{"id":3284,"slug":"kilauea-lighthouse-kilauea-hawaii","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Kilauea Lighthouse is the Pacific's landfall — the 1913 beacon on Kauai's northernmost point that guided ships from Asia, the first light the trans-Pacific pilots saw. It's the Daniel K. Inouye Lighthouse now, renamed for the senator who saved it.","The lighthouse was the approach — the reinforced-concrete tower that was experimental for 1913, the Fresnel lens from France offloaded onto the cliffs, the light that was the first Hawaii for ships from the west. The refuge around it is for the seabirds that nest on the point.","The lighthouse is still there — the 52-foot tower on the 180-foot cliff, the wildlife refuge that gets 500,000 visitors, the light that's still an aid to navigation. The file keeps Kilauea: the 1913 commissioning, the trans-Pacific landfall, and the lighthouse that's the island's north star.","Kilauea Lighthouse is the archive's Pacific file — the landfall light, the Inouye dedication, and the beacon that still guides."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Kilauea Lighthouse is the archive's Pacific file — the 1913 landfall light, the wildlife refuge, and the beacon that's still the first Hawaii.","A lighthouse on the north point keeps its light — the file's suggestion being that Kilauea's hold is the approach: the ships' first landfall, the trans-Pacific pilots, and the tower that's still the island's marker."]}],"name":"Kīlauea Lighthouse","aliases":[],"type":"LIGHTHOUSE","type_label":"Lighthouse","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","NATURAL_WONDER","MARITIME"],"groups":["legends","maritime"],"desc":"The 1913 light—where the seabirds and the keepers met.","full_desc":"Kīlauea Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Kilauea, Hawaii. The 1913 light—where the seabirds and the keepers met. HauntHunt files it with maritime history, natural wonders and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site welcomes 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.","address":null,"city":"Kilauea","county":null,"state":"Hawaii","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":22.212025,"lon":-159.398662,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","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":"Historic site","research_notes":"HI2 batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":3367,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a presence at the light. Crews leave marks on vessels long after they muster out, and Kīlauea Lighthouse in Kilauea, Hawaii had crews enough. The reports are anecdotal — consistent enough to record, thin enough to stay unproven. The account appears in 'Kīlauea Lighthouse'. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Kīlauea Lighthouse","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilauea_Lighthouse","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The 1913 lighthouse is documented. The vessel's documented service record is the record the rest of the file stands on. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. Sources including 'Kīlauea Lighthouse' carry the record. The date is part of the site's documented spine. The report keeps its place in the record.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1913","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Kīlauea Lighthouse","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilauea_Lighthouse","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Lighthouse site; tower climbs, if offered, are usually seasonal and may require tickets.","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":"Kīlauea Lighthouse","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilauea_Lighthouse","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":{"title":"Kīlauea Point Lighthouse","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C4%ABlauea_Point_Lighthouse","desc":"Lighthouse located on Kauaʻi, Hawaii","extract":"The Daniel K. Inouye Kīlauea Point Lighthouse, also known as Kīlauea Light, is a lighthouse located on Kīlauea Point on the island of Kauaʻi, Hawaiʻi in the Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge.","img":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Kilauea_Lighthouse_Kauai.jpg/960px-Kilauea_Lighthouse_Kauai.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail","score":74,"lat":22.23161111,"lon":-159.402},"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}