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The Buried Village of Te Wairoa Blog

Was the Lake Tarawera Phantom Canoe a supernatural sign?

The story of the Phantom Canoe is one backed by many eyewitness accounts. For this reason it seems almost impossible to dismiss as light trickery or the musings of a couple of good story tellers. What the story delivers for us, all these years...