100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2019 #55

KA WAIHONA

Grant Society Case File #1130320-10

Jade Street, Makaha


In my nightmare, the ice-cold hands held my ankles firmly in its grip and yanked me down into the dark abyss off of the sandy shores of Keawaʻula. It toyed with me and let me resurface long enough to catch my breath then it would jerk me back down just under the surface of the water where it kept me a second longer each time. I prayed for those hands to loosen their grip just long enough so that I could get away but to no avail, it had already been fifteen minutes.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2019 #56

KINIPOPO


It was a muggy Saturday morning and Devon’s team was down by two points.  The baseball field was slick and wet from the early morning rain and several of Devon’s teammates slipped, slid and tumbled on their way to home plate. 

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2019 #57

I KELA ME KEIA MAKAHIKI

Grant Society Case File: #33101-15

16th Avenue Bridge Kaimuki

Evelyn Gemma asked me to meet her at two ‘o clock in the morning at the sixteenth avenue overpass in Kaimuki. She needed help; her daughter’s ghost was going to appear at that exact hour as she had done for nearly two years. It was where she was killed when a speeding car hit her and took her life as she was running across the bridge to get into her boyfriend’s waiting car. The car that killed her, and she never saw it coming.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2019 #58

KA HALE MEHAMEHA


Kalihi


No one who lived in the house could stay for too long. In less than a month of residing in the humble one-bedroom abode, the occupants ran from the domicile screaming for their life, but would never speak of their reason for fleeing.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2019 #59

E KALA MAI IA MAKOU E MIKA RILEY

Grant Society File #18317-04 Kaimuki. 2nd Avenue

“There’s been speculation over the years about your house being haunted,” I said.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2019 #60

KEALIA


(Disclaimer: This story is pure fiction. It never happened.)

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What was I supposed to say? Was I supposed to lie and tell him that I was capable of doing something that I really couldn't do? Of course not; he'd already been through that with a fake con man psychic named Elias Morrow, who promised Ken Watase's late wife that he could completely cure her of her cancer, the stipulation being that it would cost her thirty thousand dollars.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2019 #61

ME-LO

I called him Me-Lo when he was a puppy because it just seemed like it was his name. It was a rare occasion where the Hawaiian Humane Society had a litter of German Shepard pups which they found abandoned and left in a huge box at their door.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2019 #62

LAUNA 'OLELO


Even as I sit here, I question myself as to why I agreed to have dinner with a man that I have nothing but contempt for, and yet here I am. He makes a great spaghetti sauce, and his noodles are boiled to perfection, just tender, not overdone. It’s just too bad that I hate him so much.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2019 #63

PULIKI

For the past ten years, my friends and family have told me that it’s a morbid habit for me to visit the place where my daughter died but I do it because I wasn’t there when it happened. I left her with her teacher and her classmates. Even though she had asked me for one more hug before I left, I had a pressing meeting and I left without giving her that last hug.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2019 #64

MEA KOLO

It was one of those all-night parties at a large home in Manoa, filled to the walls and perhaps even the rafters by college-aged kids who were drinking and smoking their way into wild abandon. The police were called several times by anal-retentive neighbors whose lives were so drab and uneventful that they felt everyone else should suffer the same.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2019 #65

MAKANA


It was mid-day at Halema'uma'u crater and many hula halau were offering ho'okupu to the goddess Pele. They came in droves, all dressed in their finery and their colorful kahiko costumes. The various kumu hula presented their best drums and ipu heke and allowed only their best dancers to perform. The dances themselves were bombastic and required persons of great athletic precision and endurance.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2019 #66

ME'E

A dark and terrible storm raged only in the evening. It drenched the Kapolei neighborhood with its deluge, soaking all things in its wake. Sitting in his bedroom while gazing out into the pitch black of the sudden storm, young Kawika thought it strange that the storm only appeared at night.

100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2019 #67

NOHU MA'O

Settling into your new home is a wonderful experience especially when it’s not a rental but a home that you own. It’s an even greater feeling of freedom when you’re a single parent, many single parents struggle but they do their best to provide for their child and give them the best life possible.