{"id":133,"slug":"kaunolu-village-hawaii","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Kaunolu is the king's village — Kamehameha's summer fishing retreat on Lanai's cliffs, the largest Hawaiian ruins. The heiau is the center — Halulu's platform for the man-eating bird, the pu'uhonua that was the refuge. The leap is the test — Kahekili's 62-foot dive, the warriors who proved their courage in the sea below.","The platforms are the count — the eighty-six houses, the thirty-five shelters, the graves marked by stone piles. The fishing was the reason — the deep waters off the gulch, the canoes that landed in the sheltered bay. Kaunolu is the abandoned village — the 1400s settlement that the king made his own, the ruins that are the island's best.","The file keeps Kaunolu: the fishing village, Kamehameha's retreat, the Halulu Heiau, and Kahekili's Leap.","Kaunolu is the archive's Lanai file — the king's abandoned village."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Kaunolu is the archive's Lanai file — the royal fishing village.","A village keeps its king — the file's suggestion being that Kaunolu's hold is the retreat: Kamehameha's summer house, the heiau for the bird god, and the leap that tested the warriors."]}],"name":"Kaunolū Village","aliases":["Kaunolu Village"],"type":"ARCHAEOLOGICAL_VILLAGE","type_label":"Archaeological Village","cats":["GHOST_TOWN","ANCESTRAL_TRADITION","HISTORIC_SITE","INDIGENOUS","ARCHAEOLOGICAL","SACRED"],"groups":["ghost-towns","legends"],"desc":"Former Lānaʻi fishing village and sacred coastal landscape.","full_desc":"Kaunolū Village is a archaeological village in Hawaii. Former Lānaʻi fishing village and sacred coastal landscape. Tourism history describes the fishing village’s abandonment in the 1880s and surviving heiau remains. Local lore holds that The local leap is described as a leina where spirits pass to the next realm.","address":null,"city":"Lanai City","county":null,"state":"Hawaii","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":20.827932,"lon":-156.914703,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"HISTORIC_SITE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":"National Historic Landmark, 1962; National Register, 1966","current_use":null,"research_notes":"Source explicitly distinguishes a Lānaʻi person named Kahekili from the later Maui chief. Sacred heritage; no endorsement of jumping or unauthorized entry. Confidence refers to provenance, never supernatural truth.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":66.9,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.8,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":92,"type":"AFTERLIFE_TRADITION","description":"The local leap is described as a leina where spirits pass to the next realm. Kahekili’s Leap is where the accounts cluster — the site's own map of where to look. Kaunolū Village's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. Sources including 'Kaunolū Village' keep the claim in circulation. Legends accrue where records go silent; this one filled the gap and stayed.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":null,"where":"Kahekili’s Leap","first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Kaunolū Village","url":"https://www.gohawaii.com/islands/lanai/regions/south-lanai/kaunolu-village","publisher":"Hawaii Tourism Authority","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Tourism history describes the fishing village’s abandonment in the 1880s and surviving heiau remains. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The detail is preserved in 'Kaunolū Village'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Kaunolū Village","url":"https://www.gohawaii.com/islands/lanai/regions/south-lanai/kaunolu-village","publisher":"Hawaii Tourism Authority","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}},{"description":"Kaunolū preserves a Lānaʻi fishing village and sacred coastal sites. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The record appears in 'Kapihaʻā heritage trail'. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Kapihaʻā heritage trail","url":"https://www.lanai96763.com","publisher":"Lānaʻi Culture & Heritage Center","type":"MUSEUM","authority":2}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The local leap is described as a leina where spirits pass to the next realm. The site in Lanai City, Hawaii gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. Sources including 'Kaunolū Village' keep the claim in circulation. It's the version the place will be remembered by, whether or not it's the true one.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Kaunolū Village","url":"https://www.gohawaii.com/islands/lanai/regions/south-lanai/kaunolu-village","publisher":"Hawaii Tourism Authority","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access details are unverified; research before visiting; check nps.gov for current hours and alerts.","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":"Kaunolū Village","url":"https://www.gohawaii.com/islands/lanai/regions/south-lanai/kaunolu-village","publisher":"Hawaii Tourism Authority","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},{"name":"Kapihaʻā heritage trail","url":"https://www.lanai96763.com","publisher":"Lānaʻi Culture & Heritage Center","type":"MUSEUM","authority":2}],"conflicts":[{"field_name":"short_description","existing_value":"Former Lānaʻi fishing village and sacred coastal landscape.","incoming_value":"The fishing village and sacred coast of Kāneʻāpua’s worship.","notes":"Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite."},{"field_name":"full_description","existing_value":"Kaunolū Village is a archaeological village in Hawaii. 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Confidence refers to provenance, never supernatural truth.","incoming_value":"Lore enrichment wave 2; VERIFY task auto-queued.","notes":"Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite."}],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":2,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":2}}