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@CuriousKapono80 Mahalo, Bruddah good to see another Aloha Chik 'n Skin obake talkstories like i do. Great post too. I have always felt a great way to show Hawai'i diversity is in there Chik'n skin talkstories. Glen Grant i agree was really great, not only in recording the Obake stories but also putting historical meaning or explaining folklore meaning sometimes to the stories. Chik'n skin and Obake talkstories were such a part of my hanabata or small kid time, my auntie loved sharing them. Im glad you like, it no biggie, i love Hawai'i and her culture.
A wahine and her friend having just left the Pearlridge Shopping Center after a day of christmas shopping. It was on the intersection of Kaonohi and Moanalua streets about midday waiting for the light to change, the two wahines were listening to music and staying cool from the windows rolled up and the ac on. Just sitting waiting for the light to change, Just then the wahine driver felt a sharp pain like human fingernails go down her left arm. It really hurt and the wahines heart stopped beating from fear. Just then a gust of air swept thru the car even when the windows were rolled up tight. Then the wind stopped and the light changed, the wahine driver floored the gas pedal and didn't look back. Later checking her arm there where these big red scratches up and down her arm.
According to a newspaper account of the incident. An officer went to a house in Kaimuki which had a reputation for being haunted. Three wahines sharing the house called 911 to report someone was in the house making noise and calling them by name. After the police arrived and searched the place finding nothing. The wahines decided they were going to spent the rest of the night at one of the wahines parents place in Papakolea and asked the policeman to follow them. Getting in the car and driving down Wa'alae Avenue with police escort behind them, the wahine driver suddenly pulled over in the Oasis Cafe parking lot.
Later in the police report filed by the officer he said the wahine sitting in the middle of the front seat was fighting off something that couldn't be seen but was strangling her. The officer jumped out of his car to help, reaching into the wahines car he felt a big strong callused hand that couldn't be the teenage wahines. This hand grabbed the officers arm and twisted it. 1/2
The officer immediately called for backup. The officer that responded was prepared for a parking lot fight not this. The first officer was white as a sheet told him "theres a ghost in the car!" The wahines were hysterical. The responding officer told the wahine that was attacked to get into the back of his car. As he got into the car to start it the engine wouldnt turn over. Just then the backseat door flys open and the wahine is thrown out the car and is on the ground fighting what appears to be an invisible attacker. Just then another police car enters the parking lot. The Hawai'ian Sargent sees whats going on runs into the cafe and comes out with Hawai'ian salt and water sprinkling everyone and restores peace again. Something my auntie taught me, it suppose to chase ghosts away.
Since all of these events were a part of an news addition in "72". And a police report was filed under miscellaneous at about the sametime. Hmmm as the locals say "you no hav to believe, just respect"
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According to a newspaper account of the incident. An officer went to a house in Kaimuki which had a reputation for being haunted. Three wahines sharing the house called 911 to report someone was in the house making noise and calling them by name. After the police arrived and searched the place finding nothing. The wahines decided they were going to spent the rest of the night at one of the wahines parents place in Papakolea and asked the policeman to follow them. Getting in the car and driving down Wa'alae Avenue with police escort behind them, the wahine driver suddenly pulled over in the Oasis Cafe parking lot.
Later in the police report filed by the officer he said the wahine sitting in the middle of the front seat was fighting off something that couldn't be seen but was strangling her. The officer jumped out of his car to help, reaching into the wahines car he felt a big strong callused hand that couldn't be the teenage wahines. This hand grabbed the officers arm and twisted it. 1/2
Isn't this the alleged haunted house located at the corner of Harding Ave, and 8th Avenue in Kaimuki? I heard that one of those houses are supposedly haunted.
I don't know if it's the old green-colored house. Some others say that the haunted house was knocked down, and a new house was re-built over that haunted house location.
According to Grant's book, there were paranormal forces that would push people around in this house. He said that the ghost or evilness of these spirits long existed since the creation of the Hawaiian Island....if I'm not mistaken.
Used to be a huge fan of Grant's Chicken Skin books. Too bad he either retired from writing these local haunted stories, or writes other books that doesn't deal with haunted stories.
Isn't this the alleged haunted house located at the corner of Harding Ave, and 8th Avenue in Kaimuki? I heard that one of those houses are supposedly haunted.
I don't know if it's the old green-colored house. Some others say that the haunted house was knocked down, and a new house was re-built over that haunted house location.
According to Grant's book, there were paranormal forces that would push people around in this house. He said that the ghost or evilness of these spirits long existed since the creation of the Hawaiian Island....if I'm not mistaken.
Used to be a huge fan of Grant's Chicken Skin books. Too bad he either retired from writing these local haunted stories, or writes other books that doesn't deal with haunted stories.
Aloha, you know Grant passed away a few years ago? Ya im not sure which house it is too. I Believe your right in there is another story just about the house itself. I will try to remember that story. Wish i could talkstory as goodas GG
People of Hawai'i can be superstitious? True for good reason. Rational minded people will tell you that there is no such thing as ghosts(obake), magic, old gods. In the mainland i would tend to agree but the rules don't aply for some reason in Hawai'i. People push away the ideal of madam Pele(Godess of fire) as fictional when by documentted proof its not healthy to take her lava stones or black sand with you when u leave to the Mainland. For years park rangers from volcano national park services on the Big Island receive letters and packages from the mainland asking them to return home madam Peles lava rocks to her because bad things seen to always happen. We have a saying in Hawai'i "you maynot believe, but you better respect anyway"
Aloha, you know Grant passed away a few years ago? Ya im not sure which house it is too. I Believe your right in there is another story just about the house itself. I will try to remember that story. Wish i could talkstory as goodas GG
Nope, never knew that Glen Grant passed away years ago.
Dang, I really liked his Chicken Skin local stories. At least they had some true meaning to the stories, because it was told from generation to generation, or at least had some real crime scene facts tied to that ghost story.
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At the same time, aren't there some ghost stories dealing with the Ewa Beach old pineapple patch area? I heard that one of the old sugar refineries there is haunted. I don't know though, as I have never lived out in Central Oahu, and haven't been out there for a long time.
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. Great post too. I have always felt a great way to show Hawai'i diversity is in there Chik'n skin talkstories. Glen Grant i agree was really great, not only in recording the Obake stories but also putting historical meaning or explaining folklore meaning sometimes to the stories. Chik'n skin and Obake talkstories were such a part of my hanabata or small kid time, my auntie loved sharing them. Im glad you like, it no biggie, i love Hawai'i and her culture.
