{"id":3265,"slug":"oheo-gulch-kipahulu-hawaii","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Oheo is the marketed — the 'Seven Sacred' that's the hotel's coin, the 'not sacred' that's the truth's answer. The 'more than seven' is the counted — the 'tiered' that's the pools' form, the 'name wrong twice' that's the label's fail. The 'Laka's home' is the sacred-real — the 'canoe god' that's the valley's deity, the 'koa' that's the wood's prize.","The 'Rockefeller bought' is the saved — the 'Pryor asked' that's the friendship's lever, the '1969' that's the park's addition. The 'wind snatched' is the storied — the 'love sorcery' that's the legend's kind, the 'shell thrown' that's the wife's recall. Oheo is the translated — the 'something special' that's the name's meaning, the 'kalo terraces' that's the old garden's work.","The file keeps Oheo: the marketed name, the counted pools, the real god, and the saved valley.","Oheo Gulch is the archive's Hawaii file — the 'sacred' pools named by a hotel."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Oheo Gulch is the archive's Hawaii file — where marketing mislabeled the sacred.","A gulch keeps its pools — the file's suggestion being that Oheo's hold is the misnamed: the 'Seven' that's the count's lie, the 'Laka' that's the real sacred, and the 'Rockefeller' that's the rescue's money."]}],"name":"ʻOheʻo Gulch","aliases":[],"type":"NATURAL","type_label":"Natural","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","NATURAL_WONDER","LEGEND_SITE"],"groups":["legends"],"desc":"The \"Seven Sacred Pools\"—the waterfalls to the sea.","full_desc":"A natural site in Kipahulu, Hawaii, ʻOheʻo Gulch is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The \"Seven Sacred Pools\"—the waterfalls to the sea. It sits in the archive under natural wonders and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Kipahulu","county":null,"state":"Hawaii","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":null,"lon":null,"coord_kind":null,"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":3334,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a presence at the pools. A natural place in Kipahulu, Hawaii doesn't need walls to hold a legend; it has geography. The reports are anecdotal — consistent enough to record, thin enough to stay unproven. 'ʻOheʻo Gulch' carries the account. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"ʻOheʻo Gulch","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohe%CA%BBo_Gulch","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The gulch’s history is documented. The landscape's recorded history gives the file real substance underneath the lore. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The record appears in 'ʻOheʻo Gulch'. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context. The reports keep the address on the map.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"ʻOheʻo Gulch","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohe%CA%BBo_Gulch","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Natural site; conditions vary seasonally—check the managing agency for access.","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":"ʻOheʻo Gulch","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohe%CA%BBo_Gulch","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}