One of the most high profile cases of alleged abuse at Kingseat Hospital is the death of 11-year-old Clement Matthews. People get really scared when they go to Spookers, based at Kingseat Hospital, 30 minutes south of Auckland in Karaka. 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. I had heard something snap. [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. The Orville is blasting off at SBS VICELAND 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. 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. Thanks for sharing with us. But we can support our own staff.". Bruce Mitchell and Kelly Collins were also patients at Kingseat when they disappeared in separate incidents in 1967 after reports of shock treatment and continual bruising. Dr. Henry Bennett was originally the former owner of Kingseat hospital in the 1950s. That's the big question!'. 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. The site of the former Kingseat Hospital in 2008, nine years after closure. [24], Spookers is reportedly New Zealand's largest operator in haunted horror entertainment. "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. 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? How they treated the elderly and mentally handicapped people back then was horrible.. The site celebrated its 50th Anniversary Jubilee in 1982. The Bairds Road unit, Tamaki-Oranga, will house 20 mentally ill patients which were identified of needing on-going hospitalisation and rehabilitation. 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. For 18years, from age 17, Debra Lampshire lived at atKingseat Hospital -the building where Spookers is now based. The idea is to bring mentally ill patients out from institutionalised care and place them within communities and closer to their families. 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. This is a search box on mobile. A ruling from a . Thanks for posting up this history, its really interesting to know more about the buildings we are working in and there (dark) history. Some former patients continue to live with the trauma of their time there. South Auckland Health managers say such fears are unwarranted and unjustified. Alison Pascoe suffered abuse as a patient at Kingseat Hospital in the early 1950s. An Article from Scoop Auckland about the hospital closure bySelwyn Manning, dated 28th July 1999. It was like a branch breaking. With a tragic backstory, Kingseat Hospital is said to be the most haunted place in New Zealand. 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. If you would like to hear them let me know! 'We could use the hours between meals to just clean up the dining rooms.. Most buildings have been converted. If its useas a hospital is finished, it doesn't really affect mewhat they use it for now," he says. 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. In the early 1960s, John and Anne Hall worked as psychiatrists at Kingseat, and lived on the grounds with their two young children. "Ithink it's really demeaning. His case was reopened by police in 2004, 36 years after his death, after . The team also monitored the temperature of the building and kept in touch throughout the night by walkie-talkies. Meetings have been held over the past three months to allay community fears. He was so frightened of that place, she said. 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". I saw her arms and legs threshing in the bathtub. I knew at the time his back was broken.. This time our mission was to try to recapture, recreate . But some residents insisted that the complex represented a sad past and shouldnt be highlighted as heritage. I can confirm this, My family and I lived here before it closed, I have tonnes of paranormal stories from living there. Voices have been heard, sulphur smelt, and shadowy figures seen. and Ohhhh How i had a blast:)) it was wicked, 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. Please be safe and act in a responsible and respectful manner. Website Admin for Haunted Auckland. 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. Still living her best post . The Morgan Spurlock documentary where we meet people unashamed to have the surname Hitler. [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. [40], In July 2013, there was a record outbreak of Dutch elm disease in two hundred trees at the site of the former hospital. [1] It is located in Karaka, New Zealand, south of Auckland and since 2005 has been used as a site for Spookers;[2] and since 2013 a site for Asylum Paintball and Laser Combat; three New Zealand attractions. I hope that after so much pain was felt there, that we can provide some fun for people in the properties new role! 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. According to stuff.co.nz, Kingseat Hospital is the number one haunted spot in New Zealand. 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. 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. NGR NJ 90398 19105. Take a photographic journey with us through some of the many wards and buildings that make up the Kingseat Psychiatric Hospital. The team also discovered the diary of a former staff member, who described the terrible conditions the patients were forced to live in. [18] By that year, the Freaky Forest of Fear, and CornEvil had been offered as on-site attractions. 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. 'Big claims require big evidence to back them up. 1999 - (July) Kingseat Hospital was officially closed. 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. 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. 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The old Kingseat psychiatric hospital is bulging at the seams. [7] 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. Copyright 2011-2021 Haunted Auckland. "Like so many others, all we want is answers.. Source: SBS VICELAND. When I read that the place had closed down, about 20 something years ago, I started visiting. I could see a hand and arm pushing her under the water drowning her.. Check out our Kingseat Photo Gallery! 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. That place was creepy af. [15] 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. [11] In later years, the hospital accepted voluntary patients. There was definitely some kind of energy anomaly moving around in that area. Kingseat Hospital, in Newmachar, was closed in 1999 before being taken over by Avant Homes which subsequently built 300 houses at the site. Mitchells siblings believe foul play may have been a factor in their brothers disappearance, and that he was being physically abused. 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. 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. 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. [28] Spookers were finalists of the year's Tourism Industry Awards. 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. However the developer was accused of failing to preserve the historic hospital buildings and construct a childrens play park. Spookers performer Huia Apiata causes havoc as a zombie clown, with Kingseat Hospital in the background (SBS VICELAND). 'We were sure he was being beaten, but were always told by hospital staff he had walked into a door.'. 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'). From 1964, nursing staff at Kingseat were given name tags to wear on their uniforms. 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. [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. 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. 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. 50 relations. 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' will be back for its sixth season at its home on SBS VICELAND. Like there was an invisible cloud that I was walking into. 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. Nobody knows what it'slikeuntil they'restruck down with it," she says. Yes some had murdered, I hope God forgives anyone whom stayed here as a patient. 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. Hospital (Period Unassigned) Site Name Kingseat Hospital. But if they new the true history of the psychiatric hospital going in, theyd be doubly chilled to the bone. 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. 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