me a message via facebook, or send an email and lets talk further. The property contains abandoned nurse's quarters where the apparition is meant to have been spotted lurking in the shadows. Ref Watch: Was VAR operational for Ryan Kent's 'punch' on Aberdeen's Liam Scales - and why wasn't ref Nick Walsh sent to monitor if it was? Alison Pascoe suffered abuse as a patient at Kingseat Hospital in the early 1950s. 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. I spent a night there once and as you can imagine it was pretty weird. He is one of over 200 former patients who have claimed to have witnessed or experienced abuse at the hands of staff at several hospitals in the area in the 1960's and 1970's. "Ifelt trapped," she says. His sister Judy Sorich has questioned why there was no further investigation into her brothers death given the suspicious and disturbing circumstances surrounding it. I certainly wouldnt consider myself sensitive (not that I know of, anyway) and arent able to feel what the two Medium / Sensitives in the group are able to sense at times. She did not realise the facility had been a psychiatric hospital until she made inquiries into leasing the building. [32] The three quantities of 6 (years, months, days) are a reference to 666, the Number of the Beast. Categories: Antidepressant prescribing Narrative medicine NHS Hospitality Registers Pharmaceutical industry and Medical Education Philosophy Psychiatry Stigma suicide Tags: #pillshaming 'Highly validating' 103 Holburn Street 108 Osborne Place 124 Osborne Place 147 Cheetham Hill Road . 'Clem hit the floor with a hell of a thud. [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. 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 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. An aerial view of the Kingseat Hospital grounds. 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. After being hospitalized for Guillain-Barre syndrome, Adam transferred to a Kindred Hospital with paralysis and respiratory failure. [27] In 2007, Spookers received three Stevenson Franklin Country Business Awards nominations. Lenox Hill Hospital (Northwell Health) - 100 East 77th Street. But some residents insisted that the complex represented a sad past and shouldn't be highlighted as heritage. 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. 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. https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Kingseat_Hospital&oldid=26759. I worked here as a teenager, it was a horrible hospital with dinosaur thinking and a lot of what they say is true. The Kingseat Hospital grounds in Kingseat, south Auckland, where Spookers is now based. Cookie Notice How The Bridge kick-started a global phenomenon. [14] In 2000, legal action was taken against the Tainui tribe for financial issues involving the former hospital. 'Every time we went to see him he was covered in bruises,' John Mitchell, Bruce's brother, told the New Zealand Herald. [4] According to stuff.co.nz, Kingseat Hospital is considered one of the most haunted locations in New Zealand. Kingseat Hospital was in operation since 1932. However there still remains concern in the community that the derelict buildings will be left in their current state. The team at Haunted Auckland are not the first to discover the checkered history of the hospital, and new evidence prompted local police to re-open a 36-year-old cold case in 2004 into the death of an 11-year-old boy at the hospital. He was so frightened of that place, she said. as an actor lols, 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]. It insists no forensic patients will be held at the unit. Piles of mattresses and old couches line the abandoned rooms of the former children's ward that will house 35 men by January.. 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. Please do not ask. ", READ MORE *Through the maze: Our mental health journey *Spookers: More than cheap, twisted thrills *SpookersdirectorFlorianHabichton fear and family. How they treated the elderly and mentally handicapped people back then was horrible.. "We talked about whether it was appropriateand whether we felt that it was disrespectful," says Watson. 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. In 2005, a television episode of Ghost Hunt featured the site of the former hospital. 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. Patient history was questioned in Parliament throughout 1997 by Manukau East MP Ross Robertson. 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. [1] [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. Steph from Smash! 'Big claims require big evidence to back them up. That place was creepy af. But neither body was ever found. What year did tokanui hospital close? "Spookers can't change what happened here. 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. Ithink it's evil,actually, andpeopleshouldstopmakingfun of mental illness. Archival footage in Spookers shows a doctor administering medicine to young men at Kingseat Hospital Source: SBS VICELAND. Footage shows the paranormal investigators of Haunted Auckland supposedly communing with a ghost named Alexis Jackson, a nurse who continues to look after patients at the hospital. The nurse then kicked him hard in his back and I heard something snap,' Mr Matthews claimed. 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". [11] In later years, the hospital accepted voluntary patients. What is the biggest hospital in New Zealand? Datum OSGB36 - NGR. 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. We dont run the Spookers attraction, so if youre interested in employment it may be better to check on their website. The idea is to bring mentally ill patients out from institutionalised care and place them within communities and closer to their families. For Healthcare Questions call 1.866.KINDRED. 'Hence I personally don't really give them much time, or take them seriously,' he said. I remember lots of talk regarding supernatural events, but never experienced them myself. 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