A Ball of Light at Hanalei Pier

Female/49/Japanese ancestry

Location: Hanalei Pier, Kauai

My husband and I decided to go fishing one night. It was a beautiful clear night at first we where at Wainiha Beach and nothing was really biting, so we decided to drive to Hanalei Pier on the way back. It was around 3:30 a.m. 

While I was fishing over the pier looking towards the mountains side, I noticed this bright blue-green round ball moving slowly downwards from the sky towards the top of the mountain. This bright blue-green ball had a bright blue, short thin tail behind it, and when it went behind the mountain there was a really bright lighting flash. 

I yelled for my husband to look at the ball by the mountain!  My husband only seen the lighting flash, which was really bright. The weirdest, strangest thing I have ever seen in 21 years of fishing. But I remember someone telling me that on the Big Island he seen many of these fire balls as he called it, and that the people would say it was the Hawaiian gods fighting each other. That's why you would see some flying up towards the sky and others falling down from the sky to hit the land. Strange that I have never heard of that. I just thought it was like a beautiful shooting star, but the color was odd, not bright white.

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Disembodied Legs in Wainiha

Informant: Female/49/ Japanese ancestry

Location of Incident: Wainiha, Kauai

My husband and his friends all wanted to go fishing so we headed out to Wainiha down the north shore side. While all the lines were in the ocean, some of us were hanging out on top of the reef. Some of them were trying to catch jumping jacks while others like me were picking those large pipipi's off the rocks. I was so into picking the pipipi's with my headlight that I just suddenly noticed legs, tabis and shorts passing right in front of me. I didn't think of anything of it; I just thought it was my friend Don who was going to check what my husband was up to. Don and my husband were to the right of me, and everyone else was near the beach. So I didn't look up, I just said "Hi Don!" and he just grunted back.

When my hands were full of pipipi's, I walked over to my husband who was talking with Don. I asked, "Hey, Don, didn't you just pass me to go by your brother? I said hi to you and you just grunted."

Now, Don is really afraid of ghost, spooks, and spirits. He said "Ohhh no way! No say that, that scares me! As spooky stuff that you seen me walk by you, and I grunted at you!" I said, "Yeah! It was your same shorts, legs, and tabis!"

Well I don't know who passed by me that night but someone or something did!

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Thank You, Thank You, Thank You...

Informant: Male/22/Hawaiian – Portuguese ancestry

Location: Wainiha, Kauai

Me and my friend were coming back one night from fishing on the north shore. It was pretty late, like 2:00 a.m. On our way back, we see a lady on the side of the road. A woman in white, with gray- white hair going down to her butt. 

As we’re about to pass her, she starts levitating. She levitates across the road to the passenger side of the truck where I'm sitting. I can’t see her face because her hair is covering it, but I can see red glowing eyes, like fire. Then I see both her arms wind back like she is going to throw something, and I throw my arms up over my head and yell.

The glass of the window shatters into a million pieces. I’m showered with glass. My friend starts to floor it, but I yell at him, “Stop! Stop! Stop the car!” So he stops, and I say, “If you need a ride we’ll give you a ride.”

Something jumps into the back of the truck. We can feel the truck shift with the weight.

When we get to where we were going, we hear a woman's voice say, “Thank you, thank you, thank you.”

The next day, the broken window was completely fixed.

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The Woman Next Door

Informant: Male/40/Hawaiian-mixed ancestry

Location: Aliomanu, Kauai

Our family owned a beach house on the north-east side of Kaua'i. Our whole family, cousins and aunty's and uncles, would spend the summer there. The lone occupant of the small house next to us was a woman whom my family was friendly with. We would see her all the time, and it seemed she always wore the same clothes every day, with a big hat. Then one day, we found out she had died.

One night me and 3 of my cousins went down to the beach house to have a bon fire and some drinks. We were talking story and having a good time, talking about ghosts and things like that. When 2am rolled around, we had all passed out right there on the beach in front of the house. All of a sudden we were awoken by a soft tap on our shoulders.

I opened my eyes, and the woman from next door was standing in front of me, wearing the same clothes and the big hat she always wore. She said to us, "You boys better get in the house."

We ran into the house. We had all seen her, and we all knew she was the dead woman from next door.

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Creature in the Brush

Informant: Female/22/European-Hawaiian ancestry
Location: North Shore, Kauai

My sister was spending the night at one of her friends house. One night they decided to take a walk around. The property was really big, and toward the end of it there was really tall grass. She and her friends walked over near the tall grass, when they saw something moving in it.

A white figure rose from the grass. My sister said it was moving like the girl from The Ring, in that jerky motion. They all took off running. Then one of the girls started screaming bloody murder, and didn't stop screaming until they got into the house. They locked the door, and they could hear the creature running around the perimeter of the house. The girl woke up her dad, and he went outside and checked everywhere. There was nothing there.

When they asked their friend why she started screaming, she said she turned around and saw the creature running up to them really fast. It almost caught them.

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