{"id":3258,"slug":"mokuula-lahaina-hawaii","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Mokuula is the buried — the 'ballpark' that's the covered, the 'royal island' that's the beneath. The 'Kamehameha III' is the '40 — the 'Constitution' that's the signed, the 'capital' that's the Hawaii. The 'Kihawahine' is the mo'o — the 'lizard goddess' that's the guarded, the 'Mokuhinia Pond' that's the filled.","The '1914' is the filled — the 'mosquitoes' that's the reason, the '2-3 feet' that's the buried. The '2023' is the fire — the 'burned remnants' that's the revealed, the 'restoration' that's the planned. Mokuula is the piko — the 'recovery' that's the center, the '16 royals' that's the buried.","The file keeps Mokuula: the royal island, the Kihawahine goddess, the 1914 fill, and the 2023 fire restoration.","Mokuula is the archive's Lahaina file — the buried capital."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Mokuula is the archive's Lahaina file — the sacred's return.","A pond keeps its island — the file's suggestion being that Mokuula's hold is the buried: the 'ballpark' that's the covered, the 'Kihawahine' that's the goddess, and the '2023 fire' that's the unearthing."]}],"name":"Mokuʻula","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","LEGEND_SITE","INDIGENOUS","ROYAL"],"groups":["legends"],"desc":"The island palace under the baseball field—Kamehameha III’s court.","full_desc":"Mokuʻula is a site in Lahaina, Hawaii. The island palace under the baseball field—Kamehameha III’s court. The presence its accounts keep returning to is the one they call the moʻo. 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.","address":null,"city":"Lahaina","county":null,"state":"Hawaii","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":20.886048,"lon":-156.666195,"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":3320,"type":"LEGEND","description":"The moʻo guardian is documented folklore. Mokuʻula's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. 'Mokuʻula' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. As folklore it's unkillable: the story is too good, and the place too fitting, to let go.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The moʻo","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Mokuʻula","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moku%CA%BBula","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":3321,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a presence at the site. Mokuʻula in Lahaina, Hawaii carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. The reports are anecdotal — consistent enough to record, thin enough to stay unproven. Whatever walks there, it walks often enough to keep the reports coming. The reports keep the address on the map.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Mokuʻula","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moku%CA%BBula","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The island palace and the burial are documented. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. 'Mokuʻula' documents the entry. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from. The account stays in the file — reported, retold, unresolved.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Mokuʻula","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moku%CA%BBula","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The moʻo guardian is documented folklore. The site in Lahaina, Hawaii gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. 'Mokuʻula' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. The account appears in 'Mokuʻula'. Every community keeps one story like this; this is theirs.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Mokuʻula","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moku%CA%BBula","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The moʻo","claimed_identity":"The moʻo","verified":null,"summary":"The moʻo guardian is documented folklore. Mokuʻula's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. 'Mokuʻula' carries the account. The lore has a face now: The moʻo. The claim holds its place in the ledger. The file stays open on it. The file stays open on it.","behavior":"The moʻo guardian is documented folklore.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Mokuʻula","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moku%CA%BBula","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"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":"Mokuʻula","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moku%CA%BBula","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}