Ghosts Next Door

Ghosts Next Door
by Lopaka Kapanui

Aug 4, 2018

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2018 #88

RUBBER SOLE


Every morning this tall husky looking woman with a horrid sense of fashion and an even more horrid taste in jewelry paces back and forth in front of our store with a wild look in her eyes.

Aug 3, 2018

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2018 #89

THE VILLAGE NEEDS THE MONSTER


I should have gone elsewhere to clear my mind and get my thoughts together when I think about it now. Like my own neighborhood in town, that would have been easier.

Aug 2, 2018

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2018 #90

 GOODBYE GIRL


"Why do I have to die?" Shana asked her mother. It was a hard question, but Lorelle didn't want her daughter's last memory of life to be a horrible one.

Aug 1, 2018

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2018 #91



SCRATCH AND THE COUPE DE VILLE



The 1970 Cadillac Coupe de Ville was the facelift car that gave Caddilac the best sales that the company would ever see from a single model.

Jul 31, 2018

Jul 30, 2018

Jul 29, 2018

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2018! #94

HE AIN'T DEAD HE'S MY BROTHER


My bonehead brother Derrick called me from Kapiolani Park to pick him up.  He said he’d be hanging out at the bandstand.

Jul 27, 2018

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2018 #96

REMAINS OF ME


Never have the eyes of men been witness to more beautiful a site than that of the sunset beyond the leeward mountains which border the plains of Kaupe’a.

Jul 26, 2018

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2018 #97

SITTING, HEALING


Every afternoon I sit on the beach just near the first lifeguard stand at Ala Moana Park. I sit and stare out into the water, always hoping that one day, my son will magically come running up the sand completely exhausted and ask me if we could go get shave ice from the Waiola store.

Jul 25, 2018

Jul 24, 2018

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down to Halloween 2018! #99

SWEET LORETTA


John Cummings was murdered most brutally, and his body was expected to sink into the dark mire beneath the waters of River Street.

Jul 23, 2018

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2018! #100

REMEMBER TO FORGET


My parents are Alfred and Carmen Launui, and they're very well known and respected in the paranormal community in Hawai'i, and this is my short story about them.