Mair Park Ghost Footage
Revenge of the Mair Park Ghost
Symon Drake… Ghostbuster (heh)
Ghost mystery solved… or is it?
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 cut a long story short, the newspaper turned the story into a weekend article, and I became ‘a ghost hunter (who apparently doesn’t believe in life after death) who has an obsession to solve the 50-year old mystery, and is desperate for people to come forward with information about the phantom.’
I had a call from the paper on Friday, the brother of the ‘ghost’ contacted them and spilled the beans about who really was the clever culprit and how he did it.
Read it here: Ghost Busted.
Mystery solved, case closed, everyone forgets the crazy youth pastor (hopefully)…
Not quite.
I have recieved a couple of mysterious emails lately. Apparently there is another ‘Mair Park Ghost’. The email ends with the words…
“…the Ghost is closer than you think.”
Creepy music starts now.
Haunted houses, ghosts & demons
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 supernatual realm, and genuinely want some answers that make sense.
Click here to view the PDF file.
I would love to know what you think, so feel free to leave a comment.
The Mair Park Ghost
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, sane kiwi would do… they attempted to catch it.
They drove to the park, turned the car engine and headlights off, and waited in the almost pitch-black darkness (with the doors locked of course). Sure enough, it wasn’t too long before the ghostly figure emmerged and ‘glided’ slowly closer to the car. My parents describe the ghost as being almost 7 foot, all white, who moved in a very frightening manner. As they watched, literally scared-stiff, my dad’s two mates started chasing it into the dark, dense bush (I would have run the other way myself). After several minutes, they returned, terrified, saying that the ghost seemed to float down the track, made no sound while doing so, and then simply disappeared.
I kid you not… this is a true story. I even have the newspaper clippings.
In the days that followed, more people sighted and were equally disturbed by the ghost. Other attempts were made to catch it, but all failed. More bizarre events happened… a grotesque mannequin was found hanging by a noose from a tree in the park, and the ghost was seen peering into the windows of some of the houses close to the park late at night.
Was the mystery of the Mair Park Ghost ever solved? Well, that depends on who you talk to. My dad says that the ghost simply stopped being sighted, probably because people started to enter the park at night with guns intending to shoot it.
I was talking to another person recently, who remembers the events. He thought that a local rugby team entered the park one night and caught the ghost, who was in fact, a very athletic man wearing a very convincing costume. This man knew the layout of the park so well that he knew where to run and hide in the darkness, giving the appearance of disappearing into thin air.
I like my dad’s story of ‘men with guns hunting the ghost’ better.
So, almost fifty years on, I wonder if you were to venture into the park late at night… would the ghost be there… watching you from the bushes?
I dare you to find out.
