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.