Pirongia. Mystical mountain of the Patupaiarehe.

#spirituality #interdimensionals #travel
In1996 I spent around four months travelling around the country of my birth before I headed away overseas for seven years. I ventured into some incredible locations and met some very interesting people as I hitchhiked around the islands. When I hitched from Rotorua into the Te Urewera National Park I got a ride with a former gang member and cannabis grower who had for years grown his crops on the slopes of Pirongia mountain.
He told me a story about about the experience of the final crop that he grew on the mountain, one which he left to rot rather than harvest. I queried why he had done this. Was he close to being arrested by the Police? The answer he gave to me was extraordinary. He told me that he had gone into the location where his crop was weeks before harvest to find enormous footprints all through the plants, footprints of a large bipedal hominid.
To him, this was a sign that the faerie folk, the Patupaiarehe, who supposedly had retreated to the mountain tops when the first wave of Polynesian colonists came to these islands had come down into his crop. I had heard stories of the strange happenings on this maunga (mountain), Pirongia. Since arriving back in New Zealand in late 2002 I had driven past this infamous peak and never come to climb it.
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[@kiwionarope]

I was with the MIlitary in the SOuth Island for a number of years. We spent many hours in the bush, so remote that we were dropped in by 3 Sqd when they were flying Hueys. We would be put in to search for loast trampers, hunters etc. A few times we came across strange things including big foot prints but the things I was most interested in was the stone ruins of little buildings. I contacted Te Papa about what I saw and they never got back to me and I never went back to these places as they were remote. I often wonder about what these were. One other thing that was awesome to see was an Eel that was as big as a car. The Eel was so big that the Pilot, when he saw it it first, actually turned the Heli around just to prove to the rest of us that he had seen such a massive eel. Again, this was remote, the old thing had been able to grow old without being hunted by boys eeling at night.

[@Ohoakebooks]

WOW! I LOVE stories like this! Thank you for sharing man! 😃

[@elettewheeler7893]

Museums have no interest in anything that departs from the official Smithsonian narrative. Giants skulls are definitely off their list. They're not interested. Look into the folklore and stories of the mountain near Raglan.

[@Ohoakebooks]

@@elettewheeler7893 No funding in exploring narratives that question the official one. I thought science was for the curious, seems as though this may be the case for some open minded scientists. There is too much evidence available to us now to deny that ancient texts from all over the world and traditional people's oratory knowledge of history that tell of a magical landscape to the close minded is imagination.

[@Boss.putinx]

Thats hectic bro .what were those buildings like you came across..and that eel wow..I've been told that they are like quite an ancient species ..can't remember how my uncle worded it but yeah they are kinda advance if you will

[@angelafoxmusic7265]

My family and I saw a massive eel like that years ago at an old pa site up Kaukapakapa way.

[@JM-me1vh]

James k Baxter wrote a beautiful poem for children about the Patupaiarehi people. My children loved it

[@sygrovesteve5819]

There are fairly recent stories of people seeing groups of these little people in the more remote parts of our country. I imagine they fled to the often cloud covered hill tops to hide as best they could from being hunted by Maori. They were called the children of the mist. They suffered from cold, starvation and respiratory ailments as a result and most perished. Sometimes their small skeletons were found but were assumed by archaeologists to be children even though they were clearly mature. They built small stone bee hive type dwellings which have been occasionally found. Some groups may still exist even now. As for the big footprints, the Sasquatch beings I am given to believe, can move through dimensions, and like to visit here quietly from time to time. You will never catch one or find their remains.

[@Ohoakebooks]

Sarah Cotter who works with manawa wanaga and rongoa, romi romi told me a few weeks ago that understanding that the Patupaiarehe still roam about the forests (ngahere) all over the islands at night, and we have to respect that, made me think about how I approach camping...🤣🥰🤔 our worlds collide often and we have the choice to be more aware and conscious about how we move between these worlds. I wrote a short story in 2008-2010 about the Patupaiarehe reacting to someone's anger, shame and guilt in the Te Urewera forest... and how a beguiled and downtrodden man becomes a warrior when he realises that his resonance scared the occupants of the ngahere into frightening mischief.

[@sejalahrae6331]

Thanks for sharing. I only just learnt about the Patupaiarehe in NZ. We have little people here in Australia too. I'm Indigenous Australian and in my tribe the little people are called "Ordabee-Ordabee" meaning 'Little Men' and "Gangaliguns" meaning 'Little Women'. But commonly we just say "Gangaliguns" to refer to them all. There are also some who are human sized. Their existence is acknowledged in our culture. There are many stories and encounters with them, even recently. We have cultural practices of leaving a few fishes behind for them if we have a successful fishing trip as a way of saying thank you for giving us an abundance of fish. We snap branches as a way telling them not follow us home (They will follow home if they are curious). They tend to come around our camps when we are camping. They have an interest in kids, and have been seen playing with them or trying to take them. The old people referred to them as other tribes that branched off from the rest of us and kept the knowledge and practice of deep magic/dreaming, so much that they have the ability to be seen but yet can remain hidden. There are multiple stories of their homes being underground and to reach their places you have to go under the water through rivers and springs to reach their dwellings. My grandmother spoke of witnessing her baby sister being snatched up by one of them one night whilst sitting around a camp fire out in the bush. One of the Gangaliguns ran off with the baby towards a spring, but my grandmother's mother ran after them and threw a fire stick at them and caused it to drop the child. One of my grandfathers spoke of being taken underwater down into their dwelling and said it was a huge big cavern like place where they all had their places set up. He spoke of how the king/leader had one leg and a stump log for the other leg. The story was backed up years later when a man camped on our traditional lands and said he also got taken down to their dwelling and seen the same king/leader with a stump log leg. That's just a few stories, there are a lot more encounters. I've also had two close sightings of Dumbun (What we call yowies/bigfoot/hairymen in our language). So many stories, but yes they are real. It's fascinating how almost every culture and country has similar stories of these beings. Makes you wonder who they really are...

[@Ohoakebooks]

Wowzers. I love it. I'm coming back to Australia in September. I travelled all around Australia and Tasmania when I lived there in the late 90's. I've returned to visit WA to see if I wanted to move back there again, but decided against it when I discovered the city I loved was gone, lost to 'progress' in the shape of the mining boom that smashed Western Australia. When I hitched across the Nullaboor from Port Augusta to Norseman I got a ride with a truckie who told me he had a Yowie experience in the Southern Queensland/Northern Rivers region. I thought he had been driving on 'pink champagne' (goey/speed) but he told me he was sober, he didn't do speed driving road trains. Buzzed me out. I've had an interest in such things since, and when I come back to Southern Queensland/Northern Rivers myself, I'll be invoking some energies to invite connection with such beings. I'm fascinated by your deep understanding of the people's that occupy your ancestral lands! Where about's in Australia are you based?

[@elettewheeler7893]

Yes, plenty of evidence if one delves deep. If you can find a copy of Velikovsky's 'Worlds in Collision', he even references Maori folklore in relation to simultaneous Earth and cosmic changes happening at the time on both sides of the world. Night and day.

[@icevoss9917]

And let me tell you, we had to change a tire in the forest by the Kawerau dam up there, I could feel evil lurking around us. Next thing I started photographing and what is seen on the photo isn't from our realm. I never drove through that forest short cut to Taupo again

[@Ohoakebooks]

I'll be driving up that way in the next couple of days. Wonder what happened up that way historically?

[@angelafoxmusic7265]

Ooh, interesting. Can you share?

[@rickyl9540]

@@Ohoakebooks I had contact with a Maori guy from Kawerau that insisted he had seen 9 foot Sasquatch many times as a teenager in the forest. He said they were terrifying and shared a lot of detail. I travelled alone from Auckland to the exact location and spent several hours there. I found some X structures and foot prints but no encounter on that day. I have just come back from 2 weeks at Harrison Hot Springs near Vancouver Canada and met many people who had encounters through their life. I live in the Waitakere's and have had an encounter in a local forest and my friend took a photo of a face that maybe a Patupaiarehe. I can send you the face and story if you are interested? I am very keen to meet anyone that would like to hike into the local forests and explore. I am sure they are inter dimensional beings with Yogic siddhis . They are described in the Vedic scriptures of ancient India as Yakshas and possibly Rakshasas. It describes they reside in a subtle realm above the Earth's atmosphere and travel here at will. They can be invisible or in a distorted form or fully manifest. They can shape shift , mind speak and get into your mind and make you freeze with certain frequencies.

[@dawnezone8491]

Kia ora, thank you for sharing this story ♥♥

[@kathrynmorgan2001]

Thank you 🙏 I live on the foothills of Mt Pirongia and feel so blessed to be here. Most days I go up to sit in the streams of the Maunga and hoping one day I see the fae. 💚

[@Ohoakebooks]

It's a magical place. I feel that these 'islands' of forest in the green desert of the North Island that are mountains and ranges are the last refuges of the magic that once was held in the forest that covered the lowlands. Pirongia is a very very special place. I have had a few people tell me stories about that mystical mountain since moving back to my country of birth in 2003. You're living in a beautiful location Kathy.

[@josephpaerau9144]

Many old stories about the patupaiere they used to play music late at night they weren't fairies they were fair skinned with red and blonde hair they taught us how to weave nets they came out at night waitakeres would be interesting to explore as would the waipoua forest

[@Ohoakebooks]

Epic man... wild stuff man. I'd love to see one!

[@macky4u]

I grew up with stories my Mum shared with me about my Grandfather and other Uncles who carved the first road through Waipoua and how they would put raw meat around their campsite to keep them from entering in when they would sleepover in the forest. They would hear ethereal flute music and low chanting now and than and would raise the hair on their necks. I would’ve loved to of experience that however with the encroachment of human activity and loss of our natural bush like any other sentient being that we share this planet with, are under threat. We live in Australia for now and our 20 year old son happened to ask what I knew about our Patupaearehe last night so I shared what I knew. I also shared they are there to remind us to respect, nurture and care for our native ngahere. Travel well and thank you for sharing.

[@Ohoakebooks]

A pleasure to share. I'm heading back Australia at some point in the new future, not necessarily to live, but for some travel. Now there is land where the consciousness of the planet awakens you if you let it, and then shares its secrets.@@macky4u

[@Jojo-z2s6q]

Stayed there at night you can see all the orbs opposite the camp grounds watching you

[@elettewheeler7893]

Seven of us went off track on Pirongia, stepping stones up a stream. Suddenly, something got into us and we simultaniously all went bush for no reason. We were lost (but together) for about 4 hours. We ran across someones hidden weed patch, and scarpered. Sometimes the bush was so thick, we had to crawl under it to get through. I was scared we'd have to spend the night up there, but we kept heading down hill until we found the stream again. It was very disorientation, and at one stage we were chased by wild bees, and some got a few stings. It has never made any sense why we did that.

[@Ohoakebooks]

Whoa man... the stories just keep getting more and more wild man. Thanks for sharing!

[@PTSDRemission-PRENEUR]

cheeee......neat alright. wod a cool korero.

[@ltgood]

I recently moved to the foot of Pirongia and I didn’t know you could drive over the Maunga until my son visited and told me Apple Maps directed him up Pekanui Road onto Okupata Road. Now it’s the only way I like to get home from Ak where I grew up but was never home. Im often late coming back from Ak and just love that mountain at night. I knew of the Patupaiarehe and have been respectful in the knowing. Now I must climb to the top this summer.

[@shaygeange6052]

The foot prints are probably from Kahui Tipua , it's what maori in the south island called dogman back in the day . They're scary as with a face like a fox and wolf combined . Waitakere Ranges , there are a few there and you will never forget the experience .Stay safe

[@kenmilne2379]

Love yr stories ! They r spellbinding ! Thnk u ❤️ 👍👍

[@johnrualmond2176]

Thanks ohoakebooks for that tasty aside; So great to see someone with such an open mind to appreciating what this land has continued to veil; We too have walked and horsed several times, some of Te Urewera, mostly up the Matahi valley, to Maungapohatu and Waikaremoana and back, as this is Our MANA-WHENUA; although We don’t go looking for ‘trouble’, having ‘eyes to see and ears to hear’ means being mindful of the environment; We’re looking forward in anticipation of more rambling exploits and observations, material, or otherwise; MA-TE-WA;

[@Ohoakebooks]

That whenua is where I situated my Lemurian Tohunga lineage (for one of my characters from the novels Entwined/United, Pablo Wairua). If there was place of great mystical and historical mystery school that aligned with papatuanuku that is the location where I would hide the most powerful mystery school to ever grace the planet.

[@milkypeanit]

We had "mystery schools" in multiple locations and they were called wananga. Is this in line with tikanga or even ethical to create your own mythology for profit set in Te Urewera? Tohunga also still exist and practice culturally. These are living cultures, not things to cherrypick and exploit.

[@Ohoakebooks]

@@milkypeanit The wananga I created that exists in the Te Urewera was from Lemuria, gifted only to the Tuhoe. It is right from the path of harmony, balance and peace, the force of Yin to the darkness (absence of light) Yang. In the end it is this force that prevails in this cycle of Yuga in my work. Whether it is ethical to give such power to traditional cultures (Pablo Wairua had Quechua mother, Tuhoe father) is up for debate. I see planetary kaitiaki as traditional cultures, some souls incarnate have also taken up that mantle, as they remember their whakapapa. It's not for me to say whether anything is 'ethical', and I'm not interested in politics. I tell stories, and empower people.

[@stephenlennon7369]

John Almond or Seweny a half Maori/pakeha that been living in Matahi and has children to one of his relatives

[@rozh55]

Got chills reading this!.wonderful.aroha a marama from the UK.🙏

[@cassiereid6646]

That was very interesting listening that Thankyou

[@user-oh4yd5uh4e]

Last week I was tramping in the bush in that area and I walked up to the the top of that mountain. As I was on the top I stopped for a feed. I had a banana that was bent to the left and all of a sudden it bent to the right.

[@Ohoakebooks]

hahaha too much!

[@samaxbey6697]

Thank you for sharing💫🌬️💜

[@YKATO871]

Might have been the Moehau bro, Aotearoas version of the bigfoot…..I live not far from Pirongia maunga, my whaanau have many many stories of encounters and happenings with the patupaiarehe reaching back into the early days.

[@Ohoakebooks]

Man, that's wild. Thanks for sharing!

[@3rty7]

@@Ohoakebooks yep, I’d say Moehau, not patupaiarehe

[@angelafoxmusic7265]

The Patupaiarehe were in the Waitakeres. The maunga across from Pirongia, Kakepuku, (a beautifully shaped cone) was the last bastion of the Patupaiarehe.

[@Ohoakebooks]

That's far out!

[@iancassie9840]

getting INCREASINGLY pulled into the logic nz has BEEN INHABITED FOR A REALLY LONG TIME AND MAORI are one of the many people s that have lived HERE , i think it will take the rest of life to catch up with the known ancient sites , that are often in plain everyday view eg AUCKLAND

[@Ohoakebooks]

Mauri were given the role of Kaitiaki. It's am honour, but yes, they weren't the first people here.

[@heminuiraho8235]

Ae we were here first...I know Ma Uri personally... that's my nana. You know her as Queen Victoria descendant of Catherine the Great.😊❤ Papa is king Wiremu

[@cassiereid6646]

I’ve seen large footprints, I’d studied many and these were something else!,leading up to my place from the beach, that day I heard a helicopter really close and opened my window looked up and saw 2 metres away to my surprise an army dude in a helicopter with door open and he was crouched by door. So close! I often wonder if they were looking for whatever it was that made those footprints., on the roof. Never did find out but I’ll never forget those large footprints ( yes definitely bigger than any human), they were wet and sandy on my wooden steps. Whatever it was came from the beach.

[@user-oh4yd5uh4e]

Last month I was surfing at Mount Maunganui. After I got out of the water I sat down on the beach for a feed. I was holding a banana that was bent to the left and all of a sudden it bent to the right. I looked to the right in the direction theat the banana ws pointing and I also saw really big footprints in the sand.

[@cassiereid6646]

One day you may have a true experience, but if you find yourself terrified, frightened and questioning your own experience... remember your not the only one..

[@Bjornfreein83]

Wow you have potential to teach and share knowledge via KZbin and be huge . Just as your doing it in this vid . I know of them now I'm in Australia to

[@catrol5899]

Youre right about the Ngati Hotu route. Patupaiarehe are lost souls in a time warp thanks to advanced technology of the ancients.They are tricksters and love to disorientate and want to interfere and enter our world with a certain glee.They are strong. I came across them too . Thank goodness Im a christian too....

[@Ohoakebooks]

Amazing. I know of many people that agree with you.

[@djslappy268]

Earlier this year I went for a stroll around the shore line of Lake Ōkataina to view some ancient Maori rock art. I was alone and it didn’t take long to notice something felt off. I could sense that I was being watched, I felt disoriented and kept being led the wrong way. There was resonant frequency in the air and I could sense it was affecting me. I become a little anxious so I turned around and gave up looking for the rock art.

[@Ohoakebooks]

Do you think/feel like the veil between levels of existence (frequencies) are getting weaker in some sacred/tapu areas of the country?

[@djslappy268]

@@Ohoakebooks I have only recently began investigating and visiting these tapu places so unfortunately I have no means of comparing it to previous stations in time. What I will say is many of my visits have left me overwhelmed, often sadness strikes hard. More needs to be done to preserve these special places, to tell their stories so that the Mauri can be revitalised.

[@Ohoakebooks]

@@djslappy268 Agreed.

[@yetiisoutthere8708]

​@@djslappy268 you live out that way?

[@djslappy268]

@@yetiisoutthere8708 did, moved a few months back

[@melaniecastle5850]

They are real alright! 100%

[@Ohoakebooks]

Have you had an experience with them? Man, it would be fascinating to do a documentary with people who have had encounters with them and hear whether they consider them fae, a lost people who can move between 'frequency bands' of creation or whether they are really adept at hiding from people when we walk into the forest.

[@melaniecastle5850]

I've heard them and felt them in the bush pretty much my whole life. They are like spirits/fae Until i saw Gary Cooks documentary about Patupaiarehe i didn't know other people heard and saw them and it clicked.

[@Ohoakebooks]

Did you feel a sense of curiosity coming from their presence? Or more a menacing presence? That's so wild. Where in the country have you felt their presence?@@melaniecastle5850

[@melaniecastle5850]

I'm in Nz. I think it depends where you are in the country.Very menacing at Lake Waikaremoana. But a beautiful presence in Northland

[@cassiereid6646]

@@Ohoakebooks the Patupaiarehe I believe saved my life once upon a time....

[@cassiereid6646]

Totally fascinating yes there be other beings out there in the bush and woods for sure. I’ve had many experiences and am grateful and enthralled, latest was.... I won’t say but I did tell a part Maori guy about it and he said the hairs stood up on his neck.

[@bobbiemuraahi]

got alot where,we,staying, on farm but they,alright, our,dogs,know,they there,give,the show,away that's, good spirit, people's, know,that why sometimes, they dont,like dogs, in some,ways,,but bark things,moving around, night time,good tho,dream of them,warn you of things someone, coming see you or there danger,,with in the realm,of the spirit, waiura.

[@acerudy5815]

hey im beginning my journey . im looking for a guide and teacher of the old. The Kaimanawa Wall and its purpose is within me. every thing you speak of is true.

[@user-oh4yd5uh4e]

Maori mythology is something left over from the infancy their intelligence. Take for example the myth of the slowing down of the sun. In the days of old Tamanuiterā, the sun, used to move through the sky at much too fast a pace for humanity to complete all their days' chores leaving long, cold nights that lasted for many hours while Tamanuiterā slept. Māui and his brothers journeyed to Tamanuiterā's sleeping pit with a large rope, which in some tellings was made from their sister Hina's hair. The brothers fashioned the rope into a noose or net, and in doing so "discovered the mode of plaiting flax into stout square-shaped ropes, (tuamaka); and the manner of plaiting flat ropes, (paharahara); and of spinning round ropes", which when Tamanuiterā awoke found himself caught in. Using a patu made from the jawbone of their grandmother, Murirangawhenua, Māui beat the sun into agreeing to slow down and give the world more time during the day. So you see if that had not happened McDonald´s would only be serving breakfast.

[@rpura4883]

No. Our stories are our most precious Taonga. We share them with our mokopuna and in doing so we tether them to their tupuna. Intellect will hinder ones spiritual connection. It will cause them to only see what appears to the eye. It will never allow one to see beyond the veil. If you can't see beyond the veil than Te Ao will never yield it's intelligence which teaches how to live. Polynesians have stood for far longer than Europe. Even if all the islands sink, we will never let go of who we are and who we come from.

[@millyon_dollaro_0views]

Both of you are rather how to say on to it i would say awaken or knowing well ill share with yous this they say myth and legend it all is truth i grew up with the storys i new them i grew up then it hit me the myths replayed in my head where would you go to slow the sun te tairawhitti the coast of sun shine ? Well im born 1st city to see the sun in the world so it says i looked into and yes he settled where he slowed the sun its in my line from him he pulled up new Zealand i feel that story sounds like what if he was in the flood hes pull it up but the water is going down he needs fire but all the story's mean real things after he pulls up new z land he waka landed on hikurangi and my family say they owned that area a rather large area big then the region now knowen as the first city to see the sun his haka speaks of a spiritual battle and he was right its is and his land stolen and his children murdered but some how im here and i take it all in they tryed to erase him or make him a myth and legend but its true heres the tricky part he was a real man when he was born all his brothers all named maui the one who pulls up nz was premature his mum wraps him in her hair then puts him in the ocean a lil like moses ? but the waves bashed him around and he lived but it says he was raised by his grandfather im thinking he was raised by God then told take the jaw bone was a patu made ?and a hook then he was told go far then catch nz so much of it to me each story i see what is written in bible like his trip for fire in bible there were ones that walk in the flames and did not burn i believe this is ro_0ts and culture that his descendants are very special theres also 3 bags another very special meaning thats tied to the begin of first people in moses day its a spiritual battle of dark forces in high and low places

[@zweed69]

@@rpura4883 polynesian culture is older than european culture? really? I mean, I dont want to offend you of course, but I am sure you are quite wrong on this sorry. Aurignacian culture dates back 64,000 BC 🤷‍♂

[@rpura4883]

@@zweed69 but you don't know that culture or their knowledge. This current net result tells us your people know nothing but manipulation and control. That's incredibly low intelligence.

[@milkypeanit]

Sasquatch, yowie and patupaiarehe are completely different. It's not "anyone's guess", there are tribal traditions that are publicly available that state patupaiarehe stole Maori women and were said to have interbred with them.

[@Ohoakebooks]

Sarah Cotter who I see for Romi Romi in Auckland told me last week that it's tapu to be in the ngahere after dark (she told me a story about the Patupaiarehe and their mischief in the Waitakere ranges and the Opitiki gorge. She's super sensitive and said you have to honour their domain otherwise they will mess with you. That was a real mind blower for me. I camped in the Waitakere ranges all through my childhood with my cousins and grandparents...

[@rickyl9540]

@@Ohoakebooks I live in the Waitakere's but the bush is so dense . I would love to camp in there but never sure how to enter and not get lost. Or do you go to somewhere like Whatipu and just go a little off track?

[@Ohoakebooks]

@@rickyl9540 Thanks to the Kauri dieback, you can't walk a lot of the trails where you can camp in there. If you can just stroll in and camp somewhere in there, do we ask for permission first?

[@rickyl9540]

You ask permission if you consider the local council owns the forest perhaps? They now say Kauri die back has been there 300 hundred years anyway so its not as urgent and severe as claimed. Also they have made very little effort to study and overcome the disease. Maybe they close the forest for other reasons? A soldier says he got chased out of Karamatua by a Sasquatch. Overseas they apparently shut down forests overseas when they become to prevalent. Also ..Woody Guthrie sang "This land is your land, this land is my land,etc". Some may say it's a God given right to visit a forest and shouldn't be under anyone's control! 😉

[@Ohoakebooks]

@@rickyl9540 A cat just sent me some facebook clips of a face he captured on film peering out from behind a tree in the Waitaks... can't post it on here... but man... it looks like ET! Who is it? No idea! Looks legit though!

[@icevoss9917]

Mate I thought that this were only dumb stories, then I photographed them and other spirits. I seen things cross the road at night, so you can believe the Maori and their stories they are true

[@Ohoakebooks]

Whoa dude... ever considering sharing those images? That's far out!

[@jeffreyspiers106]

Stay up there by urself for 1 a night other than shit your pants you will come out a different person

[@PTSDRemission-PRENEUR]

the scared maori fulla..........those huge footprints were probably another entity........maori bigfoot not Patupaiarehe.