Auckland City Ghost Tour
Auckland, New Zealand
Trip Type: Ghost & Vampire Tours
Duration: 2 hours
The Auckland City Ghost Tour is a lantern lit small group walking tour of Auckland's most historic streets. We navigate through some of the oldest areas of Auckland and learn the authentic stories of the macabre and bizarre as your Ghost Walker tells haunting stories of murders, suicides and hangings all on a 2-hour journey through the night of Auckland City.
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The Auckland City Ghost Tour is a lantern lit small group walking tour of Auckland's most historic streets. We navigate through some of the oldest areas of Auckland and learn the authentic stories of the macabre and bizarre as your Ghost Walker tells haunting stories of murders, suicides and hangings all on a 2-hour journey through the night of Auckland City.The Tour begins when we meet our guests beneath the Great Clock of Britomart Train Station. We take you behind the building and begin with the history of Auckland City from precolonial times to the founding of Auckland City. You are treated to stories of World War 1 and the Great 1918 Influenza Pandemic.
The tour is led through a number of historic locations, alleyways and around the original shoreline of the city. You will be given a detailed history of the native New Zealand Maori and learn such things as cannibalism, head shrinking, tribal warfare from a nation of warriors bred for the purpose of war.
The tour continues through a few murder locations including the location of the Short St Massacres resulting in an all out brawl between servicemen after World War 2. Beyond this area we arrive at The Queens Ferry hotel site of New Zealand's oldest Pub established in 1865, there are options available on tour to have snacks and refreshments when we reach this part of the tour at an extra cost. You will be graced by its hallowed hallways and narrow staircases leading into the Gin Room which still commands its presence of the mid 1800's even in this age of technology it is as if time stands still within its walls.
We carry on after refreshments and rest stops at The Queens Ferry Hotel and head to the site of New Zealand's first prison. Home to a few ghosts as a result of the prisoners being buried into the foundations of the building. Tales are told of the former justice system and some light is shed on the public hangings which took place here and the techniques implemented in taking the lives of prisoners.
Upon completion at the first prison our sights are set for another highlight of the tour, the Famous Suitcase Murder of Auckland City, before heading to the Civic Theatre, one of the last Atmospheric Cinemas in the Southern Hemisphere. Beware this building is absolutely majestic and has been known to hold our guests captivated for quite some time as they learn of the Theater's Grey Ghost and it's Indian Architecture.
Then it is on-wards and upwards to Albert Park a beautiful park set within native trees and gondolas but this place holds a terrible secret as dark as the night itself. Many have taken their lives here and guests will also get an intimate account of the Influenza Pandemic and even further into the past your guide will explain how the Maori lived in this park prior to European colonization.
The Tour ends after guests are treated to stories of a secret cult, mysterious murders in a prestigious Hotel on Princes St, and the story of a milk company who harbors secrets so deadly people were executed to keep them and the history of it's building dating back to the early 1900's.
We end the tour at a site famous for it's experimental treatments at an Asylum before guests are dropped off at the end of the tour.
The tour is led through a number of historic locations, alleyways and around the original shoreline of the city. You will be given a detailed history of the native New Zealand Maori and learn such things as cannibalism, head shrinking, tribal warfare from a nation of warriors bred for the purpose of war.
The tour continues through a few murder locations including the location of the Short St Massacres resulting in an all out brawl between servicemen after World War 2. Beyond this area we arrive at The Queens Ferry hotel site of New Zealand's oldest Pub established in 1865, there are options available on tour to have snacks and refreshments when we reach this part of the tour at an extra cost. You will be graced by its hallowed hallways and narrow staircases leading into the Gin Room which still commands its presence of the mid 1800's even in this age of technology it is as if time stands still within its walls.
We carry on after refreshments and rest stops at The Queens Ferry Hotel and head to the site of New Zealand's first prison. Home to a few ghosts as a result of the prisoners being buried into the foundations of the building. Tales are told of the former justice system and some light is shed on the public hangings which took place here and the techniques implemented in taking the lives of prisoners.
Upon completion at the first prison our sights are set for another highlight of the tour, the Famous Suitcase Murder of Auckland City, before heading to the Civic Theatre, one of the last Atmospheric Cinemas in the Southern Hemisphere. Beware this building is absolutely majestic and has been known to hold our guests captivated for quite some time as they learn of the Theater's Grey Ghost and it's Indian Architecture.
Then it is on-wards and upwards to Albert Park a beautiful park set within native trees and gondolas but this place holds a terrible secret as dark as the night itself. Many have taken their lives here and guests will also get an intimate account of the Influenza Pandemic and even further into the past your guide will explain how the Maori lived in this park prior to European colonization.
The Tour ends after guests are treated to stories of a secret cult, mysterious murders in a prestigious Hotel on Princes St, and the story of a milk company who harbors secrets so deadly people were executed to keep them and the history of it's building dating back to the early 1900's.
We end the tour at a site famous for it's experimental treatments at an Asylum before guests are dropped off at the end of the tour.
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