State Highway 4
10 kilometers south of Mapiu North Island, New Zealand
Approximately 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) south of the town of Mapiu, along the side of Highway 4, is a ditch where people have reported seeing a Maori (person of Polynesian-Melanesian decent) woman standing by the road in the middle of the night. "Nathan" and "Brodie" sent in their encounter to my Website:
"My friend and I were in his truck coming from Palmerston North, and on the way we went through a little town called Mapiu between Taumarunui and Te Kuiti. When we were about 10 kilometers south of Mapiu, we came across something weird— we saw an old Maori lady, about 40 or 50 years old, dressed in old rugged clothes and standing in the ditch on the side of the road just staring at us. She looked lost, but it was about 2 a.m. and it was raining hard. We slowed down, but did not stop. This got us thinking that it was very weird, but then we thought nothing more of it and carried on. But last week, my friend was talking to a work mate who he had never met before, and this guy started talking about some random Maori lady at the same place we had seen her about 10 months prior. We had never mentioned anything to anyone about her, but this guy described her to a T. And now all sorts of stories are coming up from everywhere— from people we don't even know. Apparently this Maori woman was hit by a truck that was speeding and it killed her. Exactly one year later, the driver died on that same part of the road."