Morgan's Corner is a sharp bend on the Old Pali Road — the original winding highway over the Ko'olau Range on O'ahu, superseded in 1959 by the modern Pali Highway — notorious for a pair of overlapping ghost legends that have made it the single most-visited haunted site in Hawaii. The 'corner' itself sits just above the windward mouth of the tunnels, where the ancient Pali Road gives way to pavement and banyan overgrowth. Drive-by investigation by Hawaii ghost-hunting groups has continued steadily since the 1970s.
The first legend concerns a teenaged girl said to have been lynched from the tree above the curve by a spurned suitor in 1948, her body left hanging for days before discovery; her apparition — long-haired, in a white dress — is reported swinging from the overhanging branch at dusk, and drivers on the Old Pali Road after dark describe hearing a tapping on the roof of their cars that accelerates with their speed. The second legend involves the 1948 murder of Therese Wilder, an elderly O'ahu widow beaten to death in her Nu'uanu home by two escaped prisoners; Morgan's Corner was long, incorrectly, associated with her killing. A third strand involves the 1966 disappearance of a honeymooning couple whose stalled car was found at the corner; their fate was never determined.
Contributing to Morgan's Corner's reputation is its overlap with one of the great Night Marcher routes — the Huaka'ipo procession associated with the Nu'uanu Pali battle of 1795 descends directly across the bend. Multiple drivers and pedestrians over the decades have described the abrupt sound of conch-shell calls and drums rising through the foliage. The O'ahu legend ecosystem around Morgan's Corner, the Pali Lookout, and the former Queen Emma summer palace (just downslope) is among the densest paranormal corridors on any American island — a compressed archive of Hawaiian, plantation-era, and post-statehood ghost tradition occupying less than two miles of road.