Media Archive

A historic archive of Andrew Smith’s tour creations, preserving 26 years of ghost stories, true crime, and untold Otago history.

A brief archive of media features highlighting Hair Raiser Tours original stories, heritage research, and long running contribution to Dunedin and Otago’s history.

2024
- The Rainbow Umbrella YouTube Playlist — Is this where I jump? - A ghostly evening with the Hair Raiser
2023
- Radio One — Spinning Yarns with Sian
- RNZ — Dunedin's long-running walking ghost tour, and the spooky history it unearths
- The Spinoff — A hair-raising ghost tour of New Zealand's most haunted city
2021
- Stuff — Suburb spotlight: Why you should visit Port Chalmers, Dunedin
- The Spinoff — The story of Seacliff, the most haunted place in New Zealand
- NZ Herald — Psst! See NZ in a new light on these 8 unusual city tours
- Neat Places — Dunedin
2020
- Stuff — The curious popularity of New Zealand’s cemetery tours
- Otago Daily Times — Otago Chamber of Commerce WestPac Business Award—Tourism & Hospitality
2019
- Book — Dunedin is a Ghost Town—Confessions of New Zealand’s Original Ghost Guide
- South And North — Live-Work-Love Dunedin
- TVNZ 3 — The Project
2018
- Otago Daily Times — Confessions Of A Ghost Guide
- Critic — Dunedin Ghost Tours: A Journey Through a City's Dark Past
2016
- Otago Daily Times — Best Day Of My Life
- Otago Daily Times — West Pac Business Awards-Tourism
2015
- NewZealand.com — Ghost Cricket
- India Today — Ghost Cricket
- Critic — Grim Tales
2013
- Otago Daily Times — Spiriting Out The Spooks Of Dunedin
- Southland Times — Strolling With Ghosts
- National Radio — Jim Mora
- Air New Zealand — Dunedin Stop Over
- TVNZ 3-Night Line — Cumberland College
2012
- Otago Daily Times — Ghost Pushed Us
2011
- D-Scene — Joe Scott and Hair Raiser Tours
- TVNZ 1 — Hair Raiser Tours Goes The Distance
- Radio Dunedin — Owen Rooney
- D-Scene — Spirit Walk
- Oamaru Mail — Tour Takes Walk On Dark Side
2010
- D-Scene — The Invisible City
2008
- The Star — The Night Shift
2007
- Critic — Who You Gonna Txt
2006
- Kia Ora Magazine — New Zealand’s Best Small Tours
2005
- Frommers — Travel Guide
- Lonely Planet — Travel Guide
- TVNZ 2 — Ghost Hunt
- Otago Daily Times — Spectral Expectations
- Otago Daily Times — Ghost Busking in Spooky Dunedin
- Avenues Magazine — One Night In Dunedin
- National Radio — Kim Hill
- Critic — The Ghost Tour Dunedin
- Queenstown Mirror — Searching For Ghosts
2004
- Air New Zealand Magazine — Southern Charm
- TVNZ 3 — A Queens Tour
2002
- North and South — Ghost Busker
2000
- Critic — Dunedin’s Own Ghost Tour