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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.
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii · Hotel
The hotel’s upper floor is associated with warrior apparitions and sounds resembling battle. Haunted Places also records a very different story downstairs: a portrait of Queen Liliʻuokalani seems to move as though breathing. These accounts connect the property’s displays and spaces with its royal setting, without proving that either phenomenon occurs.
Mililani, Oʻahu, Hawaii · Road or bridge
Accounts gathered by Haunted Places describe moving lights along the mountainside and cries rising from beneath a bridge. The gulch is also associated with huakaʻi pō, or night marchers, imagined in the account carrying torches from the mountains toward the sea. The tradition is tied to the landscape’s remembered battles and ancestral presence. Night-marcher traditions have living cultural significance; no ritual instructions or nighttime route is offered. Broad corridor retained as one site, not multiple bridge stories.
Opihikao, Hawaiʻi Island, Hawaii · Natural landmark
Kahuna Research Group collects reports of footsteps following walkers along the coastal trail, whispering from lava openings and a figure that waved before vanishing into an ironwood tree. Other stories concern lights or fireballs moving above the surf and disappearing toward sea caves. These are attributed experiences, not established explanations of the park’s natural sounds and lights. Extreme coastal hazards; do not approach cliff edges or sea caves. Avoid treating Hawaiian spiritual traditions as a generic curse.
Honolulu, Hawaii · Hotel
A woman in Victorian clothing is the central figure in the Moana’s ghost-tour lore, often associated with the hotel’s banyan courtyard. HauntBound also catalogs footsteps in empty corridors and sudden cold areas. Tour retellings commonly identify the woman as Jane Stanford, whose fatal poisoning at the hotel provides the historical background for that interpretation.
Nuʻuanu, Oʻahu, Hawaii · Road or bridge
Morgan’s Corner is associated with the familiar urban legend of a couple stranded beneath a tree. The boyfriend leaves to find help; the girlfriend hears scraping above the car, later explained as his hanging body. Local reporting separates that traveling legend from the real 1948 killing of Therese Wilder in the area. Both have shaped the bend’s haunting reputation.
Haleʻiwa, Hawaii · Other
Customers and employees are said to notice unexpected cologne and localized cold sensations in the store. Haunted Places pairs those reports with sightings of a tall male apparition. The short community submission supplies neither an identity for the man nor a historical incident said to explain his presence.
Honolulu, Hawaii · Natural landmark
The trail’s supernatural reputation includes spirits associated with banyan trees and the distant sound of drums after dark. Haunted Places connects the drumming to huakaʻi pō, or night marchers. The account places ancestral presences in the valley landscape rather than identifying a single named ghost or a particular historic death. Night-marcher beliefs are living cultural traditions. No ritual or after-hours access implied.
Nuʻuanu, Oʻahu, Hawaii · Other
Haunted Places recounts a white-clad apparition at the lookout and visions of warriors falling from the cliffs. The latter stories echo the remembered violence of the Battle of Nuʻuanu. They are presented as local supernatural accounts, not eyewitness evidence that the historic battle literally repeats at the cliff edge.
Hilo, Hawaii · Hospital
Ke Ola Magazine reports that elders attending the building’s adult-care program sometimes heard children playing outside when no children were there. A staff member also recalled a strange line of crayons leading toward a shower room. These gentle child-presence accounts sit alongside the more famous “crying babies” legend, whose alleged fatal nursery fire local researchers could not substantiate. Ke Ola challenges fatal-fire backstory through historical records and oral-history work. KRG investigation heard no babies and called findings inconclusive. Current building use/renovation access must be checked.
Honolulu, Hawaii · Other
At the old police-station building, the reported haunting sounds like an office still working after its occupants have gone. HauntTracker recounts filing drawers opening and closing, typewriter keys tapping, a newspaper being turned and a chair squeaking. Employees have also reportedly glimpsed a figure entering a restroom while lights flicker elsewhere. Municipal office identity supported by current Honolulu Real Property Assessment Division page; no access to nonpublic workspaces.
Honolulu, Hawaii · Other
The fire station’s reported companions are an elderly firefighter and a dog. Haunted Places says their apparitions have been noticed moving through the station at night. Other accounts concern barking heard by late-working firefighters when no dog can be found, a small everyday sound attributed to the same faithful animal.
Hamakuapoko, Maui, Hawaii · Other
Old Maui High’s best-known stories concern a girl crying in an unused bathroom and invisible pressure at the throat. American Ghost Walks describes the latter as the “choking ghosts” reputed to punish pupils who skipped class. Other local accounts imagine former students and staff moving through the old campus, extending its school-day life into legend.
Hilo, Hawaii · Theater
Zach Royer recounts a Palace Theater employee’s belief that two spirits occupied the projection room and sometimes worked its equipment. The unexplained activity supposedly diminished as she became comfortable addressing them. Another account describes a touch on the shoulder attributed to a tall male presence. The reports remain theater lore.
Pearl City, Hawaii · Other
The theater’s reported visitors are two teenage girls seen during intermissions. A submission to Haunted Places says they wander through the theater and adjoining community-center spaces while a production is paused. The account does not give their names or explain why the figures are regarded as spirits.
Ford Island, Oʻahu, Hawaii · Other
Reports from Hangars 37 and 79 include footsteps when no walker can be found, music with no obvious source and men’s voices at night. Haunted Places also mentions a display mannequin said to shift position on its own. Both hangars belong to the same museum and are combined here rather than counted as separate haunted places.
Honolulu, Hawaii · Other
The story attached to Pioneer Plaza concerns a shadowy woman glimpsed in its corridors. In a community submission to Haunted Places, the apparition is connected to a woman reportedly killed on the nineteenth floor. The storyteller interprets her wandering as a continued search for her killer; the source offers no identified case to verify that explanation.
West Kauaʻi, Hawaii · Natural landmark
Mysteries of Hawaiʻi records a fisherman’s account of a group hearing rhythmic drums after dark at Polihale. The sound grew louder, the air seemed suddenly hot and still, and the group understood the experience as huakaʻi pō. The account sits within a deeper tradition of Polihale as a leina a ka ʻuhane, a place of departure for souls. Living Hawaiian spiritual tradition and attributed encounter; no ritual directions, off-trail heiau route or promise of access. Current road/park conditions require checking.
Lāʻie, Hawaii · Other
A community submission to Haunted Places describes drums sounding in the Fiji village when no performer is present. In the Marquesas village, a crying child is reportedly seen or heard. Another account concerns a white-clad woman floating face down in a lagoon and disappearing when approached. These are visitor stories about one attraction, not assertions about the traditions represented there. Do not present staged cultural performances or religious traditions as paranormal evidence.
Honolulu, Hawaii · Historic house
The summer palace’s lore presents Queen Emma as a gentle presence moving through the rooms she once knew. Honolulu Haunts describes a royal figure seen in the halls, faint steps in empty spaces and doors opening unexpectedly. Visitors in these accounts interpret the presence as protective, watching over the house and the memories preserved inside.
Honolulu, Hawaii · Theater
The community directory Haunted Places describes a silent patron who favors a corner seat in Theater 14. Another strand of the cinema’s lore places the sounds of children in the restrooms, identifying them with a nearby school-bus accident. These are reported stories surrounding the theater, rather than a verified account of its construction or the accident. Source’s heiau and accident claims are uncorroborated; omitted as historical facts.
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii · Hotel
Zach Royer’s 52 Perfect Days account links the former Royal Kona Inn to night-marcher traditions along an old coastal route. It recounts one guest waking with a choking sensation; after the bed was moved from the supposed pathway, the experience reportedly stopped. This is a guest-story interpretation, not a verified cause of sleep distress. Respect huakaʻi pō as a living cultural tradition; do not prescribe protective rituals or rearrange hotel rooms.
Pearl Harbor, Oʻahu, Hawaii · Other
A submission to Haunted Places describes visitors finding misty, humanlike shapes in photographs taken at the USS Arizona Memorial. The account connects these ambiguous images to those lost in the Pearl Harbor attack. It offers no named apparition or independently tested photograph, so the photographic reports remain precisely that: reports.
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii · Hotel
An elderly woman is said to appear in Volcano House’s guest rooms and corridors. The community account at Haunted Places also places a white dog on the road approaching the lodge, giving the hotel two recurring figures rather than one named ghost. The source does not demonstrate who the woman was or why she returns.
Wahiawā, Hawaii · Other
Drivers passing the mission at night have reportedly noticed a pale or white figure standing still and watching the road. In the account submitted to Haunted Places, the watcher then vanishes. The story provides no identity or death narrative for the apparition.