Deaths by Dates Down Under — Dispatch #001

Three Prominent New Zealanders Died on Dates that Thematically Riff Off their Lives

Jul 29, 2025

This Deaths by Dates Down Under series reveals how New Zealand’s issues, scandals and crises are thematically encoded with historical riffs to signal authorship, unity, scapegoats and caution — while telegraphing hidden aims.

In this dispatch, former Māori Television news and current affairs editor, Steve Snoopman, presents the disturbing pattern of three prominent New Zealanders who have all died on dates that riff off historical events thematically linked to their lives. Ergo, their deaths are metaphor-laden events that communicate ‘signals intelligence’.

In 2025, at least three prominent New Zealanders have died on dates that riff off their lives. This pattern appears to be ‘signals intelligence’ among the network that runs NZ from the shadows, to communicate sponsorship, threats, caution and hidden goals.

The founder of a jewellery chain franchise, Michael Hill, died on 29 July 2025.

What are the odds that on the same day, 29 July in 1897, the ship Tasmania would sink off the Māhia Peninsula, North Island of New Zealand, with a suitcase full of jewels?

Hill’s international franchise of 300 stores, includes those across the Tasman in Oz.

On June 12 2025, author Maurice Gee died. Gee’s best known children’s book Under the Mountain, was about a race of creatures hell-bent on turning the world into mud. The book was adapted into a TV series set in the volcanic isthmus of Auckland. The creatures arose from a multi-millenial hybernation from under the dormant volcanoes.

On the same date, 12 June in 1942 the first batch of American troops arrived to build underground installations in Auckland. The bunkers and tunnels made use of the volcanic caverns, caves and mountains, and were built as shelters and command posts.

And on May 2, boxer-turned property investor, Bob Jones, died after a short illness.

The property tycoon, who was well known for punching a journalist for interrupting his trout fishing, just happened to die on a historical date, May 2 1868, when the first ova for trout and salmon were imported into New Zealand. What are the odds?

In mathematics, three related events reveal a pattern. For example, in the number sequence, 3, 6, 9 the next figure is 12 and the numbers increase by three. Ergo, the numeric sequence will keep rising by three, out to infinity. In the present context, the three prominent New Zealanders have all died on dates that riff thematically off their lives. So, we can ask what are the odds? We can expect more themed deaths to occur.

As a modus operandi, such historical riffing signals authorship, cooperation, caution and it telegraphs objectives. The signals indicate players are communicating their cooperation to take a plot ‘live’, convey hidden objectives, and to broadcast psychotic humour, thereby posting themselves like hostages — as applied game theory predicts.

In his “Darkest Days by Dates Down Under” series, Snoopman surveys the curious coincidences of calamities, catastrophes, or crises that jolted the nation while power, wealth and control were accumulated. In his disturbing multi-decade sketch, Snoopman traces the creepy trail of spooky minds, who he believes plot machinations with an eye on the past and a dark vision of the future. The circumstantial evidence reveals an awful picture of each new administration becoming embroiled in a cover-up of a staged event made to appear as an accident, a natural disaster, or a crisis caused by an unhinged man, or an ‘unsolved’ crime. The modus operandi of metaphor laden-historical riffing continues, because most monkeys suffer from symbol illiteracy.

Ergo, the criminal network that runs New Zealand from the shadows are signalling authorship, threats, promises, caution, and scapegoats as they telegraph their chess moves. Their gambit is that their power, influence and control over strategic resources— with the penetration of every major and significant institution — will continue and with impunity. This network runs in tandem with similar transnational clandestine operations across the world, destabilizing societies to inflict totalitarian tyranny.

By controlling the dates of death in public and private institutions, and even in family homes, across the country and over time, the network is performing a ritualized display of power. This spectacular exhibition enforces discipline among the network.

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Back when Steve Snoopman was ‘Snoopboy’, he delivered the Auckland Star during the dark days of the Reagan White House. He forged his superpower to ‘Thunk Evil Without Being Evil’ while writing a thesis on the Global Financial Crisis. Upon quipping that Batman had failed to bust any Gotham banker balls — since his ass is owned by DC Comics — he consequently realised New Zealand needed a Snoopman.

Editor’s Note: If we have made any errors, please contact Steve ‘Snoopman’ Edwards with your counter-evidence. e: steveedwards108[at]protonmail.com

SEE related: Darkest Days by Dates Down Under series introduction

Moving a Mountain — The Crash of Flight TE-901: November 28 1979
Darkest Days by Dates Down Under: Part 1 [The Snoopman Files]

The Great Divide — 1981 Springbok Rugby Tour, New Zealand
Darkest Days by Dates Down Under: Part 2 [The Snoopman Files]

Transport Themed Terrorism — Wellington Trades Hall Bombing, March 27 1984
Darkest Days by Dates Down Under: Part 3 [The Snoopman Files]

Kiwi Dollar Weaponized as Ransom Notes — 'Bastille Day' Currency Crisis, 1984 Darkest Days by Dates Down Under: Part 4 [The Snoopman Files]

Accommodating France — Rainbow Warrior Bombing, 10 July 1985
Darkest Days by Dates Down Under: Part 5 [The Snoopman Files]

* Each of the examined crises are entwined either by dates, institutions and players, or by references to prior events, either domestic or international, that indicate NZ’s national security state is more interested in accumulating power than fully disclosing the truth of such events. Patterns emerge such as training exercises ‘going live’, institutional transitions impairing emergency responders, and an apparent ‘too stupid to be stupid’ modus operandi that is repeatedly passed off as bureaucratic blunders, corporate clownery or government grandeur. Yet, hidden hands are detectable. The broad range of crises points to a well-resourced criminal network that functions with hierarchical structures and with deep penetration in New Zealand institutions, to command an operational level army of ‘soldiers’ to implement the complex plots.

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Deaths by Dates Down Under — Dispatch #001

Three Prominent New Zealanders Died on Dates that Thematically Riff Off their Lives

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