Nightmarks in Hawaii
9 nightmarks documented
Morgan's Corner — the ghost of the Old Pali Road (O'ahu)
A sharp bend on O'ahu's Old Pali Road, famed for the apparition of a hanging girl and the overlapping Night Marcher route from Kamehameha's 1795 battle at Nu'uanu.
The Night Marchers of O'ahu — Huaka'ipo, the ghost armies of ancient Hawaiian warriors
Columns of torchbearing ancient Hawaiian warriors march at night from mountain to sea. Eye contact is fatal without an ancestral protector to call out 'na'u!'
Pele, the volcano goddess of Kīlauea — sightings of a woman in white (or red) who predicts eruption
Hawaiian volcano goddess Pele reportedly appears as a woman in white or red along the Big Island's roads, often before eruptions. Sightings documented since 1955.
Honoka'a Pe'ahi Menehune Ditch — stonework the ancient Hawaiians said was not theirs (Kaua'i)
A precision-fitted stone aqueduct on Kaua'i that Native Hawaiians told Captain Vancouver in 1793 was built by the Menehune in a single night — for one shrimp-feast.
The Menehune of Kaua'i — Hawaii's mysterious small people who built the 'Alekoko Fishpond in a single night
A race of three-foot-tall master stonemasons who, Hawaiian tradition holds, built Kaua'i's 'Alekoko Fishpond overnight. Modern sightings in the Alakaʻi Swamp continue.
Pahala's green-eyed Mo'o — Hawai'i Island's freshwater dragon of Punalu'u Black Sand Beach
A 12-foot black reptilian spirit reported in the brackish Kauila Pond behind Punalu'u Black Sand Beach, Hawai'i Island — documented since William Ellis's 1823 journal.
Faceless Woman of Waipi'o Valley — Hawai'i Island's most feared apparition
A tall woman in a white mu'umu'u whose smooth, featureless face has been reported in Waipi'o Valley, Hawai'i Island since the 1946 tsunami.
Iolani Palace ghosts — the only royal residence in the United States holds the spirits of Hawaii's last queens
Piano music, temperature drops, and the figures of Queen Lili'uokalani and King Kalākaua are reported in America's only royal palace, site of the 1893 Hawaiian overthrow.
Kamehameha Schools — Hawai'i's royal boarding campus and its Night-Marcher incursion (1973)
On October 14, 1973, students and staff at Kamehameha Schools on O'ahu reported a Night-Marcher procession along the ridge — halting construction and changing policy.