Our July 2023 visit

Firstly, we have a wonderfull visit to a beautiful place.
My wife and I were working in the area and I’ve always wanted to visit, I didn’t know about the experiences of others and there was no intent to visit a haunted site, in fact I will normally stay away due to prior experiences.
We arrived midday on the Saturday afternoon, we walked to the front entrance, being winter there was no one around. I hesitated at the bottom of the steps, We paid our entrance and proceeded in.
My wife and I read the info on the ground floor walls, very interesting history, the ground floor was uneventful for us, while proceeding up the stairs the atmosphere changed, for me in particular. I put it down to having a busy week and being a bit unfit.
The 2x room at the rear of the stairwell, nursery, maybe? As soon as I entered It felt like I had someone standing on my chest, a real heavy presence, more than 1, I backed out and it cleared in the stairwell landing. I proceeded around the landing, there where curtains across he bedroom, I think this was Constance’s room, I didn’t realise my wife was already in side, she walked out just saying nope, nope no fuckin way, intense nausea, she never feels like this.
I proceeded in to find the most euphoric overwhelming and enveloping sense of comfort, realising it wasn’t right I circled the room and departed.
We continued up the spiral staircase and onto a landing up top to see a fantastic view of the harbour and surrounds.
We continued but on the way down the stairs I had the feeling of needing to stay, needing to revisit the room and then becoming fixed on the stairs, until my wife got angry, physically taking my hand and snapped me out of it.
We both acknowledged that the is more than one presence in the castle. We walked the grounds, which were beautiful and headed to the front lawn area, where I felt the watch and the drawback of someone from the upstairs bedroom.
We left stayed the night in Dunedin and basically felt uncomfortable for the night.
We travelled back to Christchurch, an uneventful trip.
Unknown to me, my father in law who lives with us felt an unease in our house while we were away, he has now recently told us he though something was following us back, a religious man, he said his prayers, cleansed the house and property and we haven’t felt the same presence again.
We asked the lady downstairs in the gift shop with no real confirmation either way of others experiences.
When you visit please enjoy
Posted: 2024-07-14 16:19 by Dave