Many people talk about the hauntings at Morgan's Corner but forget about the death, suicide, and murder just up the road at the original "death curve" at Judd Trail and Jackass Ginger Pond.

Is it an urban legend borne of the far-fetched stories shared between teenagers on a dark night somewhere in the depths of Nu‘uanu? Or is it a fact, one that still makes its presence known, even today? Perhaps the question shouldn’t be, “Is Morgan’s Corner haunted?” The better question is, “Who or what haunts Morgan’s Corner?”

It lies in the shadows of the Ko’olau mountain range, a narrow road with a melancholy, and sometimes violent, history. Hawaiian newspapers as far back as 1885 have recorded tales of robberies, fires, rapes, fatal accidents, and murders on the mile and a half twisting trail from the halfway house junction to the bottom of the road where it meet Kamehameha highway.

There have been numerous deaths at this precipice that marks the peak of this pathway from Nu’uanu to Windward Oahu -- from the last stand of Kalanikupule, to falling rocks, strong winds, horses losing their footing, and cars careening out of control, not to mention suicides... and murder. This area has a long and violent history. It’s not just one thing that haunts this place, it’s many.

In February 1911, an employee of the Tennis Association arrived to perform his morning duties, he opened the curtains, light filtered into the room and, on the wall, he found a handwritten suicide note in Japanese. The author of the note said he would kill himself at the Baldwin house and, if he was not successful in haunting that place, he would return to the same bungalow and haunt there.