The Black Dog in the Tunnel of Trees

Informant: Male/27/European ancestry

Location: Tunnel of Trees, Kauai

I was told by a friend: "When you're driving through the tunnel of trees and you see a woman in white with long gray hair, stop and pick her up. But if you ever see a man or a dog, don't stop. Don't look back, don't look in your mirrors, just look straight ahead. If you look back, they will follow you to your house and it will be bad."

I'm driving home one night to Koloa. When I enter the tunnel, I see a black dog standing on the side of the road. Looked like a Rottwiler. I don't think anything of it, it's just a stray. Halfway through the tunnel, I see a black dog on the side of the road. I start to worry. At the end of the tunnel, the same black dog is standing in the middle of my lane, facing me. I remember what my friend said: "Don't stop."

So I continue driving, 50 mph. I'm thinking, "Move move move move get out of the way get out of the way, I can't stop he told me not to stop!" I finally reach the dog, and I go right over it. I don't feel anything, no bump, nothing. I don't look in my mirrors, I just keep going. 

I go back the next day thinking I clipped it, maybe it got out of the way. There was no sign that I hit anything in the road. Could it have been Poki?

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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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Calling Spirit in Wailua

Informant: Male/22/Hawaiian – Portuguese ancestry

Location: Wailua, Kauai

I was around 8 years old when this happened, I had just started going hunting. Me, my cousins and my uncle went hunting one evening in Wailua. By the time we were done we were about a mile away from our truck. It was about 9pm. My uncle said “I’m going to go get the truck, you kids wait here.” But my cousins wanted to go with my uncle. I said “I’ll wait right here. You come get me, I’m not walking.” My uncle was like “You sure you wanna wait alone?” I said "Hell no I'm not walking, I'll wait." So he said he would be back in half an hour with the truck.

Not too long after they left, I heard something moving in the bushes. Then I heard my uncle’s voice. “Hey! Come on let’s go.” I said “Hell no I’m not walking back!” And then my uncle whistled. You know when you’re out playing with the other kids in the neighborhood and your dad whistles for you to come inside and you know with that whistle you have to go? That’s the kind of whistle it was. So I jump up and start walking.

My uncle is talking, saying things like “You don’t wanna listen and you gonna get in trouble." Then he says,  "Come on lets go down here.” I said, “But I thought we were going back to the truck?” Just then I see head lights, and I hear my uncle’s stereo; the only song he ever plays when we go hunting.

I start running. 

Something grabs my backpack, and I let it take my bag. I get to the truck and my uncle asks, “Where’s your stuff?” I point back to where I was and say “I was following you. “ My uncle yells “Get in the car now!!”

I’m bawling, I’m scared. I know I messed up. I know you never answer when someone calls, but it sounded just like my uncle. Now when I go hunting, I never answer when anyone calls my name.

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Wasn't That You Just Now?

Informant: Female/48/Japanese ancestry

Location: Molokoa II, Kauai

This is just a weird thing that happened to me one night, when I was getting ready to go to sleep. I was laying down on my pillow and my husband hadn't come inside the room yet. We had the AC running so the bedroom and bathroom doors were closed. I heard the bedroom door open and I looked but I had my husband's pillows sort of blocking part of my view. But I could see part of the hall way light shining though the doorway, and only the left side of my husband entering through the bedroom door, closing the door behind, and opening the bathroom door and closing it.

Then five seconds later the bedroom door opened and I looked thinking it was my daughter, but it was my husband. I sat up and asked, "Didn't you just come in through that door?" He said no, and opened the bathroom door and closed and brushed his teeth and came out. When he came out I was sitting on the bed and said "You are joking with me right? You came in before this right?" But he said no! Then I said "There is a ghost in this room because someone came in here and opened the door and went into the bathroom and then closed the door just like you did!" 

My husband didn't want to talk about it because it gave him chicken skin. But thank God it never happened again! Of course I couldn't sleep that night either! Just to think that a spirit can physically open a door and do the same routine that my husband would do is too creepy!

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He Came Out of The Water

Informant: Female/20's/Mixed ancestry

Location: Fuji Beach, Kauai

My friend sent me these pictures. Her son was in the back of the truck playing with the phone as they were driving past Fuji Beach in Kapaa, also known as Baby Beach. As they're driving by he sees what looks like a white man coming out of the water, so he snapped a picture. As they passed by him, he snapped another picture. This is what he captured.

Here I've cropped, zoomed and adjusted the color and light balance to get a better view.

This is the same beach where the fireball was spotted. Perhaps the two are related?

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The Forgotten Music Box

Informant: Male/26/Chinese ancestry

Location: Pahoa Valley, Oahu

A friend of mine who works in real estate came over one night to shoot the breeze. He was telling me about a certain apartment in a certain building somewhere in Makiki that was impossible to rent.

From what he knows, weird things would happen in the kitchen. Doors and drawers would pop open on their own. If you've ever seen the movie Paranormal Activity 2 and remember the kitchen scene, the occurrence is something along the lines of that. People would move in, and they would move right out.

As my friend is telling me about this, we hear a few lines of a faint melody. Faint music box music. And we're both thinking, what the hell? Is that a music box? Then I remembered that I did have a music box that I was given years ago by my parents. It was somewhere in my room, in a box buried somewhere. When I looked for the source of the music, I found my music box. It had fallen out of a box that I thought was in the back of my closet, but there it was on the floor.

It was probably just a strange coincidence, but it did provide a soundtrack for the conversation.

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New Year's Spectre

Informant: Female/26/Korean ancestry

Location: Kalaheo, Kauai

I got a phone call from my friend on New Year's Eve while on my way to Koloa. She was on her way to Kalaheo when she saw something really strange.

"There's fireworks going off everywhere, aerials too. I don't know where I am, I'm almost to Kalaheo. But sudenely I see this ball of light flying across the sky. It didn't look like an aerial. It was changing from red to blue to green to purple. It was changing colors consistently! And it wasn't falling to the ground or shooting into the sky. It was just flying across the sky, changing colors. I was following it in my car! It flew off into the mountains."

To which I replied, "I don't think that's a firework."

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