{"id":3261,"slug":"old-lahaina-prison-lahaina-hawaii","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Hale Pa'ahao is the '52 — the 'stuck-in-irons' that's the name, the 'whaling era' that's the reason. The 'coral blocks' is the fort — the 'razed' that's the Old Fort, the '1854' that's the wall. The '330 arrests' is the '55 — the 'drunkenness' that's the top, the 'furious riding' that's the 89.","The 'shackled' is the night — the 'mingle' that's the day, the 'captain' that's the claimed. The 'men and women' is the separate — the 'Kamehameha III' that's the law, the '2 buildings' that's the yard. Hale Pa'ahao is the restored — the 'WPA' that's the '30s, the 'outdoor museum' that's the now.","The file keeps Hale Pa'ahao: the 1852 prison, the whaler arrests, the coral wall, and the WPA restoration.","Old Lahaina Prison is the archive's Maui file — the stuck-in-irons."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Old Lahaina Prison is the archive's Maui file — the whalers' cell.","A prison keeps its irons — the file's suggestion being that Hale Pa'ahao's hold is the whaling: the '330 arrests' that's the drunkenness, the 'stuck-in-irons' that's the name, and the 'coral' that's the fort."]}],"name":"Old Lahaina Prison","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","PRISON"],"groups":["dark-history","hauntings","legends"],"desc":"The 1852 coral prison—where the rowdy sailors cooled off.","full_desc":"A site in Lahaina, Hawaii, Old Lahaina Prison is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The 1852 coral prison—where the rowdy sailors cooled off. The presences in its file go unnamed: the prisoners, the record says. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. 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":3326,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures in the cells. The site in Lahaina, Hawaii gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. Investigators logged it; whether instruments or interpretation produced it is the open question. 'Old Lahaina Prison' carries the account. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.","evidence":"PARANORMAL_INVESTIGATION_CLAIM","evidence_label":"Investigation claim","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Old Lahaina Prison","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Lahaina_Prison","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":3327,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The prisoners are reportedly seen. The reports at Old Lahaina Prison are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. A ghost with a name outlasts a ghost without one; the reports keep it employed.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The prisoners","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Old Lahaina Prison","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Lahaina_Prison","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The 1852 prison is documented. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. 'Old Lahaina Prison' documents the entry. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1852","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Old Lahaina Prison","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Lahaina_Prison","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The prisoners are reportedly seen. The site in Lahaina, Hawaii gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. 'Old Lahaina Prison' carries the account. The legend does what legends do — it explains the place in a way the records can't.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Old Lahaina Prison","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Lahaina_Prison","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The prisoners","claimed_identity":"The prisoners","verified":null,"summary":"The prisoners are reportedly seen. The reports at Old Lahaina Prison are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The file keeps The prisoners on the roster; the sightings keep the name alive. The telling survives; the proof stays folklore. It remains the site's standing claim.","behavior":"The prisoners are reportedly seen.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Old Lahaina Prison","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Lahaina_Prison","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":"Old Lahaina Prison","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Lahaina_Prison","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}