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Mair Park Ghost Footage

By Symon ⋅ June 15, 2009 ⋅ 9 comments

About this time last year, I wrote of the time when my parents had a close encounter with the urban legend known as ‘The Mair Park Ghost. The original post created quite a stir, and you can read the subsequent shenanigans here: The Mair Park Ghost Haunted houses, ghosts and demons Ghost mystery solved… or [...]

The Tunguska Catastrophe

By Symon ⋅ April 15, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

I had never ever heard of the name Tunguska before… until I bought a PC game (for the kids) called Secret files: Tunguska. Then I became enlightened to an extremely fascinating and equally mysterious event which occurred 101 years ago in Central Siberia. In the Tunguska region at 7:17am on 30 June 1908 something of [...]

My close encounter with a UFO… cult

By Symon ⋅ April 4, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

It was a fateful night in 1997 when the Aetherius Society came to town to promote their religion. For those who don’t know what the Aetherius Society is (I’m guessing about 99.9% of the people reading this post), it is a UFO cult. I was a zealous (and somewhat tactless) Bible College student at the [...]

We see what we want to see

By Symon ⋅ March 30, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

My sons reckoned they saw a UFO today (I was quick to remind my eldest that the last UFO he saw turned out to be a seagull). Like father like son. Ever since I watched ‘Close Encounters Of The Third Kind’ as a kid, I’ve been fascinated by UFO phenomena. As a Christian, I definitely [...]

Revenge of the Mair Park Ghost

By Symon ⋅ July 31, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

Before that fateful day when I decided to write about the Mair Park Ghost, I Googled the same three words, just to see if there was any other information about it. As I suspected, nothing came up. Absolutely zero. A couple of months have passed, the mystery has been solved (actually there is an extremely [...]

Symon Drake… Ghostbuster (heh)

By Symon ⋅ July 15, 2008 ⋅ 3 comments

Hilarious if you ask me. My ‘Mair Park Ghost’ post was spied by the Whangarei Leader (another local newspaper) a few weeks back, and I was interviewed the other day. I’m actually a bit over the whole ghost thing now, and was not looking foward to reading stuff which had been taken a little out [...]

Ghost mystery solved… or is it?

By Symon ⋅ July 15, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

I posted a story the other week about ‘The Mair Park Ghost’. In 1961, someone dressed up in an ornate costume scared ‘courters’ witless who visited the park at night, including my mum and dad. Read the post here: The Mair Park Ghost. DW and I thought it would be an entertaining read for the [...]

The Mair Park Ghost

By Symon ⋅ June 29, 2008 ⋅ 8 comments

In July 1961, an entity known as the ‘Mair Park Ghost’ terrified the citizens of small town Whangarei, New Zealand. I know… because my parents were some of those terrified citizens. Bizarre events rarely happen in Whangarei, so when stories started circulating that a ghost was being sighted at Mair Park, my mum, dad and [...]