8 Years Of A Hundred Ghost Stories. 2024.

 Eight years ago, my wife challenged me to write a hundred stories toward Halloween on this blog.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2024. #100. Solution.

In 1887, King David Kalākaua was forced to sign the bayonet constitution under threat of violence from a private militia called the Honolulu Rifles.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2024. #99. Clara.

Throughout my life, I could not shake the feeling that my mother didn't like me.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2024. #98. Love WIll Keep Us Together. Pt. 2.

We had to put locks on our doors because Blossom and her kids used butter knives to pry open our door knobs and let themselves in our rooms.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2024. #97. Love Will Keep Us Together. Pt. 1.

 Living on Aniani Street was the ideal part of my teenage life.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2024. #96. The One.

 Jealousy lived in our household because of old family grudges we inherited from our parents and their parents, and so forth.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2024. #95. Terry Higa.

  Every high school has its secrets; Terry Higa was ours. He wasn't a strange kid, like how other weird kids were back in the day. Terry wasn't aloof or self-absorbed; he didn't talk to himself or chew on his fingernails.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2024. #94. Senses.

I'm losing my cognitive senses.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2024. #93. Jerry,

 I stood back and watched my daughter kneel at her mother's grave at the Hawaiian Memorial Cemetery.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2024. #92. Double.

  Our kids were driving my wife crazy.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2024. #91. HEAD.

  You know this story not because it's an urban legend but because it's real and happened to someone who could be our friend, brother, cousin, uncle, or father.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2024. #90. Cadillac.

 CADILLAC COMES BACK

Because of the adrenalin born out of my fear, I climbed the wrong telephone pole. I'd meant to climb the newer concrete pole, which was more massive, dug deep, and practically unmovable. But no, the 1966 Cadillac Hearse Fleetwood was hot on my heels, and the wooden telephone pole was the closest, so I climbed up on it because my mortality was at stake.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2024. #89. Lei.

She hated her English name and refused to be acknowledged by it or to answer it.