A paranormal explore at Tokanui abandoned asylum, With spiritbox session, New Zealand 🇳🇿
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Exploring an abandoned and Haunted insane asylum Nz
Tokanui Hospital[1] was opened in July, 1912, and was closed in March 1998. The first patients travelled from another psychiatric hospital in Wellington by train. The hospital was self-sufficient in its early days, with its own farm, bakery, laundry, and even a sewing room where patients clothes were made. At its peak there were over a thousand patients living in the hospital, but by the late 1960s the beginning of the end was coming. In 1974, the government decided no more buildings were to be erected in the large psychiatric hospitals, and small psychiatric wards began to be opened attached to general hospitals in urban areas.
The worldwide move to deinstitutionalisation and community care gathered momentum in the 1980s, and the government produced another white paper on deinstitutionalisation, and the Principal nurse of the time travelled overseas to look at facilities in the UK. Many staff found it impossible to believe that the hospital which had been a major employer in the rural area, and provided jobs for entire families over generations would ever close. Opinion was divided as to whether it should stay open, with some staff strongly believing it ought to, and others thinking it was time for a different way of doing things.
Patients who had lived for years of their lives at the hospital were thoroughly institutionalised and saw the hospital as home, other patients who came for shorter periods suffering from clinical depression, anxiety, OCD, etc., felt isolated and missed their families and friends. The catchment area for the hospital extended to New Plymouth on the west coast and Gisborne on the east coast, and up towards Auckland, and across to the Bay of Plenty. Patients from these areas found it difficult to maintain contact, and over time became isolated from their families.
The Hospital Board was forward thinking and put aside money in the early 1990s to set up residential services in the community for both intellectually disabled and chronically mentally ill and two trusts were formed to develop these services (Rakau Ora, now called Pathways, and the Waikato Community Living Trust). The move towards closure gained momentum, and by March 1998 the last long stay patient had left the site for "Community care".
The land had been taken originally under the Public Works Act for the hospital, and has since been land banked with the Office for Treaty Settlements to revert to its original owners (the local hapu and iwi). Many of the buildings remain intact, although the Nurses Home, G Ward, and H Ward have been demolished.
There is a cemetery on the old hospital farm which contains the remains of over 500 patients, both Maori and European, buried there between 1912 and 1968. After this time pauper patients were buried in the local Te Awamutu cemetery. The farm is now run by Ministry of Agriculture, and there is a Memorial stone at the cemetery site..
Current use:
The hospital farm was handed over for agricultural research in the 1970s. The hospital buildings remain derelict, and the site is not used, though parts have been fenced off for grazing. The fifty or so staff houses are rented out, and the sewerage system which used to be run by the hospital is still in operation to service these homes, managed by Waikato District Health Board.
Security:
While most valuable items have been removed, large amounts of copper spouting remains on some of the buildings. Other materials which may be attractive to thieves are still in place, as none of the buildings have been demolished. Health hazards also exist, namely asbestos insulation. Because of this, Waikato Security Services security guards watch the area 24/7.
Information, Asylum closed in 1998
Reviewed ghost radar words were
(In this order)
Foreign, disappear, He'd, Track, Check, (After ghost box session ghost rader voice)
Daughter
SB7 spirtbox voices and questions were
Help!
(Questions asked) "Is there anybody here with us"
(Replies) yip, yes (Male voice)
(Question asked) "were you inside this building"
(Replies) Yip, yes (Male voice)
Tonight (Female voice)
Look out (Male Voice)
Help (Male Voice)
(Before approaching sensor)
Look forward (Male Voice)
(Approaching sensor unaware)
(Male Voices say) Back!, Back!, look out!, Get Back!
Hi great vid at 1:25 min in there is a figure on your left walking around the corner, is that your accomplice??? security or ghost???
That's my photographer Morticia, but you not the first person to comment and say that lol, thanks for watching and commenting 😎👍
So interesting that the guy was helping you explore 🤯
@@scatlar2Totally my personal opinion; judging by the history of this horrid facility; I'd guess that the spirits would be keen af on helping expose anything they can! The govt is still, to this day, so darn tight lipped about this location... Why? I mean, I can guess why... but, it shut down in 1998 right? Makes you wonder why they still actively patrolling this 'abandoned' asylum aye!
Totally agree with you, places like that are riddled with evil spirits as we well know, the insane are always experiencing hearing voices and seeing spirits which is NOT THEIR FIGMENT OF IMAGINATION. Too the mentally insane psychopath it is “real” to them and I wholly believe they are demon possessed. I know all those buildings and some of the sick things that happened to some patients who were sexually molested. So called “normal” humans are worse than the patients themselves which leads them to be mentally sick. The reasons behind the security guards still patrolling the grounds and buildings is druggies think that those buildings still contain drugs. Finances is the issue because of high maintenance and costs in administration and wages. Most of my family worked there and across the road was my families Maniapoto marae and family burial ground there. The Waikato is the area for the Maniapoto tribe.
Best video yet of Tokanui. Ive watched this now at least 12 or 15 times. Im totally obsessed with this place as much as I now the horrors and atrocitys that happened here. I was placed as a client in 1997 and wish id explored the place more while there but I was to not on a normal way of thinking then. Id love to spend an entire weekend there just to explore every single building and grounds of the place.
i have been through every inch of this place as a teenager with my mates about ten years ago,all of the rooms,there are tunnels underneath also ,we used to slip through a window and fall into an old bath that had a metal lid on it ,there were creepy xrays and medical equipment all over the place ,in the high security womans unit there was an old painting with a weird version of jingle bells written on the back,someone i knew took that painting and hung it in there home , amonth or so later he went nuts and burned his house down,even though its been so long ,i can see the whole place burned into my memory i know the place inside out,twice we where stalked by a huge man ,one day we were caught by security and he told us that he used to be a patient there and often old patients were found inside ,super sad place man
Its a very fascinating place was such a fun but Eerie place to explore, Thanks for watching 🙂
I feel anger everytime i see the walls of this place i went there in 1995 and locked in there for over a month all i feel is pain from that place and i want to burn it down i rekon any paitient that felt a hard feeling from been here we need to join up in our group of a thousand or more and set on fire and "us" to watch it burn and maybe along side with our very special staff member that took such good care of us and audilies especially just to watch"them" burn and hear there cries.
@@davidmathew603 I'm so sorry you had to experience this place. 💔
Thats out of it about that painting with a weird jingle bells bet it was twisted as. The ward i was in had these pictures in the hall only patients and staff could see there was one of kittens in a glory box one of a dog one of them very long hair dulux dog and another of a side veiw of a cat but they eyes were not showing in any of them when you look at them they look like how a mental person is and also lets you realise you also have brain that does not work also freaky as f pictures I went back to that ward few years back and where them pictures were the picture hook had litterally been hack sawn off, I honestly believe that these pictures were made by telekinesis and moved from ward to ward and asylum to asylum by telekinesis also and because tokanui is now decommissioned they had to cut the hooks off so the pictures can never be telekinesis back onto the walks and also there is a hill by the receiption that big administration building there used to be two drain pipes and were sticking out of the embankment and even had a man hole on top with lid,the crazy thing was they were blanks i went down to look at them while locked up in 1996 and they served no purpose they were just there to look like they did some sort of drainage but when i went back I tryed to find them culvert drain pipes and they are no longer there. Somone knows somthing and as crazy as some paitients did say strange things but this truely is just psyching. They used to head trip me because in the dining room the nurse's and audilies used to pop out from the back and i only learnt a few years back that there is almost false walls in that ward not false as such but definately out of sight from paitients and it head tripped me so they got a semi hard one over doing that for sure and them little control box room things where they could stand in and watch us sleep with control of all lights and even had a microphone to talk into speakers in the solitary confinement cells. That place should be shown to the public especially the 3 superintendent flats they were twisted to you would have to be fucked in the head to live in one of them flats. Wont go into detail of what i felt from them flats but hearing stories of them children and adults who got raped in that place is no freakin joke.
I only live down the road from this place, Its always been haunted before the place closed down.
So we were in a full foot pursuit out after video ended, and the spirt energy was very high, Was feeling affected by spirts even later that evening, will review further ghost box EVP's from the video and post later in the comments, Thank you for watching
Awesome video bro, keep the cool work. It looks like a huge place & meaning to have security etc. 👍👍
Was there .. and was also abused there . brings back shivers ...
Sorry to hear of your unpleasant experiences while staying their, But I appreciate you watching and commenting 🙂 👍
I remember being with my parents picking up a cousin from here for the weekends every couple of months. Really creepy place.
Legend, this is one location I've always wanted to see and explore lucky you did it now i know it has sensors etc, this was epic seriously if I never see it in person im stoked I finally saw it through your eyes..appreciated alot thanks, you could really hear the kiwi acsent on the spirit box session 👍
Cheers man thanks means alot 🙂🙂
@@TheForsakenExplorerNz +anytime, its so much epic and so much more then I expected, closest I ever got was the gate before surcurity and their guard dog turned up lol,
Is that where the spirit box says "grand daughter" That was a D blockers grandmother said that im sure of it.
my friend ashley iremonger and anna je jong worked as psychiatric nurses out at tokanui and saw a hell of a lot of abuse going on and miss-treatment of patients, i know ashley he was sworn to secrecy, there are a lot of children buried out there in un-marked graves, been murdered shortly before closure i know someone who was put there for chronic schizophrenia, she's since then passed away and nurses and shrinks working there never cared to put her right so i'de say with all the abuse and murders that went on out there this place is highly likely to be hanunted
At 9:13 you stepped through the D Ward gate. That was a medium secure Forensic Ward. Held some of NZ most dangerous killers.
Wow very interesting, 🙂👍
Yes it was B13 where the criminally psychotic murderers were held. They had a very high security guards to protect if one escaped or attacked a staff. One case they had twenty security guards trying to restrain one of the mentally insane psycho that escaped from his cell when it was time to give them their meals. These criminals psychos are demon possessed and because it was a highly acute dangerous ward , staff were only allowed to work in that block for no more than 2 weeks. My aunty was the head nurse there and my cousin was a RN there. The two storey building with the white ladder was the nurses quarters
Sweet video!! What an insane location!! I gotta go here and film something 👌🤯
Yeah so long as you don’t get caught. I wouldn’t put these spirits to the test, you don’t know what you’re getting into but a danger zone.
Only dangerous for the inexperienced people as for me I've got a lifetime of experience with interacting with spirit's, I think I have close to 20 videos of this type now, Thank you for watching and commenting 😎👍
You must be in favourable terms with them.
A lot of bodies there which my late husband retrieved and given proper monuments for their families. His aunty lived her whole life there as she came out of Switzerland and lost her fiance and was put in Porirua as she was grieving. She was sent to Tokanui and because of the language barrier she lived her life there when there was nothing wrong with her. There was a lot of awful things there not only with the patients but with the staff. Local funeral directors built memories to the people who died.
Did she have a daughter with her? There's been a few articles, but can't remember the details.
Sucks they have almost locked that up like Fort Knox .... what a place.
Was an awesome place
This people who were mentally psychotic had to be placed in a safe environment, but,! what went on in there was not good both with the patients and staff.
Cool!!
Awesome I see you are doing a collab with my friend urban kiwiana. Looking fwd to seeing it
Me to will be awesome, thanks
@@TheForsakenExplorerNz looking at doing a napier tour in a few months the prison the hotel etc.
Nice one. Always wanted to have a nosey around there.
Was dodge got chased out, then he tried to catch up to my car
Why not! people are learning history here which they would have known if it was for people who know the back ground history of these places. As they say: knowledge is power used in the right way.
I used to live in The Crescent in Te Mawhai with my uncle Tref. A couple of friends and I took a horse each up the road to explore this place.... Horses are quite a sentient species. Looking back, those horses tried to guide us away from this place. I won't go into what happened coz it's the Internet, and I mean, I love science... that place is haunted for frekin' real. That's all I'll say! 😅
That's awesome thank you for sharing your experiences with the channel, Also thank you for watching 😎👍
The spirit realm is a place where there is demons that exists and yes that place IS haunted there’s no question about it. I would never visit that place knowing the full story of that place.
Hope u get to some big numbers in subscribers
Thank you that would be a great goal to achieve 😁👍
Very interesting video it is a shame you couldn't get inside though
Yeah older video this one, security is overkill there, glad I didn't get inside to be honest, the people who have been caught inside have been prosecuted fined and tresspassed
Wow!!
I was a locked up there when i was young wasnt haunted from what i recall but was one crazy place back then
Watch out for asbestos and black mold in and around the buildings and also the security guard with his dog
Yes, We wear protective gear when we spot asbestos or black mold,
Over the years i have been inside Pukeroa Waipukurau (no-long there), Lake Alice Whanganui, and Porirua mental and lunatic asylum. You can feel the spirist before you even get inside the buildings. Porirua was still functioning as a mental asylum, but on a very small scale. It also has a new building with very high security back in 1994 - 96
36 years ago my bro had his 21first here ,my koro asked if we could bring a feed out ,36 car loads turned up and he was in the secure unit ,my koro made the staff open the dinner room and get all the porangi people lol and staff for a kai 😅 I asked one to pass the Salt and he would not give it to me my bro laugh and said this guy was in for cutting a mans head off in ruatoria 😮 you keep the Salt buddy, anyways I gave my bro a Tinney under the table,I was young K ,that night he had a smoke with his mates there and four of them tryed to end themselves 😮yup never did that again, Jhonny didn't make it ,he killed himself at a family function,one year later,miss that man😢to all the people that go through mental health, you have my love and respect 😊 peace ❤
Did you blame colonisation for that?
@@user-oh4yd5uh4e nar I blame my dad for not taking account for his actions, wearing gang colours and not being a man, peace 😃
Then you are one of the very few. It is not important, you don´t need but you have my respect. @@Jeff-yb6rz
Wow
My grandmother spent time there for depression. Got ECT the lot.
My mother was there for depression too, when she was pregnant with me. I was named after one of the nurses here who Mum became friends with
so many abandoned 'loony bins' in kiwiland. kingseat is the one that sticks in my mind. that was spooky. believe me, i know.
Yes there are many, I've been to a few now, looking forward to filming much more in the future, thank you for watching 👍👍
Thanx for that you certainly are braver than me Wgtn
Your welcome, Thank you for watching and commenting 🙂 👍
This place is shocking ..
The buildings are left unkempt but the lawns kept trim
Yes very true the grounds are fully looked after, but the buildings very much untouched 🙂👍
Doesn’t cost much to keep the lawns in tidy but you can’t put good wine in an old wine skin bottle. If they maintained the buildings, Tokanui would still be in use.
gives me the creeps as well lol. I work in security but bugger that ! dd security come out ?
I've had a couple cousins go there for treatment and they used to tell me some scary az stories about Tokanui
when you first asked the voice i heard bill, then something that mighthave been tenada then a definate aiden.
What IS it about NZ ..soooo many rural mental facilities
The Government should use the land all abandoned asylums are on for housing developments. Makes sense when there's a major housing shortage and a nation wide homeless problem
If you saw the place even when It was a running asylum you would see the reality of why the government didnt do that. It was designed by the military and is as barbarac like early 19th century militry buildings were built it was only built for an out of sight out of mind place and if any normal person even if they chose to live there would eventually go a bit AWOL even the nursing units and drs flats are enough to make a sane mans mind wonder. Thats the reason why. It be nice if it could be have been saved for somthing but I believe just either lift the drs units up rebuild that in a museum have there true stories uncovered of what they did in that place take photos of the prison have them attached to there side show buildings the drs used to live in the museum bowl it over and give the land back to the Iwi.
They have developed the old kimberley hospital near levin. You dont keep what's there to make a halfway house, it gets developed. It all takes a long time, but I do agree if its Gov owned it could be put to some better use for sure. I believe the kimberley is now a retirement village. I never went there when it was abandoned however I have met people who recieved shock treatment there and people who got past the very aggressive guards to discover small padded rooms etc. A lot of spooky history and tales of an era that's slowly being replaced. Let us remember the story of those kept in such places and the experiments they endured.
Iwi owned
Yep every word spokenis the truth. People who laugh at such things are ignorant and will never understand what happened at Tokanui, because they have never worked in that environment.
Nah I live down the road and IV seen shit that still huants me to this day tokonui is a place off tapu we were told as kids to never go there and now I understand y
Sure story time bro ? Let us know your experience with the place
what a waste get some builders in there and use it again
Do you also have the app on your phone that can tell the dfference between bananas that are bent to the left and bananas that are bent to the right?
Oh yes definitely, how did you know?
What would have happened if you had gotten caught? Fined or told not to come back or something?
Possibly prosecuted, fined, not sure as didn't stick around to get caught to find out lol
Trespass warning from cops not to come back or $6-10k fine or 2 years inprisonment if caught there again
Hahaha what ever lol 😆 🤣
Reports say that it’s being demolished
This one's still there, You could be referring to another one
@@TheForsakenExplorerNz what other one? Are there 2 psychiatric hospitals in the waikato?
Not in the Waikato no, But I think the person asking the question saying it's demolished may have been referring to Lake Alice further down the North island
@@hewbambam tokanui
I heard "rape!"and Hear!" I felt the presence of a victim. Just my input
Yes you could very much be correct, I did hear very similar but chose to leave those parts out 🙂🙂
@@TheForsakenExplorerNz Just putting in my experience. I am sensitive. But also human and could be wrong
I felt a terrible feeling of hopelessness and no longer wanting to live
Can I assume from you actively dodging security sensors you were trespassing?
Not legally because they didn't have any signs saying "No Trespassing"
Trespass signs aren't productive(?). They don't change anything, the Trespass are the same, regardless.
Where in no is it?
I'm sorry I'm not sure what you are meaning?
🤐🤐🤐🤐🤐🤐🤐🤐
I'm not sure what this is implying 🤔, but ok then 😁
We're you tripping
Did Patricia just come to tokanui to watch?
Sorry who's Patricia?
@@TheForsakenExplorerNz Patricia was a paitient I remember i was in ward 7 with she had a pure heart i actually wonder if she was a nurse in n.z asylums before she saw things that gave her PTSD. Id go back there now just to ask her a few real questions that she would have answered with no fear of been punished for.
Is this in the south island?
The region is stated at the beginning of the video
@@TheForsakenExplorerNz it looks alot like one down here. You so need to get your roam on and go exploring down here. Sorry I watched the start of it with my sound down. It looked so much like Cherry Farm.
@@lawsthompson7871 still plenty up this way coming up, We're planning on doing a trip down to the south island at some point, plenty of cool places all over New Zealand 🇳🇿 to explore, Thank you for watching 🙂🙂
I'll definitely be watching :)
Shouldve found the morgue
Yes that was the plan, except instead we were pursued by the security guard
Its hard to navigate places like that. Im pretty sure I know where the morgue is allmost rite in the middle of that huge complex where there is a smoke stack and next to that there is a concrete garage looking place with only slim windows at the top you cannot look in unless you had a shoulder to stand on.
Sorry I'm not getting any of your comments, CZcams keeps blocking them for some reason
@@TheForsakenExplorerNz Im paranoid and in the dark I feel so much anger self pitty while watching your vids. That's why. Ive also been locked away in tokanui and diagnosed a paranoid one. That be why its blocking my angry shite.
Oh right ok 🤔
People name a place haunted and before you know it Ghostbusters that's after they realize drugs do really work,
They all ways knew cbd thc cured epileptic fits they just locked up a shit load of them to test lab made chemicals to try n find a new medicine but never found one. Many illnesses in places like these could only be managed with cbd or thc but it was not what big co opps wanted. There were a lot of sick people that could only be medicated with major tranquilizers more than cbd thc ones but so many paitients could have lived normal lives back a 100 years ago but it didnt happen. Asylums should have been still open to this day but for paedophiles rapists and the like but the world is a mess.
Yep D + D
Ashame NZ isn't that old of a country. Not really much of a history like say good old England or Prague.
We might not have old buildings or bones but we make up for it In that we are closer to events. History is very intriguing to me, where we came from, who was before us etc. I had a neighbor who would tell me about their shock therapy, scary to think that happened to them in such recent times. The verbal history of our land wars is still very fresh also. History is fascinating wherever you are and it goes as far back as you want to look.
NO... not a beautifull building ... you have no idea what i and others where put through behind those walls...
Sorry to hear this, I'm speaking of the buildings architecture rather then the activities that took place from within, I love the architecture but I definitely don't like the happenings of what occurred inside, Thank you for watching ❤
@@TheForsakenExplorerNz yes i hear you and i thank you...simply for you taking the time to reply to my comment. That itself shows me that you also care whats lays behind the concrete architectures of those buildings
Thank you
Your most welcome 🙂👍
This is an interesting and dark time in our recent history. These buildings will be demolished and replaced but what happened within will not be understood or recognized enough. A journo should do a series on the survivors of these places, mental health in nz and the lives afterward.
@@sniz1oner yes i agree people have no idea of the REALITY and the torment some of us where put through in that place.. and this still happened in the 1980s SHOCKING . The injust treatment i received was shocking at times and frankly it
gave me a whole new mental illness to deal with when i finally was free from this place ... called PTSD...
LOL you think its scary now you would have pooed yourself when there were patients but the staff made thier lives better they were safe there .
What a totally lame exercise.. Wondering around disused Facilities.
Hahaha , Video has had over 4600 views over 100 likes and I've got 1300 subscribers soooooo, that puts you on the less then 1% bracket soooooo ..........
If I may ask, why watch or comment if you have no interest in seeing this unused facility? Also if you could share with me what you do with your time other than judge other people? That would be great.
Yes totally 🙂👍
I fully retract my first and mistaken comment, I have watched many of your movies..and find myself intrigued and interested.. the content is fab and am now an avid viewer..
Thank you.. its brilliant.
Thank you cheers for watching 🙂👍
Paranormal activity detected on your mobile phone, Gee Whiz, Praise the Lord 😂😂😂
You're Not Too Bright are you mate!?
Bahaha no need for the insult!! you can't be too bright yourself if your not familiar with this app, it was created by a world renown paranormal investigator for the uses of investigations, fyi the phone used at the time is not active with no sim card, this video is old and we currently have invested in some gear from USA
Do you also have the app on your phone that can tell the dfference between bananas that are bent to the left and bananas that are bent to the right? @@TheForsakenExplorerNz