{"id":73,"slug":"king-kamehamehas-kona-beach-hotel-kailua-kona-hawaii","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The hotel stands on Kamakahonu, the royal compound where Kamehameha I lived out his final years and died in 1819; the reconstructed Ahuʻena Heiau still rises on the grounds beside the beach. The property now operates under Marriott's Courtyard flag, which matters to the file only as context — the reports catalogued here attach to the site and to the building's earlier decades.","The Kahuna Research Group recounts the cluster of claims the hotel carries in local lore. The top floor is said to produce unexplained footsteps, chanting, and what witnesses describe as battle cries, with some accounts reporting apparitions of Hawaiian warriors — a telling that local tradition ties to the ground itself, where the king's household once stood. A second, stranger item sits downstairs: in the lobby gallery, among a row of oil portraits, hangs a rendering of Queen Liliʻuokalani that viewers have claimed appears to breathe."]},{"heading":"What the record supports","paragraphs":["Kamakahonu's significance is documented history — Kamehameha's final residence is a matter of record. The footsteps, chanting, and breathing portrait are anecdote, filed exactly as the KRG list presented them: modern reported lore attached to genuinely historic ground. The archive keeps the two in separate columns."]}],"name":"King Kamehameha’s Kona Beach Hotel","aliases":["Courtyard by Marriott King Kamehameha’s Kona Beach Hotel"],"type":"HOTEL","type_label":"Hotel","cats":["HAUNTING_CLAIM"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"Operating beachfront hotel with modern reported ghost lore.","full_desc":"A hotel in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, King Kamehameha’s Kona Beach Hotel is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Operating beachfront hotel with modern reported ghost lore. It sits in the archive 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.","address":null,"city":"Kailua-Kona","county":null,"state":"Hawaii","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":19.645581,"lon":-155.997749,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":"https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/koacy-courtyard-king-kamehamehas-kona-beach-hotel/overview/","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":48.1,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.8,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":49,"type":"FOOTSTEPS","description":"KRG recounts unexplained footsteps and chanting on upper floors. The Kailua-Kona hotel's reports are the kind old lodgings accumulate — footsteps after hours, presences in rooms, the house working the night shift. It's anecdotal evidence in the strictest sense — stories, repeated, unresolved. 'The 52 Most Supernatural Places on Hawaii Island' carries the account. The sound is the signature — visitors listen for it whether or not they believe.","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":"Courtyard by Marriott King Kamehameha’s Kona Beach Hotel","url":"https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/koacy-courtyard-king-kamehamehas-kona-beach-hotel/overview/","publisher":"Marriott","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":2}}