{"id":3256,"slug":"puu-loa-petroglyphs-volcano-hawaii","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Pu'uloa is the corded — the 'piko' that's the placed thing, the '23,000' that's the images' count. The 'hill of long life' is the wished — the 'name's meaning' that's the hope's form, the 'cupules' that's the cords' cradles. The 'shark child' is the storied — the 'miscarried' that's the origin's grief, the ''aumakua' that's the boy's become.","The 'Ellis saw' is the recorded — the '1823' that's the writing's date, the 'stone hatchet' that's the carving's tool. The 'traveler's marks' is the misread — the 'initials' that's the missionary's guess, the 'genealogy' that's the images' truth. Pu'uloa is the walked — the 'boardwalk' that's the viewing's path, the 'lava dome' that's the canvas's form.","The file keeps Pu'uloa: the corded cups, the long-life wish, the shark story, and the misread marks.","Pu'uloa is the archive's Hawaii file — the hill where cords were planted."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Pu'uloa is the archive's Hawaii file — the largest petroglyph field with the oldest purpose.","A hill keeps its cords — the file's suggestion being that Pu'uloa's hold is the planted: the 'piko' that's the birth's gift, the 'shark' that's the child's form, and the '23,000' that's the genealogy's size."]}],"name":"Puʻu Loa Petroglyphs","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","INDIGENOUS","ARCHAEOLOGICAL"],"groups":["legends"],"desc":"The hill of the carvings—23,000+ marks in the lava.","full_desc":"Puʻu Loa Petroglyphs is a site in Volcano, Hawaii. The hill of the carvings—23,000+ marks in the lava. It sits in the archive under Indigenous heritage, archaeology and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors. For HauntHunt it is exactly the kind of file the archive exists for: a real place, a real record, and a story still being told.","address":null,"city":"Volcano","county":null,"state":"Hawaii","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":19.486411,"lon":-155.277414,"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":3317,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a presence at the field. Puʻu Loa Petroglyphs in Volcano, Hawaii carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. Witness accounts, no evidence file: the claim is anecdotal and stays that way. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it. The file stays open on it.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Puʻu Loa","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu%27u_Loa_Petroglyphs","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The petroglyphs are documented. Puʻu Loa Petroglyphs' past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. Sources including 'Puʻu Loa' carry the record. The date is part of the site's documented spine.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Puʻu Loa","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu%27u_Loa_Petroglyphs","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"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":"Puʻu Loa","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu%27u_Loa_Petroglyphs","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}