Any Hawaii ghost stories out there? (Pearl City, Ewa Beach: home, weddings, school)

[Paniolo Cowgirl]

Thanks Auntyv great stories.

[Paniolo Cowgirl]

Originally Posted by Auntyv

I've also heard about the night marchers and stories about seeing a line of torch lights descending down the slopes in Waipio Valley late at night.

The nightmarcher stories I had heard were the Waipio Valley ones. My best friend lives up the Hamakua coast and her husband knows someone who moved down there recently. The guy tells them that sometimes he hears Hawaiian chanting and sees torches coming down the side of the valley.

There's some property for sale down in Waipio Valley. I would never live there.

[kani-lehua]

Originally Posted by Auntyv

I guess I'm missing the islands. Once you've lived I've heard about them but never went on one. I've also heard about some places up near the volcano on the BIg Island that are supposedly haunted - some are in Bedand Breakfast places - saw something about it on the travel channel.

oh, no! i just bought a lot up at volcano (mauna loa estates). you know i'm a big scaredy cat. however, when we were looking at the subdivision, i didn't feel anything strange. it was just beautiful, peaceful and serene. even with the fog rolling in. will be going back for the final inspection of the lot on the 16th. can't wait.

[Auntyv]

Do people in Hawaii still have their houses blessed before they move in? How about if it is bare land - does someone come to bless the site before ground is broken to build a house? Anybody had a weird experience and had it done after you moved in just to be sure?

Hawaii is so anchient - it is no wonder there are so many stories associated with the place. I went to the Big Island for the day last trip I made to Kauai in 2003. I took the one-hour walking tour and on the way back, I went off the trail and was standing at the rim of Kiluaea crater taking pictures. Just as I was starting to turn around to head back to the road, for some reason I looked down and immediately to my right - there was a huge black hole going down forever right beside me - like 12 inches away - I couldn't see it because all the ferns were so thick and the ground was really black in that area - you couldn't tell what was shadow and what was just a big hole - If I had stepped just one step to the right I would have disappeared and no one would have found me. Not a ghost story - but a close call for me - I still get shivers thinking about how close I came to losing my life up there. DON'T STRAY OFF THE TRAILS!!! Especially not up at the volcano - too many big lava pukas to fall into. Somebody was watching over me that day!

[Jungjohann]

Aunty,
Must have been your aumakua keeping a maka on you. I've worked on plenty affordable Hawaiian homes in Waimanalo over the years, no one moved in without having a Kahuna bless the house. There are stories about a spirit/ghost at Makapuu, out towards the lighthouse, will look into it, some of the families in Waimanalo mentioned it on occaision, perhaps that was why there were so many blessings?

Aloha

[Margo L]

Menehunes....are the night marchers with the torches...you also have to pee yourself so you smell like an animal! bow down and respect them! I have never camped out and saw them...but I would be up for the adventure!!

[mauidude]

Originally Posted by Margo L

Menehunes....are the night marchers with the torches...you also have to pee yourself so you smell like an animal! bow down and respect them! I have never camped out and saw them...but I would be up for the adventure!!

I heard that pee no longer works, you now have to deficate on yourself. Takes lots of pics for us!

[kani-lehua]

Originally Posted by Margo L

Menehunes....are the night marchers with the torches...you also have to pee yourself so you smell like an animal! bow down and respect them! I have never camped out and saw them...but I would be up for the adventure!!

i thought menehune and night marchers were two different things? i have never heard of having to pee or defecate on yourself to ward them off. please, where did you get that information?

according to legend, "the menehune were a legendary race of small people who worked at night, building fish ponds, roads, temples; if the work was not finished in one night, it remained unfinished." source: hawaiian dictionary, mary kawena pukui and samuel h. elbert. also, i was taught that the menehune were mischievious and not threatening by any sorts.

night marchers were warriors. for information regarding this legend: Hawaiian Myths and Legends - Night Marchers - To-Hawaii.Com

[tiffan28]

I had a weird experience recently near Pearl City as I was driving along. I'm sure there is a logical explanation though. I was driving and looked up to see a flock of birds fly over me only there were 2 birds that were all one color: bright pink and 2 birds that were another single color: bright turquoise blue. Of course it caught my attention because I've never seen birds painted that way. It looked like someone literally threw a can of paint on them. The other birds in the flock were all white. So, maybe it's not so weird? i don't know.

[tiffan28]

Here's one from the shadowlands website:

Honolulu - HWY 3 - A couple was recently driving on the freeway when a policeman pulled them over. He approached the car and told the couple that the children playing in the back seat should be using their seat belts. The couple looked at him funny, because they had no children. The policeman looked in the back seat but could not see the children he saw while following them. When the couple arrived home, the checked the back seat again and found little handprints all over the back window.