Aewsome Uso. My Dad was born and raised there! It looks abandoned to the untrained outsiders who don't know the region but bro some of the best weed growers in the Country still live there, if you know you know. 😉
BRUH... STFU ON THE REAL, AINT TRYNA LET NO 🐷💩 KNOW WHAT'S UP, GET CAUGHT UP & EVEN MENTION SOMETHING THAT'S NOT COMMON KNOWLEDGE CAN GET YOU "GHOSTED" RESPECT THE CRAFT FOOL 🤔🤫😏
My family lived there. Grandma, Mums side was the head mistress of the local school for a number of years. Mus brother, Don Craven, started his first job there at the railway, and became stationmaster until the line was no longer used. Mums Dad was a carpenter. He built a lot of the govt houses there as well as Khalills garage. My Dadas Dad managed the Tatu mine there for a few years. Some of my family are buried in the local cemetary. I know quite a lot of the history of the town, but the most knowledgable would be members of the McKenzie family, a few of rhem are still in the area.
Khallil Motors, Khallil is an Arabic name and I am guessing that family was Lebanese. In the 1900's, a few Lebanese immigrants settled in the Waikato region. Eight years ago, me and my wife stayed in Te-Kuiti in a old dormitory, and the owner told us that building was built by Lebanese builders in around the 1920's. And I could see the building had some Lebanese archetectural styles, like the arch, stairs etc. 🌍Down the road in Otorohanga, we came across a store selling clothes, boots, and other quality items for farmers, and the proprietors were also decendants of Lebanese settlers of the 1920's. So, the Khallils would be from the same settler community from Lebanon. Would you know about them?
Ohura used to be the home to thousands of people when the coal mines and sawmills were booming back in the early to mid 1900's. Highly recommend doing the rail-cart experience that goes through several abandoned towns in that area.
and marsden point. our oil refinery. in times of high petrol prices, she closes down our oil refinery. genius. edit: it was also our source of co2, which we use for lots of things. pubs , brewing, sodas, alot of inflateable things, like lifejackets and liferafts. it was a terrible desision. there were people trying to get it started back up again, but it seems incredibly unlikely to happen, sadly.@@kiwiprouddavids724
Thank you for visiting Ohura! This is very close to my whanau home, and I felt a rush of nostalgia watching this. Although it may look abandoned there are still many people who live in or around Ohura, esp in the neighbouring areas like Nihoniho and Matiere!
Such great content uce... breaks my heart to see towns like these left abandoned here in NZ hopefully country towns will see more life in them again someday
It's NOT abandoned. Across the road from where he was standing is a fully operating Cosmopolitan Club. Just along the street from where he was standing is a takeaways in a caravan that serves Mexican food. There's a backpackers starring up. There's an operating Church. There's Hope International at the old Prison that do detox programmes. And a lot of people live in Ohura.
The tunnel was constructed in 1935-1936 by the Public Works Department, after they had completed metalling the road. Mr. Townley was the engineer, and Mr. Birss the overseer. It was dug using two power jack-hammers driven by a coal-fired steam compressor, which was situated at the western Tahora end of the tunnel. The coal was supplied from the Tangarakau Gorge mine, and was brought to the site by Mr. Ron McCartie, a Tahora settler. As the work on the tunnel continued, the coal-fired compressor was replaced with a diesel-powered air compressor, lessening the need for coal. While the tunnel was being dug, many unique fossils were found. About two decades ago, a witty traveler nailed up a sign re-naming the Moki Tunnel as the “Hobbit’s Hole”. This nickname is still used today. The Moki Tunnel is a fine example of the unusual and well thought-out work completed by the road engineers and surveyors of early New Zealand. It has been appreciated by many travelers on the road, and is seen as one of the remote tourist attractions of Taranaki.
Bless the Ministry of Works and all the hardworking men that came home from the war, and got stuck into building the Country. It's unfortunate(and fortunate) that we'll probably never be able to build on that scale again. The pre/post War-economy of the day... well.. most people these days would call it socialism... But they did what needed to be done for the time, the work camps gave unemployed men ravaged by war and depression much needed work, and the nation got the roads, bridges, public works and housing that it required. Many of the government run factories, mills, and public works provided wood wages and a stable living in a time where things around the world were not very stable at all.
For those wondering about the hand prints: When someone touches your car their hand leaves oil/ residue on the car. When you drive on a dusty road the dust collects on the oil. There ya go
We invite you back for the Ohura Medieval Festival, 2nd March. We have heaps of stalls, games, knights and fun times. It’s not a ghost town if we fill it back up with people and joy. ❤
So incredible man - all those years abandoned and no vandals because the windows are not all smashed. Her in Perth where I live, every time a new house goes up in the suburb where I live, within one or two days the vandals smash all the windows and they have to board them up until the people move in. I have a fresh appreciation for the wonderful country that I grew up in.
wth? that construction worker you filmed in that town is my cousin Jared Crichton. Trippy thing about it is that he passed away 5 years ago at work in a small town.
Ohura is not a ghost town. Go there on a Saturday morning and you will hear the lawnmowers running and locals mow their lawns. You might not be able to see them from the main street, but you will be able to hear them.
I feel sad when I think of the hard working generations that have past. This town would be a beautiful memorial to their memories. Awesome tunnel...toot toot! 😂
I rode my bike through that tunnel a few weeks ago - did the kiwi tunnel too. All part of the Renegades Muster - 850km self-supported through the back blocks... Slept the night in the memorial hall in Ohura. Pretty sweet spot.
I went to school in Ohura 45 years ago when the those empty buildings were furnished with everything you’d need. It was strange to watch you take us up the end of the main street and around the corner. I used to dream of walking that street for years after. Almost forgot I’m awake.
Do you know if the Khallils were one of the early Lebanese settlers in the Waikato - going back to the 1920's or earlier..?? Khallil is an Arabic name.@@shelbyw6135
My oldman is from ohura.. my grandfather is buried up on the hill.. remember all the trips we would make to visit all our loved 1s ❤ cried watching this.. I saw my dad's school 😢
Yes, correct. "I think they're doing construction here." It's been "work in progress" for around 120 years. The name given to the town is derived from Maori, being an "uncovered spot" or "a place to uncover". Perhaps just the place to be if you wish to live under a rock. Some famous people from Ohura include: 1. Frank Glasgow, the famous NZ rugby player who played for the All Blacks between 1905 and 1908. 2. ? Well, I guess there must be more famous people who came from Ohura (maybe a coal miner, a church or store builder or perhaps a prisoner or something). Looks very "European settler" style, doesn't it? Oh, and I see that you guys met up with "Bill". He's reported to be a Pakeha ghost who hangs around that tunnel looking like a tourist with a camera. He's said to leave his prints on the side of motorised wagons and horseless carriages as well. He will always be wearing grey, and he will usually be seen lurking around the car park area at the entrance to that tunnel.
@@NZLKevin88 Really? Well, I guess that person wouldn't be Allison Dine, and Karen Soich resides in Auckland (practising as a barrister). Anyway, I bet that whoever it is (or was) Eb Leary (deceased) would have known. Some say that he was a very tight-lipped mouth piece and that he took a lot of knowledge (in his head) to the grave, including notable incognito "crims" and various "celebrity" lists. Those "some" wouldn't be so reputationally generous in relation to Kevin Ryan or Peter Williams. Correct me on this if you can, but wasn't Eb Leary the son of Leonard Leary, the very well respected QC and former distinguished soldier from Palmerston North?
there's a good few ghosts towns down here in te waiponamu (south island), mostly in the central otago region. St bathans (Est 1887) is a popular spot where there is a community that have saved a lot of the old buildings pre 1900. DOC saved a couple of historical buildings in Macetown which was a mining community left abandoned in the early 1900's. my personal favourite though is Bendigo. not so much of a town as a scenic/historic reserve, exploring around there are some stone huts still standing and plenty more where you can only see the foundations. the battery for crushing the quartz has also been preserved and you can still find the entrance to a lot of the old mine shafts
More adventure videos plsss... Also be great for you to learn abit more about the areas your visiting and share some knowledge etc or why yall decided to visit etc etc
Grew up in Matiere. Ohura was the only place with a shop and we'd get our fish and chips from there, though it was 25 minutes away. that house at 1:58 is still there :( Played in that as a young gun. Almost 20 years ago and all that growth behind it wasnt there.
@@sarahmorris1527omg cute HELLO. I often miss Waitangata and would like to go visit again. I know there isn’t much there but sentimentality calls laugh😂
Spent 6 months there a the local boarding house, against my will, back in the early 90s 😜...played the locals at rugby, and indoor bowls. Just stumbled across this video.... brings back good and bad memories👍
kid with a geasy hand touched the truck up in Auckland, driving through the tunnel the dust stuck to the grease. Someone got a young cousin that loves KFC? Cool vid watching you city boys out in the "🎶country roads"
Absolutely no need for the swearing. You are obviously "townies", otherwise you would know the etiquette is to stop, and wait until the mob of sheep has passed.
this is my mums hometown and used to come there every school holiday to my nana and grandads little farm. we lived next door to a big maori family with like 10 kids and we used to play games and wars with them and we would find abandoned cars ( this was in the 90's) and we would smash the cars up lol. was good fun. even in the 90s it was a ghost town but there was a dairy, a oub and a petrol station and a big prison. they used to let the prisoners just roam around and did gardening. was a qaint little town. you could buy a house and land back then for about 5k
Used too go too tokirima primary when i was a kid and we used too go too ohura for sports carnivals sometimes, so much fun. Bit sad seeing this town empty... had some friends from taumarunui highschool hostel from there, wonder if theyre still around
The town virtually shut down when Ohura Prison was closed down and the prisoners went to Rangipo Camps or Waikeria Prison. The staff all moved out of the prison village, and the houses were taken away.
This town is not too far from my Hometown, Taumarunui. I think I went there once and have a butcher as well? There's a handful of places in New Zealand that look like Ohura. Anyways, love your fitness videos Uce. 👍
I knew it was Ohura soon as I saw it middle of nowhere in the king country ! Quite pretty but abandoned but people starting to live here again I understand
I was looking at purchasing a property there at some point, including the old Police Station complete with a holding cell in the backyard. Spent some time in the old jail which was kitted out as a B&B at the time.
Be great if Govt could look at revitalising old towns and maybe talk with local bodies and see if they can build new Homes and infrastructure to help ease the housing crisis across Nz
If only right? Problem is our govt has signed NZ up for Agenda 2030 and they want citizens out of the country and into their up n coming new smart cities, ya know to keep tabs on us all..
Uso Orion! Man those handprints always happen where the maori urupa's. Everytime we have left the urupa's (Maori Family Cemetary) There is always handprints just like that on the cars.
Just checked property listings, Cheapest house there is still $200k for a run down barely liveable house in ex flood zone lol, if Land wasn't so massively over valued in these small NZ towns they'd have more of a chance to rebound
thats insane consdiering no shops, no winz there, no jobs.. i thought there were some places for like 50k. my grandad and nana sold their house many years ago for like 20k with land. housing market is fkd yet we keep importing more and more immigrants
@chrisroger4416 Either or If you were gonna go live the small town simple life better to do it in Aus, go a couple hours out of any main city and there's little bungalows everywhere for under 100k, and it's mostly warm so along easier going in an un insulated house
Aewsome Uso. My Dad was born and raised there! It looks abandoned to the untrained outsiders who don't know the region but bro some of the best weed growers in the Country still live there, if you know you know. 😉
BRUH... STFU ON THE REAL, AINT TRYNA LET NO 🐷💩 KNOW WHAT'S UP, GET CAUGHT UP & EVEN MENTION SOMETHING THAT'S NOT COMMON KNOWLEDGE CAN GET YOU "GHOSTED" RESPECT THE CRAFT FOOL 🤔🤫😏
Yip your not wrong about that .cause I know I was brought up in Taumarunui
You know it, spent a decent amount of my childhood in Taumarunui and later moved to Piriaka. IYKYK
Yeh bro just put a spotlight on everyone why don’t cha 😅
Thats cap af lol
My family lived there. Grandma, Mums side was the head mistress of the local school for a number of years. Mus brother, Don Craven, started his first job there at the railway, and became stationmaster until the line was no longer used. Mums Dad was a carpenter. He built a lot of the govt houses there as well as Khalills garage. My Dadas Dad managed the Tatu mine there for a few years. Some of my family are buried in the local cemetary. I know quite a lot of the history of the town, but the most knowledgable would be members of the McKenzie family, a few of rhem are still in the area.
By any chance would you know a girl called Alisha?
got these towns all over Aus
this is New Zealand..@@smack5392
yo craven? thats my last name lmao
Khallil Motors, Khallil is an Arabic name and I am guessing that family was Lebanese. In the 1900's, a few Lebanese immigrants settled in the Waikato region. Eight years ago, me and my wife stayed in Te-Kuiti in a old dormitory, and the owner told us that building was built by Lebanese builders in around the 1920's. And I could see the building had some Lebanese archetectural styles, like the arch, stairs etc. 🌍Down the road in Otorohanga, we came across a store selling clothes, boots, and other quality items for farmers, and the proprietors were also decendants of Lebanese settlers of the 1920's. So, the Khallils would be from the same settler community from Lebanon. Would you know about them?
Ohura used to be the home to thousands of people when the coal mines and sawmills were booming back in the early to mid 1900's. Highly recommend doing the rail-cart experience that goes through several abandoned towns in that area.
Hi I grew up on a coalmine in ohura
See this is what's going to happen in that town where jacinder Arden shut down that big saw mill
and marsden point. our oil refinery. in times of high petrol prices, she closes down our oil refinery. genius.
edit: it was also our source of co2, which we use for lots of things. pubs , brewing, sodas, alot of inflateable things, like lifejackets and liferafts.
it was a terrible desision. there were people trying to get it started back up again, but it seems incredibly unlikely to happen, sadly.@@kiwiprouddavids724
Don't forget the woman's prison
the bros acting like they’ve never saw a sheep before 😂😂😂😂
Thank you for visiting Ohura! This is very close to my whanau home, and I felt a rush of nostalgia watching this. Although it may look abandoned there are still many people who live in or around Ohura, esp in the neighbouring areas like Nihoniho and Matiere!
Such great content uce... breaks my heart to see towns like these left abandoned here in NZ hopefully country towns will see more life in them again someday
It's NOT abandoned. Across the road from where he was standing is a fully operating Cosmopolitan Club. Just along the street from where he was standing is a takeaways in a caravan that serves Mexican food. There's a backpackers starring up. There's an operating Church. There's Hope International at the old Prison that do detox programmes. And a lot of people live in Ohura.
The tunnel was constructed in 1935-1936 by the Public Works Department, after they had
completed metalling the road. Mr. Townley was the engineer, and Mr. Birss the overseer. It was
dug using two power jack-hammers driven by a coal-fired steam compressor, which was
situated at the western Tahora end of the tunnel. The coal was supplied from the Tangarakau
Gorge mine, and was brought to the site by Mr. Ron McCartie, a Tahora settler. As the work on
the tunnel continued, the coal-fired compressor was replaced with a diesel-powered air
compressor, lessening the need for coal. While the tunnel was being dug, many unique fossils
were found.
About two decades ago, a witty traveler nailed up a sign re-naming the Moki Tunnel as the
“Hobbit’s Hole”. This nickname is still used today.
The Moki Tunnel is a fine example of the unusual and well thought-out work completed by the
road engineers and surveyors of early New Zealand. It has been appreciated by many travelers
on the road, and is seen as one of the remote tourist attractions of Taranaki.
Bless the Ministry of Works and all the hardworking men that came home from the war, and got stuck into building the Country.
It's unfortunate(and fortunate) that we'll probably never be able to build on that scale again.
The pre/post War-economy of the day... well.. most people these days would call it socialism... But they did what needed to be done for the time, the work camps gave unemployed men ravaged by war and depression much needed work, and the nation got the roads, bridges, public works and housing that it required.
Many of the government run factories, mills, and public works provided wood wages and a stable living in a time where things around the world were not very stable at all.
Almost like a hammer beam construction in the rook/ceiling
Uso getting into that RUclips algorithm 😂
this video had me in stitches
For those wondering about the hand prints: When someone touches your car their hand leaves oil/ residue on the car. When you drive on a dusty road the dust collects on the oil. There ya go
Come on bro play the game😂
Spoiler 😂
…but here’s the thing…no one in all of New Zealand has that size hand.
just playin’😂
For the views maaate 😂 support ya local and play along lmfaoooooo
Exactly😂
Bro its like its completely frozen in time. Really cool you are looking at these unexpected places New Zealand has
So proud of you uce look how much weight you have lost!! You’re unstoppable bro much love from Sydney ❤
We invite you back for the Ohura Medieval Festival, 2nd March. We have heaps of stalls, games, knights and fun times. It’s not a ghost town if we fill it back up with people and joy. ❤
So incredible man - all those years abandoned and no vandals because the windows are not all smashed. Her in Perth where I live, every time a new house goes up in the suburb where I live, within one or two days the vandals smash all the windows and they have to board them up until the people move in. I have a fresh appreciation for the wonderful country that I grew up in.
My family moved to this town in 1925. I have many ancestors buried in the local graveyard. MacClures and Goodwin
yo Uce Gang welcome to ohura my home town been in this town my hole live bro I am so happy you have came
wth? that construction worker you filmed in that town is my cousin Jared Crichton. Trippy thing about it is that he passed away 5 years ago at work in a small town.
What?
Spooked 😮
Wtf
that's cap
It’s true i was there Jared was the one that touched there truck
Ohura is not a ghost town. Go there on a Saturday morning and you will hear the lawnmowers running and locals mow their lawns. You might not be able to see them from the main street, but you will be able to hear them.
Sounds like ghosts 😂😂😂
That's exactly what a ghost would say🫣
@@smolgok384 🤣best comment.
My uncle got married there and is currently living there haha it's really peaceful and quiet. I love it!
So not quite deserted 😊
I feel sad when I think of the hard working generations that have past. This town would be a beautiful memorial to their memories. Awesome tunnel...toot toot! 😂
I rode my bike through that tunnel a few weeks ago - did the kiwi tunnel too. All part of the Renegades Muster - 850km self-supported through the back blocks... Slept the night in the memorial hall in Ohura. Pretty sweet spot.
This video was so silly, no explanations or anything. “Oh this is a ghost town” “this must be the food store” haha
I think youve landed on a great idea uso, you shud go thru abandoned Towns of Nz.
I went to school in Ohura 45 years ago when the those empty buildings were furnished with everything you’d need. It was strange to watch you take us up the end of the main street and around the corner. I used to dream of walking that street for years after. Almost forgot I’m awake.
It would be interesting to see footage from when it used to be "bustling" to compare. I would love to be able to revitalise a town like this.
@barb6861 great idea to do when I have my study break this morning, see if there is anything over at Archives
Do you know if the Khallils were one of the early Lebanese settlers in the Waikato - going back to the 1920's or earlier..?? Khallil is an Arabic name.@@shelbyw6135
It’s the going through the tunnel after the handprints playing venga boys for me 😂😂🤦♀️
My oldman is from ohura.. my grandfather is buried up on the hill.. remember all the trips we would make to visit all our loved 1s ❤ cried watching this.. I saw my dad's school 😢
the new samoan ghost hunter show
Yes, correct. "I think they're doing construction here."
It's been "work in progress" for around 120 years. The name given to the town is derived from Maori, being an "uncovered spot" or "a place to uncover". Perhaps just the place to be if you wish to live under a rock.
Some famous people from Ohura include:
1. Frank Glasgow, the famous NZ rugby player who played for the All Blacks between 1905 and 1908.
2. ?
Well, I guess there must be more famous people who came from Ohura (maybe a coal miner, a church or store builder or perhaps a prisoner or something).
Looks very "European settler" style, doesn't it?
Oh, and I see that you guys met up with "Bill". He's reported to be a Pakeha ghost who hangs around that tunnel looking like a tourist with a camera. He's said to leave his prints on the side of motorised wagons and horseless carriages as well. He will always be wearing grey, and he will usually be seen lurking around the car park area at the entrance to that tunnel.
You can add one of the Mr Asia drug gang
did he do time there ?@@NZLKevin88
@@NZLKevin88 Really? Well, I guess that person wouldn't be Allison Dine, and Karen Soich resides in Auckland (practising as a barrister).
Anyway, I bet that whoever it is (or was) Eb Leary (deceased) would have known. Some say that he was a very tight-lipped mouth piece and that he took a lot of knowledge (in his head) to the grave, including notable incognito "crims" and various "celebrity" lists.
Those "some" wouldn't be so reputationally generous in relation to Kevin Ryan or Peter Williams.
Correct me on this if you can, but wasn't Eb Leary the son of Leonard Leary, the very well respected QC and former distinguished soldier from Palmerston North?
there's a good few ghosts towns down here in te waiponamu (south island), mostly in the central otago region. St bathans (Est 1887) is a popular spot where there is a community that have saved a lot of the old buildings pre 1900. DOC saved a couple of historical buildings in Macetown which was a mining community left abandoned in the early 1900's. my personal favourite though is Bendigo. not so much of a town as a scenic/historic reserve, exploring around there are some stone huts still standing and plenty more where you can only see the foundations. the battery for crushing the quartz has also been preserved and you can still find the entrance to a lot of the old mine shafts
My mum is from Hakateramera St Bathans.
This is exactly the place i want to visit when i retire and begin exploring my country.
you missed the old Ohura Prison right in the middle of town
Someone’s lil cousin had too much kfc back in AKL and decided to wipe their hands on the truck 😂😂😂
You guys could start up as NZ ghost hunters ❤❤😊
Got a team of us down in the south island! be good to get him down here for some hunts ;)
@ItsOmega do you have a you tube channel of your searches? Would like to watch a ghost search. Do you use Ghost Tube app?
More adventure videos plsss... Also be great for you to learn abit more about the areas your visiting and share some knowledge etc or why yall decided to visit etc etc
Awesome content Uso, I grew up in that area and its cool to see on this channel.
Handprint on the vehicle! Watch out for the Boogyman!! Really good I'm in my 70s and even I learnt a couple of things, Cheers.
Grew up in Matiere. Ohura was the only place with a shop and we'd get our fish and chips from there, though it was 25 minutes away. that house at 1:58 is still there :( Played in that as a young gun. Almost 20 years ago and all that growth behind it wasnt there.
Howdy old neighbour 😂
@@sarahmorris1527omg cute HELLO. I often miss Waitangata and would like to go visit again. I know there isn’t much there but sentimentality calls laugh😂
I thought you could only buy "fush n chups in Enzed...bro 😁
Welcome to Ohura awesome views places tunnels 👍💯♥️👏gb
It's fascinating to imagine the town's vibrant past with a population of 5,500 and five working garages.
Need a part 2 asap uso 🙏🏽👌🏽
Yeah aye uncle uso uso uce 😳
Spent 6 months there a the local boarding house, against my will, back in the early 90s 😜...played the locals at rugby, and indoor bowls.
Just stumbled across this video.... brings back good and bad memories👍
Bad Memories? Why? Is it Haunted
@@michaelmarama-de4gxI stayed at the prison bro.
It was minimum security, but still had some infamous inmates, murderers etc.....mostly non Māori.
@@user-bw5nc oh ok I see, cheers bro
@@user-bw5nc cucumber. Lol . Me too, mid 70s. Indoor bowls is where we got our griffins Krispies . Run by ex coal miners . Hard time .😊.
@@waynekilgour393 hahaha, we meet again.... small world 😜
😂 this ended up cracking me up. "Oh a food market...this woulda been an old food market..." oh truuuue brudda
Loved it man, interesting really well edited 🔥
Oh that tunnel...perfect place to shoot a Horror Movie....
Traffic control in a ghost town. Bro give me a job like that too bro
yeah i was confused about that lol
Sheep or other cattle on the road was so common when I was growing up. You made me laugh because you were so surprised 🐑
their aucklanders
U boys hit a gold mine. Look at all them antiques
Kia Ora Dudes first time watching your vids. i live in NZ you guys keep up the awesome work
kid with a geasy hand touched the truck up in Auckland, driving through the tunnel the dust stuck to the grease. Someone got a young cousin that loves KFC? Cool vid watching you city boys out in the "🎶country roads"
It still costs a small fortune to buy property in abandoned towns in NZ.
Wrong. Houses are cheap out here.
"Wind up the window g" 😂😂😂😂😂
Uce gang bruh your naturally funny as. Cheers for the laugh g
Absolutely no need for the swearing. You are obviously "townies", otherwise you would know the etiquette is to stop, and wait until the mob of sheep has passed.
Sook
Only thing that guy was doing Traffic management for was the ghosts 😂
this is my mums hometown and used to come there every school holiday to my nana and grandads little farm. we lived next door to a big maori family with like 10 kids and we used to play games and wars with them and we would find abandoned cars ( this was in the 90's) and we would smash the cars up lol. was good fun. even in the 90s it was a ghost town but there was a dairy, a oub and a petrol station and a big prison. they used to let the prisoners just roam around and did gardening. was a qaint little town. you could buy a house and land back then for about 5k
2 of us had to go there to collect furniture from the 4square owner.he made us a big fry up lunch,while his mates done all the work.this was 98/99
Kia ora bro,there are about 100 people still living in Ohura,the town was huge back in the days,Prision closed in the late 90s an old timber town
Coal mining town.
Kia Ora wow that was cool vid..creepy az with those handprints can't wait to see more exploring..I subscribe and smashed that like button👍
Cool video-Thanks for the tour ✨
Fark yous are funny! 😂
Awesome discovery of that tunnel
New sub.
That’s a good place for a zombie movie scene!
Used too go too tokirima primary when i was a kid and we used too go too ohura for sports carnivals sometimes, so much fun. Bit sad seeing this town empty... had some friends from taumarunui highschool hostel from there, wonder if theyre still around
Only uce gang Goes to ghost town and still finds a fan 😂
Cheers brother for the great vid there are alot of places like this all over nz aye
Im from a place not far from there, place called Aria, where legends are made
7:00 guy coming out of tunnel that’s who the hand print belongs to😂
Not the low key freaking each other out and hunting ghost ones 😂 theirs a few towns like that in South island aswel.
Hahaha jus subscribed love the videos. Cmu the building 1928...damn ur dad be neally 100 years old then. 😂
Bro you should do aye night video on abandoned places.😂😂
Not tryna hate my bro but love the work, should try do some research about the town
I dont think he can read
The town virtually shut down when Ohura Prison was closed down and the prisoners went to Rangipo Camps or Waikeria Prison. The staff all moved out of the prison village, and the houses were taken away.
Bros must have found the locals crop and started smoking it, because they must have been high af to think those handprints came from the tunnel lol
When the Prison closed it pretty much sealed the towns fate.
Love watching this guy on insta tooo funny
Beautiful scenery,so sad the town has gone
that handprint wasa buzzy as, imgine when this little village was pumping with life would of sweet, id still live here
HUWOT! no gas sign ive never seen one before. BiG Ups Ohura Big Ups Uce Gang, Fresh Content
👆❤🙏
That’s childhood memories that place. Remember when that shop was actually open and the town had people
This is awesome 💯 shining some light in these towns
The Patupaiarehe having fun playing with you fullas. Thats the Tahora tunnel not far at all from Ohura
"this was the food market. musta been the old food market. whats inside?"
"bro theres a fridge!"
"holy crap" lmao
Awesome video guys ❤
That's a tih my bro not a town lol solid brother good video💯👌
Is this your new content the bros from SA going exploring hick towns of NZ?
It has died really has....
Had some great times and memories at the agricultural show...
To fun days
This town is not too far from my Hometown, Taumarunui. I think I went there once and have a butcher as well? There's a handful of places in New Zealand that look like Ohura. Anyways, love your fitness videos Uce. 👍
I knew it was Ohura soon as I saw it middle of nowhere in the king country ! Quite pretty but abandoned but people starting to live here again I understand
Cool you also made a Ohura video, i also made one too nearly three years back, guess that makes me the OG Ohura guy lol 😂, Cheers for the vid 😎👍
where can i view your vid ?
New Zealand is beautiful...
Very interesting and funny really enjoyed your video keep going thanks
I was looking at purchasing a property there at some point, including the old Police Station complete with a holding cell in the backyard. Spent some time in the old jail which was kitted out as a B&B at the time.
must be cheap as to buy land there
Be great if Govt could look at revitalising old towns and maybe talk with local bodies and see if they can build new Homes and infrastructure to help ease the housing crisis across Nz
If only right? Problem is our govt has signed NZ up for Agenda 2030 and they want citizens out of the country and into their up n coming new smart cities, ya know to keep tabs on us all..
Flood plain. Not allowed to build there.
a lot of people moved out cos u cant get dole there as winz say theres no jobs ovb and nearest town is 45 min drive
Bro pulled into the tunnel with throne singing and halo theme 😂😂😂
Uso Orion! Man those handprints always happen where the maori urupa's. Everytime we have left the urupa's (Maori Family Cemetary) There is always handprints just like that on the cars.
I love the Irish music and that tunnel is crazy 😜
Goes to a museum “it’s all old stuff ae” …. That’s typically how that goes
That tunnel will still be there after we're all dead.
Just checked property listings, Cheapest house there is still $200k for a run down barely liveable house in ex flood zone lol, if Land wasn't so massively over valued in these small NZ towns they'd have more of a chance to rebound
Not allowed to build on those sections. Won't get a permit.
your dad an ex screw there ?if so you did well in the half marathon
thats insane consdiering no shops, no winz there, no jobs.. i thought there were some places for like 50k. my grandad and nana sold their house many years ago for like 20k with land. housing market is fkd yet we keep importing more and more immigrants
@chrisroger4416 Either or If you were gonna go live the small town simple life better to do it in Aus, go a couple hours out of any main city and there's little bungalows everywhere for under 100k, and it's mostly warm so along easier going in an un insulated house
@@SteveStevenson-tg2mb yeah i plan to go to aus everyone is going there lol
thats my grandads lorrie sheds opp the old church it was a hall. was a amazing place to grow up.
Some good nz history in this comment section 💪👍