Tamehana Tito

By Doug Ashby

12 year old triplet brothers live in rural New Zealand where forest parks and coastal waters are their playground. They have wild adventures that test their survival skills. In story four, the ghost of a mysterious old character is believed to roam the Waitai valley, waiting for someone to find his murderer. The triplet brothers decide to investigate the cold case and find two vital clues.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Doug Ashby
• Release date: Jun 17, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301729012

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Three out of Three

The adventures of Triplet Brothers

STORY 4

Tamehana Tito

by D.R.H. Ashby

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CHAPTER 1

Hidden Message

Not long after their involvement with the downed Cessna plane, the brothers were fully recovered, their confidence riding high after venturing into uncomfortable territory and were raring to go again. They had hatched a plan to head back up the valley to follow up on all those stories they had been hearing about Tamehana Tito and to see for themselves how much truth there was to the long standing myth. All they needed was the right time and conditions to start their next adventure up the Waitai Stream.

They wanted to return to the south east branch of the river. This uninviting area was forever in shadow, so wooded and steep that the sun hardly got through to dry the dark forest floor. The heavy growth of lichen and moss hanging from the trees created a goblin-like forest, quite different from the usual bush the boys knew so well elsewhere in the forest park. This was a spooky part of the valley but now that the boys had already been into this area, their brief experience reassured them it was safe and so they were ready to discover more of its secrets.

In their search for the crashed Cessna they had seen the old goat shelter where this mysterious old character was meant to have lived. They planned to find the shelter again and maybe find out if there was any truth in the stories they had been hearing over the years. Even though the boys had their doubts about the supernatural, they were still open-minded about such things as it was hard not to believe some of the more convincing stories. They couldn’t help but be drawn in to the controversy, for this was all about their neck-of-the-woods and had literally happened in their backyard.

There were anecdotal stories that the old man was still in the valley. Pig hunters had reported strange things; sightings of a mysterious figure moving through the bush at night and of camp sites being visited after dark. Although nothing ever went missing, objects had been misplaced or rearranged by morning light. At times on very cold nights, camp fires had been kept alight all night after hunters had retired to their sleeping bags as if someone had kept a