HAUNTED OAHU

Aiea

Aiea High School
The school is built over an ancient burial ground. Several people reported sightings of strange figures and unusual noises all over campus, but especially in the R building.

Hauula

A mother drowned while she was trying to save her child on the Hauula side of Pounder’s Beach. Around the foundation of an old home on top of the rocks, a child’s cry can be heard at night as well as the sound of little feet. There were also apparitions of a mother looking for her child.

Honolulu

The Dole Cannery Signature Theaters
Another example of a building on top of an ancient Hawaiian temple. It is reported that in the early 1980s, a school bus full of children crashed right at the place where the ancient heiau was located. Some people said they heard the voices of the children in the bathroom next to the theater.

Highway 1 (H1)
When the H1 tunnel was dug through the Koolau Mountain Range, bones were found in the mountain. Workers reported that they saw ancient warriors. When you walk through the tunnel you might still hear their voices.

Hilton Hawaiian Village
This renowned Waikiki Resort is believed to be haunted by the volcano goddess Pele herself. Visitors, house cleaners and other staff members describe a woman in a red dress walking down in the hallways and all over the premises. She appears and disappears as she pleases.

Iolani Palace
Shadows and inexplicable lights were seen by security guards. The sound of foot steps was heard repeatedly.

Kakaako Fire Station
This fire station is said to be haunted by the ghost of an old man and his dog.

Kapiolani Park
The Honolulu Police Department is used to getting calls and reports about strange happenings at this popular park. Centuries ago it was a place for human sacrifices and also a battlefield. There are reports of appearances, sounds and smells.

State Capitol Building
Queen Liliuokalani’s ghost has supposedly been wandering the hallways. She is buried at nearby Kawaihao Church, but it seems as if she has not found her eternal peace yet.

Kamehameha Schools
One of the places that is in the path of the “night marchers,” a procession of old warriors that can be dangerous to anyone, who stands in their path. On full moon nights knocking on doors are heard together with the beating of drums.

Kamehameha Schools Dormitories
The ghost of a Hawaiian lady dressed 1800 style appeared in one of the boy’s dorm rooms. She was recognized as the woman in an old painting that hangs in the dorm – Princess Pauahi Bishop.

Manoa
Along the trail past Paradise Park and up towards Manoa Falls strange screams, sounding like war cries, have been heard coming out of the thick rainforest.

Moanalua High School
A little boy is said to haunt the boys’ locker room. Showers turn on by themselves and people heard the little boy crying. Teachers of the school leave on the light at night so that the little boy won't be scared.

Nuuanu
The ghost of an old Chinese woman has been seen in a condominium across the street from the Oahu Cemetery.

The Pali Lookout
Even the most skeptical people say that they get a weird feeling at this popular place. There are many reports of figures among the trees at the Pali Lookout and silhouettes of ancient Hawaiian warriors to the right side of the lookout platform when facing the ocean. Another one was seen standing high about the lookout on a cliff looking down. The Pali Lookout is the location, where hundreds of Oahu warriors lost their lives in a battle against King Kamehameha on his way to defeat and unite all islands.

Pali Highway
One of the strangest stories around and the one most often told is the “pork over the pali” tale. An old belief warns to not take any pork with you when you are traveling on the Pali Highway. Your car will stall and is said to not start again until the pork is taken out.

Even today many locals follow the warning, no matter if they believe the story or not. Just in case …

Pearl Harbor
This one needs no further explanation.

Ford Island
This small island is in the center of Pearl Harbor. Residents have experienced voices and footsteps coming from empty rooms, moving objects and lights turning on by themselves.

Sacred Hearts Academy
A nun fell and died by the stairs behind the chapel and still haunts the property. You might feel a cold chill, a hand touching you or suddenly feel breath on your face.

Waikiki
Diamond Head - La Pietra School
You never feel alone when walking around here. Many people said they felt children following them, but when they turned around, no one was there.

Laie

Polynesian Cultural Center
Each of the village replicas seems to have its own haunting. In the Fiji village, drums are playing by themselves and the ghostly cry of a baby is heard in the Marquesas region.

Makaha

Makaha Sheraton Golf Club
Children have been seen walking and playing around the site of the pool, where they have drowned many years ago. Some people heard footsteps behind and felt their presence.

North Shore

Waimea Falls Park
The whole valley is filled with legends. It used to be occupied and had several sacred areas. It is said that a spirit lives in the pond of Waimea Falls. Every now and then people have drowned there without any obvious reason. It is believed that the spirit took them and kept their bodies for a while. Even though the pond is rather small, the victims’ bodies often disappear for several days and are then found floating on the surface.

Pupukea Heiau
This is the largest heiau on the island of Oahu and was of great importance in the old days. Still today people hear the sound of an ancient conch shell. Sightings of night marchers walking through the old temple are common.

Wahiawa

Wahiawa Elementary School
The wooded area around Wahiawa is said to be the home to the Green Lady. A strange appearance was first mentioned in the 1940s and the scary woman with the green scaly skin has been seen again in recent years.

Sacred Birthstones
A group of flat, round rocks outside of Wahiawa is the place where royalty used to give birth. People tried to move the stones several times; the stones always returned back to their place - by themselves. No one has an explanation. Besides that the place truly has an intense energy, but of a positive kind.

Waialae

Chaminade University
This place is just full with spooks! In room 208 the outline of a crucifix, which has long been removed, still remains. Students have been woken up by feeling pressure all over their bodies and the feeling of getting choked. This dorm used to be a children's hospital during World War II. Room 319 – During World War II this was a morgue for fallen soldiers. Ghosts of the dead soldiers have been seen repeatedly.

Waipahu

Waipahu Street
According to legend King Kamehameha I. took so many victims when he invaded Oahu that they had to line up all the dead from the opening of the Waipahu gulch all the way into the deep valley of Mililani. Around a certain turn on this street you can hear the sound of drums and see the torches of the night marchers.