5.03.2008

Pele Sighting at Kilauea

Informant: Female/16/Mixed ancestry
Location: Volcanoes National Park, Big Island


My hula sisters and I went on a hula retreat a few years ago up at Kilauea on the Big Island where, of course, Pele lives. We were walking around the Volcano park one night when something started following us; we could hear footsteps. So my friend was like, "Hey, you guys hear that?" My other friend said, "It's probably a weasel or something," so we just kept on walking. Then we heard barking and we were all scared and didn't know what to do. We walked a little faster, and then it started to get warm. Very, very warm. As we got closer to one of the look outs, we could hear chanting and all of us were freakin' out like crazy.


My friend and I were the ones who were most afraid and we decided to stay in one place, but we could sense something right behind us. We all looked behind us and we didn't see anything, but it was really warm, and the chants kept on getting louder and louder.

Then we heard the footsteps again.

I felt something by my feet and when we ran under the light we saw that it was white dog. When we looked out into the dark, we could see another white thing coming right at us and the chant was getting louder and louder. We ran back to our cabin as the chants kept on getting louder. When we finally got inside our cabin we looked out and the dog was right there at our door step. Our kumu said "It's madame Pele" & when i looked out of my window, that white ghost person thing was still there.

I decided to go to sleep, but I couldn't so I went back outside. I noticed that dog was still there and since I'm such an idiot, I decided to go play with it. It was very cold that night so I had to put on a jacket, pants, socks and shoes. I called the dog by me and as I looked at the dog and played with its ears, I noticed it was very hot, like hot water kine. Then the lady came up to me and asked if that was my dog (this was around 6 a.m. and the sun started to rise). I looked at her and I said "No, sorry." I looked down to play with the dog again and then looked up to ask that lady a question, but she was gone.

I kept on playing with the dog and I started to hear chanting again. I looked out where the woods were and I saw that old lady again, and as I looked at her, I looked into her eyes and they were red. I mean, RED, RED, RED! Then she called the dog and it went running to her, and I looked away for a second and turned back and they were both gone. My kumu told me, "You just witnessed something that no one has really ever witnessed." I asked him, "What is that?" and he said, "You saw Pele."

So, I get back into my bed and noticed there was a rock on it. It was a medium sized rock and it was real, real, HOT! I looked out the window and saw the dog go running and vanish. I never saw that dog ever again, neither did I see that lady.

But that rock followed me.

I put it outside, but it would always find its way back inside. When I left to Oahu, it found it's way next to my bed there. My Kumu told me to keep that rock with me no matter what. If that rock keeps on coming back to me then that means its my rock and it's a rock that only I can have an no one else can.

To this very day, I still have that rock.

7 comments:

chacha k said...

OMG!! your sooo lucky to have met her iwish i could. At least you have a cool experince that you encountered and got a gift from it too!!

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Anonymous said...

Okay, that is pretty cool that you saw Pele. And good job, this probably means that you mean something to Pele. You're lucky, I wish I can see/meet her.

Unknown said...

Have you ever heard of Pele's curse? It states that any rock formed on a Hawaiian island belongs to that island, and if you take it with you, Pele curses you with bad luck. I suppose you are that exception to that rule, and she gave you that rock.

Unknown said...

Have you ever heard of Pele's curse? It states that any rock formed on a Hawaiian island belongs to that island, and if you take it with you, Pele curses you with bad luck. I suppose you are that exception to that rule, and she gave you that rock.

Anonymous said...

I was stationed on Oahu back in the late seventies. A friend of mine in my unit was from the big island. He was pure blooded Hawaiian. He once told me he swims with sharks. Anyway one night we were out partying on base. we both looked out into the vegetation about a half mile away from us and we could see a fire with a figure dancing in front of it. I am not superstitious at all but believe because we both saw it, we saw it. My friend concluded it was pele. the next day we searched the area we saw this vision, but found zero eveidence of any fire. Still not superstitious But i am a believer.