PUʻU O KAIMUKĪ
Hill — Honolulu, Hawaii
Status: Natural site · Access: Access unknown
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/puu-o-kaimuki-honolulu-hawaii/

Honolulu hill associated with a female night-marcher procession.

A hill in Honolulu, Hawaii, Puʻu o Kaimukī is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Honolulu hill associated with a female night-marcher procession. The name the accounts keep returning to is Nā Wāhine Huakaʻi Pō. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend, every one filed as account rather than fact. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.

The hill at the center of the Kaimukī district answers to five names — Puʻu o Kaimukī, Telegraph Hill, Christmas Tree Park, Bunker Hill, Menehune Hill — each one marking a job it has done. It has served as a water reservoir, a telegraph station, an observatory, and a military lookout; during Kamehameha I's campaign to take Oʻahu, scouts reportedly watched the Kona district from its summit and relayed movements back to Waikīkī. Even the district's name carries a story: one tradition ties Kaimukī to the Menehune said to have dug imu ovens here to roast ti, hidden from the pig-god Kamapuaʻa — 'The Ti Oven.'
The sacred layer is mostly gone. Kukuionapeha Heiau stood on the eastern slope — possibly a navigation temple, possibly a heiau ho'ola for healing — and early records describe it simply as near the old signal station and 'all destroyed.'

NĀ WĀHINE HUAKAʻI PŌ
The account the file keeps is a procession. Storyteller Tanya Kapanui records that on nights of the Hua moon — the phase when the moon shows its egg shape — a column of female spirits called Nā Wāhine Huakaʻi Pō travels a fixed route through the district: beginning near Maumae Heiau on Waiʻalae Avenue, ascending past Puʻu o Kaimukī, continuing toward Diamond Head, disappearing along Esther Street near the school for the deaf and blind, and reappearing near the Natatorium.
It is the same class of tradition as the islands' night marchers — ancestral movement along paths that predate the streets laid over them — and it is filed as folklore: a specific route, a specific moon, and a story the neighborhood keeps.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Local folklore] night marchers: Tanya Kapanui records Nā Wāhine Huakaʻi Pō passing the hill during the Hua moon phase. The site in Honolulu, Hawaii gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. The report is preserved in sources like 'Night Marchers at Puʻu o Kaimuki'. The haunting claim is now part of the site's identity, filed alongside the documented history.
  source: Night Marchers at Puʻu o Kaimuki (https://www.mysteries-of-hawaii.com/blog/puu-o-kaimuki)

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Night Marchers at Puʻu o Kaimuki — Mysteries of Hawaiʻi
  https://www.mysteries-of-hawaii.com/blog/puu-o-kaimuki

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