The tragic tale of a Chinese thief may explain the ghostly goings-on at a West Coast bakery.
Baker Maurice Piner has been bothered by mysterious voices, creeping shadows and things going bump at Phil's Bakery in Greymouth.
"When I was working on my own in the morning, I would see shadows going around the bakery and ovens and that," Piner said.
"Sometimes you could hear banging and crashing upstairs, and sometimes you can hear whispering and talking in the bakery.
"You look around to see if there's anyone there, and you can't."
However, a Greymouth tourist operator believes he can shed some light on the mystery.
Paul Schramm, manager of Wild West Adventures, has been researching a new tourist attraction where visitors are guided around the town by an audio device that uses GPS positioning to tell stories as they enter different areas.
During his research, Schramm came across the tale of Ah Shing, a Chinese miner, who hanged himself in the boarding house that used to stand on the site of the Gresson St bakery.