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 is it?
Symon Drake… Ghostbuster (heh)
Revenge of the Mair [...]
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 surprising twist to the tale, but [...]
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 of context as reporters do.
The article [...]
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 local paper, and emailed them a copy.
To [...]
It seems that a recent post on Whangarei’s ‘Mair Park Ghost’ has created a little publicity. A newspaper reporter was somewhat surprised by my personal opinion as to what ghosts really are. A couple of years ago I wrote a paper on the huge subject of haunted houses, ghosts and demons because most people realise that there is a [...]
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 their friends did what any normal, [...]
