I used to live in Hawaii for about 9 months and I hear many stories about hauntings that take place there. Everything from Night Marchers (the ancestral dead) that walk the island to ghosts in the Pali. I had some strange experience while I was there and I would like to share one with you.
In 2004, there was a girl I really liked. One night I summed up the courage to ask her on a date. We went to a restaurant, drank some wine, and at about 11pm we decided to go to a beach called Mokapu, which is near Honolulu. It was really dark and there was hardly anyone out. We talked about each others lives and experiences and we laid down and listened to the ocean for a few hours. At about 2am strange things started happening. Me and the girl I was with felt our hands being touched by something small. We thought it was miniature crabs, but when we looked, there was nothing there. The moon was full that night so you could see a lot of stuff, but we saw no crabs. Then the weirdest sound was heard by both of us. It sounded like a baby crying. Keep in mind it was 2am and no one was around. The nearest house is about 5 miles away. We kept on hearing the crying. We both thought that it was cat crying or something, but when we looked at the direction of the crying, there was no cat to be found. We kept on feeling our hands being touched too. We both had had enough and we decided to leave. I just put it to the back of my mind thinking that it was crabs and a cat.
Two months later I was sitting with my hair stylist, who is a local, and we began talking about strange things that happen on the island. We were talking about Night Marchers and haunted burial grounds. Then she started talking about Mokapu. I asked what is so scary about that place? She said that a long time ago, Hawaiians used to take the deformed babies and kill them at Mokapu. She told me some people say that if you stay there long enough you will hear them crying. She told me that she heard them herself one night when she was there. The hair on my neck and on my entire body stood up. I told her what happened to me there.
I knew nothing about this story until the day she told me and until now it still gives me the creeps.
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I would like to share my Makapu'u experience as it still confuses me today. I have now lived in Hawai'i, on O'ahu, for 7 years but after only 4 years here I went with some of my friends to build a fire in Makapu'u on the beach looking up at the lighthouse on the Waimanalo side. While there in a large group I felt EXTREMELY uncomfortable as I kept feeling something behind me yet saw nothing. I thought little of it as we were in a big group and brought friends with me when needing to pee (yes we girls do that well).
However, I went another time about a year later with my boyfriend and my two roommates. This time I could not shake the feeling at all and even without letting the others know why I started tearing up. I felt overwhelmed by something there and I knew they were not happy with us. I begged my friends to put the fire out and leave. Though they were seriously pissed off at me I knew we couldn't be there. I didn't here any crying or any sound at all. It just seemed like the wind and the rocks were throwing bad energy at us and somehow I knew what we were doing was kapu (forbidden). Still until this day when I go to Makapu'u (always during sunlight hours) I apologize in Hawaiian and make sure to leave some kind of offering in the same spot I felt the energy.
There is still no one who believes me but it really doesn't matter because I know what I felt and I know what the 'uhane (spirits) are capable of.
Mahalo