The New Zealand Society for Psychical Research Archive

Record summary

The New Zealand Society for Psychical Research maintained a regional tradition of investigating apparitions, hauntings, clairvoyance, spiritualism, and survival claims, with newsletters, talks, case files, and local contacts continuing into the period. The archive is a discovery route for identifiable New Zealand mediumship and anomalous-experience reports that may not appear in international journals. It also permits comparison between amateur case collection and laboratory research. Researchers must establish which materials survive, whether a report was firsthand, and how the society assessed alternative explanations.