Got Ghost (stories)?
October 28th, 2009 by Rodney LeeBoo! With Halloween coming up this weekend, I thought I'd have you share your ghost stories or paranormal experiences.
The closest thing I have of a ghost story was one night when I was in high school, a bunch of us guys were coming home from town. Coming down the Pali, we told our driver, J, to take the Morgan's Corner road that goes behind the Pali golf course so we could check out the "blood tree".
There's a maintenance yard back there with large trees lining the yard. There is this one tree with red paint (or is it?) splattered on it and the story goes that if you look at the tree at night, you can see the devil's face on it.
So we pull up next to the tree and look at it.
Nothing.
We tell J to position his car so the headlights are shining right at the tree - which he does.
We all stare at the tree for about 5 seconds - then in unison we all say something like "Okay! I see it! Go!"
And with that, J stomps on the gas - only to have the car sputter for a second before taking off.
The rest of the ride home was very quiet. I think we were all replaying what just happened in our minds.
I never did go back there.
Okay, so the story sounds familiar to the long time readers - as I told that story a year ago. But that's the cool thing about being MLC. We don't remember as well so we can tell the same stories over and over again. 
So share your spooky stories with us. That's okay if you mentioned it before - because we probably don't remember. And it's new to the more recent MLC readers. 
Especially you FBI (From Big Island) folks. You must have plenty of stories to share with us. Or if you're like me and nothing much happened to you - share a story you heard by someone else. It's Halloween time. Boo!
Tags: Big Island, blood tree, Ghosts, Halloween, midlife crisis blog, MLC, Morgan's corner, Pali Golf Course, Rodney Lee, spooky stories, stories
October 28th, 2009 at 3:45 am
oh that would be funny you know if you can paint something and in certain angle you se the "DEVIL"...how do you know what a devil looks like....they might look handsome but insdie is HELL!
October 28th, 2009 at 3:46 am
well you didn't describe the devil ! did it have horns??? omg funny!
October 28th, 2009 at 3:47 am
when I go to sleep I picture the most horid thougths like the way they do in t.v. the guy with scary red eyes I scare myself to death then I fall in deep asleep...funny huh!
October 28th, 2009 at 3:49 am
I watch those ghost haunting on t.v...okay do it again go look at the tree....again then tell us what did it look like?
October 28th, 2009 at 3:59 am
okay I got a story...well I told my husband lets go ghost hunting halloween ....I was reading a church has ghost in it...so we drove there and I todl my husband okay go open the door..the door was heavy as can be my two boys and I are behind....my hsubnad said NO I am not going to open the door...I said OPEN IT NOW..I run back to the car...the door squeakkk....then all of the sudden a guy open the door wider...omg almost have heart attack..they have mass going on! I laugh so hard..so anyway we went back again few days later we went inside nothing happened it was peaceful inside..some churches gives me goose bumps but not this one!
October 28th, 2009 at 4:01 am
so as I sat in car the guy said COME IN COME IN..my husband was like no thank you I wonder what the guy was thinking.
October 28th, 2009 at 4:15 am
did you take a picture of that tree....try taking picture of it in different angle..when you do this think of happy thoughts you wont see the devil...omg funny!
October 28th, 2009 at 5:18 am
Late at night you can smell this aroma. Kinda sweet but weird. More so toward the early mornings but extends throughout the day.
I would waft in and out. If you listen carefully, you can hear it kinda rambling sumting. Can't really understand it.
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GAH!!!!!!!!! IT'S HERE!!! :TWISTED:
October 28th, 2009 at 5:18 am
October 28th, 2009 at 6:00 am
I think I was about 14 or so. Woke up one morning and police was all over the neighborhood. Found out the neighbor across the street bludgeoned her husband with a hatchet. They had 2 small girls. Don't know what happened to them after that incident.
That house stood vacant for many years. It could be my imagination but on some nights we could hear this moaning noise coming from the house. Thank goodness someone bought it and tore it down. I still hear moaning noise at night but not from that house
Oh that moaning noise is probably me trying to get out of bed in the middle of the night to take the dogs out to make shishi. Might as well go it since I'm up.
October 28th, 2009 at 6:06 am
One more back in '76, there was this murder somewhere near Volcano. My friend and his girlfriend, me and my "friend" decided to go cruising late one night toward Volcano in my 1970 Ford Fairlane. We were taking about that murder when all of a sudden, the car lights went off. Needless to say I did U turn and as I started heading back to Hilo, the lights came back on.
I swear id did not touch the light switch and it never happened again since. And NO, the girls didn't jump all over us. We were all too scared to do anything.
Coincidence? Or Not?
October 28th, 2009 at 6:09 am
Ever had that feeling that someone or something was sitting on you and you couldn't move? You can open your eyes and look (But probably too scared to try) You arms won't move, you can't yell or make a sound. Just say a silent prayer and poof, can move again? That happened to me and several people I know.
October 28th, 2009 at 6:26 am
Ynaku - so you are sensitive to spirits too, where they make their presence known to you?
Working at a local hospital up in Liliha, and was down in the basement, where one of the departments was. Talking in the hallway with some others, suddenly we feel something really really chilled, like a pocket of cold air pass us and we got chicken skin.
One of the other people that was there realized that she just had a ghost experience, and her eyes got really big, then she said something like 'that was a ghost that just passed us, yeah?', as she rubbed her arm. The others looked at each other, and then we quickly went our separate ways.
I've had other experiences where I see a figure in my peripheral vision, and watch it move. These feelings and sensitivities used to be stronger before, where I could sense the spirits nearby too. Maybe now I'm too busy or tired to be in tune.
October 28th, 2009 at 6:27 am
Hey Rod, Back to the "STRESS" story - I just read in your paper that Costco is now going to take food stamps. More crowded at Iwilei!
October 28th, 2009 at 6:29 am
Good Morning Everyone! BOO!
Ynaku, that was the Pressing Spirit. or something like that is what Glenn Grant talked about. Lotsa peeps had that, thankfully I not one of 'um.
In high school we were at a friend's house in Manoa, ready to leave (5 of us). I headed out of the room first, thinking everyone was right behind me. The room had just one small step up to the next room, as I took that step I was pushed forward hard enough that I turned around to tell my friends "ok ok, I'm moving".
They were all still back in the other room.
October 28th, 2009 at 6:36 am
I recently posted a question on FB if anyone heard of the ghost at Krazy Karaoke Pearl Kai. Seattle Gail told me a story of her niece who went there with a small bunch (4 peeps) and felt something playing w/ her hair while she was singing. She thought it was her friends until she noticed their hands were all in full view.
Then she caught her reflection in a glass framed pic on the wall... the hashi that was holding her hair up was going up and down on its own. Then her friend's hair started flying in her face. Then her hair started flying in her face when she took the hashi out.
Story goes that there is a child ghost there that plays with young people. So much for me going to check it out. I called my daughter to tell her to come with me. She said "Mom, you $uck!" LOL She loves a good story as much as I do. I think it's in the DNA.
Anyway, my friend used to work at the chiro ofc next door the year they had to have the place blessed again. I'm waiting for her to tell me the whole story.
Anyone wanna karaoke?
October 28th, 2009 at 6:37 am
Good morning Rodney!
masako can sense spirits around. Just yesterday she went to the State Library to get a book for my son afterwork and she said she can feel spirits in that place.
My brother had that pressing spirit long time ago in our house but no one else felt it.
October 28th, 2009 at 6:41 am
Continuation to that Krazy's story...
The room got really really cold.
So these girls started cussing loudly to make the spirit go away, so loudly that the people in the next room knocked on their door. They opened the door to a Samoan lady who was yelling "what's going on in there?". When the door opened she stopped and said "oh, something not good in this room". She said a prayer and everything stopped.
October 28th, 2009 at 6:56 am
My parents told me during a stay at the Kilauea Military camp on the Big Island the faucet in the bathroom sink turned on by itself during the night. They turned it off and found long hair in the sink, both my parents have short hair.
October 28th, 2009 at 6:57 am
This happened to my friend when she was dating her now husband who is from the mainland.
They went to the Pali Lookout one day and, just before they left, he had to pee really bad. She didn't know but he went off to the side and did his thing. As she told us this story we were all "OMG you did NOT!"
Anyway, they got in the truck and started down. The truck suddenly made this huge BANG, so loud they thought something fell off from under the hood. Then came "the smell". ohhhhh boy.
She looked at him and said "Did you do something back there?" He told her and she immediately made a plate of some of their bento and told him to go back to the rock and apologize and give the offering.
He did. Then they went on their way. It was his first lesson in "No mess with Hawaiian spirits".
October 28th, 2009 at 7:15 am
Sometimes I can smell and hear the same ghoul as Ynaku. I always try swearing at it, but it never goes away..........
October 28th, 2009 at 7:15 am
My boss will adamantly refute this but we swear we have a kolohe spirit in our office.
O couple of years ago he was looking for his coffee mug. The one with the Kanji on it. We couldn't find it. Looked all over the lunchroom, in the cabinets etc,... nowhere to be found. We forgot about it.
About 6mos later I was looking for something in the hygienist's op. Got on a ladder to get to the top shelf of her cabinet. There, against the back wall on the top cabinet shelf, was the coffee mug w/ the kanji. OMG!
Our assistant saw my face and said "what?" I pulled out the mug and we just couldn't say a word.
Same thing happened with a lab scissors that went missing for weeks. Then we found it one morning, right where it's supposed to be. One of my files, same thing, went missing for days. Then one morning I opened the file drawer and there it was, as tho' it was never gone.
Our hygienist was the last to leave one day and as she was closing the door she heard a voice right up next to her ear that said "Ashlee". She locked up real fast and got the heck out of there.
I go in to work a lot when the office is closed and hear stuff... coughing, noises, etc that is NOT coming from next door (they're closed too) or the vents. Once, I was so annoyed I yelled "will you leave me alone? I really need to finish this!"
Don't ask me where I found the guts to do that, I just did. And it stopped. I try not to go in too much on my days off anymore. If I do I play the radio really loud.
The boss laughs when we tell him these stories. Me thinks he knows something. Seriously.
October 28th, 2009 at 7:24 am
bh808 and Ynaku: try asking nicely for it to leave you alone. That works too. My friend, when he first moved into his apt, had all kinds of things happen. Loaf of bread would slide off the counter, towels would get taken off the racks and piled on the bathroom floor, etc.
He knew the story of the former tenant, an older woman who passed away in there. He said "Aunty, I live here now, you need to leave me alone".
All pau now.
October 28th, 2009 at 7:34 am
@ sally- wow, didn't know about Krazy Karaoke at Pearl Kai. Was thinking about having a mini reunion over there a couple months back, good to know...
Anyway, 2 weeks ago my next door neighbor died from a heart attack (anybody read in the paper yesterday that more women passing from heart attack and stroke? blew my mind, just the timing). One week after she died, I was getting ready to work out on the tread mill (9:30 pm) when I smelled this lavender scent coming thru my back screen door. I immediately knew and went to the back door and put my nose to the screen door- the scent was ever so strong. I knew she had come back. I wonder if she wore lavender... I do when I go to bed sometimes at night and it was also a coincedence those past few nights I was putting lavender lotion on.. but I didn't have it on at that time. Plenty more stories to tell to.. maybe later.
October 28th, 2009 at 7:36 am
Ynaku: ew
Two Fish ew
M: ew
Bamboo: ew
Tell me more!
October 28th, 2009 at 7:40 am
Sally, we tried but she still keeps coming back 7 times already this morning. Look up
Oh yeah one more story related to me by a friend. This Hotel in Kona (to go un-named) was known to be haunted. It's right on the coast line. I think the Kings Trail goes by there.
Anyway, the hotel was closed and waiting for a buyer. Power was turned off. My friend working as a security guard at night would notice strange things.
One night a dog that keeps them company stood up bolted to this wall and started barking. Going crazy kind barking. They security guards rush over there and nothing.
Another time the doing there rounds and they see alight in one of the rooms. They know don't have power so they went to check. They get to the room and listened. They hear voices inside. They touch the door and it's ice cold. They blitzed it out of there.
Another story he related to me was about the site manager working in a office in the same hotel. He would hear kids laughing and running up and down the hallways. He would look and nobody there.
I knew about that hotel being haunted for some time now. When they were first opened, some of our friends would stay there on vacation, and they would relate all these weird stories. I know they weren't lying. After hearing all these stories, I've NEVER stayed there once. Never ever. I stayed in other hotels and condo close by but never in that hotel.
BTW, the hotel reopened but I don't think that particular wing is occupied yet.
Never mess with the Kings Trail. (that's another story)
October 28th, 2009 at 7:41 am
sally - I never thought of being nice to it. Let's try see......
"Please leave me/us aloooooone........."
Ynaku - You go try too and let me know how it goes.
October 28th, 2009 at 7:41 am
@volleymom2: I didn't get the full scoops on Krazy's PK yet.
Your neighbor came to say goodbye to you? Cool. My sis in law saw my uncle in our back yard, he was sitting in "his" chair under the mango tree watching his granddaughter who was then 2yrs old. Now 21.
Wasn't a spooky feeling, was actually pretty nice. Never saw him again since.
October 28th, 2009 at 7:51 am
Ynaku & BH808: Maybe if you offer Tex's Malasadas and Coco Puffs as an offering.
Ynaku: I cannot wait to hear more! I know of the hotel on Hilo side, the beeg one, the notoriously haunted one. My friend stayed there and his towels kept getting thrown off the racks. (not same friend as #23).
He'd wake up and they'd be in the bathtub. He'd come back from his mtg and they'd be under the sink. He went to the desk and asked for another room. They nodded that "knowing" nod and gave him another room.
When you think about it, there can't be a single place that is not haunted. It just depends if you're sensitive to it or not.
October 28th, 2009 at 7:54 am
During the same stay at the Military Camp at Kilauea, my parents said during the night they could smell a cigarette and in the morning they saw cigarette ashes on the bathroom sink....
October 28th, 2009 at 7:59 am
Okay, one more before I leave for work.
Where I live, my landlady is my classmate's mom. Classmate & husb live in bldg next to mine. Mom lives upstairs. These two 2-story units used to be the family digs. Kids were all Bulldogs and we all grew up knowing each others' brothers, cousins, etc. from 1970 - 1974.
One of the sons was sadly killed in an accident in the mid 70's. He used to live in the unit next to mine. When I first moved in, my then-neighbor used to tell me about weird things he used to see/hear in that apt. Not scary, just weird. I never said anything cuz well, it's a family story and very tragic, so we don't talk about it to the new tenants.
Grandson now lives there so I think "R" is happy now. Nothing happens anymore. I sure hope "R" is not peeping in on me. Ho da shame.
K, I going work now, cannot wait to come home and read everybody's stories!!! Then stupid me, gotta sit in the dark by myself. Me 'n my daughter same thing. Love to hear stories but scared to go home.
Have a spooky day everyone!
October 28th, 2009 at 8:41 am
a little humor amongst all the ghost stories.
the late, great Rap Reiplinger
Aloha Spirit Hotel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTGiam06hb8
October 28th, 2009 at 8:44 am
sally wrote: "When you think about it, there can't be a single place that is not haunted. It just depends if you're sensitive to it or not."
I think that is so true. I must be the least sensitive person on earth to visits from beyond. I know I've mentioned actually wanting visits from at least some of those who have gone before. For all I know, they are watching me right now, wondering "how come she cannot see or hear me? how much more noise I gotta make?" and my old dog Jake is sitting with them, looking disgusted.
I have actually been to quite a lot of places in Hawaii and Chicago that are supposed to be haunted (we actually have a lot of them here in Chicago, including some that are super close to where I live or work) and I have never seen or felt anything that wasn't of this world.
October 28th, 2009 at 9:03 am
My mom was using the restroom near the Kahala theater and she heard the toilet flush and saw the water in the sink turn on by itself. She said she was the only one in the restroom. She has never gone back to that restroom again.
October 28th, 2009 at 9:26 am
@M - was that the downstairs bathroom at Kahala mall? The "no-face" lady from the old Waialae Drive In's woman's bathroom moved over to Kahala mall's downstairs bathroom.
October 28th, 2009 at 9:35 am
volleymom2 - when./if Daddy comes to visit me, I hope I'm receptive enough like you were with your neighbor. He was tired last Friday and wanted to rest, so he went to sleep and never got up.
October 28th, 2009 at 9:38 am
@TwoFish - I'm so sorry to hear about your father.
Our condolences to you and your loved ones.
October 28th, 2009 at 10:02 am
Rodney: not that one, the one near the movie theater.
TwoFish: My condolences to you and your family.
October 28th, 2009 at 10:05 am
@TwoFish: Sorry to hear about your father. My condolences to you and your family.
When my father passed away, I heard a story about him visiting a second cousin in spirit while she was sleeping. She said he called her name and told her he was going now and that he had a good life. I don't know how true this story is because I have never asked her about it and I never will. I just want to believe that this story is true and that my father had contact with family before he left. This makes me feel good.
October 28th, 2009 at 10:09 am
I forgot to add that this visit came before she was told that he had passed away. She knew something had happened to him before she was told.
October 28th, 2009 at 10:16 am
Thank you for the condolences. I will keep you updated if/when he visits me.
Midori - I hope Daddy comes to visit all of us siblings, with the same message --that I can have some of the things he never wanted to let me take (tools) when he was alive and I asked. His concern that it was there for everyone in the family to use, though I think I was the only one using it by then.
He was 40 days shy of 94 years old.
M - what time was that when the bathroom ghost was there? I want to make sure that I'm not there with anyone who would flip out.
October 28th, 2009 at 10:32 am
My sister has some freaky stories from working at the Dole Cannery office building for several years. Everything about that place is haunted - the bathrooms, hallways, offices, stairwells...
I went there one time to visit her and by chance had my digital camera with me. During my visit I took out the camera from the case and discovered the camera was on, which was impossible because even if it managed to turn on accidentally it goes to sleep after a few seconds of inactivity, and the battery was drained to almost empty, which was also impossible because I has just charged it to full a couple hours earlier.
Believe in what ever story you want to believe about the place (former morgue, built on a heiau, built on a graveyard) but that place has a creepy vibe for sure.
October 28th, 2009 at 10:47 am
TwoFish, sorry to hear about your father's passing...my condolences.
No ghost or paranormal experiences. I'm the skeptical one but there are so many that has had those chicken skin moments...I just numb.
October 28th, 2009 at 10:47 am
@OhWowLauLau - Thanks for posting and welcome to the Midlife Crisis blog.
I thought that the Dole Cannery office building would be a convenient place to work - close to the big box stores and away from the downtown hussle and bussle. Maybe not such a good idea after all.
Aren't there a lot of radio studios in that building? They must have some stories to tell.
October 28th, 2009 at 10:50 am
OhWowLauLau: I know what you mean. Even if nothing strange happened to me there, I do feel a creepy vibe at the Dole Cannery building. And, I feel it at the State library, too. But, I just chalk it up to "just me" because I cannot say that I have had any kind of strange experiences at those places.
This conversation is spooking me out! I better go make lunch and get ready for the World Series! Go Phillies!!!
October 28th, 2009 at 10:55 am
Aloha Rodney. Yeah, Clear Channel has their studios in the building. I'm sure the late shift DJs/workers have tons of stories.
It wouldn't be good for my cholesterol if I worked in that building. I'd eat Costco hot dogs everyday.
And I'd hate to deal with the traffic in the area because of Costco everyday.
October 28th, 2009 at 10:56 am
Oh yeah, we also were located at Dole Cannery for a while and my co-worker worked late and he had those ghost/spirit moments. He was hammering a nail on the wall to put up a picture and something strange happened, forgot what he told me but he apologized to the spirit and thereafter respectfully said goodbye whenever he left his office at night. He said that old timers in the building had similar experiences. And earlier someone mentioned the main library in town being haunted and workers there say the basement level is occupied by spirits.
October 28th, 2009 at 11:12 am
Rodney, if you go further down the hall from the Clear Channel offices there is the Road Runner Music Hall. I been there a few times to see mini-concerts from performers usually as a promotion to upcoming concerts. I get the Oceanic newsletter-emails that will announce the mini-concerts and free but you have to sign up and hope they select you. Performers will do 2-4 numbers and have a meet-and-greet afterwards and free refreshments. The ones that I went were kinda obscure or oldies acts but they also had Jack Johnson, Jason Mraz, Hiroshima and Jake Shimabukuro.
October 28th, 2009 at 11:40 am
@OhWowLauLau - did you happen to read my Monday's post about Costco? LOL
@Hemajang - Okay, now I wouldn't want to work in there. You got to see Hiroshima in an intimate setting? Did they play One Wish?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKTTJ7zZfYQ
October 28th, 2009 at 11:53 am
@Rodney, no, did not see Hiroshima at the Hall, wish I did. I had signed up for that mini-concert but nevah got a reply...sad. I did see them at a concert many years ago.
October 28th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
No ghost stories, just checking in to read all the posts.
October 28th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Wow! All these stories are giving me chicken skin.
TwoFish - Sorry to hear about your dad. I hope he visits you. My dad died when I was 3 and I have always wanted him to come back so I could see him. I think he did once in a dream but I am not sure if that was it or just my subconscious working.
@ Ynaku - what is the name of the Kona hotel? I want to know but don't want to know. We are trying to visit the Big Island in the next couple of years and I want to make sure I avoid that hotel.
Does anyone know how to get old Ghost Hunters episodes off the internet? We did a ghost tour in Charleston and one of the houses was featured in Ghost Hunters. I would like to see it but can't figure out how. Any info would be appreciated.
Happy Halloween everyone!!
October 28th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Hey Rodney. This is the subject that brought me out of lurker status last year.
Hopefully I do not repeat myself.
At the office I used to work at in Manoa there was spirits.
Often I had to work late into the night and would have visitors. Once the electronics on the phone started to all blink and stuff.
Like Sally, they would take things and hide them somewhere. I am not the most organized person, but I do not keep copies of memos on the top shelf.
Once I could not find the memos that I needed to make copies to distribute. I looked all over for it. I finally stated, "I really need to take care of this today. Please put it back. Yes, it is fun, but I really need to finish this." I went to the bathroom and came back. The memos were in my inbox. Forgot to mention that no one else had access to this office at the time.
October 28th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Bre, I hate to say the name cause my Niece works there and I don't want to be "served". I did go there for a Wedding but refused to stay in the Hotel. It's run by a big name resort toward the end of Alii Drive. Rod you can give her my email if she really wants to know the name of the Hotel.
I haven't experienced it myself so everything is hearsay but when more than one person relates those stories, I tend to believe.
October 28th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Just yesterday I was at the main library picking up a book for my son. That building has always creeped me out but I had to get the book for him. I had to go up to the second floor than go all the way to the back. I went up the stairs and walked to the back and after awhile found his book. On the way back I went down than had to go thru a maze of shelves to get back to the front. As I was walking I could feel someone follow me and I began to get the chills. I happened to see a door that led out to the courtyard so I hightailed it out that door.
I had parked my car at Iolani palace next to the big banyan tree. As I passed the tree I felt a big chill......A second ago I was hot and humid. I went into my car and prayed that no spirts would follow me home.
October 28th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Ho..........busy day today! My contribution.......one night working late at the State Capitol, I'm reading something in my area and all of a sudden the printer GOES NUTS! It starts spewing all kinds of stuff (the old dot matrix type printer) and its going back and forth back and forth back and forth back and forth back and forth..............you get the idea.
The creepy thing was that this printer was shared by 3 computers via an "A-B-C" switch where you had to turn the switch to your computer in order to print a job. The computer that it was set on was "off".
This other guy was in the room right next and he and I got the hell outta there and I never forgot that incident.
OL
October 28th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
OK sally, One more Kona Side.
One day we were walking around the shops on Alii Drive and this lady offers us some free boat tours and luau if we go to this Timeshare presentation. So we went.
As they took us on a tour of the place, I noticed several heiaus. Now I am one to respect these burial grounds. So I told the sales guy, we don't want to purchase at this location. He understood but the sales manager was all upset. I told her just give me what is promiosed and I'll get out of your hair.
Anyway, later I found out my in-laws bought into the time share there too. And they invited us over. I told them to make sure you get one far from the heiaus since their daughter is very sensitive to spirits. That didn't help. My wife felt very uncomfortable staying there. We slept with the lights on.
One time, My grand-daughter was in my bedroom while we let her mom sleep longer. My grand-daughter kept looking at something toward her moms room. I couldn't ask her cause she was too young.
Later my daughter got up and told us she heard some kids laughing and running around her room. She tried calling out to us but couldn't. She prayed and they let go.
Needless to say, we rarely stay there any longer.
October 28th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
Oh yeah.....forgot to add that the printout was all gibberish and didn't have any decipherable message.
OL
October 28th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
TwoFish, sorry to hear of your loss. He did live a long life and went in his sleep. May he rest in Peace. And may you and your family find comfort.
October 28th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
For those of you that have already heard or remember my Japan ghost story you can skip this post. I am posting it for the newbees or the MLC'ers that forgot.
On my first trip to Japan we had a opportunity to pay a hundred bucks more to sleep in a traditional tatami room. M could not understand why we had to pay extra to sleep on the floor but I wanted the experience. I like the sound of bare feet walking on the tatami. During the night I woke up to the sound of someone walking on the tatami in our room. I figured M went to the bathroom. But then I heard a snore and M was right next to me fast asleep. Before I could process my thoughts I felt a cold grip on my ankles and my legs being pulled. I shut my eyes because I did not want to see whatever it was. A chill came over me and I guess I screamed because M bolted up and asked me what was wrong. He said my scream might have woken up the whole hotel. We turned all the lights on and searched the room and found nothing. We couldn't go back to sleep after that so we went downstairs to soak in the onsen.
I think thats the most frightening experience I have had. I can often sense spirits but they rarely touch me.
October 28th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Another time I was touched my a ghost was when I had the choking experience at my parents house in Manoa. My brother had the same experience too.
Japan has lots of spirits. I sensed a lot in Hiroshima and in the more rural areas. I guess Tokyo is too hectic for them, I cannot recall getting creeped out anywhere over there. The battleground in Okinawa was pretty intense too. I visited ancestors graves in Okinawa and took many pictures hoping to catch a spirit. I need to check them out closely one of these days.
Another place I recall being really creepy is Alcatraz island in San Francisco and the bathroom at Giradelli square. The bathrooms at Kahala mall are creepy too, I refuse to go to that downstairs one and would not go to the one by the theatre by myself
October 28th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
@Ynaku - I wouldn't mind knowing which hotels in Hilo and Kona since I hope to travel there next year. One summer I found a great deal on this nice condo in Kona. When we got there it was great and I couldn't believe that I got it for such a good price. We were there for a week. At times I feel I was being watched while in the master bedroom. One night while we were sleeping the answering machine went off and we could hear all kind of gibberish. The next morning we checked it and there was nothing recorded. I realized why it was such a good deal.
October 28th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
I have had deceased relatives visit me in my dreams. One that stands out is my grandmother. She had dementia toward the end of her life and was put into a home. I was the grandchild that she remembered and she would always ask me when is she going home. Right before she passed her children sold her house so they could pay for her care. After she passed I would see her in my dreams walking around her house looking for her stuff. I had to tell her that she had passed and the house is no longer hers. After that I never had that dream again.
October 28th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Just droppin in to say HI to everybody
I no can remember any ghost stories
if I do I'll post latta's 
NKHEA.....back to work now
October 28th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
@Ynaku - maybe you can just email me the names of the hotels and I can forward it to Bre and Masako and whoever else wants to know.
And I can find out for myself too.
October 28th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
In the 7th grade I stayed over at a friend's house one night.
In the bedroom I felt someone grab my ankles and push my feet down into the bed. I was scared but not enough to scream. All night before that I had a hard time sleeping. It was like there were people talking in the room.
I told my friend about the experience and he said it was his cousin visiting.
He and his whole family are sensitive and he can actually see spirits.
October 28th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
@TwoFish - my condolences on the loss of your father. In time he may come back to visit. It takes alot of energy for them to do so. When he is ready you will have your moment to visit.
I have had my fair share of visits. Typically I feel like I have been up all night when it happens. In the beginning I did not think they were visits but later started to put it all together.
October 28th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
Masako-san and Kage: I'm glad I don't have your abilities. I am a biiiiiig chicken. I'm not gonna read any more - otherwise I won't be able to go to sleep.
October 28th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
TwoFish, my condolences to you and your family on the loss of your father.
Growing up in a fisherman's family, my father would tell us some stories that happened within the 50's and 60's with his fishing buddies. two of his friends went fishing at kaena point. as the sun went down powderman nakamura said he was going to check the bait on his pole. after awhile his friend realized he was taking a little long so he walked down toward the beach and saw his friend's pole lying in the sand. he panicked and started yelling for him. he heard moaning sounds so he followed the messed up sand trail till he found him curled up in the tall hanohano grass. he thought his friend had suffered a heart attack. he couldn't walk or speak, just moan. he carried him into the jeep and threw all the fishing gear in the back and rushed to the hospital. when they reached waianae town his friend finally talked and said give me one cigarette. he said when he was about to cast his pole into the water a big eyed half body man appeared in front of him. he was so scared that his knees buckled and he could only crawl to get away.
October 28th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
another true story that happened at bamboo ridge. a good fishing spot by the blow hole. it was a sunday night and the club started to pack up at about midnight because the next day was back to work. Mr. Kimura who owned his own business decided to stay because the fishing was good.
the next morning my father drove past the sight and saw that somebody was still fishing. he climbed down the ridge only to find kimura's gear but not kimura. he must have fallin into the water. he called the police and they seached the area. they later found him at home. kimura recalls the wind came cold and hearing a soda can rolling. with his headband light he shined toward the ridge wall only to see a half bodied man floating in air staring at him. he didn't remember how he got home but his hair turned whitesh.
October 28th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
ynaku, masako,
my father use to enter the billfish tournament in kona. in 1965 he stayed at a motel named Kona Sunset. strange things happened. at night the building would creep and you could hear noises outside. if you turned off the lights inside the room then you could hear noises in the room. in the morning they would find their slippers all over the place and the maid would throw the clean towels on the bed and run out. my father was fearless and the rates was cheap so they decided to stay. after a cocktail party uncle chester did his business(shishi) on the side of the building and for two days he couldn't go shishi. he got sick and had to be sent home. uncle tommy got a press job the night they turned off the lights. he moved out. after that they broke down the motel and built a condo named the billfisher. it is located between islander inn and kona hilton
October 28th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Thanks for those stories Fishhead. Spooky stuff.
I wonder if KAN went sleep before she read your posts.
October 28th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
Finally home and reading all your stories. ooooohhhhh!!!
Some of you already know that next to Grey's Anatomy, my fave show is Ghost Hunters. For Bre (#52) you can go to this site http://www.extremeghosthunters.com/index.html
and find an assortment of paranormal shows for free. There's also an area for "premium members" but I only watch GH. Learned quite a bit actually.
I totally like to hear stories, and then I gotta come home by myself. Bucks fo' lolo. I hesitate going on ghost walks cuz I don't want anyone/anything coming home with me... and we all know that it does happen.
I have blessed salt that I carry with me for times when it's needed, like when I went to a party at Natsunoya and other notorious places.
@fishhead: we should have a pajama party before Seattle Gail goes back to Seattle.
October 28th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
@sally, @Ynaku, @Masako, and @Kage - thanks for your contributions too.
@Two Fish - I know which hospital you're talking about. Yikes.
October 28th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
A friend that I haven't seen in years, knew him in the late 90's, he's a Hawaiian Healer and helped me with some situations. Healers speak in a very non-chalant tone, as tho' it's the most normal thing to see and speak with spirits.
He told me of who was with me as my guardians and what their roles were. He taught me how I can call to them for help when I need it, and what they were telling me.
Like many of you, I dream of my departed loved ones. He taught me that when I do, that's when they are visiting me and telling me or teaching me things so I need to listen well. I am learning.
I ask for my cousin to visit, I miss him.
October 28th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Does anyone still hear of strange goings-on in Kalama Valley? Back in the l940's-50's it was mostly pig farms out there. My ex husb grew up there and, as a little boy, remembers the famous slaying of the S Family by the love-lorned yard man. He couldn't have the missus so this was how he dealt with it. Only one son survived. "A" now lives on the mainland.
I remember in the 60's I read a story in the newspaper about a "friendly ghost" in Kalama Valley. Always wondered if it was one of the other children.
October 28th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
@Sally - Whats the story on Natsunoya? and where are these notorious places?
I enjoy watching Ghost hunters and other shows that talk about ghost on TV. I also like to read and hear about peoples experiences. I always wanted to go on Glenn Grant's tour and kept putting it off, and then he passed away. I should go on Lopaka Kapanui's tour but like Sally said I need to be careful about not bringing anything home with me.
October 28th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
@ Masako:
Natsunoya: When my friend was a newbie w/ HPD he and a few others were sent to a disturbance at Natsunoya after the place was closed. They could hear inside... stuff being thrown around like pots/pans, utensils, packages, etc.
They surrounded the area front,side, and back to catch whoever might try to run away up the back hill. Nobody was there.
They opened up the door to see stuff flying all over the place. Thrown by something they couldn't see. It eventually settled down, they left the place as is... and LEFT!
So, when we had our class reunion there this past summer, I took my salt and did little prayers and "arigato"s around the restaurant. And I never went to the bathroom alone. That's just me.
Other places included the Restaurant Row theatres, Kahala Theatre bathroom, Hotels, neighbor islands... like I mentioned, there ain't a place in Hawaii that spirits don't walk. It just depends how sensitive you are.
October 28th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Rod: I never ever went to Morgan' Corner. Can you believe it? And no, I don't want to now.
Okay gang, I took meds for my back about a half hour ago, its kicking in.
Dayum it's guuuuud shtuuuuffff. I don't think I can las much longer. Will continue reading tmw,
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October 29th, 2009 at 6:19 am
OK no tell
The hotel I was referring to is the old Kona Surf Hotel (now known as the Sheraton Kona Surf) I don't know if people are experiencing any strange thing now.
But the Timeshare we experience those incidents is the Wyndam Hawaiian Village on Alii Drive. There'a a lot of Hawaiian burial sites along that route. And the Hawaiian Trail also follows that coastline.
fishhead, I remember where Kona Sunset was. The Kona Hilton is now Royal Kona Resort. I didn't have any problems there. I'm staying at the King Kamehameha Hotel. They are renovating the hotel. They completed the west wing. Really nice. The East wing is stilled closed. But when they're done, It's going to be a really nice hotel with a sand beach right in Kailua Town next to the pier and they still have those Granders in the lobby.
October 29th, 2009 at 6:47 am
My co-workers wife family owns Natsunoya, I will ask him if he heard anything about the place.
October 29th, 2009 at 7:19 am
Thanks Ynaku for the info. I am glad it wasn't the King Kamehameha Hotel. That is the hotel I like to stay at on the Big Island. However, after all of your stories I might think twice about going there again!! Just kidding. I love the island too much to stop visiting. Besides, next trip the FIL is paying!
It's almost the weekend. Yeah!
October 29th, 2009 at 7:20 am
@TwoFish: I am so sorry to hear of your father's passing. My sincere sympathies to you and your family.
October 29th, 2009 at 7:30 am
Aloha Bre. By the time you come that Hotel should be spiffy, almost brand new. The rooms are beautiful with a BIG HD FLAT SCREEN TV. Depending on the room you get, some have 2 beds. The other room I stayed in had 1 bed BUT a fold out sofa bed. They do have FREE internet connections wired and wireless. Just ask the front desk what the user name and password is.
Whoo Hoo, let me know when on the Big Island. And no we won't talk about spooks.
October 29th, 2009 at 8:34 am
Good Morning!
Some guuuud meds I'm taking... mo' betta than the 70's! whoo hoo! Good thing I'm off today cuz I woke up all halulus, gotta get a grip and do my stuffs today, which includes picking up the keiki from preschool. aiyaa!
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@Ynaku: I thought you were talking about Waikoloa cuz that's pretty well known haunted huh? I was talking about Naniloa on Hilo side. Then again, we're both talking Big Island... it doesn't matter where. Kauai same thing.
@M: I'm curious to know what your friend tells you. If they say anything at all. I'm gonna ask my friends who own Krazy's, not sure if they'd say anything either. Would I? Heck yah! Would be awesome for business! LOL
@bre: Did you check out the site? Thursdays is when they show the current week's episode but there's a "12 hr wait" which means it'll show at about 12 noon or later. You can also watch on YouTube.
October 29th, 2009 at 8:35 am
Good morning Rodney!
Yesterday when I came home masako was reading the stories on this blog and then told me that the printer is jammed. When I removed the paper that was causing the jam half the paper was just red like blood was spilled on it.
October 29th, 2009 at 8:49 am
@M - You folks get ti leaf plant? Go put one leaf by the printer.
Just in case.
October 29th, 2009 at 8:55 am
@M: NOT!
LOL
When I go to BI to volunteer for Asthma Camp, we go to the Kalopa Forest Cabins. This last trip, the grounds keeper and another worker told us all kine stories while we were packing up on the volunteers' last day.
People have reported diff stories in a certain cabin. Stories of being visited and seeing shadows, etc.
He said that esp when a Hula Halau comes up, there's all kinds of activity. Once, he saw the Kumu alone in the main cabin by herself, "talking" to someone. She was saying "it's alright" and "we thank you for your graciousness", stuff like that. Then she said a prayer. He watched and said his own prayer and everything went well that weekend.
I never saw or felt anything the two times I've been there. Hope I never do. We always do a prayer circle before the keiki come. Just to be sure, I never ever walk alone when it gets dark.
October 29th, 2009 at 9:30 am
twofish - condolences to you and your family on the loss of your father. i had a dream about my father a few days after he had passed, after a particularly stressful day - i remember waking up from that dream and wanting it to continue so i went back to sleep, but to no avail. i also had a large black moth fly come by while i was on the porch shortly after he died, too - when i saw it, i said "hi dad!" each time, i felt like it was my dad telling me that everything would be okay.
October 29th, 2009 at 9:33 am
Back in the mid 70's I lived on the part of Alewa Heights on Kaumailuna Place and experienced the "pressing" evil as I called it. The sound I can never forget. Heavy rapid breathing through the nose. I was sleeping on my stomach which I rarely ever do but I managed to get my hand together to pray since the pressure was so intense and my body was paralyzed completely. When I started praying, everything stopped. That home had a presence and on two occasions my landlord would call at about 2 am to tell me that my tv was on too loud or my radio was blaring waking me from a dead sleep. I knew it was time to move out. My friend had an experience just about 75 feet or so from this street at about 2:30 am and to this day refuses to drive on Alewa Drive. He needs to tell the story since he experienced it but I have never seen him scared before and I know what goose bumps actually look like when he came to my home pounding on the door that morning after dropping me off.
October 29th, 2009 at 9:52 am
twofish: my condonlences to you and your family. Your very thoughts about your father will bring him to you. You sound like me, wanting "physical" proof of their visits. I had to learn to just believe. Sometimes there are signs of their visits instead of visually seeing them. A representing object in an obscure place, a surprise scent of something that makes you remember them, they visit you in different ways.
I have a lot of my mom's old sewing supplies that I treasure. Every time I use them I feel secure, like she's watching.
Peace.
Sally>>> loves the smell of sawdust and sound of a table saw, reminds me of my daddy.
October 29th, 2009 at 11:55 am
@ TwoFish- my condolences to you and your family
@ Sally- did you find out any more about Karaoke PK? Someone that I know told me they "heard", but nothing happened when they were there but it was during daytime
@ Masako- my mother-in-law came back to me thru my dreams and told me to pray for her. She died unexpectedly. The dream was very vivid, kinda spooked me at first. She has 5 kids but why me? I guess I do know why, lol!!
October 29th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
@Ynaku - I will let you know when we will be on the Big Island. Not sure when, we have two trips planned for next year already so it will probably be in 2011. No ghost stories!!
@Sally - I have not checked out the web site yet. I am still at work.
I will check it out when I get home. Thanks for the info!
October 29th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
@volleymom2: haven't heard anything about Krazy's PK yet. I might go to a Karaoke Halloween Party at Young St tmw nite, if I do I'll ask them.
October 29th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
Yeah, this makes me aware how fast a year gets away; ghost stories.
when i was little on kauai, lots of people still had outhouses. my auntie's was waaaaaay over under the giant mango tree (in the summer it was the smell of tons of fermenting mangoes that smelled strongest)... and we were afraid at night already. so of course Uncle told us about seeing a ghost in the outhouse! i cant remember the story, but the binjo always makes me think of ghosts now.
our most haunted home was on Ahele street, up in the homesteads. the house we lived in for 20 years must have been old pineapple fields, but that came AFTER the first homesteads. Old, old Gramma Tacbian remembered being the housekeeper for Mrs Cheatham, when Hale Cheatham was just a kid. Now Hale was old when he lived next door, my Dad's best friend, and they both let me play cribbage with them.
He remembered lots of things, I thought he was ancient, (their house was built with that wood that smelled like seawater, cause the wood was "rafted" and towed to kauai behind the tug) but Gramma Tacbian was so sweet and elderly, she helped raise Hale. she used to walk down 3 miles to Wailua River, to scrub her babies' diapers.
oops digressing. so homesteads was where people as old as Gramma lived, and at least one of our ghosts was dressed in a long white "mother hubbard", a Hawaiian lady with long white hair.
The teenagers saw her all the time, and my neighbor across the street saw her for many years. Her "Lady" would come walking right down our street, turn into their yard, go through the back yard and disappear. Once in awhile she would stop and check the young folks sitting in parked cars, or in the garage. They all saw her together, and knew what to expect, but still scary.
Mrs. Judy knew that when her "Lady" showed up, she wanted stew! She would make stew and the Lady would stop coming again for awhile.
That street must have been congenial for ghosts, because our house had two. One was quite recent, the gentlman who lived there shortly before us. His daughter came to see our house, and told us about him, and he matched what our children were all seeing.
He was a middle aged Hawaiian man who always walked the house late at night, checking on who was sleeping and where all the kids were snuggled in. He must have known we had a centipede problem, and he was very protective and kind. (One boy saw the Wife, too, and said she looked angry.)
They were killed together driving down from the homesteads, right before Christmas, very sad for the surviving teenagers.
Our other ghost was a little girl, (maybe between 1930 and 1970 when our landlady built our house), who would stand at the end of our bed and tap Daddy's foot, you know like getting his attention. She must have been less than 10 years old, and seemed to come looking for mother and father.
One Thanksgiving I got up first, to put the turkey in. I was in my jammies watching the Macy's Day Parade, and one of the kids ran out and jumped on my back, hugging my neck. I was delighted to find there was "no-one" there, and thought our little girl must be loving the holiday mood with us.
October 29th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
Two Fish, I'm so sorry for you loss. I hope Daddy finds a way to reassure you, my Dad did quite a few times over the years. Then my girls lost their Dad a year ago, and he came to them, too.
October 29th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Me too, Sally, that sawdust smell and the oiled smell of the power saw. I am so excited to go into Home Depot or places like that!
October 29th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
fishhead -- my Dad was active in the bill fishers too, well he came from Kaneohe to the Kona Bill Fishers Tournament all the time.
Oh, the night marchers~ my first husband's family had a thing with night marchers/ghosts, but on their wedding nights! His Grandmother and Grandfather were on the Big Island for their wedding night, near Hapuna I think. This was about 1920. They were looking across the lava flow and saw a long train of night marchers, heard the drums, saw the torches; they stayed down below a stone fence and watched for a long time...
Flash forward 60 years, on our wedding night someone made the hotel arrangements for us. we drove to the Halenani, the most haunted hotel on Kauai (besides the deserted Coco Palms, that's another story), right on the rocks in Poipu. We had a big screen door right down on the splashing rocks and it was so beautiful. But all the spooky stories didnt faze us a bit, we never heard a thing! LOL
Old hospitals creep me out, no lie. I dont get the same feeling in new clinics and new hospitals, so I figure it is the "history" of human passing and grief, suffering and urgency.
Lots of sightings and stuff at CocoPalms, especially the poor guards who have worked there since Hurricane 'Iniki. We had to document some antique quilts there, and in the middle of the day it was eerie. Could be Elvis.
October 29th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
@ducksinthewind - Thanks duckie for sharing your stories with us. Seems like most of the ghosts you've encountered or heard about were friendly spirits. They must sense your loving nature.
October 29th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
ducksinthewind- i've heard stories about the night marchers in hapuna from a famous family who lived there. when he told us what he experienced as a young boy we all got chicken-skin. i really show my respect when i visit the islands.
Ynaku- it was the cottage in the very back of the driveway. I saw it when i was young.
October 29th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
ducksinthewind: I love how you embrace your stories. Kauai is a beautiful island with lots of stories as my good friend tells them all to me.
Rocks. If there is one thing I respect it's rocks. I no fool around with them. Seems like there's a lot of spiritual attachment to them.
November 27th, 2009 at 12:26 am
Kinda late to chime in but wanted to clear up the Dole Building thing. I worked there when Castle & Cooke (now relo'd to Mililani Town) occupied the entire 3rd floor of the shorter building, the 4 story one that Diagnostic Labs are now in. Yes it is severely haunted, I've got too many stories to tell on the things that went on in broad daylight, talked to the night security guard too. But to get the truth out, instead of this urban legend stuff. I researched it, I talked to Dole Cannery workers when the cannery was still open, talked to Glenn Grant as he use to come to our yearly Halloween Ghost Stories that would scare me until the next year.The Dole Cannery was haunted too. Anyway when they were digging the first level, closest to the security guard shack by the road that links it to COSTCO, to build Maui Divers which use to occupy the first level, they found a skeleton. As required by law, Bishop Museum was called and they determined it was post discovery or whatever the term is, but it wasn't ancient. Glen Grant thought that after the China Town fire, that they buried the bodies in that area. He also said, which matches pictures/stories I found, that entire area was a redlight district. There was even whore houses that was legit until the church and moral uprights made an uproar. There's a pix of that whore lane in one of those coffee table books. Since it was close to the waterfront, that it was a place of saloons and other notorious sailor hang outs. Of which there were fights and of course murder. So perhaps that is why that area is very haunted.
To make things worse, I found out that during WWII that entire 3rd floor was cold storage for the pineapples. Well, the military took it over and it became a morgue for soldiers killed in the Pacific arena and held before they were shipped back to the mainland.
So there I was sitting in what was a place for dead bodies. How delightful. I guess these ghosts then migrated to the theaters across the street because I hear they are also haunted.
In the late 60's, my g/f told me that her Farrington classmates died in a tragic accident by the Salvation Army front on Nimitz, you know where it is a very bad turn. So maybe it's them too all just hanging out and of course the County morgue is near Salvation Army.
So many dead bodies, so many places to haunt. Even our execs, who use to work late, would experience cold spots, and the ones with offices would always see someone walk by when they were the only ones on the floor. C&C workers use to work until 1-2 a.m. because it was mostly accounting that took that floor...the other entities were there too, but it was the accounting crew that worked late hours when it was month end, quarter end, etc. pushing out financials.
There was the man in the white suit who smoked a cigar, the lady in white (she's all over this island), and of course small kids. The office tower is also haunted because I worked in that building years later, and my coworkers would hear little kids running down the hallways and one even saw an entity go thru a wall in an office behind me. Never worked beyond sunset was my policy after that! Roberts Tour which occupied the 6th floor, their workers would feel someone tapping their shoulder and of course no one was there. The Security guard told me he would see the elevator in the parking garage go up and down when no one was in them and could hear echoes of children riding in 'em. Kids gotta have fun I guess, even ghost kids.
So many stories....could take couple of chapter's in the late Grant's book.