After 100 Ghost Stories 2023. 'Ohe.

 "It either sits or stands in the corner of the room.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #100. Meaulu.

1973

In the little house at the end of Meaulu Lane, we lived for three years.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023.#99. Jackie Blue.

 The summer of 1973 in Wai'anae was the time of my brother's 1955 Chevy Bel Air coupe.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #98. Adele.

  It was the monthly meet-up at the ancient Hawaiian site, where volunteers from the community came armed with weed whackers, sheers, and various other gardening tools.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #97 On The Road.

 I drove leisurely around the island one afternoon just to clear my mind.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #96. Yearly.

I was lost in my thoughts on the plane ride from Honolulu to Maui.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #95. Grant Society. Case #3321

 We're on the lookout for anything out of the ordinary.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #94. Manu.

As a kid, I remember visiting my mother's parents in Kalalau Valley on Kauai.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #93. I, Me, Mine.

One morning, my Mom and I sat at the kitchen table discussing overdue bills and how I could help pay them.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #92. Chair.

Do you fry your eggs with butter or olive oil?

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #91. Hole Hole Bushi.

  Channeling Rockford Ota, a plantation worker from the late 1800s'.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #90 DNA

 John Grimes is a murderer.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #89. The Devil You Don't Know.

 The door locks from the outside.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #88. Boy Napualawa. Asafoetida.

 I could have been better when I first joined the office.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023 #87. Time After Time.

 This case was separate from my wheelhouse, so to speak, so I needed to understand why my presence was required in the beginning.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #86. Leimaliko.

 Hoʻoleiʻupena is the act of casting out the fishing net as you would a lei around the shoulders of a beloved person.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #85. Tiki Bar.

 There was nowhere else to go after the Saturday night; nightlife died down, and I went to sleep, except for an old Tiki bar on Hotel Street.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #84. Old Debts.

 Katherine Ozaki contacted me regarding her daughter, a former student of mine.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #83. Curse Work.

  Andrew was let go from his firm for skimming off the top. 

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #82. Perfect Rice.

  The Rice family lived at the end of the block where Lumialani and Lumi'au'au Street met. Everyone who grew up in the community knew Lumi'au'au by its more notorious name, Suicide Hill.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #81. Knock.

Mara and Tianna were having a late-night dinner, mulling, regretting, and crying over past failures in relationships and the like.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #80. Mili.

 Mili told me there was a time when she was absolutely frustrated with her parents and their old, strict Japanese plantation ways.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #79 Phantom Guard.

 A veteran told me that years ago when he was stationed at Ft. Shafter, he would usually have sentry duty at the gate.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #78. Jump.

When the story first came to me, I did not believe it.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #77. Hulu No'eau.

 Feather work is a tedious task and requires focus and saint-like patience.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #76 Take.

 John Kenai, his wife Alyssa, and their daughter Kylie became houseless when their landlord decided to sell the house at the last minute.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #75. Darby.

  During elementary school, I used to make fun of this girl named Dʻarby Kaholoiki.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #74. Only.

 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.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #73. Die. Live.Die.

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 As a kid, I used to ride past here with my father.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #72. Kumumea. (Play the video and read the story at the same time)

 Did I feel sorry for myself, knowing that I was dying?

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #71. Kinipopo.

It was a muggy Saturday morning, and Devon's team was down by two points.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #70. Hole Waimea. Pt. 4

 Later that evening, Lehua and Malani perused the aisles at the KTA superstore, looking for a late-night snack to enjoy while they watched a movie in the comfort of Malani's living room.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023 #69. Hole Waimea. Pt. 3

Lehua's bowl of pasta salad sat between her and Malani, as well as the bowl of freshly made poi, along with poke' and pulehu meat.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween #68. Hole Waimea Pt. 2

 "What's on the agenda tomorrow?" Malani asked while spreading his blanket out on the trunk of the Dodge. 

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #67. Hole Waimea.

Kalehuaokauakipu'upu'u Kalaniwewehi, that was her name.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #66. Hospital Corners.

 The old bar on Hotel Street was once featured on an episode of Hawai'i-five-0.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #65 Door.

They were tearing down the last of the old warehouses in Kaka'ako.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #64. Chances.

Erin and I moved into this simple two-story condo newly built on the slopes of Punchbowl Crater town facing side.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #63. Curse.

Someone at work put a curse on us.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #62. Penny.

School is where you assume you'll be safe from the things that make themselves known to you in your home.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #61. Spiriting.

If I were a circus act, I'd be the clown juggling different size bowling pins and other assortments of bowling balls.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #60 Drip.

 I'm exhausted this morning.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #59 Esyla.

 At 61 years of age, death feels as if it is more imminent.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023 #58 Hauola. Malama ka 'ike.

It's sooner than now when I post a story here on the blog.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #57 Hauola: Coming Home.

She was its patron spirit.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #56. Hauola Epilogue.

 At the end of a hula, be it kahiko or auana, you will hear 'ha'ina ia mai ana ka pu ana.'

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #55 Hauola Pt.8 Conclusion.

When my uncle Ronnie Kauila began teaching us Hula, only six of us were there.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #54. Hauola Pt.7.

"I played for a community women's league softball team,"

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #53. Hauola Pt. 6.

More often than not, and more often than I cared, Dominic Watase appeared in Leipili's glass-enclosed cubicle, nodding with every word he said.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #52 Pt.5. Hauola.

Admittedly, Lanai irritated me, which is putting it kindly.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #51 Hauola Pt.4

The hula usually takes the body at least two years to get used to the basic steps and hand movements.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. # 50. Hauola. Pt. 3.

Eight in the morning.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #49 Hauola Pt. 2

The service at Hawaiian Memorial was standing-room only.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #48 Hauola.

 Hauola was born in Kapiolani Hospital, as most of us were.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #47 Carter.

He touted himself as a treasure hunter, but really, he was a thief.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #46 Spirit.

 Time was all I had. Time to sit with her, to watch her go from crying to crawling to taking her first step.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #45. Ken.

 She's only a memory in a portrait now.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #44. Anting-Anting

 After the spark of light has left the body in a month or longer, there's a chance that peace and quiet will return to the old house again.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #43 Moon.

 Moonlight at its zenith is brilliant.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #42 Cutlery

 By the sound of it, someone in the kitchen systematically removes cup after plastic cup from the shelf and lets it fall to the linoleum floor.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #41. Champ.

 My wife is out there right now in the living room watching our grandchildren while our adult children are at work.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #40 Haji

 Inner freedom is what I needed. That's what Haji told me. I'd known him for quite a while.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #39. Lori.

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

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #38 Raynelle

 An encounter with a spirit came to Norman Reifsnyder in a dream that was so vivid that when he woke up, he could still smell the personal musk of that spirit on the sheets and pillows.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #37 Hanging Out.

The old courthouse in town would be torn down in a few days, but because of a few concerns and worries from the developers, the powers that be gave me and my team precisely eight hours to do what we needed.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #36 Waiwai

Children can't and don't know how to fight back when abused; the external leaves signs and marks of the abuse. It's the internal that leaves the most traumatic impressions. 

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #35 Olena. Pt. 2

 "I imagine you have people who tend to the lo'i?" I asked her.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023.#34. Olena

 Matthew was my 6th-grade student that I was always worried about.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #33 Liquify

Many kids rode their bikes in the gulch near our house.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #32 That Ain't No Way To Have Fun

 The head of the well-noted secret society exited from the second-floor stairway of his establishment, dressed in his signature suit.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #31 I Ke Au Moe

 Everyone had to take turns sitting in the same room where my father's body lay.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #30 Speak.

 My years of growing up toward the end of the plantation era in Hawai'i provided me with many spiritual encounters and rich stories from other ethnicities, such as Filipino, Japanese, Chinese, Okinawan, Portuguese, Puertorican, and Hawaiian.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween #29 Drone Me.

 My mom warned me about playing outside past curfew.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #28. Hopeless Holidays.

Christmas in 1977 was still Christmas the way I remember it.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #27 Flying.

The scent of Pikake lei, interspersed with the aroma of jet fuel, is simultaneously pleasing to the senses and revolting.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #26 Ka wai pili i ka'ili

 Love unfolded beneath the light rain as the winds gently swept it across the ridge where we stood.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #25 Blaine 2.

 Doralei was a military brat who led a nomadic life following her father from South Korea, where she was born, to Germany, Texas, North Carolina, Fort Bragg, back to South Korea, and finally Hawai'i.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #24. Blaine.

Blaine Shibuya grew up in the neighborhood just past the Fort Shafter on-ramp on Ala Mahamoe Street. 

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #23. Shaun.

 I saw my first one at the old Gibson's store in Mapunapuna.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #22. Canoe

My work day started non-stop at two 'o'clock in the morning, and it didn't finish until 1:30.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #21. Stranger In The Office

I recall how much of a devout man Charles Sturman was.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #20. Kihawahine

 I remember telling my mother that nothing she wanted me to do made sense.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #19 I'e Kuku

 We lived at the end of Meaulu Road in the early 70s'.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #18 Papa Lua Pt. 4

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Tita made a life for herself in Vegas. Indeed, she knew there was a significant presence of ex-patriots from Hawaii who lived in and were moving to her county in droves.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #17. Papa Lua Pt. 3.

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Marilyn fell in love with Naua at first sight and had been trying to find an effective means of communicating with my brother without luck.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #16 Papa Lua Pt. 2

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Colin's parents had already told Tita's parents about her pregnancy before she could break the news to them. Needless to say, they were beyond upset.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #15. Papa Lua

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None could be more filled with a love for all people and all things than my brother, Naua.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #14. Too Loud.

 The Chrysler van, with surfboards pilled on the roof, pulled up into the parking lot and out came the mother and her five children.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #13 Kalani

The local paranormal investigator had great connections, so he could get into many places that no one else could. Like city hall, the municipal building, the DOT, and many remote yards for Hawaiian Tel.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #12. Reese.

 The Martins, the Corderos', and the Medeiros were our neighbors on that small plot second to the corner house at the end of Kaukamana Street, crossing Kula'aupuni Road.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #11. Attention

"Much too much social media."

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #10. Ten Guitars.

 Jay's snoring was something to behold if you could stand being in the same room with him while he was doing it.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #9 Ten Guitars.

 I was seven years old in 1969. It was the last time I'd be in the Children's Hospital.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #8 Ten Guitars.

 The three-story structure was a shadow of what it once was when it was the old Children's Hospital.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #7 Manawa Kupono Pt. 3

 There's a quiet Buddhist monastery at the end of Kalihi St.;

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #6 Mc Carthy

 McCarthy

By

Chris Grant

 

His boots no longer made any noise on the sun-baked caliche outside the warped-wood saloon in the small west Texas outpost.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #5 Manawa Kupono Part 2.

 The moment transpired so quickly that I had no time to grasp the gravity of the situation.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #4 Manawa Kupono.

I stared at shelves and shelves of old, used, borrowed books.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #3 Leleiwi

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My stepmother Brenda and I tolerated each other for the five years she married my father.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #2 Kam

I sat on the surfboard for hours, letting all the good sets pass me.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween. # 1. Serah Wong 2023.

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(Continued From 2022)

Ivan's life hovered at the sharp edge of a scalpel, held at the ready by Serah Wong, who was prepared to scoop his eyes out with surgical precision.

All Things Must Pass

I exist as a hermit only because I've exhausted all other means of living what should have been a normal, everyday life: wife, kids, house, car. It should have felt right, and life should have been beautiful. But as time passed, so did this feeling that I was not in the right place; I was living a lie.

Burt's Pill Box

My brother Martin was a great storyteller. I was his rapt audience of one. Well, so was Laura, his girlfriend, but I was his younger brother, so I came first. He could share detailed information right off the top of his head with no problem. I could never figure out how Martin knew so much.

Pineki

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My brother Kili was allergic to peanuts, so none of those products could be in our house.

Hapai Ia'u

The old house, as quaint and humble as I remember it, was always filled with people at one time or another.

Perfect For Rice 2022

 The Rice family lived at the end of the block where Lumialani and Lumi'au'au street met. Everyone who grew up in the community knew Lumi'au'au by its more notorious name, Suicide Hill.

Union Brotherhood

Believe it or not, stretches of old roads still exist on 'O'ahu, like Kiona'ole. 

Serah Wong 2022

 ...continued from yesterday