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Rebecca Felgate and today we are talking the Top 10 Hawaii Urban Legends!
10 - The Choking Ghost Is sleep paralysis more common in Hawaii,
or are the legends of the choking ghost true?
It seems that many Hawaiians have reported being chocked in their sleep.
Some say they feel as if someone or something is pressing on their chest and trying to suffocate
them.
Reports go that as people panic, they find they can’t scream.
Just as they think that they are about to die, the ghost leaves and they can breathe
again.
How awful.
I have had sleep paralysis before, but this does sound quite different.
Our mate, the airport police officer, Ray, even said that some of his fellow officers
had been attacked by the chocking ghost.
Is this the origin of the choking demon next at number 9 – we have the Haunted House
of Honolulu.
A town house in Honolulu, on 8th Avenue and Harding had a dark past that has spawned the
legend of haunting.
It is said that a man murdered his family at the property and that he buried their bodies
somewhere on sight.
While the bodies of his wife and son were found, his daughters never was.
The house seemed to absorb bad energy and anyone who moved there after the murders quickly
left.
It is said that one of the last people who dared to live in the property was a woman
who moved in with her two friends.
It seems that the spirit took particular offense to them – tackling and trying to strangle
them.
A police officer was called and seemed to witness one of the women being choked to death
by an invisible hand.
This one is cross between a Japanese and a Hawaiian urban legend!
– at number 8 we have Mujina.
It seems when a number of Japanese people came over to Hawaii they brought Mujina over
with them.
Mujina is a shape shifter who is able to assume human form.
The legend in Japan is that the creature would shape shift into a monk and travel dark roads
at night, stopping strangers and asking them for a cup of tea.
Sounds pleasant.
Although, apparently not.
Legend has it that in 1959, a woman at a drive in cinema in Kahala saw a Mujina in the washroom.
At first she thought it was another woman, but she thought that it was weird she was
spending so long combing her hair.
When she looked closer, she noticed that the woman form had no features.
The woman who saw her had a nervous break down.
The sighting was shrugged off as a rumour, but the woman, many years later, once again
recounted her tale on a local radio.
Since then, there have been a number of sightings of the shape shifting beast.
7 - The Menehune Fairies The Menehune are kind of a hybrid of gnomes,
leprechauns and fairies from other folk tales.
It seems that in Hawaii, legend has it the Menehune are 2ft tall human like creatures
with a cheeky streak.
I love a cheeky streak.
Kind of like Leprechauns, they are said to be able to great builders.
It is said that they built ancient homes in Hawaii, as well as being credited for forming
famous lake on Lihue Island.
It is said the Menehue live deep in the lush forests, where they live and work.
They are also said to emerge to splash in lakes and oceans late at night.
If you hear the sounds of stones plopping in water but see nobody around – it is probably
a close by Menehue.
While they sound sweet and benevolent – beware – if you ever stumble across one unaware
– you will immediately be turned to stone…or so the legends say.
6 - The Waiting Ghost of Honolulu Airport It is said that Honolulu airport is haunted
by the desperate ghost if a jilted lover.
The ghostly apparition is said to be of a blonde woman, who is only ever seen from behind
looking out a window or at the arrivals gate.
The woman is said to wear a long white dress, and has been spotted by many airport staff
and passengers.
The story is that she fell in love with a man who visited the island and promised to
marry her but one day he took off on a flight out of Hawaii, never to return.
The woman was said to have committed suicide but her spirit could not rest and instead
kept waiting at the airport, waiting for her love to return.
The police working at the airport get a handful of calls each year asking them to investigate
an unresponsive blonde woman with no luggage.
Soon they realised she is the woman from the legend.
Airport officer Ray Duropan spoke about the ghost, saying: “Every time I got that call,
I got the heebie-jeebies,You have this eerie feeling.
Every time we checked it out, we never saw her.
But, still, I respect stories like that one.
You have to.
You just respect them."
5 - The Ghosts of Pearl Harbour You don’t need to believe in ghosts to accept
that Hawaii is still haunted by Pear Harbour.
For those who have visited the scene of one of the Unites States greatest devastations,
they will tell you of the eerie, loaded atmosphere.
On December 7th 1941, 2,335 military personnel and 68 civilians were killed when Japanese
bomber planes launched a surprise attack on a United States naval base at Peal Harbour,
on the island of Oahu.
Not only is the history felt, but to this day, people still believe that ghosts haunt
the area…some even say a ghost plane was recorded flying towards the spot a year later,
still during war years.
The plane was seen on American naval radar as fighter jets were scrambled in response,
they found a p-40 fighter, a plane which had last been used by Americans on the day of
the pearl harbour attack.
The plane was bullet ridden and went down.
When the Wreckage was intercepted, there was no trace of the pilot.
Recently, Pearl Harbour was featured on an episode of Ghost Hunters, and it seems the
investigators heard some worrying things in two airplane hangars near the spot of the
attack.
4 - The Green Lady of Gulch Ooh, this scary ghoul is said to wander the
Wahiawa Gulch, a valley amid the Botanical Gardens.
It is said she crossed the valley with her children as she was afraid of cars and did
not want to travel by road.
Sadly, during her journey, one of her children got lost.
She scoured the area looking for her missing child but nobody would help her.
She returned later with the rest of her children, who she then managed to lose too.
So upset and heartbroken, it is said she collapsed and drowned in a stream.
To this day, sightings have been reported of a green, moss covered lady with fish scales,
hair of seaweed and sharp teeth.
Sounds spooky.
Well… it gets even spookier.
It seems that she now stalks the botanical gardens looking for children to steal.
She has even been spotted lurking at an elementary school near the area.
Stay well away.
3 - The Goddess of Fire (Peh Leh) In Hawaii it is believed that there is a goddess
of fire, lightning and volcanoes by the name of Pele.
The story goes that she originated in Tahiti but was sent away by her father because of
her difficult temper and her desire to seduce her sisters husband.
It seems that all fiery disasters in Hawaii are blamed in Pele and explained as a reaction
to her having a feud with a lover.
She doesn’t just stay in the volcanoes, either.
She is said to wander the Islands in female form – tall, young and beautiful, or as
an old woman with a white dog when she wants to test people.
If people are kind to her in disguise, she rewards them.
If they are not – she destroys their homes.
It is considered bad luck to remove any rocks from the island…so if you visit Hawaii,
make sure you don’t tale any of it back with you…if not Pele may curse you.
It is also considered highly disrespectful to prod lava as it flows or throw anything
at it.
In order to appease Pele, residents leave leaves and flowers on cracks previously caused
by lava flow.
In May 2018, Hawaiian residents left offerings for Pele as lava flowed from the Kilauea Volcano,
destroying homes at the base.
This one is also related to the fiery temptress … but more specifically one of her lovers
I guess this is more totally bizarre than it is scary…
2 - No Pork on Pali Legend has it that a person should NEVER carry
pork over the Pali Highway – the road that connects Honolulu and Windward Oahu.
It seems that there is an invisible line of territory on the bridge, one side of which
belongs to Kamapua’a – a pig god.
It seems he had a tempestuous relationship with Pele and she is the one who will not
allow pork to be taken from one side to another.
The story goes that if you try on foot, you will feel a strange but strong force resisting
you.
If you try and drive over the bridge with pork, the car will stall and will not work
until you throw the pork away.
Some say the old woman with a white dog appears and the dog will eat the pork.
Others have claimed that when they turn around to look at the pork they have tossed, it has
disappeared.
On a Hawaiian news website, I read a story about a bus driver who was angry when his
bus stalled and shouted to his passengers that someone must have brought pork aboard.
When the pork was tossed out – the bus worked again.
1 - Huaka’ipo - The Torch Bearers Often also called The Night Marchers, the
Huaka’ipo are ancient Hawaiian warriors that are now jobbed with escorting newly dead
spirits to the afterlife – a bit like a more musical band of grim reapers.
The Torch Bearers walk the land carrying – you guessed it – troches, but also weapons and
drums, which they play and chant.
There have been sightings of the Torch Bearers, but if you ever come across one, you must
not look them in the eye, as they may march you to the afterlife, too…unless one of
your relatives is in the tribe who can vouch for you.
You know that the Huaka ipo are nearby if you hear distant drumming, hear conch shell
horns, see faint torchlight and smell faint foul odor.
Rumours and reports of Torch Bearer sightings have been rife over the years and are engrained
in Hawaiian folklore.
So that was the Hawaii urban legends.
Comments from Los Angeles Urban Legends.
Recoil wrote: I asked for California urban legends and LA is definitely in CA so thanks
guys!?
– you’re welcome!
Seth woods left an unsettling comment - Been to L.A.. Lizard people are real.
Much love to your toes.
The slender man loves toes?
Eduardo Santana wrote: I am surprised you guys haven't done New Jersey yet, since it's
known for its "weird new jersey" magazine for all of its urban legends.
Jersey Devil anyone???