The original Waimea, Kauai, firehouse, once located on Ola Road, was built upon a path that led downhill from an ancient Hawaiian graveyard to the site of the old Hawaiian village of Waimea by the Waimea River mouth – and graveyard spirits were believed to walk that path to visit the sites of their former homes in the village.
In April 1947, graveyard spirits appeared at the firehouse, when fireman William Carreira saw a 7-foot-tall headless man inside the firehouse. And a week later, unaccountable rapping was heard one night on an outside firehouse wall, which scared firemen Sam Apo and John Kelekoma.
The Haleko Shops buildings, located on Haleko Road, Lihue, were built circa 1902 as homes for German sugar plantation laborers and their families.
In September 1972, Mayor Antone Vidinha vacated his campaign headquarters in the second Haleko Shops building after staffers warned him that the building was haunted, since they’d often heard footsteps in its supposedly vacant upstairs room.
Rev. Alfred Alsop, the Lutheran Church pastor, performed an exorcism without success, and others revealed that the parking lot behind the buildings had been a graveyard.
When Navy Lt. Cmdr. Bruce Rolfe and his wife, Cora, moved into their house at 1204-B Regulus Drive at Kauai’s Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) in the early 1980s, they began experiencing unexplainable phenomenon.
Ceiling lights flashed on and off, smoke alarms blared for no apparent reason, and the refrigerator door opened and closed by itself.
Their visiting grandchildren said they’d seen an unknown woman dressed in white inside the house, and base spokeswoman Mariana Graham admitted that other children had also seen a strange, unaccountable white lady with long hair wearing a white shawl on base.
Kauai’s Hale Nani Hotel, which once stood on Nahumaalo Point, Koloa, was the source of many eerie stories and rumors of hauntings.
Numerous night maids, kitchen workers, and other employees swore they’d actually seen ghosts there.
Hurricane Iwa destroyed Hale Nani in 1982, but since the Whalers Cove Resort opened in 1988 on its former site, there have been no reports of its being haunted.
