Research Catalog

Title

Unexplained New Zealand : ghosts, UFOs & mysterious creatures / Julie Miller & Grant Osborn.

Author

Miller, Julie.

Publication

Auckland, [N.Z.] : Reed, 2007.

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Additional Authors

Osborn, Grant.

Description

239 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Subject

• Cryptozoology > New Zealand
• Ghosts > New Zealand
• Unidentified flying objects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 230) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. 1. Ghosts. 1. North Island spirits (Auckland : the dead heart of New Zealand ; West coast Auckland : the coast of ghosts ; Northland : where the spirits depart ; Waikato : haunted hotels and caves ; Tarawera : the phantom canoe ; Tongariro : spirits of the unsettled earth ; Napier : restless spirits of past tragedies ; Wellington : board treaders from beyond the grave). 2. South Island spooks (Christchurch : ghosts of passion ; Arapawa Island : strange hauntings ; Haunted huts of the South Island ; West Coast : phantoms of a militant past ; Dunedin : New Zealand's most haunted ; Larnarch Castle : fortress of woe ; St Bathans : haunt of the unhappy hooker). 3. Celebrity ghost sightings -- Pt. 2. UFOs. 4. The great UFO flap of 1909 : invasion of the phantom airships. 5. Kaikoura lights : compelling video evidence. 6. Gisborne alien abductions : secrets of hypnosis. 7. Sky rods and sky fish : denizens of the heavens. 8. Space balls : orbs from outer space? -- Pt. 3. Mysterious creatures. 9. Moa : colossus of the forest. 10. Phantom panthers : shadow cats from the south. 11. The hairy Moehau : New Zealand's Bigfoot. 12. The waitoreke : fact or fiction?. 13. Creatures of the deep : in the news.

ISBN

9780790011769 (pbk.) :

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Harvard Library