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.