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Explore 52 haunted places in Hawaii. Read ghost stories, local history, source notes, and visiting information in the PHASM Haunted Atlas.
Honolulu, Hawaii · Road or bridge
The bridge’s local story concerns a girl who approaches pedestrians and asks for help finding her way home. As told by Haunted Places, she cannot leave the bridge: when she reaches either end, she disappears. The story connects her to a hit-and-run death, though the directory provides no documentary evidence for that backstory.
Honolulu, Hawaii · Other
The upper floor of this Merchant Street building is the focus of a community account on Haunted Places. Witnesses reportedly noticed a luminous figure and sensed someone nearby without seeing a person. Moaning and screaming heard around an apparently empty building round out the story; no individual spirit is identified.
Niumalu, Kauaʻi, Hawaii · Other
A well-known tradition credits the menehune with completing Alakoko’s fishpond wall in a single night. HAWAIʻI Magazine’s folklore roundup also repeats stories of these elusive beings remaining in the surrounding landscape and playing tricks on passersby. This is a place-linked cultural legend, not evidence that the working fishpond is a haunted ruin.
Honolulu, Hawaii · Other
A community account published by Haunted Places describes a shadowy figure moving through the museum after ordinary visiting hours. Staff working late are also said to hear heavy breathing and crying without seeing who is making the sounds. The account supplies no named spirit and does not identify any collection object as responsible.
Honolulu, Hawaii · Other
Queen Emma is the figure associated with the cathedral in the Haunted Places directory. People attending events are said to have noticed her standing in different parts of the building. The same short account adds a piano heard playing without a visible player.
Honolulu, Hawaii · Other
Chaminade’s campus stories range from an apparition riding a skateboard to soldiers said to linger where a wartime morgue once operated. Haunted Places also collects reports of unexplained noises, electrical disturbances and similar unsettling dreams experienced by different people. The accounts include sensations of pressure or choking during sleep, without establishing a supernatural cause.
Honolulu, Hawaii · Other
Airport lore describes the “Lady in Waiting,” a woman in white who looks from a gate toward the runway at night. Storytellers say she is waiting for a lover who flew away and never returned. Haunted Places also records an unexplained passenger on the back of the Wiki-Wiki shuttle, along with restroom fixtures that seem to operate by themselves. Romantic death backstory is legend. Secure areas remain restricted.
Honolulu, Hawaii · Other
Late-evening players have reportedly seen a man pacing near the courts’ building as though keeping watch. The community account on Haunted Places says a strong decaying odor accompanies him, and that he disappears when followed. Unexplained noises around otherwise empty facilities form another part of the same local story.
Ko Olina, Kapolei, Hawaii · Hotel
Stories collected by Haunted Places focus on the hotel’s seventeenth floor. Guests have reportedly found sliding doors moving open and shut without anyone operating them. The more startling account describes a woman’s apparition hovering above sleepers. These stories belong to the property’s Ihilani era; they do not establish that the current hotel experiences the same phenomena.
Kahaluʻu, Hawaiʻi Island, Hawaii · Hotel
In a 2002 Honolulu Advertiser report, a neighboring resident recalled security guards hearing Hawaiian singing and conversation and seeing lights inside the closed hotel. When they investigated, no source appeared. The article also records a local tradition associating the land with supernatural twin sisters who could take lizard form, alongside ordinary business explanations for the hotel’s decline.
Lānaʻi City, Lānaʻi, Hawaii · Hotel
The Lodge at Kōʻele has a small ghost story centered on a child visiting guest rooms. Haunted Places describes a little girl among the spirits reputed to inhabit the hotel. Its brief account does not name her, connect her to a documented death or specify how guests distinguish her from an ordinary child.
Waimea, Hawaiʻi Island, Hawaii · Other
The story attached to Saffron concerns footsteps approaching along the front porch of its old-house setting. Staff reportedly went to look for the arrival, only to find nobody outside. A community submission to Haunted Places associates the unexplained steps with a woman’s spirit, without providing her name or an origin story.
Honolulu, Hawaii · Hotel
A small workplace haunting forms the core of Waikiki Parc’s story. According to Haunted Places, a deceased employee has been seen beside the staff time clock. The tale goes further: the clock supposedly continues to register that employee arriving for work each day, as though an ordinary shift never ended.
Haʻikū, Maui, Hawaii · Natural landmark
Giggle Hill’s legend recalls wartime soldiers bringing girlfriends up the hill, with laughter supposedly remaining after the couples were gone. A Maui informant recorded in USC’s folklore archive knew the story but heard screams instead while visiting with friends. The informant explained those particular noises as owls, a useful distinction between the legend and an actual outing.
Hilo, Hawaii · Other
Residents’ lore describes a little boy on the ground floor, accompanied by sounds of laughter, conversation and a ball bouncing along the hall. Haunted Places also records footsteps and a windlike sound from an empty room. The child is linked in rumor to an earlier house demolished on the site, but that death story is not independently established.
Honolulu, Hawaii · Other
A young woman in a pink muʻumuʻu is said to appear on the first floor of Hamilton Library’s Mauka Wing. Haunted Places pairs this visual account with unexplained sounds among the book stacks and in the restrooms. The figure has no firmly identified name or documented history in the source.
Honolulu, Hawaii · Historic house
The Mission Houses’ stories include toys apparently striking the floor while their displayed counterparts remain still, and a faint girl’s voice heard without a visible speaker. Honolulu Haunts also recounts women in long dresses appearing in the gardens and a printing press heard at work when no operator is present. These accounts gather around the historic domestic and printing spaces.
Honolulu, Hawaii · Other
A Haunted Places submission places the building’s unexplained activity on its upper floors. Employees reportedly encountered a white apparition on the tenth floor and heard sounds associated with it. Elevators are also said to travel between floors without an apparent passenger selecting them, giving the ordinary office machinery a place in the story. Current identity corroborated by Hawaiian Telcom headquarters search result; workplace is not an investigation attraction.
Honolulu, Hawaii · Theater
The theater’s story describes an audience member who remains absorbed in a performance until someone comes closer. As recounted by Haunted Places, the man then fades from view. The submission identifies him as a Chinese patron who was killed on the grounds, but does not supply a name, date or corroborating record. Other retellings call the figure a custodian; occupational identity and murder backstory remain uncertain.
Waipahu, Hawaii · Other
The village’s ghost stories are attached to several of its buildings. Haunted Places describes curtains stirring and figures appearing in the Portuguese house, cookware clattering in the Japanese house and doors unlocking in the Filipino camp. A woman wearing clothing associated with the 1930s is another reported presence. These stories are collected here as one museum profile.
Honolulu, Hawaii · Other
Hickam’s ghost lore combines impressions of wartime soldiers and battle sounds with a mischievous figure called Charley. Haunted Places says Charley changes radio stations and sends objects moving through the air. The account gives the pranks a recognizable personality but does not identify Charley with a documented servicemember.
Honolulu, Hawaii · Hotel
The Hilton’s best-known apparition is a young woman dressed in red, reportedly seen both in hotel corridors and on the beach. Haunted Places records competing interpretations: some storytellers connect her to a woman said to have died violently in a tower room; others identify the figure with Pele. The striking red dress is the shared feature of these differing accounts.
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii · Castle
A young Hawaiian boy is the apparition associated with Huliheʻe Palace in the Haunted Places directory. The story places him at the royal retreat but gives no date, encounter narrative or secure identification. The palace’s history as a residence for Hawaiian royalty supplies the setting rather than a verified explanation for the reported child.
Honolulu, Hawaii · Other
In a public discussion of Oʻahu ghost stories, a commenter who says they worked at Kaimukī Library between 2012 and 2016 describes early mornings punctuated by bangs and knocks. They also recall noises resembling furniture moving while they were alone and books dropping from shelves. The account is a firsthand community claim, not an institutional statement.