100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2025. #70. Left.

 By now, the energy between you and the other passengers in the vehicle should be synchronized.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2025. #69. Right.

 If you're organized by this point and have assembled the people you will be traveling with, because you can't do this alone, don't get too close to them.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2025. #68. Left

 If you want to get lost in a portal.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloweeen 2025. #67. Substation.

 The residents of the 1950s two-story, six-unit apartment needed a blessing.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2025. #66. Rid of the ghost. Rid of you.

 The mistake the team made was when they publicly announced on social media that they were going to rid a well-known establishment of a ghost.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2025. #65. Grace Fukuda and The William Hardy Problem.

 It came with the advent of immigration to Hawai'i during the sugar plantation era.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2025. #64. Fry.

 The backyard made the biggest impression on me as a child.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2025. #63. Koamalu.

 The local eatery, located off Beretania near the old Times Supermarket, is where you'll find hardcore customers who still come for the chicken katsu and roast pork.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2025. #62. Encounter Time.

 The thing about being a spirit attached to a house that you died in a hundred years ago is that you have infinite amounts of time on your hands.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2025. #61. Call Lissandra.

Lissandra Cabico met Elvio one day at a concert for the homeless at Kapiolani Park.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2025. #60. Definitely Not My Anito.

 Dead centipedes everywhere.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2025. #59. Tuesday. Martes'

 ....Conclusion

I wasn't waiting around to see who or what else was going to manifest itself as a person or in the guise of a phantom house in one of the most ritzy neighborhoods on Oahu.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2025. #58. Tuesday. Mardi.

 The house was just as I had seen it in William's body cam footage.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2025. #57. Tuesday's Gone.

 What the fuck? I saw William get in his car and pull out of the Zippy's parking lot and cross three lanes on North Vineyard only to quietly bump into the median that divides both roads.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2025. #56. Tuesday Marshand.

 There's this particular level of Buddhist-like comfort you achieve when you've fallen asleep.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2025. #55. Nohea Magic.

The galloping vamp on the ukulele and guitar played in perfect time while Nohea danced her kaholo without effort on her right and left.

100 Ghost Stores Counting Down To Halloween 2025. #54. He.

 He was no better than the other killers, that is, if everyone knew he was a killer.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2025. #53. The Old Home Owner.

 The murmur of a child's voice called out from within the confines of a garage in a Kaimuki house.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2025. #52. Asshole At Work.

 It was difficult sitting in the cubicle next to him, knowing that he was a complete piece of shit.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2025. #51. Kalaninuiokamawaelualani.

 Kaholo forward, right, left, right, left.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2025. #50. Love Letters.

Cleaning the dirt from under my fingernails took a bit of effort as I'd been working in the yard for most of the afternoon.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2025. #49. Hawaiian Lands/Hawaiian Hands.

 Wilson Kamanā sat on the roof of his homestead house in Kewalo.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2025. #48. Mixed Plate Society.

 Some of the family members we contacted supported what we wanted to do as far as the blessing was concerned.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2023. #47. Less Than Zero Paranormal.

 Less Than Zero's research revealed that Metcalfe's Senior Care Home was a former hospice that housed Chinese and Filipino elders in their advanced stages of life.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2025. #46. < 0 Paranormal.

Vera and Polly busied themselves in the kitchen preparing what they promised was a champagne breakfast. Essentially, it was every iteration of a breakfast you could think of, except for no orange or guava juice. Just champagne. Derek and I asked if there was anything we could do to help, but Vera and Polly told us not to worry; they said we should just sit and enjoy the breakfast. Just then, Dusty appeared outside the back door of the kitchen, giving us greetings and presenting Vera and Polly a strawberry pie from Ann Miller's. 

"No need to bring anything, we said!" Vera scolded Dusty, but in a very motherly way.

"You just bring yourself," Polly added. "We'll make breakfast! But, we do love strawberry pie!"

Dusty came over and sat with us while we all talked back and forth. She owned a niche bookstore that was open only from midnight to sunrise. "I've actually been looking forward to this! It reminds me of my own home growing up. We used to have big breakfasts all the time, and I miss it."

"Your parents don't have those kinds of get-togethers anymore?" Vera asked.

"No," Dusty said. "After my mother died, everything stopped. She was the one who held it all together. Now, we're just our own separate people."

"I know that one," Derek said. "My family, we're all like office workers. We have specific hours when we have to be a family, and when we punch off the clock, family time is over."

"It's just me," I added. "No story to tell, my parents died after I graduated high school. What about you guys, Vera?"

"Polly's late husband and my late husband bowled in the same bowling league at Kapiolani Bowl. They died in a car accident on the way back from a Tuesday night game. Vera and I were devastated, and after the services, we were both drowning in our grief in the chapel, and it happened."

"It happened in the chapel of all places," Vera laughed. "We weren't even sure about what we were doing, but we did it. We've been together ever since."

"What about your families?" Derek asked.

"Our adult kids don't talk to us anymore," Vera began. "And they won't let us see our grandkids, mine and Polly's, on both sides. That's why we have breakfasts like this."

Vera put the plates in front of us, and Polly served the food and the champagne. We had a sumptuous morning meal; however, even though we tried, Vera and Polly chased us away when we tried to help wash the dishes. A short time later, we're having orange slices, strawberry pie, and champagne.

"Our first assignment, and it's a big one," I said. "Metcalfe Senior Care home. Doctors and staff report finding patients in their beds, but the beds are on the lawn, in the parking lot, and at the back entrance, where all the dumpsters are. They want both a blessing and an investigation to figure out what's going on. So, spirits talk to me, but it's nothing to brag about because sometimes I don't like it. After all, some of these spirits don't know boundaries. What about you, Derek?"

"Me?" He was surprised to be asked. "Um, I touch certain things and I can see who touched it last and what they're all about."

"Dusty? What about you?" I pointed.

"My parents said it was possession, but I know it's clairvoyance," she shrugged.

"Ladies?" I smiled in their direction.

"Wonder twins," they said. "We're stronger when we're together."

"I don't think we're 3MBH," I said. "We're five people with different levels of psychic abilities that we're not comfortable with, and our families have less than zero presence in our lives. Why do we need a name? All we need is a symbol. <0 Paranormal."

Everyone laughed, but in a good way. We agreed, we're a symbol, not a name. We then had to conduct research, and once that was complete, we needed to determine a strategy going forward.

...to be continued

credit @ericbaranda

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2025. #45. 3MHB Paranormal.

 We were a brand new team of investigators. 

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2025. #43. Hula For Me.

 I dusted off the old hula implements.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2025. #42. Kaleiopapa Building.

The state developed the Kaleiopapa Building in the 1990s as a temporary space for government operations while the Capitol was renovated.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2025. #41. Eden Sweet Death.

 She was rubenesque in her appearance, and I caught her robbing my house.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2025. #40. Sacrifices.

 Don't be fooled by what you see in those movies; handling a dead body, carrying it, and dragging it to its final destination is no cake walk.