Chasing Ghosts

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Chasing Ghosts

Chasing Ghosts

Creator: NZ Herald

Chasing Ghosts is a NZ Herald true crime series, looking at some of the most notable cases from our past. In the new season, The Puppeteer, David Fisher re-investigates the case of a serial catfisher he exposed in 2011, after discovering there is more to the story. In the original Chasing Ghosts, An...

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25 episodes
NZH Presents - Rainbow Warrior: A Forgotten History

NZH Presents - Rainbow Warrior: A Forgotten History

40 years ago, two bombs went off in Auckland's harbour when French agents targeted a Greenpeace ship. It was meant to be a warning against anti-nuclea...

2025-07-09 05:00:00 132
Episode 5: Unmasking The Puppeteer

Episode 5: Unmasking The Puppeteer

For the first time in 13 years, David Fisher sits down with Natalia Burgess to talk about her catfishing. While he gains new insight into her life, ho...

2024-10-21 03:00:00 4547
Episode 4: Understanding Natalia

Episode 4: Understanding Natalia

Warning: This episode contains discussion around suicide.
In 2011, after outing her for her catfishing, David Fisher sat down with Natalia Burge...

2024-10-14 03:00:00 3431
Episode 3: Mothers and Daughters

Episode 3: Mothers and Daughters

While Natalia is best known for catfishing teen boys and young men into relationships, she has also used the photos she has stolen to trick at least t...

2024-10-07 03:00:00 2262
Episode 2: Sorry's Just A Word

Episode 2: Sorry's Just A Word

In 2022, David Fisher receives an email from Crystal Jenner, a New Zealand woman living in Australia. She has approached him as her last hope after si...

2024-10-03 03:00:00 3572
Episode 1: The Death of Laura West

Episode 1: The Death of Laura West

In December 2010, the announcement on Facebook that Laura Jane West has died in a car crash devastates her online friends, and has ramifications in re...

2024-09-30 03:00:00 2890
Coming Soon: Chasing Ghosts - The Puppeteer

Coming Soon: Chasing Ghosts - The Puppeteer

Season of Chasing Ghosts - The Puppeteer - begins October 1st. 
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2024-09-29 10:32:04 61
NZH Presents - Accused: The Polkinghorne Trial

NZH Presents - Accused: The Polkinghorne Trial

On Easter Monday 2021, Paulina Hanna was found dead at the Remuera home she shared with her husband of 30 years, Philip Polkinghorne.
For 16 mon...

2024-07-28 10:00:00 44
Episode Four: The Saga of Silver Ring

Episode Four: The Saga of Silver Ring

Elizabeth Fraser's testimony at the coronial hearing into Donald's death sparks huge interest in Christchurch - but can she be blamed for his death? A...

2023-11-24 02:00:00 2269
Episode Three: The Widow and the Mistress

Episode Three: The Widow and the Mistress

The spotlight falls on Elizabeth Fraser as the investigation continues, but who was she and why would she want to kill her own husband? And who was th...

2023-11-17 02:00:00 1855
Episode Two: The Murder Commission

Episode Two: The Murder Commission

When Fraser's body is discovered, the murder investigation begins, but as Christchurch police struggle to find his killer, outsiders are brought in -...

2023-11-10 02:00:00 1924
Episode One: The Death of Donald Fraser

Episode One: The Death of Donald Fraser

On November 16th, 1933, Donald Fraser was shot dead in his bed at the Racecourse Hotel. But who was the controversial publican, and why would anyone w...

2023-11-03 03:00:00 2160
Trailer - Murder at the Racecourse Hotel

Trailer - Murder at the Racecourse Hotel

The new series of Chasing Ghosts premieres November 4th. New episodes every Saturday in November
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2023-10-31 12:00:00 55
Part Two: Waiting for Answers

Part Two: Waiting for Answers

In the years after Goy's death, an extended police investigation and multiple coronial inquiries looked into the circumstances of her death and the ac...

2023-02-24 02:00:00 3231
Part One: The Day of the Dive

Part One: The Day of the Dive

In February 2015, Goy Thongsi went on a diving expedition in Christchurch with four men she hardly knew. Within a few hours of setting out onto the wa...

2023-02-17 02:00:00 2465
Chasing Ghosts - Below the Surface: Coming Soon

Chasing Ghosts - Below the Surface: Coming Soon

Listen to Part One February 18th, and Part Two February 25th. 
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2023-02-15 21:00:00 60
Episode Three: Ripple effect

Episode Three: Ripple effect

The lives of the three families at the centre of the case remain intertwined. And a new bid to overturn Scott Watson's conviction is reviving memories...

2017-12-27 12:16:44 2121
Episode Two: The case against Scott Watson

Episode Two: The case against Scott Watson

Two decades on, two key questions continue to spark fierce debate: Was Scott Watson the mystery man? And were Ben and Olivia dropped at his boat, or a...

2017-12-27 12:16:33 2654
Episode One: 1/1/98

Episode One: 1/1/98

What happened in the early hours of January 1, 1998? We revisit the scene of the crime on the boat where the prosecution successfully argued Scott Wat...

2017-12-27 12:16:23 2240
Episode Six: Bring Her Home

Episode Six: Bring Her Home

A quarter of a century has failed to dull the pain of Amber-Lee’s disappearance for her family. Can you help their desperate search for closure? WARNI...

2017-10-25 02:25:00 1862
Episode Five: Persons Of Interest

Episode Five: Persons Of Interest

It didn’t take long for police to focus on a small group of suspects. At the time, one name attracted particular attention. In this episode he breaks...

2017-10-25 02:20:00 1370
Episode Four: Sensing Nothing

Episode Four: Sensing Nothing

After Nicola Cruickshank put her faith in the “psychic detectives” of TV show Sensing Murder, she became fixated on one man. WARNING: This podcast con...

2017-10-25 02:15:00 1655
Episode Three: Little Girl Lost

Episode Three: Little Girl Lost

With a history of drugs and crime, Nicola Cruickshank has had her critics. She decides to face the flak head-on, hoping to put the focus back on the h...

2017-10-25 02:10:00 1563
Episode Two: Not In That Lake

Episode Two: Not In That Lake

Amber-Lee went missing near a large body of water. It was the obvious place to start the search. But police soon started to wonder whether something m...

2017-10-25 02:05:00 1909
Episode One: 17/10/92

Episode One: 17/10/92

Full of optimism about a new life, Nicola Cruickshank and her family spent an idyllic spring Saturday with friends. Then tragedy struck. WARNING: This...

2017-10-25 02:00:00 1519
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