name='Bulldog Jack']Carmel et al.,
I wasn't joking about ghosts or rather some sort of "presence". The original Early Settler Family's pater familias was a former Chartist who brought his Liberal politics to the Lower Antipodes. He was a successful businessman, newspaper owner and editor and politician who, like most of the other Dunedin politicians, was quick to quarrel and hold a grudge. He was outlived by his enemies, and it was they who influenced the first histories of the Settlement. In a nutshell, "the presence" moved me via dreams to write a history of the family and put them in their well earned place in colonial history. There is much more to it, eerie things, that you'll have to ask me to describe since I don't know if any of you is remotely interested in Lower Antipodean Spirits.
BDJ