{"id":3252,"slug":"mokuaikaua-church-kailua-kona-hawaii","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Mokuaikaua is the first — the 'Christian church' that's the islands' rank, the '1820' that's the missionaries' landing. The 'heiau stones' is the reused — the 'temple rock' that's the walls' source, the 'coral burned' that's the mortar's lime. The 'king gave' is the permitted — the 'Liholiho' that's the donor's rank, the 'his home' that's the first church's form.","The '163 days' is the sailed — the 'Thaddeus' that's the brig's name, the 'Cape Horn' that's the route's turn. The 'grass burned' is the replaced — the 'hale' that's the '23's build, the 'stone' that's the '37's answer. Mokuaikaua is the endangered — the '11 Most' that's the '14's list, the 'earthquake' that's the damage's cause.","The file keeps Mokuaikaua: the first church, the reused stones, the king's gift, and the endangered steeple.","Mokuaikaua is the archive's Hawaii file — the church built from a temple's stones."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Mokuaikaua is the archive's Hawaii file — Christianity's first foothold in the islands.","A church keeps its stones — the file's suggestion being that Mokuaikaua's hold is the layered: the 'heiau' that's the walls' source, the 'Thaddeus' that's the arrival's ship, and the 'endangered' that's the steeple's status."]}],"name":"Mokuʻaikaua Church","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","RELIGIOUS","COLONIAL"],"groups":["legends"],"desc":"The first Christian church in Hawaii—1820.","full_desc":"Mokuʻaikaua Church is a site in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. The first Christian church in Hawaii—1820. The archive files it under religious heritage, the colonial era and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact — 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.","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":"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 / memorial","research_notes":"HI 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":3310,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a presence at the church. The reports at Mokuʻaikaua Church are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. It's anecdotal evidence in the strictest sense — stories, repeated, unresolved. The account appears in 'Mokuʻaikaua'. 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":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Mokuʻaikaua","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokuaikaua_Church","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The 1820 church is documented. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The record appears in 'Mokuʻaikaua'. The date is part of the site's documented spine. The file stays open on it.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1820","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Mokuʻaikaua","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokuaikaua_Church","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Site access varies; verify 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":"Mokuʻaikaua","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokuaikaua_Church","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}