The Hawaiian Islands are rich with culture and lore of supernatural beings. Tales of mysterious creatures, old goddesses with old grudges, and legends of ghosts are simply part of daily life on the Hawaiian Islands.
The Kaimuki House of Horrors
A house located at 8th Avenue and Harding Avenue in Honolulu has a gruesome past. Much of its dark history stems from a cannibalistic demon called a Kasha. Like a ghoul, the Kasha feeds on dead human flesh, and once it's done, it drags the corpses to hell.
Legend has it that a man murdered his entire family and hid their bodies on the property. The wife and son were found buried, the daughter was never found. Then, in 1942 a woman reported her children were being assaulted by evil entities. She called the police, according to reports, and when the police arrived they witnessed the children getting tossed across the house by an invisible force. There have been multiple reports of paranormal activity at the house since, and needless to say, many families have moved in and out.
The next occupiers of the Hawaiian hell house, was three women. One of them was grabbed by the entity, the other two called the police for help. Once again the police couldn’t really do much except escort them out and follow along behind them as they drove to their mother’s house. While following the ladies, their car pulled over. The officer went to check on them only to find two women wresting the invisible goliath that seemed to be choking out the third woman. He tried to help them but was pushed and held back by what he described as a “large calloused hand.” He managed to get the choking woman out of the car, but neither of their cars would start until she went back to her own car. The police officer and the other two women watched helplessly as the door was ripped off the car and the woman was choked to death.
Drowning Ghost
The Waimea Valley Falls cliff diving show attracts tourists in droves, but there’s a dark entity lurking deep in the lagoon. It's said that’s why tourists are no longer allowed to swim there. Only trained divers are allowed venture into these waters, and even they aren’t in there very long.
Locals believe the waterfall and the lagoon are haunted by a “drowning spirit” that is out for human sacrifices. It drowns a human and keeps its body for the duration it chooses and then releases it back up to the surface. The first account of the spirit was back in 1952. A sailor named Bill Lawrence drowned in the lagoon but the friends who were with him said they saw a struggle. Lawrence would go underwater, pop back up, and then somehow get pulled back under.
They couldn’t get to him in time, he disappeared into the murky depths and police couldn’t find his body. Bill’s friends planned to remain on site until the body was found. They camped in the valley that night and claimed to hear sounds of running back and forth from the direction of the lagoon, into the woods, and back out again several times. The body was found the following day.
The Faceless Woman
The legend of Mujina first appears in Japanese folklore and was brought to the Hawaiian islands by Japanese immigrants. A Mujina is a faceless creature capable of mimicking a human form. The earliest known sighting of this creature in Hawaii occurred in 1959, when a woman saw the faceless creature in the bathroom of the drive-in theater in Kahala.
The woman claimed when she entered the restroom there was another woman combing her red hair. Once she got closer she realized the woman didn’t have a face. Terrified and unable to process what she saw, the woman fled the premises babbling incoherently. Allegedly she suffered a nervous breakdown and was hospitalized. The story was so popular, it caught the attention of a local radio show. Their host, Glen Grant was discussing it on air in 1981 when the woman called into recount her story, insisting it was true. She went into great detail and soon many were taking her story as fact. Since then others have reported seeing the faceless woman all across the island, including Grant.
Pali
It is said that Pele, the volcano goddess and the demigod Kamapua’a – a half man, half pig – had a bad breakup and agreed to never see each other again. The legend says that you cannot take pork over the Pali Highway, which separates the Windward side of Oahu from Honolulu, because it means that you are symbolically taking Kamapua’a from one side of the island to the other. If you risk bringing pork across the highway, your car will stop at some point along the journey and an old woman with a dog will appear. To continue on your way, you must feed the pork to the dog.
Night March
Ghosts of old Hawaiian warriors travel along set paths, often in and around places where battles took place, or near heiau (traditional Hawaiian places of worship). People living near their path say they’ve heard drumming and conch shells blowing. Those who’ve seen them say the night marchers have no legs and walk on air in phalanx formation. If you make eye contact with one of them they will take you with them to the spirit world, unless a relative takes your place. If you find yourself in the path of night marchers, you should get out of there. If you can’t, you should belly down on the ground to show respect, and most definitely shouldn’t look up when they try to provoke you or you'll be one too.
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