Hawaii's Most Haunted: Kalihi Palama

This bustling community sits at the edge of Honolulu. It boasts a diverse, working class neighborhood and busy industrial area, along with ghosts and hauntings. Let’s visit the Kalihi/Palama area in this episode of Hawaii’s Most Haunted.
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In this series, Lopaka brings you some of Hawaii's Most Haunted places.
Master storyteller, Lopaka Kapanui, brings to life the feared Nightmarchers, the goddess Pele, Menehune, e‘epa, mo‘o and more. But… Hawaiian deities and spirits aren’t the only things residing in this island paradise. Here is also where the Japanese dog demons, the inugami, are sent to ruin the lives of unsuspecting families. Here is where the Filipino vampire-like creature, the aswang, roams in search of her next victim. And here is where the Portuguese witch, the feiteceira, spins her spells and curses at her whim. Rich in culture and traditions, these islands are overflowing with stories of ghosts and hauntings, creatures and curses. Lopaka is the keeper of these stories.
Beyond the cool, blue waters and balmy trade winds of our idealistic paradise is the thin veil which separates our world from the place where shadows talk back. Spirits, Ghosts, Legends, Facts... Experience the Hawaii most don't see every day.
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[@mr808steelers]

Get planny stories in Kalihi - Palama. In fact, you can feel the presence of something spooky if not sacred. Especially when someone or something stay hele make. I grew up by the Old Incinerator where Honolulu Community College parking lot stay stay. That was our backyard including Hawaii Hochi. Ohh, We used to climb and play on the Huge paper roles. Places we grind in that area were Q’s Drive-in, The Old Vienna Bakery, Violets Coffee Shop, Hall Saimin and (I tink) Fuji Store? (i fooget) fo da shaved ice. The old Manapua Man use to walk by holding the steamers on both ends of a pole selling Dim Sum. Remembah the huge pineapple at the cannery? Da good ol’ daze. Eh, Even o dea felt haunted. Yeah had planny spooky stories the Kupuna’s use to tell us about Kalihi-Palama. Shoots! 🤙

[@mariatan9129]

I taught piano at palama on Saturday mornings in 1962 to 1966 when I was an EWCenter scholarship student at UH when . Dorothy Moritz or horowitz... not sure? ( jewish name ).was the office mgr . Skinny lady with glasses. I had a Baguio boy for a student... later i found out he became a navy seal in Columbia... other teacher was Lynette Yanagi. Ah nice memories. Am still teaching ... at 79.... working on 30th year at Iolani school. I was the first RED Vespa scooter driver in Honolulu... with long hair and sunglasses.. i promote playing music for long life.. Have a great hawaii experience. It is my paradise. Lucky me. AlOHA.

[@mellowmoods8393]

Great story, thanks for sharing!

[@christinewedge8980]

This is a place where history, folklore, religion and the paranormal exist. Thank you for your stories. One day I hope to visit Hawaii.

[@rosemarie9636]

I'm born /raised in Honolulu Hawaii. I live in Kalihi my hometown. Live close 2 some places like Farmington HS/Kalakaua Intermediate school/Kapalama Elementary school/Damien school/Kamehameha School/Kamehameha shopping center & KPT & other places here in Kalihi I luv 2 hear

[@howellwong11]

Never heard of ghost stories in Kalihi-Palama area. I lived at the mouth of Kalihi Stream and next to Puuhale School from 1932 until 1953. I left Hawaii in 1953.

[@ANASTASIA-ANGEL]

Great stories! Best story teller! Wish you would post more on KZbin 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

[@MysteriesofHawaii]

Working on it!

[@RastaBot]

My home town, my stomping grounds. I was hoping you would tell us stories of Farrington High or Kalakaua Inter. too, But I appreciate these stories! Aloha my bruddah!!!

[@moonkissed6606]

I would also love to know the history of farrington high school, I remember always passing by the school at night time and every time I did, there would be a certain light from one of the buildings bathroom that would always be on (pretty sure it was the bathroom) and finally one day I passed by with a friend of mines who was a graduate from there and I asked her “why is that light always on” and she told me that one day there had been a complaint or a favor that was asked of the staff at farrington or maybe it was the locals who lived near the school but they called the police and asked if they could go and check and see why the light was on because they didn’t want kids to be playing there especially at night time and so the police accepted the request and sent 2 officers to go check and so they arrived and as expected they seen the light on from the room and 1 officer asked his parter to go run upstairs really quick to go turn the light off while he stays downstairs to catch whoever it could be that may run downstairs and so he patiently waited for the officer to come down and he realized his partner was taking a long time after half an hour passed by and noticed that the light from that room was still on and so he felt worried and decided to go check on his partner and as he went upstairs and went into the bathroom, he seen his partner knocked out cold on the floor and he ran to his partner and shook to wake him and about half an hour of trying to wake him the partner became conscious and the officer asked him what happened and he said he seen a lady dressed in old nurse attire staring right at him and what knocked him out cold was that when he looked down, the lady had no legs. From that day on that bathroom light has ALWAYS been on even until this day you can see it if you’re passing by from the side where the lds church is.

[@moonkissed6606]

I’ve also heard that back in the day the school used to be a hospital for injured soldiers from WWII and another thing I was curious on as well, I remember the auditorium was being rebuilt and the construction workers were digging up a tree for some space to build and found bones buried underneath the tree but I’m not very sure if that was true or not but I did notice the construction was a bit delayed so it would make sense that the cause of it would have been the bones. I can go on and on about the school from experiences I’ve heard but going there my freshman year I haven’t experienced anything strange.

[@RastaBot]

@@moonkissed6606 Woah! Yeah I know the auditorioum was a makeshift morgue during the war, something like that. Thanks for sharing, chicken skin lidat!

[@RastaBot]

@@moonkissed6606 My brothers experience some activity at the typewriter class at night, typewriters were heard while they were sitting on the stairs next to it. So my brother knocked on the door to see if someone would answer and the typing stoppped, as he backs away from the door he looks up at the glass above the door and theres a face staring back at him, they all ran out of the school lol. Also the auditorium theres a girl ghost who supposedly hung herself there, my friends have seen her, also the catwalks are hella scary hehe.

[@moonkissed6606]

@@RastaBot yeah farrington HAS to be haunted haha I also heard that McKinley is very haunted as well, some claim the statue in front of the school walks from its spot to a certain specific room every night at a certain time lol Hawaii is just PACKED with paranormal activity

[@Da808Legend]

I grew up in the Kalihi, Palama area. in fact the Kalihi post office is where I use to live before the post office was built in the early 70's. DANG! I'm old🤣

[@mcsuchnsuch]

Kinda spooky but at 3 am you can see a trail of homeless chronics riding little kids bikes up and down North King Street. Look like the Tour de France.

[@RastaBot]

They out during the day, and always at 7-11 yelling at demons.

[@mellowmoods8393]

Carrying their backpacks...

[@PhilMyKawk]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Ronin1936]

I was born in Honolulu, T.H. during the Great Depression. I along with 2 brothers (who are still alive) evenltually moved to Kunia for a while until World Ware II started. Yes, I was one of the locals that witnessed the bombing of Pearl Harbor, (A couple of miles away) Although my Military and life took me away and I settled in No. Calif for over 60 years, my Heart is in and Always will be in Hawaii. I respect all Kahuna and Kapu as stated by the original Hawaiians. Aloha. Bro Rick

[@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom]

My dad was working up red hill during pearl harbor, I imagine he probably had the best view of it.

[@sonofhawaii4227]

Love all these amazing stories! Aloha Braddah Lopaka! 🤙🏼

[@rosemarie9636]

I luv 2 hear/read/see more ghost 👻 stories & tales/hauntings of Kalihi.

[@anasataraka8934]

I lived in mayor wright housing by DESHA LANE, I had friends that lived there, they use to tell me stories as well. I also had a friend that died right below that apartment, a car crashed her into that wall, it was a sad day.

[@leikilimaile2565]

Oh my gosh I’m so happy what a way to start my day!!! Cheeehooo Mahalo Lopaka another awesome history ghost vid🤗🤙🏻🌺

[@franklopez2969]

I lived in Kalihi, never saw a ghost, lots of roosters though!

[@christinet9641]

I live on Palama street now. I don’t feel any spirits in my apartment building but I’m sure they’re around in neighboring houses and apartments

[@TheSUGARCANEMAN]

Awesome as always

[@MysteriesofHawaii]

Thank you so much 😀

[@fuyu5979]

Accidentally came upon ur upload vid. Interesting n informative. How appropriate since its almost Halloween! Have seen u recently @ the Hawaii Theatre n previously enjoyed ur scary stories on Hawaii News Now. Kudos. New subscriber because of ur previous work. Anticipating more of ur stories. Aloha from Kauai.

[@MysteriesofHawaii]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@sweeptalk]

Bad ass story! Yeah I live on a haunted island too. Had some crazy stuff go down in my last apartment. Respect the dead 🏛💀🏛 Disturbing them is always a mistake.

[@ssakimoto7817]

Aloha from CA! Mahalo for da stories. ❤😺🤘

[@ArmyOfOne702]

OMG!! That back groud picture you have there. Upstairs unit was where we lived! We lived there between 1987 to 1990 or so before moving to Kukui Gardens! That's crazy..I alway knew something didnt feel right about this place when I was around 5 years old living there...that insane!

[@mellowmoods8393]

Man, Kukui Gardens, that place is no joke. You go in, there is no guarantee that you will ever come out alive!

[@samanthamarks5376]

I love the people from your country you seem so gentle and nice culture❤ I wish more people could be like you 🤗👍

[@theresewheeler1498]

Great stories . Mahalo for sharing

[@MysteriesofHawaii]

Thanks for listening

[@toko40]

Crazy we do all the renovation and pipe work at the pump station

[@ramseydoon8277]

Ever had anything strange happen?

[@CheckouttheRILEYS]

Very cool video my friend.

[@Ronin1936]

P.S. I am so happy and proud that they revived and taught the Hawaiian Language , Culture and History. As they would say "Da kids today know about the Islands than us ol buggas!"

[@philteerich]

Can you do stories on OCCC formerly known as Oahu jail? lots of history and haintings there.

[@MysteriesofHawaii]

Haunted Prisons is posted today! Mahalo!

[@johntad751]

School stories would be interesting.

[@MysteriesofHawaii]

It's in the works! Mahalo!

[@mellowmoods8393]

I don't know about Kalihi, but I've had some weird things happen in my house in Ewa. My wife took a picture of me standing in my house, and there near and around me was what looked like a party. There was an outline of a heavy-set woman in a grass skirt standing next to me, there was some creature crawling on my kitchen cabinets, and two dog-like animals running around my living room. I couldn't believe my eyes, and it scared the heck of me. I respect the land where I am, so I just try to roll with it and be at peace with whatever it is.

[@MysteriesofHawaii]

do you have that picture?

[@mellowmoods8393]

@@MysteriesofHawaii Unfortunately, no. This happened about 5 years ago. My wife was laying in our hammock in our yard and focusing the camera into our house where I was sitting, which is where all this "action" was focused around. When I saw it, it was something that I didn't want to keep and something I wanted to get rid of. I was really terrified, so I just instinctively deleted it as my first reaction. Something I kick myself over now.

[@mellowmoods8393]

@@MysteriesofHawaii However, my kids and I DID have another experience that I managed to capture in a photo. My son was wading in the water in the old turtle pond next to the Anderson estate where the old Magnum PI series was filmed. In the background were TWO figures watching us in the distance. What made it creepy was when I took the picture, nobody was standing there, and the two "people" had no feet. Now it's worth mentioning that at the time, some people at the Waiamanalo Canoe club which is at the adjacent beach were having a service for their recently passed friend and spreading his ashes into the ocean. One of the figures in question looked like a regular Bruddah. But the one standing next to him looked absolutely terrifying. He had a face like a skull with huge empty eyes, and while it was wearing clothes, it looked like underneath the clothes were just bones as it was unrealistically skinny. Now my wife who took the picture, and who is kind of attuned to these things has a theory. The "regular" guy was the man whose ashes were being spread into the ocean. The one next to him was Death, taking him into the next world. If you would be interested, i could send you those photos. Take care.

[@chellesama8256]

I've been through that area! I miss Hawaii and its culture so much.

[@hwn8088]

Iv heard a few Crazy stories of the Building of the H -3 ⛑ HALAWA VALLEY from different workers n still things keep happening right before the first tunnel East Bound 😳 🤙ALOHA 🌺

[@jodo7814]

If it’s in kalihi, those white puffs of smoke or apparitions aren’t ghosts, those are meth clouds. Or moped exhaust. And that eerie sound deep in the valley at night, is a fobs riced out Honda 😂

[@mellowmoods8393]

You must be a local to know this!

[@erniebartolome5848]

I used to live behind the store across the school in kalihi-palama area..

[@eddiea1120]

I remeber going there for one field trip in 1986, I was 7th grade at Kalakaua Intermediate. I remember the guide telling us these stories. Born and raised in Kalihi during the 70's-80's I consider myself lucky, I wouldn't change a thing...well one thing, I wouldn't have let my cousin borrow my bike, the bike got stolen on his watch. Yea you!! You still owe me $300...STANLEY!🤣

[@dynadushi]

Ah 86' best year 🍷😜

[@mellowmoods8393]

That must have been Stanley who I hired to fix my car a while ago. I gave him some money to go buy a part I needed, and he never returned!

[@mr808steelers]

Ho shit, 79' is wen I went Kalakaua

[@candiceperry7916]

It is awesome to go to Hawaii for vacation&learn about the hawaiian culture

[@lisam1708]

No wonder why I get this strange feeling when driving by 😮

[@needfulthings522]

It’s only haunted if they don’t like ‘your’ soul

[@chellesama8256]

I subbed, btw. I love learning about the islands I hope to return to.

[@jakewilson7737]

Can you please do one about Maui it’s always Oahu

[@MysteriesofHawaii]

We're working on it. Mahalo!

[@leikilimaile2565]

Oh my goodness so sad the guy George some jobs sooo dangerous 🥺

[@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom]

Unreal how the desecration of Hawaiian burial grounds are just tolerated here. Hewa kine !!

[@FreeSpirit47]

I found it quite sad, too, when I saw it when I lived there. There is a graveyard close to Alani Street in Kalihi where my mother in law, father in law plus 15 other people lived in one unit, one house on top of another with a shed converted to a small house for another 5 people. You know da kine! The father in law spoke of he & my mother in law being buried there! It was so rickety, grave stones smashed by vandals, lots of overgrowth, some of the coffins visible as the ground had shifted so much. When my mother in law died, there was no way her children, grandchildren & gr grandchildren were going to bury her there. We all put our money together for a beautiful, well kept burial site. Valley of the Temples, Kāneʻohe. It's a beautiful, restful place for one with such a beautiful soul as my mother in law.

[@user-xq2zp3wx5q]

Waianae. High. School. As. A ghost. Walking. Along. The. Beach. Late. Night. Very. Midnight.

[@dukekuhia2551]

Any stories from maui

[@MysteriesofHawaii]

We're working on it! Mahalo!

[@lonelypigeon7562]

Well.....as of this year, 2022....there IS construction going on at the exterior of the bldg....more activity on the kkhd side (small side road).....nobody is saying anything right now....unless BWS knows and is NOT bringing up the subject due to deadline commitments.

[@babycakes4393]

Kahuku area

[@GraveTender333]

Chicken skin all da way. That area got plenty. Oh man, there a story about upright ones. Dang, forgets it. They style renovating. Oh my... Ono bid

[@ValyTraveler]

Those are some good stories and bold desecrations of graves and the erasure of history...

[@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom]

Sadly it’s extremely common practice in Hawai’i. Since Hawaiians are a minority in our own homelands, you find that people who aren’t of our culture don’t give OUR ancestors (or us for that matter) the respect they give their own. Thank you for pointing that out though, I appreciate that you mention it when other commenters didn’t seem to care or notice… honestly it just proves my point, it’s so commonplace that non-Hawaiians don’t even notice it anymore.

[@billysewardgardening]

old world mud flooded

[@ysk2083]

No such thing as ghost.

[@PalmtreezNcoolbreeze8084]

Maybe where you come from. But our spiritual lands ain't nothing to mess with.

[@ysk2083]

@@PalmtreezNcoolbreeze8084 I come from Kalihi. No spirit in these lands.

[@PalmtreezNcoolbreeze8084]

@@ysk2083 bro you might come from kalihi but you ain't from these landss

[@PalmtreezNcoolbreeze8084]

@@ysk2083 you lived kalihi you not born and raised on these islands

[@ysk2083]

@@PalmtreezNcoolbreeze8084 Born Queens medical center. Went iliahi elementery in wahiawa. Wahiawa Intermediate, and Farrington highschool. Born and raised bah. Never saw a ghost.

[@keliishaine]

Only get Micronesian cockroaches at Desha Lane now……..sad

[@PhilMyKawk]

😂🤣🤦🏻‍♂️ and they more scary than ghosts