Case file · Haunting
Kingseat Hospital
Kingseat psychiatric hospital at Karaka, south of Auckland, closed in 1999; its empty wards gained a reputation as New Zealand's most haunted building and now house a scare attraction.
1999 CE · -37.13, 174.82 · status: legend
The account
Opened in 1932, the hospital once held hundreds of patients. Paranormal investigators and television shows have filmed there, and staff of the attraction tell of a 'grey nurse'.
The sceptical view
Abandoned hospitals attract ghost stories; the commercial haunted-house use encourages them.