{"id":153,"slug":"puu-kekaa-kaanapali-hawaii","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Puu Kekaa is the portal — the 'leina a ka uhane' that's the souls' exit, the 'west point' that's the leap's place. The 'Kahekili dove' is the defied — the 'spirits' that's the warriors' fear, the 'returned' that's the chief's proof. The 'rumbling' is the named — the 'rocks rolled' that's the sound's source, the 'spirits loosened' that's the noise's cause.","The 'torch lit' is the kept — the 'sunset dive' that's the ritual's now, the 'Sheraton' that's the stage's owner. The 'royal only' is the marked — the 'beach' that's the restricted zone, the 'kapu' that's the law's form. Puu Kekaa is the snorkeled — the 'coral' that's the water's fill, the 'tourists' that's the rock's crowd.","The file keeps Puu Kekaa: the soul portal, the defied leap, the rumbling name, and the lit torches.","Puu Kekaa is the archive's Hawaii file — the cliff where souls jump."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Puu Kekaa is the archive's Hawaii file — the afterlife's diving board.","A rock keeps its leap — the file's suggestion being that the promontory's hold is the portal: the 'souls' that's the jumpers' kind, the 'Kahekili' that's the defier's name, and the 'torches' that's the ritual's keep."]}],"name":"Puʻu Kekaʻa","aliases":["Black Rock"],"type":"CLIFF","type_label":"Cliff","cats":["HAUNTING_CLAIM","ANCESTRAL_TRADITION"],"groups":["hauntings","legends","nature"],"desc":"Black Rock coastal site with afterlife traditions and apparition reports.","full_desc":"A cliff in Kāʻanapali, Hawaii, Puʻu Kekaʻa is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Black Rock coastal site with afterlife traditions and apparition reports. The presences in its file go unnamed: unidentified older woman, the record says. The dossier holds 2 reported claims and 1 legend, every one filed as account rather than fact. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.","address":null,"city":"Kāʻanapali","county":null,"state":"Hawaii","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":20.930468,"lon":-156.686446,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"NATURAL_SITE","access":"UNKNOWN","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":null,"research_notes":"Record concerns the cliff, not the entire Sheraton hotel parcel. Do not infer verified murder from a separate reported apparition scene. Exact access and cultural stewardship require primary-source enrichment. Confidence refers to provenance, never supernatural truth.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"LOW","score":40.6,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":120,"type":"AFTERLIFE_TRADITION","description":"A local retelling describes Puʻu Kekaʻa as a place where departed souls enter Pō. Puʻu Kekaʻa's reports travel the way outdoor lore does — by campfire, trailhead, and local warning. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. The report is preserved in sources like 'Sheraton Maui Ghosts'. The legend does what legends do — it explains the place in a way the records can't.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Sheraton Maui Ghosts","url":"https://www.mysteries-of-hawaii.com/blog/sheraton-maui-ghosts","publisher":"Mysteries of Hawaiʻi","type":"PARANORMAL_ORGANIZATION","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":121,"type":"APPARITION","description":"The storyteller relays a guard’s account of an older woman vanishing at the rock. The lore gives it a name — Unidentified older woman — which is what turns a report into a resident. Open country keeps its stories differently — Puʻu Kekaʻa in Kāʻanapali, Hawaii files its reports in weather and distance. The file holds testimony rather than proof; the claim remains anecdotal. The account appears in 'Sheraton Maui Ghosts'. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":"Unidentified older woman","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Sheraton Maui Ghosts","url":"https://www.mysteries-of-hawaii.com/blog/sheraton-maui-ghosts","publisher":"Mysteries of Hawaiʻi","type":"PARANORMAL_ORGANIZATION","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"A local retelling describes Puʻu Kekaʻa as a place where departed souls enter Pō. The landscape at Puʻu Kekaʻa is the claim's whole setting: Hawaii wilderness with a name for the unexplained. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. As folklore it's unkillable: the story is too good, and the place too fitting, to let go.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Sheraton Maui Ghosts","url":"https://www.mysteries-of-hawaii.com/blog/sheraton-maui-ghosts","publisher":"Mysteries of Hawaiʻi","type":"PARANORMAL_ORGANIZATION","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"Unidentified older woman","claimed_identity":"Unidentified older woman","verified":null,"summary":"The storyteller relays a guard’s account of an older woman vanishing at the rock. The presence goes by Unidentified older woman. Open country keeps its stories differently — Puʻu Kekaʻa in Kāʻanapali, Hawaii files its reports in weather and distance. The lore has a face now: Unidentified older woman.","behavior":"The storyteller relays a guard’s account of an older woman vanishing at the rock.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Sheraton Maui Ghosts","url":"https://www.mysteries-of-hawaii.com/blog/sheraton-maui-ghosts","publisher":"Mysteries of Hawaiʻi","type":"PARANORMAL_ORGANIZATION","authority":4}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access details are unverified; research 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":"Sheraton Maui Ghosts","url":"https://www.mysteries-of-hawaii.com/blog/sheraton-maui-ghosts","publisher":"Mysteries of Hawaiʻi","type":"PARANORMAL_ORGANIZATION","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":0,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}