The Pit of Pat

Ideas, things to research further and in general people, places and things that got my creative juices flowing. Feel free to WikiSearch any of these names, but if you start writing about any of the list below, may you have the curse of the widow and the fatherless.

Harry Head Alexander
Victorian After Dark in Oamaru (dead town residences return after dark, ignorant tourist doesn’t know what’s going on)
Stafford Gables (three part ghost story)
Subantarctic stranded survivor story
Williamina Dean
Melanesian/Polynesian Adventure Myth
Moa
Dusky Tramp/Fiordland (lost, hurt and sick tramper)
Gangster short on tramp (noir piece with seduction & fight)
Pass Creek (no way out - not lost, trapped by malicious forest)
Macetown hike (ghostly prospector)
Richard Henry (post-breakdown)
Freda Du Faur
Namu spreading a virus to humans originally designed to sterelize possums.
Tears of the Avalanche Girl
Psychological stress-induced blindness
Greenstone pendant spiral headed Taniwha
Macetown period piece (people are accidentally dimensionally ’shifted’ and can only communicate via voices in the mind of a schizophrenic)
Insane children (hospital and research centre - what happens to them?)
Ngatokorua (defeated warrior rendering himself Tapu by getting the chief’s blood on him)
Loss of ability/confidence to speak birth tongue (making do with only poor secondary languages)
Australian aborigine bullroarer
Pre-Maori civilization
Hinetitama incest discovery and result
Banks and Solander (the Endeavour)
Tupaia
Thomas Kendall
Maori leprosy
Te Ua Haumene
Andrew Sharp Ancient Voyages in Polynesia
Sir Peter Buck
Tahunanui (alternate takes on a single night)
Great Walks Short Stories
-Heaphy: Gouland Downs ’snails’
-Routeburn: Pass Creek ‘inpassible’
-Kepler: Gangster ‘1st person’
-Rakiura: Moa discovery ‘DoC knowledge’
-Abel Tasman: Devil’s Hoof ‘bad bargain’
-Milford: Diving instead ‘mosasaur’
“Side Effects” - Billy’s Bad Day
Kraken-Hunter