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.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2024. #88. Hina.

 HINA 

The missionary family built their home at the edge of old Ko'olina near a stretch of sand that fell under the watchful shade of Waimanalo and Pili 'O Kahe. The heathens of the Wai'anae ahupua'a needed to hear the word of God and repent their lives of savagery and wanton lust among one another.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2024. #87. The Four Game.

 In a group, there are those committed to the game.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To 2024. #86. Lei Makana.

 My hands no longer have the dexterity they once did when weaving a lei of different flowers and ferns, which was as effortless as breathing.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2024. #85. Two Hermans.

 The accident was horrible, and I was dumbstruck as it unfolded in front of me. An errant driver in his Cadillac SUV with no care for his safety or anyone else's came at an alarming rate of speed from behind me.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2024. #84

 KA MEA

WAHI: KE ALA NUI 'O PUNCHBOWL


People like me have a healthy life or try to, even though we have the thing. Other people who have the thing make millions of dollars off of it, or at least they claim they do.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2024. #83. Torch.

 Marie Peters met me in her Waipahu home garage, dressed in an 80s-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 talked."

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2024. #82. Mākou.

 They donʻt hide in the shadows as we expected them to, as we see in investigative videos on social media.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2024. #81. Uncle Thomas.

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Because of my Uncle Thomas, my parents could buy the family station wagon at a reasonable price.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2024. #80. Aupuni Street. 3.

 It was the last evening of the final lesson.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2024. #79. Aupuni Street 2.

The third year was here before I knew it. Mom became more reflective for some reason.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2024. #78. Aupuni Street.

The time of my life was spent in Orlando, Florida, where I had a great job and an incredible nightlife.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2024. #77. 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 2024. # 76. Pohina.

 Pōhina was worried that his acceptance letter to the school he applied to would never arrive.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2024. #75. Mahkthaaahmpsen.

 My brother Kainoa had autism, but growing up, my folks told me that he was in his own space and that he'd be fine.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2024. #74. Laumeki 5.

 The existence of these people flew on the tongues of those who spread the rumors, but it wasn't a rumor because here they were in front of him.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2024. #73. Laumeki 4.

 Lisa was finally found by another couple who lived nearby.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2024. #72. Laumeki 3.

 Raymond knew he had something he couldn't hold on to.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2024. #71. Laumeki 2.

 Somewhere in the pitch black, Raymond heard drums and then chanting.