Spookers Page #3

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and they're all mates and they'd jump

off their tractors and just arrive

and they'd grab their chainsaws...

- BETH:
And bank managers.

- ANDY:
Yeah, and the local cop.

BETH:
Two bank managers

and the local policeman.

ANDY:
Yeah. And we'd just

run around like idiots.

It was so much fun.

BETH:
We turned the wool

shed into a haunted house

for Halloween one year

for kids and families.

We thought it'd be fun.

And then it got so busy in the

wool shed that we kept it open

while Corn Evil was open

and it ended up that

Andy used to have to truck

the sheep away to somebody else's farm

to get them shorn because our wool shed

was always a haunted house.

We started looking for somewhere

in Auckland to do a haunted house

permanently and have

it open all year round,

because with Corn Evil we could only do it,

January till the end of April,

and that's when the

maize all gets harvested.

ANDY:
Yeah.

BETH:
We found this building

and it all just started.

SPEAKER 1:
Like, you know, before

when it was a mental hospital,

I mean, there was mental patients in there,

did they, like, kick them

all out just to make this?

Or did they all die or something?

SPEAKER 2:
I doubt they all died.

SPEAKER 1:
Well, how did they...

SPEAKER 2:
They've could have transferred

them to another mental institute.

SPEAKER 1:
OK.

INTERVIEWER:
What do you think of them

turning it into a place like Spookers?

SPEAKER 2:
I think it's

a really smart idea.

- SPEAKER 1:
Yeah.

- SPEAKER 3:
Really smart.

SPEAKER 2:
Because there's already, like,

those, not rumours

but there's already like that sort

of rumour thing going about, like,

oh, yeah, it's haunted sort of thing.

But, like, to have the experience

of actually going in there

and being scared by, like,

everyday people, you kind of get...

SPEAKER 1:
You think it is haunted.

- SPEAKER 2:
Yeah.

- SPEAKER 3:
Yeah.

SPEAKER 2:
Like, for

all we know it could be.

But, like, for the people who are like,

it's not haunted, sort of thing,

they're still getting that, like,

still getting scared by it, sort of thing.

Yeah.

I think it's a really smart idea.

- SPEAKER 3:
Yeah.

- SPEAKER 2:
That was the basis.

SPEAKER 1:
Whoever came up

with the idea, well done.

- SPEAKER 2:
Genius.

- SPEAKER 3:
Well done.

JULIA:
We, you know, we did

really have to hum and ha of,

you know, should we be here

when we knew, you know, obviously

we found out very quickly it

was the old psychiatric hospital,

and we really did think

long and hard about it.

BETH:
Whether it was appropriate.

JULIA:
Yeah and I think

you'll find a lot of the nurses

and things that used to be here,

they actually just like that

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