Our neighbour is a genealogist and has been studying the history of our street and neighbourhood in Auckland – Arch Hill. He asked to borrow our hose today and these are some of the stories he told me.
- Our house is apparently the 2nd to oldest in Arch Hill, built around 1870, and used to be the shepherd’s hut for King’s farm which took up most of Arch Hill across to Kingsland.
- His house was built in 1890 and there is a secret well on his property that he can’t find. His kids also think their house is haunted and often see things in mirrors and lights turn on by themselves.
- Two hare krishnas blew themselves up accidentally across the road in 1976. They were planning on blowing up the meat works but accidentally did themselves instead. Their body parts were all over Great North Road and the street, and they found an arm on a roof of one of the warehouses. The shockwave tipped over cabinets and water cylinders in houses in the neighbourhood.
- A guy who went to a party at our house in the ’80s murdered another guy at the party – slit his throat and dumped him in a skip on the corner of the street and then went back to the party.
- A girl called Emily was murdered by her baby-daddy and whose hand in marriage she declined in 1875. She used to haunt the kindergarten down the end of the road until 6 years ago when they had a religious blessing on the site.
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