Ghosts Next Door

Ghosts Next Door
by Lopaka Kapanui

Aug 30, 2018

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2018 #62

ICK


Have you ever wondered about the distance between yourself and someone you’re related to? What I mean is that you could be sitting across the table from your own brother but

Aug 29, 2018

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2018 #63

KAHUNA FOR LUNCH


I remember as a child that it was not an unusual thing to leave your doors open at night and more often than not passersby were always invited in by my parents to be given a warm meal and water to drink.

Aug 28, 2018

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2018 #64

TAPESTRY 


My mother by the looks of her appears to be a very bright and intelligent woman in her forties but is, in fact, eighty-six years of age. After dad died mom didn't want to stay in the house anymore

Aug 27, 2018

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2018 #65

WAHI


I was just back from the mainland for vacation and my brother Wahi and I got turned around while hiking the Aiea loop trail, it was unusual for us since we hiked that trail all the time as kids.

Aug 26, 2018

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2018 #66

AUGUST 4 1981 TUESDAY


I turned 19 today, and I am not sure what to think or feel. I mean I'm 19, and my whole life has been about school, now school is out, so what do I do? Do I go to college and do more school or do I party all night? 

Aug 25, 2018

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2018 #67

KANI: THE MURDER OF TAMA CHUN 5



Principal Tamashiro appeared on the far side of the field where Mr. Kiyabu and Ms. Nakashima were holding their only coed class on the tug of war.

Aug 24, 2018

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2018 #68

KANI: THE MURDER OF TAMA CHUN 4


Milton Tamashiro was a reluctant principal of Waipahu Intermediate school, the DOE begged for him to come out of retirement and take the job.

Aug 23, 2018

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2018 #69

KANI: THE MURDER OF TAMA CHUN 3



A year ago George Luke began to receive correspondence from his uncle who lived in the Zhongnan residential district in Foshan, China.

Aug 22, 2018

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2018 #70

KANI: THE MURDER OF TAMA CHUN 2

10 am 2nd period English


"My last name is Chun just like Tama and several times I told his parents that we probably related but they don't want to listen to me," Ms. Pat Chun was the English teacher at the school who was long past retirement.

Aug 21, 2018

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2018 #71

KANI: THE MURDER OF TAMA CHUN

Before. 2:00 pm. School bell rings.


George Luke is a science teacher at Waipahu intermediate who was enthusiastic about changing young minds once he graduated college with his teaching certificate and his degree in science.

Aug 20, 2018

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2018 #72

KANI


Tama was a normal boy of thirteen years old who loved the things that boys his age loved to do. For Tama, his primary enjoyment came from playing the 'ukulele.

Aug 19, 2018

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2018 #73

WOMAN AT THE DOOR



Saturday, August 1, 1981


Our little cul de sac of a neighborhood was a fire with the sounds of something new and astounding that premiered on national television. Little did we know

Aug 18, 2018

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2018 #74

HYOKO


She called me from a pay phone a block away from her apartment. She told her roommate that she needed to go to the 7-11 for feminine napkins. "He didn't say a word, he just nodded his head," there was a nervous fear under her voice.