{"id":71,"slug":"hale-kanilehua-hilo-hawaii","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Hale Kanilehua is the sounded — the 'rain falling' that's the name's length, the 'lehua blossom' that's the drops' drum. The 'poetic Hilo' is the claimed — the 'Kanilehua' that's the town's other name, the 'going to' that's the islands' know. The 'dorm housed' is the now — the 'UH Hilo' that's the students' home, the 'Native freshmen' that's the center's aim.","The 'sound named' is the heard — the 'kani' that's the noise's word, the 'lehua' that's the flower's name. The 'hotel dreamed' is the told — the 'Desha's wish' that's the 1930 letter, the 'lanai sit' that's the view's want. Hale Kanilehua is the kept — the 'living-learning' that's the '13 build, the 'language taught' that's the culture's keep.","The file keeps Hale Kanilehua: the sounded name, the poetic town, the students' home, and the dreamed hotel.","Hale Kanilehua is the archive's Hawaii file — the dorm named for rain on blossoms."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Hale Kanilehua is the archive's Hawaii file — where a building's name is the sound of rain.","A name keeps its weather — the file's suggestion being that Kanilehua's hold is the heard: the 'rain sounds' that's the lehua's drum, the 'Hilo's other' that's the town's poetry, and the 'students housed' that's the name's use."]}],"name":"Hale Kanilehua","aliases":[],"type":"UNIVERSITY_RESIDENCE_HALL","type_label":"University Residence Hall","cats":["HAUNTING_CLAIM"],"groups":["hauntings","institutions"],"desc":"UH Hilo residence hall appearing in modern ghost accounts.","full_desc":"A university residence hall in Hilo, Hawaii, Hale Kanilehua is filed here for what the record attaches to it. UH Hilo residence hall appearing in modern ghost accounts. HauntHunt files it with haunting claims. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, every one filed as account rather than fact. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.","address":"605 W Lanikaula St.","city":"Hilo","county":null,"state":"Hawaii","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":19.701896,"lon":-155.083124,"coord_kind":"EXACT","status":"ACTIVE","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":"Student residence, with public-entry rules unverified; no ghost-visit access implied.","ownership":null,"website":"https://hilo.hawaii.edu/housing/oncampus/kanilehua.php","phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Discovery pass; historical, geographic, and access enrichment remain queued. Confidence describes source provenance, not supernatural reality.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":58.8,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.8,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0.85,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":47,"type":"APPARITION","description":"KRG recounts a boy apparition associated with a bouncing ball. The site in Hilo, Hawaii gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The reports are anecdotal — consistent enough to record, thin enough to stay unproven. The report is preserved in sources like 'The 52 Most Supernatural Places on Hawaii Island'. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.4,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"The 52 Most Supernatural Places on Hawaii Island","url":"https://www.kahunaresearchgroup.org/articles-reports/the-52-most-supernatural-places-on-hawaii-island","publisher":"Kahuna Research Group","type":"PARANORMAL_ORGANIZATION","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access details are unverified; research before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"The 52 Most Supernatural Places on Hawaii Island","url":"https://www.kahunaresearchgroup.org/articles-reports/the-52-most-supernatural-places-on-hawaii-island","publisher":"Kahuna Research Group","type":"PARANORMAL_ORGANIZATION","authority":4},{"name":"Hale Kanilehua","url":"https://hilo.hawaii.edu/housing/oncampus/kanilehua.php","publisher":"University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2},{"name":"Campus Maps","url":"https://hilo.hawaii.edu/maps/","publisher":"University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":3}}