One evening, a woman leaving a cruise ship decided to take a leisure walk about the pier and eventually into downtown Honolulu.
Hawaii is an ancient place. So many people have lived - and died - here. With such a rich, cultural history, chances are that, in our small community, at least one person in nearly every household has had some kind of supernatural "chicken skin" occurrence. Welcome to Ghosts Next Door, a collection of ghost stories and other thoughts about and around the Mysteries of Hawaii.
Ghosts Next Door
Sep 30, 2022
Sep 29, 2022
Kaʻao 2022
During a time known only to those who lived in the days of our ancestors were two brothers, Kua and Hiapo.
Sep 28, 2022
Only 2022
Being the only sick kid on the small property of four houses, two toward the front of the old dirt road and two toward the back near the river, gave me a lot of time alone.
Sep 27, 2022
Tuesday 2022
What else is there to look at but blues skies, beautiful clouds, and green mountains veiled by misty rains?
Sep 26, 2022
Pani 2022
I stood back and watched my daughter kneel at her mother's grave at the Hawaiian Memorial Cemetery.
Sep 25, 2022
ʻIole 2022
As stories like these go, a group of errant teenagers pooled their Venmo money together and bought an ouija board online.
Sep 24, 2022
Sep 23, 2022
Sep 22, 2022
Sep 21, 2022
Sep 20, 2022
Sep 19, 2022
Sep 18, 2022
Sep 17, 2022
Sep 16, 2022
Sep 15, 2022
Sep 14, 2022
Sep 13, 2022
Lita 2022
Forty years have passed, yet the memory of it is as fresh as it was like it happened yesterday.
Sep 12, 2022
Māhoe 2022
E-mails, text messages, and other messenger apps have been uploaded to my phone ad nauseum in the last few days.
Sep 11, 2022
Manawaʻino 2022
When she slept on her side, the curve of her body looked like the outline of the Mānoa mountains.
Sep 10, 2022
Kānewawahilani 2022
My dream revealed to me a massively wide ʻohia tree which also stood unimaginatively tall because of how it pierced the clouds.
Sep 9, 2022
Effort 2022
Sep 8, 2022
Sep 7, 2022
Hana Pa'a 2022
During the shutdown's first phase three years ago, a dear friend came down with Covid.
Sep 6, 2022
Sep 5, 2022
Sep 4, 2022
Kīlauea 2022
Filled with all signs of life, furniture, chairs, love seats, knick-knacks, and mementos, the home felt stark and void of life.
Sep 3, 2022
Sep 2, 2022
Pā 2022
Congratulations were the order of the afternoon because of Selena's accomplishment in signing twenty new clients for their unique health care products at Hololmua Mana Power Drinks within fifteen minutes.