Micheal Martin Goldstone

Micheal Martin Goldstone is widely regarded as the source to the infamous "Weir house Ghost".
Micheal (1919-1937) was born to marla and Eric Goldstone in the newly founded Auckland region, and attended Marist school for boys before gaining a place at Victoria University in 1937 and achieved a scholarship to attend the all boys Hostel weir House, However, his time there was short as his death came within the first semester, leaving a black smear on Weir house's early history. The suspicious circumstances around his death lead to a full police investigation, focusing around his roommate, C.S. Brockett.
Whether Cecile Brockett was indeed guilty of the alleged crimes was never discovered, as little evidence of the crime, or Micheal for that matter, was ever found. This death has confounded police and experts for over 80 years and remains one of New Zealand's notable early cold cases.
The connection to Micheal and the Weir House Ghost came later in the early 50's as strange sounds were reported to have been heard at the Hostel where he had stayed which at the time only consisted of the original William Weir House with further expansion only coming later in the 60's. These strange sounds and the infrequent, yet chillingly accurate descriptions of a ghost on the grounds added to the assumption that his death was far from peaceful. Curiously though, despite the allegations against Brockett at the time, the ghost of who is assumed to be Micheal Goldstone has become far more active since the addition of girls into Weir House, although it is unknown if this is because of increased activity or lack of reliable reports before this point.
The romanticised version of his death (though not based on any solid fact) is that there was some sort of confrontation between him and Cecile Brockett over a miss Victoria Westward who was reportedly connected with the death, and moved away immediately after, abandoning her studies as a prominate figure of the early days of the Victoria science school, (a pacticular achievement for a woman at the time). this added to the idea tha perhaps Cecile was avenging himself on Micheal on a lost love, and that Micheal's searching for his lover is the reason for the banging still heard on the lower floors of the William Weir Wing.

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