Country

New Zealand

cases
3
years
1871–2026

Disputed: 1 Legend: 2

  1. 19th century

    1. 1871–present Haunted castles · Legend Larnach Castle, Dunedin Larnach Castle, Otago Peninsula, Dunedin New Zealand's only castle is famous for the ghosts of the Larnach family – though, as its guides point out, no member of the family died within its walls.
    2. 1884–present Prisons, hospitals and asylums · Legend Seacliff Asylum, Otago Truby King Reserve, Seacliff, Otago The forest growing over the ruins of what was once New Zealand's largest building – an asylum where 37 women died in a fire in 1942 – is said to be haunted.
    3. 1886 Ghost ships · Disputed The Phantom Canoe of Lake Tarawera Lake Tarawera, near Rotorua, North Island Eleven days before Mount Tarawera erupted, tourists and Māori guides saw a war canoe on the lake that no one had ever seen before.