{"id":3239,"slug":"pali-highway-kailua-hawaii","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Pali is the '95 — the 'Kamehameha' that's the forced, the '800 skulls' that's the collected. The 'Night Marchers' is the huaka'i po — the 'torches' that's the seen, the 'drumming' that's the heard. The 'face down' is the rule — the 'don't look' that's the death, the 'last four moons' that's the when.","The 'woman' is the '47 — the 'married' that's the discovered, the 'meet me' that's the Pali. The 'Pele' is the carried — the 'pork' that's the offering, the 'Morgan's Corner' that's the nearby. Pali is the haunted — the 'battle' that's the ground, the 'road' that's the built on bones.","The file keeps Pali: the 1795 battle, the Night Marchers, the 800 skulls, and the face-down rule.","Pali Highway is the archive's Hawaii file — the marchers' road."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Pali Highway is the archive's Hawaii file — the warriors' procession.","A road keeps its bones — the file's suggestion being that Pali's hold is the built on: the '800 skulls' that's the found, the 'Night Marchers' that's the still, and the 'face down' that's the rule."]}],"name":"Pali Highway","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","LEGEND_SITE"],"groups":["hauntings","legends"],"desc":"The road through the pass—where the night marchers cross.","full_desc":"A site in Kailua, Hawaii, Pali Highway is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The road through the pass—where the night marchers cross. HauntHunt files it with local folklore and haunted places. The file’s recurring figure goes by a name, not a description: the night marchers. 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":"Kailua","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":3284,"type":"LEGEND","description":"The night marchers are documented folklore. Pali Highway's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. The tale is the site's other archive — oral, embroidered, and outlasting the documents.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The night marchers","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Pali Highway","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali_Highway","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":3285,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures on the highway. The site in Kailua, Hawaii gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The claim comes from paranormal investigation work: suggestive results, no accepted proof. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped.","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":"Pali Highway","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali_Highway","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The highway and the 1795 battle 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. The detail is preserved in 'Pali Highway'. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest. The file stays open on it.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":"1795","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Pali Highway","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali_Highway","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The night marchers are documented folklore. The site in Kailua, 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. Legends accrue where records go silent; this one filled the gap and stayed.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Pali Highway","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali_Highway","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The night marchers","claimed_identity":"The night marchers","verified":null,"summary":"The night marchers are documented folklore. The reports at Pali Highway are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The account appears in 'Pali Highway'. The lore has a face now: The night marchers. It remains the site's standing claim. It remains the site's standing claim.","behavior":"The night marchers are documented folklore.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Pali Highway","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali_Highway","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":"Pali Highway","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali_Highway","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}