Many of the special effects at Spookers were created with assistance from Weta Workshop. [11] In later years, the hospital accepted voluntary patients. Do not cause damage or steal from locations. Even those rooms that branched off the same hallway. Kingseat Hospital 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. Source: SBS VICELAND. With numerous amounts of legal complaints and cases being filed the government has expressed an interest in resolving all of the reported complaints of abuse or mistreatment against these poor patients. "Ithink it's really demeaning. They weren't in those places, they don't have any idea what it's like," she says. "For us" - former Kingseat patients -"it's a memorialbeing defaced," says Lampshire. The team at Haunted Auckland are not the first to discover the checkered history of the hospital, and new evidence prompted local police to re-open a 36-year-old cold case in 2004 into the death of an 11-year-old boy at the hospital. 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. Every time we went to see him he was covered in bruises, his brother John Mitchell, told The New Zealand Herald. [35] In April 2014, the Haunted Auckland team requested former workers to share their experiences. 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. The mates I lived with there used to live in the building next to the morgue. Do not cause damage or steal from locations. In 2000, legal action was taken against the Tainui tribe for financial issues involving the former hospital. 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. Please sent me a message via facebook, or send an email and lets talk further. By 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' will be back for its sixth season at its home on SBS VICELAND. [10] Kingseat re-visit. 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. [27] In 2007, Spookers received three Stevenson Franklin Country Business Awards nominations. It was claimed by Spookers to be the first ever complaint regarding advertising in its seven years of production. Motivated by a picture of his two young boys, Adam worked hard with his interdisciplinary care team to be liberated from the ventilator and regain . Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) - 535 East 70th Street. What was Kingseat Hospital used for? [7], Kingseat Hospital was in operation from 1932. East Garioch councillor Martin Ford instigated a report earlier this year to find out what measures could be taken by the council to ensure the development was finished. I found out from my own mother what some of these people did to their victims, she worked there to for many years. According to the New Zealand Herald, a coroners hearing into Mitchells death was never carried out, and there is no record of his death. 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. Carrie Zeiler, a member of the Kingseat Community Association, said: As far as we understand the company that is buying it own the administration block here and nothing has happened with that for years, so to be honest, we dont hold out much hope for anything changing.. What? 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. Watson feels a strong responsibility for the wellbeing of her staff and guests. 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. The site, which incorporates an abandoned morgue and maximum-security area has been the subject of local folklore since closure, with many claiming to have witnessed ghosts or experienced supernatural events while walking the abandoned halls. South Auckland Health insists local Otara residents have nothing to fear. 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. Local company Haunted Auckland, which specialises in the investigation of 'ghosts, UFO's, urban legends and forgotten histories' of the area took a special interest in the site after the hospital, which adjoins the morgue and nurse's living quarters, was bought as a place to conduct after-dark paintball games and erect a 'spook house' run by company Spookers. 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. Thanks for posting up this history, its really interesting to know more about the buildings we are working in and there (dark) history. Still living her best post . We were told that more nurses died at Kingseat than patients. 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". Hospital (Period Unassigned) Site Name Kingseat Hospital. Inside Kingseat Hospitals maximum security wing, stained floors and scratched walls are remnants of real horror Source: Haunted Auckland / YouTube. She did not realise the facility had been a psychiatric hospital until she made inquiries into leasing the building. [13], 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. Great thrillers to watch with your Dad 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. This involved propositions of re-zoning to residential a majority of the land around Kingseat Hospital although certain buildings, structures and plant life on the former hospital site were protected due to historic and cultural value. Everything if your name is Steve Hitler His case was reopened by police in 2004, 36 years after his death, after . With over 100 reported ghost sightings at Kingseat, the most prevalent is The Grey Nurse who took his own life and now apparently dwells in the old nurses quarters. 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. Wikid ! 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. Some of the old hospital buildings now form the central area of the village of Kingseat . John, though, is indifferent:"I have no feeling about that. The alarm was raised at 3.50am. Copyright 2011-2021 Haunted Auckland. Kingseat Hospital is a former mental health facility near Newmachar in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. 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. [21] That same year, Haunted Auckland conducted a paranormal investigation at the site. Please respect the locations and the owners. on Edge TV, Kingseat Photo Gallery Maximum Security, Kingseat Maximum Security Third Overnight Session, Carrington former Psychiatric Asylum / Unitech Revisit, VIP opening event for the Yokai Parade: Supernatural monsters from Japan exhibition. "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. It has the reputation of being one of themost haunted locations in New Zealand. The nurse is just one of many 'shadows' spotted in the halls, a phenomena which Mark described as having 'always existed and feed[ing] on negative energies and the emotions of fear'. Your email address will not be published. We reckon these films and TV shows, streaming now at SBS On Demand, will have your Dad on the edge of his recliner. I have been fascinated by the paranormal from an early age and have a keen interest in seeking empirical evidence of phenomena outside the bounds of accepted science. The three quantities of 6 (years, months, days) are a reference to 666, the Number of the Beast. 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. 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. 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