Ghost stories from New Zealand

The Lantern Man

The year was 2006, and I had finally convinced myself to take a break from the endless gray of the city. I chose the Faroe Islands, a place so remote...

The Persistence of Habit

The vet’s words were a quiet death sentence for Bramble, my seventeen-year-old tabby. Kidney failure, they said. We managed his pain with fluids and a special diet, but I knew...

The Static Hour

I first noticed the interference during the last week of October, when the nights turned crisp and the sky over the Salt Flats took on that bruised purple hue that...

The Hour of the Blind

The first thing I registered was the cold. It wasn’t the sharp chill of winter, but a damp, invasive cold that seemed to seep through the thin blanket and into...

The Garden Bench

Our family history is tangled like the overgrown wisteria that crawls up the side of our rented farmhouse in the Canterbury plains. I’m Ash, fifteen, and my little brother Birch...

Waikumete Cemetery

I wanted to start a ghost channel on you tube with a friend, so we spent 3 consecutive nights/ mornings walking around the cemetery recording and taking pictures. What we...

The Painted Mouth

I first knew Edgar as a quiet, lanky young man with ink-stained fingers when I was thirteen. He taught folklore at the University of Dunedin, and he was one of...

The Looming Stitches

I had always been the practical one in my family. While my cousins whispered about ghosts at sleepovers, I was the one reading true-crime books under the covers, fascinated by...

The Last Rotation

I never believed in omens, not until the summer the grain elevator at the edge of Colby Falls started its final harvest. I worked the morning shift at the local...

The Looming Door

The flat we moved into was tucked behind my grandfather’s old printing house, a relic from the 1920s that had seen better days. We were in the back annex, a...

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