KEʻANAE
Site — Keanae, Hawaii
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/keanae-keanae-hawaii/

April 1, 1946—the tsunami that took the taro village.

Keʻanae is a site in Keanae, Hawaii. April 1, 1946—the tsunami that took the taro village. Its accounts name only a collective — the keʻanae dead. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors. For HauntHunt it is exactly the kind of file the archive exists for: a real place, a real record, and a story still being told.

Keanae is the peninsula — the 'basket-by-basket' that's the soil, the lava that's the young. The '46 was the tsunami — the 20 children and 4 teachers that's the lost, the '35 feet' that's the wave. The church is the survivor — the '1860' that's the built, the 'only building' that's the standing.
The taro is the living — the lo'i that's the fields, the 'auwai that's the channels. The 'miracle' is the coral — the church that's the built, the 'washed back' that's the twice. Keanae is the working — the community that's the alive, the 'Road to Hana' that's the tourist.
The file keeps Keanae: the basket soil, the '46 tsunami, the 1860 church, and the living taro.
Keanae is the archive's Maui file — the tsunami survivor.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Keanae is the archive's Maui file — the church that stood.
A peninsula keeps its church — the file's suggestion being that Keanae's hold is the survival: the '46 tsunami that took 24, the '1860' that's the standing, and the 'basket-by-basket' that's the soil.

FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] named ghost legend: The villagers are reportedly remembered. The accounts name only a collective — the Keʻanae dead. Keʻanae in Keanae, Hawaii carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. A ghost with a name outlasts a ghost without one; the reports keep it employed.
  source: Keʻanae (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keanae,_Hawaii)
· [Anecdotal] apparition: Reported a presence at the peninsula. Keʻanae's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. It's anecdotal evidence in the strictest sense — stories, repeated, unresolved. Sources including 'Keʻanae' keep the claim in circulation. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.
  source: Keʻanae (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keanae,_Hawaii)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· The April 1, 1946 tsunami is documented. Keʻanae's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. 'Keʻanae' documents the entry. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Keʻanae — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keanae,_Hawaii

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