Ghosts are all stirred up after New Zealand earthquake

From DATELINE ZERO – The 2010 Canterbury earthquake was a 7.1 magnitude earthquake, which struck the South Island of New Zealand at 4:35 am on 4 September 2010 local time (16:35 3 September UTC).

Quoting the Wikipedia article, “the quake caused widespread damage and several power outages, particularly in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand’s second largest city. Two residents were seriously injured, one by a collapsing chimney and a second by flying glass.

One person died of a heart attack suffered during the quake, although this could not be directly linked to the earthquake. Mass fatalities were avoided partly due to New Zealand’s strict building codes, although this was also aided by the quake occurring during the night when most people were asleep at home.”

Oh ya, and it also stirred up a bunch of friggin’ ghosts.

That last bit isn’t in the Wikipedia article (although, maybe it should be). But according to an article at Stuff.co.nz, living people are seeing dead people around New Zealand after that earthquake.

At least one paranormal investigator claims that the “sheer strength and power” of the September 4 earthquake has “more than doubled the number of reported supernatural events in Canterbury.” This earthquake, then, was a major event on many different levels.

New Zealand Skeptics issued a statement that reports of ghosts may have been due to “people’s minds playing tricks on them in the post-quake environment. You may not feel an aftershock, but it will still make things rattle. People’s minds fill in the blanks, and they tend to fill in the blanks with fairytales, unfortunately.”

Christchurch Paranormal Investigators founder Anton Heyrick said his team had received an “interesting influx” of phone calls and emails after the 7.1-magnitude earthquake, with more than double the usual number of inquiries.

“People are calling us, saying that they had always felt like there was something in the house, but since the earthquake it had become more intense,” he said. …

Continue reading, from the full article at Dateline Zero.