Waitomo Caves hotel was first originally called Waitomo House, then in 1905 the Tourist Department bought it and renamed it the government Hostel. Waitomo Caves Hotel is situated on a site upon a natural point of limestone rock and there are a lot of glowworm caves below it, with a running stream. This is a very touristy part of New Zealand's North Island, with many activities available for guests from black water rafting, to touring the glow-worm caves and horse riding etc. guests report unexplained happenings during their stay at the hotel. Some people have experienced the dining room going cold, laughter, the feeling of 'something' walking through them and even the noise of a maids trolley going along the long stretch of hall in the lower part of the hotel.
Late in 2001, a program called "Hauntings" was screened on TV2, this was a series on all the hauntings throughout New Zealand, Waitomo Caves Hotel being one of them. There were two presenters with all the right ghost hunting gizmos. During the initial introduction of Waitomo Caves Hotel, the presenters were speaking with a staff member in the kitchen/gully, when the male presenter went suddenly rigid when walking toward the other people and claimed that he felt 'something' walk/brush through him... he went white as a sheet and was quite shaken up. After a tour of the hotel and after installing their equipment the presenters both chose a separate place in the hotel to bed down for the night. The male presenter slept in a small cupboard room near the infamous long, dark hall in the basement and reported that he heard wheels of a trolley and footsteps and the female presenter chose to sleep in the grand dining room, she got woken up with a start as something tugged hard at her big toe.
During the show, they also brought in a psychic, she claimed that there was a young girl standing by the fireplace in the dining room and that she could hear music, they then went up to one of the 'problematic' rooms and they couldn't get into the room, even though they had the master key to it, the psychic said that she felt a lot of anger coming from that room and that the man in the room was yelling that he just wanted to be left alone. Some time later they were able to open the door to the room, only for the psychic to get very uncomfortable and had to leave, the door slammed hard behind them by itself, they tried the door again and it was locked.
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