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TV3 Nightline story of Strange Occurrences investigating two Wellington locations in September 2009.

Radio NZ Documentary of Strange Occurrences investigating Inverlochy House, Wellington, in June 2009

Please note: at this stage, we are not posting our investigation reports on this site, but here are some photos of us investigating some unidentified locations.

Other investigation photos are posted on the Strange Occurrences Paranormal Investigation Facebook group page. You will need to join Facebook to join the group. The are also some discussion threads on paranormal topics.

The Library...

 

 

The Basement...

 

The Canvas magazine supplement of the Weekend Herald, 24th January 2009 ran an article on our investigation of Inverlochy House, Wellington, as its feature article. Thanks are due to journalist Alan Perrott who travelled down from Auckland to spend the afternoon and night with us as we worked on the investigation, along with members of Phoen-X PRI. A follow-up investigation of Inverlochy has been done and more will follow. Part of the article - actually just the sidebar - is on the NZ Herald site.

The Tunnel...

In 2008-2009 we have conducted and participated in investigations in Wellington, Horowhenua, Hawkes Bay and Wanganui. It is hard to establish what might be occurring at a site within the timeframe of a single investigation, so we are running several longer term investigations that involve repeated visits. That way we build a picture of the possible occurrences of paranormal activity in a place. Inverlochy House, The Wellington Museum of City & Sea, and The Basement are some of the sites we have investigated several times.

We are not inclined to reach conclusions such as whether a location is haunted or not, as we are dealing with phenomena we know little about. Our investigation process is centred around collecting and compiling evidence, hard or anecdotal, rather than making proclamations. Also, we do not try to eliminate, remove or "free" ghosts; we're not Ghost Busters!

Some of our activities can be seen on the Phoen-X Paranormal site, as we are closely allied with this group. Phoen-X also lists upcoming investigations which Strange Occurrences are either assisting in or have initiated.

The Fort...

Here are some photos taken by James during a precursory investigation of a Wellington building, mostly in the basement.

The photographs show some of the usual range of effects you get when a compact camera is used (see comments under larger photos). The camera used here was an elderly Panasonic Cybershot digital (photo below) with a tendency to turn overexposed areas magenta, and also with some cutoff on the top of the frame, which has been cropped off.

I used the camera fairly casually as a note-taking device, and not with the intention of deliberately creating any anomalies. Viewing the photos later, it was quite surprising to see the range of unusual effects recorded, all in one location in about 15 minutes. I believe I have explained most of the effects - see notes under enlarged photos, especially list of points with enlarged photo of digital camera.

Also see the short essay on ORBS.

Click on the photo to see a larger version with comments. Use Back button to return to this page.

If you have any thoughts on these photographs, or you have your own photographs to submit for our opinion, please get in touch by email:

j.d.gilberd@gmail.com - James Gilberd