What began with the discovery of a body on a bridge quickly became a worldwide obsession. [37], A 2017 namesake documentary about the attraction was directed by Florian Habicht. Some former patients continue to live with the trauma of their time there. ', The comments below have not been moderated, By 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. It was horrible learning when suicidal people got out and caused accidents.. I had heard something snap. We will continue to manage security operations on the site until the end of November 2017, after which time responsibility will be transferred to the new owners.. "Spookers wasn't here when there were any patients here," she says. John, though, is indifferent:"I have no feeling about that. Please do not ask. Details of patient histories were kept secret due to Privacy Act requirements. Kingseat Hospital was in operation since 1932. 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"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. All Rights Reserved. Hey guys, does anybody know someone who lives in Kingseat? "For us" - former Kingseat patients -"it's a memorialbeing defaced," says Lampshire. Unless the address is already mentioned in the article, we do not disclose addresses or locations of abandoned or derelict buildings. "Spookers can't change what happened here. The team also discovered the diary of a former staff member, who described the terrible conditions the patients were forced to live in. Steph from Smash! 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. The new mental unit is secure. Due to Manukau City Council consent conditions a Liaison committee between South Auckland Health and local resident representatives has been set up. The Morgan Spurlock documentary where we meet people unashamed to have the surname Hitler. Mr Robertson insisted that the Bairds Road site was inappropriate to hold the 16 patients as it was within a narrow radius walking distance of six schools. 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. Daily updates on UFO sightings, ghost encounters, conspiracies, mysterious phenomena and everything crazy and weird. The Kingseat Hospital grounds in Kingseat, south Auckland, where Spookers is now based. That's the big question!'. 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. 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. Sometimes we see them, but they dont bother us at all, its all good,' the team were told. The construction of Kingseat Hospital began in 1929 when twenty patients from a nearby mental institution came to the site along with twelve wheelbarrows and ten shovels. All Rights Reserved. I cried with relief to learn this hospital has closed. Following a meeting Mark had with Beth, one of the managers of Spookers, the two were shown the entire building from level to level, section to section to plan ahead for the upcoming investigations. [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. 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? "Like so many others, all we want is answers.. Mark The thing that dawned on me as we wandered the maze-like corridors and interconnecting levels, was how deceptive the building is from the outside. According to an article onStuff.co.nz, Kingseat Hospital is the number one haunted spot in New Zealand. Kingseat re-visit. 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. 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. Climbing in, she sensed something terrible had happened. and our Copyright 2011-2021 Haunted Auckland. [14] In 2000, legal action was taken against the Tainui tribe for financial issues involving the former hospital. 'They play with the kids. Back to the drawing board (Part 1) Could we be creating our own monsters. [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. Datum OSGB36 - NGR. 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Thanks for posting up this history, its really interesting to know more about the buildings we are working in and there (dark) history. History [ edit] The hospital, which was designed by Alexander Marshall Mackenzie using a village-type layout, opened as the Aberdeen District Asylum in May 1904. The road around the hospital is probably haunted from traffic accidents caused by people living there. ', 'You have to be in this field to stay grounded.'. Do not cause damage or steal from locations. Patient history was questioned in Parliament throughout 1997 by Manukau East MP Ross Robertson. [30] In late 2011, Spookers opened the Amazing Maze n' Maize. Kingseat Hospital, in Newmachar, was closed in 1999 before being taken over by Avant Homes which subsequently built 300 houses at the site. 50 relations. Canmore ID 110736. I can confirm this, My family and I lived here before it closed, I have tonnes of paranormal stories from living there. 'Every time we went to see him he was covered in bruises,' John Mitchell, Bruce's brother, told the New Zealand Herald. 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. 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. Kingseat was opened in 1904 as the Aberdeen District Asylum. Spookers performer Huia Apiata causes havoc as a zombie clown, with Kingseat Hospital in the background (SBS VICELAND). But, in this building there are definitely detectable levels of difference within each room. Lenox Hill Hospital (Northwell Health) - 100 East 77th Street. [32] The three quantities of 6 (years, months, days) are a reference to 666, the Number of the Beast. 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. Back to the drawing board (Part 1) Could we be creating our own monsters. '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. Haunted Auckland makes their third visit to the Kingseat Psychiatric Hospital Maximum Security buildings for an overnight investigation. The three quantities of 6 (years, months, days) are a reference to 666, the Number of the Beast. In Spookers,Lampshire'smemories of the building are juxtaposed with its current utilisationasa place filled with deranged, menacingcharacters who scare people. Required fields are marked *. 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. His case was reopened by police in 2004, 36 years after his death, after fellow patient and friend Stephen Lindsay came forward as a witness. We dont run the Spookers attraction, so if youre interested in employment it may be better to check on their website. [40], In July 2013, there was a record outbreak of Dutch elm disease in two hundred trees at the site of the former hospital. Most were aged between eight and 16 at the time of the alleged abuse, and claimed to have been subject to sexual and physical abuse, as well aselectro-convulsive therapy (ECT, or 'shock treatment'). Nearly ten years after the case was re-opened, the Haunted Auckland team decided to settle empirically whether the residence was haunted. 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. A ruling from a . 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. [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. Some are still fucked and need renos. 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. "Take nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footprints". [18] By that year, the Freaky Forest of Fear, and CornEvil had been offered as on-site attractions. Even those rooms that branched off the same hallway. Thanks, Mark Wallbank mark@hauntedauckland.com. A teenager with behavioural difficulties and mental health problems is "living" in a hospital children's ward because no suitable accommodation can be found, a judge has been told. 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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. 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. South Auckland Health managers say such fears are unwarranted and unjustified. 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. From 1964, nursing staff at Kingseat were given name tags to wear on their uniforms. [27] In 2007, Spookers received three Stevenson Franklin Country Business Awards nominations. [19], In 2011, ideas were proposed to grow the area in the Kingseat suburb tenfold for the area's equine industry. 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. 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. Until such an investigation takes place we just have to take the words of those who made the TV show and of those who once worked and lived behind the wall and razor wire that is Kingseat hospital. 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 notorious Morgue at Kingseat Hospital has long captured the imagination of those who know about the location. His case was reopened by police in 2004, 36 years after his death, after . 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' will be back for its sixth season at its home on SBS VICELAND. We do not condone or encourage the breaking in and entering of secure buildings. The air felt heavy and thick to walk through. 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. Staff suicide being common on the grounds, due to the high stress levels caused in working in such a physically and emotionally draining working environment. 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. 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. Its also home to haunted attraction scream park Spookers. 19:55 EST 31 Jan 2016. It was a good hospital when Iworked there. its beautiful ! While Wallbank, concluded that he hadn't heard anything that he could definitively label as paranormal, the case was being kept open. I could see a hand and arm pushing her under the water drowning her.. 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. It has the reputation of being one of themost haunted locations in New Zealand. Pool hall plans tabled for Aberdeen Arches, homes at old Banchory bus depot and Traveller site near Kemnay to expand, When Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart brought Hi Ho Silver Lining and heavy rock to Aberdeens Douglas Hotel, Two well-known hospitality figures team up to create new business, Weekend court roll revenge porn and a terminal ill paedophiles plea for mercy, Major 20m boost for Peterhead museum and Macduff aquarium plans, Hunt for 'bogus workmen' following string of break-ins and thefts across north-east, Watch out! [39], In 2018, Spookers was put up for sale. Avant Homes confirmed ownership would be transferred at the end of November. We could use the hours between meals to just clean up the dining rooms.. 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. I worked as a psychiatric nurse in Kingseat from 1978 through 1980. [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. Meanwhile, TV show Ghost Hunt features footage of an unplugged dentist chair turning itself on (you can check it out here) and claims to have captured the shape of a ghosts face in a shower stall. And during a visit to a former nurses house, another team member claimed to feel dizzy and nauseous when she touched a bathtub. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. 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. 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. In doing so, the documentary prompts a question itavoids answering:is it appropriateto use a former psychiatric hospital building as a haunted house? It was claimed by Spookers to be the first ever complaint regarding advertising in its seven years of production. "Iwish they" - the owners of Spookers- "gave a s..t aboutthereal people and their circumstances at the time. According to the New Zealand Herald, a coroners hearing into Mitchells death was never carried out, and there is no record of his death. Kingseat Hospital is a former mental health facility near Newmachar in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Many of the complainants, who at the time of the incidents were aged between 8 and 16 years old, said that they were heavily over-medicated, unwillingly subjected to electro-shock treatment, and placed in isolation for long periods of time sometimes for months. 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. "For me, knowing the turmoil and anguish that went on there, to see itturned into a form of entertainment, Ifind it a little bit difficult to deal with," Lampshiretells Stuff. Kingseat Road, Patumahoe Auckland Furnished room in a studio It is a boarding house located at the Kingseat Hospital, this facility has been newly decorated and it has 36 rooms ready for anyone interested in lon. The alarm was raised at 3.50am. The NEON YELLOW PRESERVATION SOCIETY is a fictional society. 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Kingseat closed in 1999, but the buildings remained(and arenow protected underthe Auckland Unitary Plan). [6] The construction began when twenty patients from a nearby mental institution came to the site along with twelve wheelbarrows and ten shovels. A Return to Kingseat and a residential assessment. We started tracking the field and found we could actually gauge the shape and size of it. I am not a suspicious person by nature, but I do believe something happened to my brother.. For more information, please see our It says having the patients at the Bairds Road unit allows them to b closer to their families, whereas Kingseat was isolated. 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. 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]. I am as yet undecided as to whether or not this would be due to natural causes or even something unnatural. "Ifelt trapped," she says. Privacy Policy. [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. 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". Whatever the causes, there were certain rooms that didnt simply feel like normal everyday, empty rooms. 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. 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. Kingseat Psychiatric Hospital in Auckland opened in 1932 and was operational until 1999, when it was shut down during a sweeping reform of New Zealand's public mental health system. 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. Who's that guy? An aerial photograph from 1990 shows the extent of Tokanui Hospital, near Te Awamutu, which by the 1960s was one of the largest psychiatric institutions in New Zealand. I get really sad when I walk around and dont know why . A former psychiatric hospital which has fallen into disrepair has been sold. Still living her best post . Adam's Story: A Father's Fight Against Guillain-Barre Syndrome. The construction of Kingseat Hospital began in 1929 when twenty patients from a nearby mental institution came to the site along with twelve wheelbarrows and ten shovels. 'We have experienced many things that we couldn't find explanations for at the time. 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. Search. 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. 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. 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. Get a case of the willies with Spookers, streaming at SBS On Demand: More at SBS: What began with the discovery of a body on a bridge quickly became a worldwide obsession. What's in a name? Angry homesick doll yearns for the Highlands, Ghost Cam: Furman Theatre, Greenville South Carolina, 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.. 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. But thanks for making this a wicked experience, one of the best through out my teenage years:D. Thanks for your comment! The last patients held in the former mental institution will be moved off the rural complex and transported to a newly refurbished secure mental health unit on Bairds Road in Otara. Investigating Ghosts, Cryptids, UFOs, Urban Legends and Forgotten Histories of Aotearoa, Kingseat History and Nurses Hostel Walk-through. 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. We visit the Kingseat Morgue to photographically document the building in its current state. Kingseat operated from 1932 to 1999 when it was closed as part of New Zealands reform of its mental health system. It is sited within the old Spinal Unit complex and is surrounded by electrified fences. 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. What? 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. Matthew Of course the building is decorated as a Haunted attraction, so dark, with props and fake cobwebs etc. It's overnow.' Some rooms had a heaviness that was instantly noticeable on entering. 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 Zealand's psychiatric institutions (including Kingseat Hospital) during the 1960s and 1970s. She did not realise the facility had been a psychiatric hospital until she made inquiries into leasing the building. One of the most high profile cases of alleged abuse at Kingseat Hospital is the death of 11-year-old Clement Matthews. SBS acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country and their connections and continuous care for the skies, lands and waterways throughout Australia. 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