Hawaii’s Most Haunted.
Learn about some of the most haunted places and subjects in Hawai‘i through Hawaiian legends and oral traditions, historical accounts, newspaper articles, and true personal ghost stories. Here, we have some interesting stories about some of the places we bring our guests and a few places you may not want to venture to alone.
We'll let you decide, but be forewarned: Should you choose to strike out on your own, you are your own keeper. Meaning, what we note here are facts, legends, and observations, it is not a tourist’s guidebook or study manual of where to find “supernatural” occurrences. The places mentioned here, like many places in Hawai‘i, are very much like people; some will welcome you, some will not. To venture out alone is purely at your own risk.
The Most Haunted Places and Legends in Hawai‘i.
Click on the icons to learn about a few interesting places in our island home. We are constantly adding more topics so be sure to check back often!
Downtown Honolulu - Haunted Loku
Ghosts are said to congregate in these places every evening from seven o’clock until midnight for a form of entertainment, including the legendary night marchers. Several people who happen to work in these locations today say that their buildings are indeed haunted. While most of Downtown Honolulu closes by 6 or 7pm, nights they have to work late are especially creepy.
Ghost of Postal Worker Haunts Downtown Post Office
This building was at first just called, “the Federal building” as it housed the US Post Office, Customhouse and Courthouse. Today, its official name is the King David Kalakaua building. Most of us just refer to it as “the downtown post office.”Postal workers today still say the building is haunted. By the ghost of the old postal worker, Benedict Westkaemper... and so much more...
Ghosts and Night Marchers in Moanalua
This ahupua‘a extends inland from Āliapaʻakai crater to the crest of the Ko‘olau Range and holds many of O‘ahu’s most culturally important sites. Within this wahi pana, this sacred place, is Leilono, the entrance place where souls of the departed leap into Pō, the site of Kalaikoa’s hale iwi, his house of bones, a haunted high school, and a famous path for the legendary night marchers.
Ghost at the Hawaii State Art Museum (HiSAM)
Once the site of the orignal Hawaiian Hotel, reports say this place was haunted almost from the very beginning. Now, people who work in the new building say they still see a ghost wandering the halls.
Haunted Kawaiaha‘o Church & Graveyard
Named for the Water of Ha’o, an ancient spring nearby, this church is near the center of Royal activity in Downtown Honolulu. Is it haunted? Most definitely.
Ghost of Murderer Haunts Manoa Tennis Courts
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.
The Punchbowl Ghost
It’s September 1908 - the house owned by the Boyd family is located on the corner of ‘Auwaiolimu and Lusitana Streets. Renting the house is the Pecarick family and they’re having problems. Imagine combing your hair and the mirror flips over. Imagine holding a stick of kindling and having it slapped out of your hand. Imagine out of thin air, rocks coming through your house and embedding themselves in the side of your oven. Imagine these things happening and you have no control over them.
Ghost of Queen Emma Haunts St. Andrew’s Priory
Some would hear the grand piano playing well after midnight and, on many occasions, lights would turn on & off, strange noises were heard, tools would disappear and then reappear elsewhere, the contents of handbags were switched or dumped on the ground. All of these were attributed to ghostly hands. It's said that Royal ghostly appearances are still accepted as a fact of priory life and tradition.
Haunted Royal Hawaiian Center, Helumoa
In 1898, a group of Japanese workers was leveling off some mounds in the coconut grove called Helumoa. As they were returning from their break, a gale rattled the foliage of the tall palms like castanets. The workmen retreated from the falling trees when, flung high into the air by the catapultic motion of the roots was a mass of human bones - entire skulls, femurs, vertebrae, ribs, everything.
Haunted Robert Louis Stevenson Middle School
On the Eastern slopes of Punchbowl crater lies the foundation of the old Kanela‘au heiau. A temple of human sacrifice. The sacrificial victims were often from the Kauwa class who were drowned either in the waters of Kewalo or in the pond that was located on the Ward Estate, which is now where the Blaisdell Center is. Now, right on top of where the heiau used to be, stands Stevenson Middle School.