100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2020 # FINALE

 We did it again, you guys! Another year of 100 ghost stories toward Halloween! This makes a total of five years! Overall, that makes 637 ghost stories, articles, and personal thoughts.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2020 #1

 I hadn't known Kalena Taylor for long. Although he was an employee of mine, I always made it a point to say hello or to at least indulge him in a short conversation where I'd ask him about how his folks were doing or how things were going in general.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2020 #2

 Marie Peters met me in her Waipahu home garage, dressed in an 80's style one-piece jumpsuit. She led me to a round table. "Sit," she pointed to the fold-out chair opposite where she took a seat. "I wanted to show you something first before we talk."

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2020 #3

...Continued from yesterdayʻs story

 It's chapter thirty-nine of Queen Lili'uokalani's book, and it goes without saying that I'm pissed beyond words. I feel bad for even using the word 'pissed' because of how dignified and noble her language is.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2020 #4

 ...continued from yesterdayʻs story 

EMPLOYEE LOUNGE

In chapter two, Queen Lili'uokalani tells us about the woman she called her hānai sister, Princess Bernice Pauahi. In her late teens, she was betrothed to Lot Kamehameha, the grandson of Kamehameha The Great. A mister Charles Reed Bishop pursued and pushed his case with Pauahi, and the two were soon married. Not a note is spoken about Prince Lot's feelings after being left empty without an engagement to speak of. 

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2020 #5

 It's an old grudge tended to and festered since 1893. It seems that the characteristics of the progeny passed from DNA to DNA over the decades, resurfacing in the personality of one male every generation.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2020 #6

 My 'ohana was particular about our personal effects.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2020 #7

 She drove out of Nui avenue onto Kamehameha highway, where she had to stop for oncoming traffic. The four men, coming off a high from crack, needed a bad fix.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2020 #8

 "You go!" Sharon squealed.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2020 #9

 The in house porter from Straub Hospital finished her shift at two in the morning. She gathered up her things in her backpack and made her way across the street to the bus stop to wait for the one that would take her to Kaimukī.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2020 #10

 Long ago, there existed a world forgotten in the pages of time. In it, a man's true love passed into the realm of eternal rest because of a curse cast upon her by a water witch.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2020 #11

 We were on a weekend drive to Hauʻula. I remember that because we passed through the Wilson tunnel. It was a thing back then to see how long you could hold your breath while going through both tunnels.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2020 #12

 We were doing bus tours again in the dream, but the meeting place is a new one. What I mean is that we're familiar with the site; we've just never used it as a pick-up point for our ghost tours.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2020 #13

 1975

I came to value certain things because of the occasion or the memory of it. Thus, my young life was when I loved a red aloha shirt that my uncle Walter bought for me, even though I wouldn't say I like aloha shirts.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2020 #14

 CONCLUSION

"Tell them," Kawika growled into the ear of Fynn Greely. "Just like we discussed in the car, tell them everything."

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2020 #15

 .....Continued from yesterdayʻs story

COLLEGE 1986

Fynn Greely and Richmond Davis were roommates who found their apartment through a mutual friend who was a professor at the University of Hawaii.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2020 #16

 ...Continued from yesterdayʻs story

The Knights Of The Order convened on the hour of sidereal time, an aligned time when psychic energy worldwide is at its peak. The opening rituals set the tone for the hour. Simultaneously, the guardians of all doors took to their stations.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2020 #17

  Corruption doesn't come in the guise of a group of hardened older men dressed in suits and ties holed up in a musty back room smoking illegal Cuban cigars and sipping on twenty-five-year-old scotch.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2020 #18

 MORNING

What I said to principal Dahsman was a warning, not a hopeful wish that he'd hold Trent's hand for the rest of the school year. "Trent is awkward, and he's a little strange, but he's got a big heart, and he's a good kid,"

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2020 #19

 A bit of the drool is what woke me from my sleep. It had a tinge of a freeze on it when it touched my cheek. The sensation put me in a fetal position;

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2020 #20

 INSIDE THE KORMERY HOUSE

The quiet doesn't help when you're already afraid because it moves around and through the dead of night. Your footfall is the only thing you hear along with the material of your clothing, rubbing together as you walk.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2020 #21

 The thief who harassed our neighborhood rode a stolen bicycle up and down the street, casing which house would be more comfortable to rob as opposed to those that were not.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2020 #22

 Ten years ago, I was driving to Waikiki to do a daytime tour when I noticed a young Haole boy walking along Date Street.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2020 #23

 The kitchen table is old but clean as best as it can be. The same bottle of shoyu from the Chinese restaurant sits pressed up against the wall. Cleaned and refilled again and again for the last fifty-eight years, the Asian condiment has a near reverent status like the old Catholic figurines my mother used to keep.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2020 #24

 "When the sun goes down and the clouds are gone, where do I go? When the lights go out and the club doors close, where do I roam?

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2020 #25

 The school was like the fire, and Hauola couldn't understand why his grandfather always tossed him from the frying pan, not that the frying pan was better.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2020 #26

 THREE-ZERO-DARK-THIRTY

The squelching sound of Hauola's walkie ripped me out of my sleep.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2020 #27

 Let me start by saying that my name is Melinda Kanalu. After my husband Pi'i was killed in action in Afghanistan, I went into a deep tailspin.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2020 #28

 The mother and son were crossing the street toward's the basketball court between Gulick and Bannister Street in Kalihi.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2020 #29

 "Why do I do this to my body? Why do I paint it? Perfume it? Bathe my hair in chemicals? Burn and shave the other hairs from my armpits and privates?

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2020 #30

 In the dream, I was among a throng of shoppers at Kahala mall, all of them lumbering aimlessly with their heads down.