Paranormal activity claimed at backpackers

Published: 9:02PM Wednesday June 02, 2010 Source: Close Up

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Tales of t-shirts being tugged, objects moving across a room, and strange sounds at night, all add to the atmosphere for guests at a Christchurch backpackers.

Adding to the intrigue is the location - it was once the former Addington prison dating back to 1876.

It was the lock-up for lunatics originally and then criminals.

People rioted there, a few even died there, so perhaps it is not so bizarre to hear reports of strange happenings there.

Paranormal investigators along with our own ghostbuster, Jendy Harper, have been staking it out.

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