Hey skysurfer808, ever here of east range near Schofield barracks that place has plenty of Hawaiian ghost's,
No one ever told me about them I had to find out for my self. 
I too have had a bad experience along the Pali Highway on Oahu, I used to fish at Kaneohe Bay, and one time I was headed back to Schofield barracks when all of a sudden my car stereo goes berserk flipping channels and all of my power windows start going up and down….when I turn off the highway on to H-1 every thing worked out just fine.
Tell me about haunted Oahu. I lived there.
I once had a pair of shoes that I liked to wear, well it had some small lava rocks that where embedded in the soles,,, well after I got out of the service I was wearing them while I was driving on night back home in north Dakota and wham my right rear tire blew out I lost control and rolled my car 10 times.. I broke my neck, I had gobs of bad luck before that …after that I mailed my shoes back to Hawaii,,,, POOF my bad luck disappeared….  |
Your deal with the shoes was due to Pele, the Hawaiian Volcano Goddess. Hawaiians believe it is bad luck to take any lava rock away from the islands, as every stone on the islands is one of her children. I'm sure you know this after your incident in Dakota. There used to be a company that specialized in selling Bad Luck Lava Rocks, only thing was the people who bought the rocks to give others bad luck ended up having the bad luck themselves....the company had so many complaints from their customers that they went belly up. So Note to those in this forum, NEVER take any rock away from the islands. If bad luck happens to you, don't say I didn't warn you.
There are all sorts of superstitions about the Pali Highway. One of them concerns taking pork over it, if you do your car will die. I've never tempted fate to do this myself, but a friend of mine inadvertantly brought a ham sandwich on a city bus, and the bus stalled out till he got rid of the sandwich. I myself once uttered a phrase on the Pali in Hawaiian knocking Hawaiians, and when I did, my friend's car died...and we had to get it towed away. Another place that is well known for haunts is Kaena point, on the extreme northwestern tip of Oahu. This is known as a place where spirits would depart for the underworld...so if there is a tear in the space time continuium, that ought to be it. Interestingly enough, this was also where 2nd. Lt. Harry Brown dispatched two Kates on Dec 7, 1941.
I've never heard of ghosts along the East Range of Schofield, but my knowledge of Hawaiian history does make me think of the first invasion of Oahu, when King Kahekili of Maui conquered Oahu from it's last King, Kahanahana. Apparantly Kahanahana had a beautiful wife who joined him in exile rather than surrender herself to the enemy. The two spent weeks wandering around central Oahu near the area around Schofield. Unfortunatly, Kahekili's army combed central Oahu and eventually captured the two of them. They were roasted to death in an imu (underground oven) and their skulls were used as drinking cups...a standard fate of captured Royalty...and meant to be the ultimate disrespect for another line's Mana (spiritual power).
And of course there are all sorts of stories concerning Pearl Harbor. However, in my mind the most ironic one happened years before the Japanese attack there. Shortly after the turn of last century, the Navy decided to build a drydock in an area which was a temple to a Hawaiian Shark God. They were warned off by old Hawaiian priests, but the project went ahead anyway. After a million dollars was spent, the dock was completed, and opened to the sea for the first time. Unfortunatly the ocean flooded in, and destroyed the dock. The entire thing had to be rebuilt, and when it was finally drained, the carcass of a shark was found at its bottom. After conducting proper groundbreaking ceremonies presided over by Hawaiian priests, the drydock was rebuilt without further incident.
For more on Haunted Hawaii, I highly recommend local author Glen Grant's ghost story books, especially the Obake Files. They are full of the lore of Haunted Hawaii.
Skysurfer808