MOUNT TANTALUS
Natural — Honolulu, Hawaii
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/mount-tantalus-honolulu-hawaii/

The cinder cone where the spirits reportedly walk.

Mount Tantalus is a natural site in Honolulu, Hawaii. The cinder cone where the spirits reportedly walk. Its accounts name only a collective — the tantalus 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.

Tantalus is the '92 — the 'carriage road' that's the built, the '25 years' that's the completed. The 'Pu'u 'Ualaka'a' is the name — the 'rolling sweet potato' that's the hill, the 'taro' that's the valley. The 'historic road' is the first — the 'Oahu' that's the only, the '8 miles' that's the 2 lanes.
The '4 governments' is the span — the 'Kingdom' that's the Territory, the '1917' that's the gravel. The 'Lorrin Thurston' is the promoter — the 'Minister' that's the Interior, the '6 foot' that's the carriage. Tantalus is the preserved — the 'NRHP' that's the '09, the '15 trails' that's the state.
The file keeps Tantalus: the 1892 road, the 4 governments, the historic designation, and the sweet potato hill.
Mount Tantalus is the archive's Honolulu file — the winding road.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Mount Tantalus is the archive's Honolulu file — the road's history.
A road keeps its governments — the file's suggestion being that Tantalus's hold is the span: the '4 governments' that's the built, the 'Pu'u 'Ualaka'a' that's the name, and the 'first' that's the Oahu.

FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] legend: The mountain’s lore is documented. The accounts name only a collective — the Tantalus dead. A natural place in Honolulu, Hawaii doesn't need walls to hold a legend; it has geography. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. 'Mount Tantalus' carries the account. The tale is the site's other archive — oral, embroidered, and outlasting the documents.
  source: Mount Tantalus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantalus_(Oahu))
· [Anecdotal] apparition: Reported figures on the roads. The landscape at Mount Tantalus is the claim's whole setting: Hawaii wilderness with a name for the unexplained. Witness accounts, no evidence file: the claim is anecdotal and stays that way. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting. The telling survives; the proof stays folklore.
  source: Mount Tantalus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantalus_(Oahu))

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· The mountain’s history is documented. Mount Tantalus' documented past — geological and human — is the verified layer beneath the legends. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. Sources including 'Mount Tantalus' carry the record. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Mount Tantalus — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantalus_(Oahu)

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