{"id":75,"slug":"hilo-hawaiian-hotel-hilo-hawaii","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Hilo Hawaiian is the hotel on the heiau — the 1975 bayfront tower on Banyan Drive that stands, the historical record suggests, on or beside the site of Kūakaʻananuʻu, the sixty-foot luakini heiau where the sacrifices were made. The dredging and the hotel took the shoreline; the temple's exact footprint is gone, but the ground is the same, and the guests report the visitors who come through the walls.","The Night Marchers use the building — the processions of the aliʻi dead that are said to pass through the hotel on the right moon, in through the mauka wall and out through the ocean side, dimming the lights and shaking the pictures. The employees know to clear the hallway. The hotel is on the last bayfront lot before Liliʻuokalani Gardens, with Coconut Island across the footbridge and Mauna Kea in the view — and the dead keep their ancient route through it.","The file keeps the Hilo Hawaiian: the heiau underneath, the Night Marchers through the walls, and the hotel that shares its ground with the old gods' road.","The Hilo Hawaiian is the archive's heiau file — the 1975 hotel on the temple site and the marchers who still pass through."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The Hilo Hawaiian is the archive's heiau file — the luakini site, the Night Marchers, and the walls they pass through.","A hotel on a temple keeps its processions — the file's suggestion being that Hilo Hawaiian's hold is the route: the heiau the dredging erased, the marchers the walls don't stop, and the mana that stayed when the stones went."]}],"name":"Hilo Hawaiian Hotel","aliases":[],"type":"HOTEL","type_label":"Hotel","cats":["HAUNTING_CLAIM"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"Banyan Drive hotel with modern guest haunting anecdotes.","full_desc":"A hotel in Hilo, Hawaii, Hilo Hawaiian Hotel is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Banyan Drive hotel with modern guest haunting anecdotes. The archive files it under 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. Names, dates and reports are filed together here, so the record stays honest about which is which.","address":null,"city":"Hilo","county":null,"state":"Hawaii","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":19.688748,"lon":-155.082892,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"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":"LOW","score":45.6,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.6,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":51,"type":"APPARITION","description":"KRG recounts a guest report of a male apparition. A hotel in Hilo, Hawaii with more than a century of check-ins gives the reports plenty of rooms to work with. Witness accounts, no evidence file: the claim is anecdotal and stays that way. The report is preserved in sources like 'The 52 Most Supernatural Places on Hawaii Island'. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped.","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":"State reimagines Hilo’s Banyan Drive bayfront resort district","url":"https://dbedt.hawaii.gov/hcda/news-state-reimagines-hilos-banyan-drive-bayfront-resort-district/","publisher":"Honolulu Star-Advertiser, republished by Hawaiʻi Community Development Authority","type":"NEWSPAPER","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":{"title":"Hilo Hawaiian Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilo_Hawaiian_Hotel","desc":"Hotel in Hilo, Hawaii","extract":"The Hilo Hawaiian Hotel located in Hilo, Hawaii's second largest town, is one of a few relatively large hotels on the east coast of Hawaii Island. It is located, like the Grand Naniloa Hotel, on Banyan Drive.","img":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Hilo_Hawaiian_Hotel_on_Hilo_Bay.jpg/330px-Hilo_Hawaiian_Hotel_on_Hilo_Bay.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail","score":108,"lat":19.7285577,"lon":-155.0667647},"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":2}}