{"id":143,"slug":"prince-waikiki-honolulu-hawaii","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Prince Waikiki is the last — the 'no more sites' that's the beach's end, the '1990' that's the final's build. The 'hospital imploded' is the cleared — the 'Kaiser's' that's the site's past, the 'Magnum filmed' that's the blast's fame. The 'muliwai' is the named — the 'waters meet' that's the estuary's truth, the 'streams' that's the ballrooms' names.","The 'views all' is the faced — the 'ocean every' that's the rooms' claim, the 'towers two' that's the build's form. The 'rebranded' is the turned — the '2017' that's the name's change, the 'Hawaiian kept' that's the culture's fix. Prince Waikiki is the capped — the 'last built' that's the zoning's mark, the 'Waikiki full' that's the beach's state.","The file keeps Prince Waikiki: the last built, the imploded site, the waters' names, and the capped beach.","Prince Waikiki is the archive's Hawaii file — the last hotel Waikiki will ever get."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Prince Waikiki is the archive's Hawaii file — the hotel that closed the beach.","A tower keeps its last — the file's suggestion being that the Prince's hold is the final: the 'no sites' that's the beach's end, the 'imploded' that's the site's birth, and the 'muliwai' that's the culture's root."]}],"name":"Prince Waikiki","aliases":["Hawaii Prince Hotel","Prince Waikīkī"],"type":"HOTEL","type_label":"Hotel","cats":["HAUNTING_CLAIM"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"Hotel with stories associated with the former hospital site.","full_desc":"A hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii, Prince Waikiki is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Hotel with stories associated with the former hospital site. HauntHunt files it with haunting claims. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, every one filed as account rather than fact. It still takes guests. Names, dates and reports are filed together here, so the record stays honest about which is which.","address":null,"city":"Honolulu","county":null,"state":"Hawaii","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":21.324347,"lon":-157.84764,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":"Operating commercial hotel; basement and guest rooms require authorization.","ownership":null,"website":"https://www.princewaikiki.com/contact-us/","phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Stories about demolition-era skateboarder and former morgue require archive verification. Hospital-site association is not proof that identical basement rooms survived demolition. Confidence refers to provenance, never supernatural truth.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":56.9,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.8,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":104,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Kapanui relays accounts of an older man appearing in the hotel basement. A hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii with more than a century of check-ins gives the reports plenty of rooms to work with. The file holds testimony rather than proof; the claim remains anecdotal. The account appears in 'Ghosts in the Prince Waikiki Hotel'. Whatever walks there, it walks often enough to keep the reports coming.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":"Basement","first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Ghosts in the Prince Waikiki Hotel","url":"https://www.mysteries-of-hawaii.com/blog/prince-waikiki-hotel","publisher":"Mysteries of Hawaiʻi","type":"PARANORMAL_ORGANIZATION","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":105,"type":"CRYING","description":"A guest account in the retelling describes crying attributed to an adjoining room later said to be empty. Prince Waikiki, a hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii, has kept the story in circulation longer than most of its guest registers. Witness accounts, no evidence file: the claim is anecdotal and stays that way. 'Ghosts in the Prince Waikiki Hotel' carries the account. It's the sort of report that survives precisely because it asks you to listen, not look.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Ghosts in the Prince Waikiki Hotel","url":"https://www.mysteries-of-hawaii.com/blog/prince-waikiki-hotel","publisher":"Mysteries of Hawaiʻi","type":"PARANORMAL_ORGANIZATION","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Operating or preserved hotel property; public areas vary—check directly for tours or overnight stays.","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":"Ghosts in the Prince Waikiki Hotel","url":"https://www.mysteries-of-hawaii.com/blog/prince-waikiki-hotel","publisher":"Mysteries of Hawaiʻi","type":"PARANORMAL_ORGANIZATION","authority":4},{"name":"Contact Us","url":"https://www.princewaikiki.com/contact-us/","publisher":"Prince Waikiki","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":0,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":2}}