Lopaka Kapanui Shares 3 Ghost Stories of Hawai‘i
Listen to tales of menehune, haunted houses and a kahuna who tried to bless an un-blessable house.
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Listen to tales of menehune, haunted houses and a kahuna who tried to bless an un-blessable house.
Skip the potential crowds and celebrate Halloween from your car, catch the end of two festivals and pick up some Okinawan treats.
Tricked-out treats are perfect for the one night even adults can go batty.
Things will look a bit different this year, but we don’t need big parties to have fun this spooky season.
Support local artists, get in the fall spirit with pumpkins and grab tickets for another drive-in event.
Dating in Hawai‘i can be a horror show. 5 of our own ghosters and ghostees share their dating disasters.
Welcome to date no. 4, where our abandoned dater watched the ghost of dude-bros past reappear with another girl.
Between countless costume contests, themed cocktails, haunted houses and street parties, we’re happily planning on spending some of our October nights in while streaming something spooky online.
Got a BFF (Best Friend Fur-ever) who loves to vamp it up for All Hallows’ Eve?
Take the insider tour of Diamond Head Theatre’s costume rentals.
Learn the spooky histories of different Hawai‘i cultures.
Get ready for Halloween with these songs.
Is this historic landmark haunted by royalty?
There are some trails on O‘ahu that everyone knows are haunted, but did you know these five?
The 2016 Nightmares Live haunted attraction is straight from your worst nightmares.
We consulted with Lopaka Kapanui, owner of Mysteries of Hawai‘i, for some spine-tingling Island ghost stories. This week: Night marchers.
Mysteries of Hawai‘i takes us on a guided ghost tour of O‘ahu. First stop: Pali Lookout.
Get into the Halloween spirit with these five ghost stories from downtown Honolulu.
Back in 2017, we got a sneak peek of Skeleton Key presents Mummy: Curse of the Crypt Haunted House by Jorge Garcia.
All we asked was for a little chicken skin, but it turns out these talented local writers didn’t mind stirring an eye of newt and a chicken bone or two into the bubbling cauldron.
The stories behind these lesser-known haunts.
We’re busy people. Halloween always sneaks up on us and we’re left to select from the overplayed sexy maid or creepy Teletubby group costumes. Negative. This year, we conjured up some scary-fierce getups that are easy to assemble and don’t cost more than a Gucci knockoff at Zara.
Just what you need to give that deathly dull complexion some life.
Beer meets gourd in a pumpkin keg!
We aren’t picky, we’re just…discerning.
Hawai‘i is full of amazing places. Most of them you’re free to visit, but there are a few where you’re just not allowed. Here’s a peek into Hawai‘i’s coolest off-limits corners.
We take a look inside your high school yearbooks to find what’s changed about the local high school experience over the years, and what’s stayed exactly the same.
Hole-in-the-wall general stores dishing up their own eats— even if it’s just one ‘ono item—are a beloved part of Island life. Here are a few of Hawai‘i’s best.
Need something to read—or hand to someone who does? Here’s HONOLULU’s first-ever list of the most iconic, trenchant and irresistible Island books, as voted by a panel of literary community luminaries.