Thread: Bush Ghosts

Originally Posted by NO4

@Barry the hunter i have had the same feeling up around waikaremoana, a few places i got the feeling i was just not welcome/ not suppose to be there same with lake Opouahi.
Once i was fishing on the Mohaka and got the feeling i was being watched looked around and swear i saw a old fella watching me when i looked again he was gone, un nerved me no end

Had the same at Waikaremoana the other week, was only @Rushy snoring his head off.
But the only real nervous night I’ve had with the unknown, was in Clyde. Stayed in a bricked walled, tin roof B&B. Was well over 100plus years old building that originally the home of miners. All bloody night that building creaked and groaned. It’s the only time in my life I’d expected to see a ghost, I couldn’t and still cannot explain it. I’m not religious and believe young Toby had it sussed, I asked him what happens when you die, he replied it’s the same going to sleep, except you don’t wake up. So I replied if there was an afterlife, it would be a bonus? He replied, yes, but there isn’t and I know he’d thought about it a lot.

Beware the talking Tui bird haha Māori used to train them to mimic down by creeks and waterfalls to avoid distractions
You’d be surprised what they are capable of mimicking

https://youtube.com/shorts/LJbvrW9kv...v6b3KTarLCe-Pr

Originally Posted by Say yer prayers varmint!

Beware the talking Tui bird haha Māori used to train them to mimic down by creeks and waterfalls to avoid distractions
You’d be surprised what they are capable of mimicking

https://youtube.com/shorts/LJbvrW9kv...v6b3KTarLCe-Pr

That's pretty remarkable and doubtless could be the source of some "voices" heard in the bush, I've heard one imitating car alarms and ringtones, back when we had phones and not pocket jukeboxes for phones!

Originally Posted by Max Headroom

We've covered sight and sound of weird things, has any one had a sense of touch, taste, or smell in an other worldly encounter.

Probably around 15 years ago, I was catching up with a mate down Waihi. We were hanging out in her "doing stuff" shed, having a cuppa and a durry. As we were talking the right hand side of my body became icy cold, my ear on the same side started popping and I could suddenly see my breath. I turned to my mate and said "someones here" and she replied with "yeah, she's standing next to you" after maybe 20 seconds or so the warmth returned and I asked my mate what the visitor wanted. "Don't know" was the answer "But she was very interested in you" Nothing else happened, we carried on yapping, no one later died or got sick or won lotto, it was just a visit......they happen but I couldn't tell you why

Originally Posted by Casper145

Manly men needn't read my further.

So occasionally when I'm out enjoying nature, for no reason at all sometimes I'll just absolutely get the willies, hairs on the back of the neck standing up, the whole shebang. If it happens it's usually in relatively thick NZ native bush, and it doesn't even have to be that far from civilisation. I'm not even sure what it is, maybe a sudden cold gust comes out of nowhere that sends shivers down the spine, or just an overwhelming sense of being watched by something, but just not by the venison that should be in the freezer. It's not a fear of the dark or anything - can happen mid morning, and I've always got more than enough equipment and nav sense to get me out of (almost) any situation.

I'm not sure what my imagination is more worried about - something human, like some Deliverance/hills have eyes types who don't believe in the same social contract/rules based order that I do, or something supernatural. I'm a scientist according to an expensive piece of paper I studied for, and while I don't really go for any of the usual ghost stories, some specific locations and experiences give me reason to pause. Actually that's the wrong term: usually my pace quickens a little more than I should and move on.

Am I the only big scaredy cat here? Has anyone got any stories or thoughts they'd be able to share?

I heard a story about a place up in the Kaimais called "whangawhanga B Block" or something along those lines, likely the name on the title, supposed to be maori ancestral lands or something.
Dont know the exact location but locals tell me that hunters feel disorientated and get lost, others say dont go alone or you will never find your way out.
Heard similar stories where peoples horses get spooked on maori land.

Originally Posted by longshot

Anyone else had a dog that knew when they were coming home. I always thought it was a fairly common thing.

@longshot - you might like to look up Rupert Sheldrake on youtube, he talks about this a bit. It seems to be a fairly common phenomenon.

100yr old farm house we used to own in rukuhia,6yr old son asleep on couch when I kinda wake him to walk him to bed sround 11pm,looks at second couch and smiles and waves(still half asleep) I ask him what he’s waving at and he says “the old man and little boy sitting there” gave me the heebeejeebies for ages afterwards.

Don’t believe in ghosts,monsters,Bigfoot or the afterlife but I feckin hate walking in /through the bush in the dark it scares the shit out of me
I know there’s nothing logically to be afraid of but my imagination just runs riot and gets the better of me

That pretty much sounds like me everytime i go off track in the flat parts of the kaimais. My recorded topo 50 tracks have spikes going off course all over the place. Even with the phone in my hand i can easily end up repeatedly walking 180 deg in the wrong direction .

Originally Posted by kingscoatkiwi

Don’t believe in ghosts,monsters,Bigfoot or the afterlife but I feckin hate walking in /through the bush in the dark it scares the shit out of me
I know there’s nothing logically to be afraid of but my imagination just runs riot and gets the better of me

shooting an animal on dusk and having to butcher it a few kilometres deep in the bush in silent darkness can be unnerving when the mind gets away on you.
At least once you get moving youre making noise and concentrating on getting the hell out of there.

Originally Posted by Reedo

That pretty much sounds like me everytime i go off track in the flat parts of the kaimais. My recorded topo 50 tracks have spikes going off course all over the place. Even with the phone in my hand i can easily end up repeatedly walking 180 deg in the wrong direction .

That’s on you bro, don’t blame Heebie or Jeebie for making you have a heavy left foot lol

Ive never been visited by a dead person, seen a ghost, been scared in the bush, heard strange things at night or had a problem with the gun registry. I must be weird.

Originally Posted by Tahr

Ive never been visited by a dead person, seen a ghost, been scared in the bush, heard strange things at night or had a problem with the gun registry. I must be weird.

Apparently drugs will help you tick most of those boxes if you really want to Tahr.
And I say apparently because I don't actually know.

Originally Posted by Max Headroom

We've covered sight and sound of weird things, has any one had a sense of touch, taste, or smell in an other worldly encounter.

Yep I have. Was in the bush on the west side of Ruapehu.

I was hunting and had pushed my way into a patch of thick stuff then popped into a little clearing.

All the birds shut up, I felt frozen to the spot and I could smell the smell of burning hair or cooking meat, closest I can describe is singing a pig. Then I heard this sound like lips smacking together very close to me. I got out of there at that point.