PUʻUHONUA O HŌNAUNAU
Site — Honaunau, Hawaii
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/puuhonua-o-honaunau-honaunau-hawaii/

The City of Refuge—where the condemned found sanctuary.

A site in Honaunau, Hawaii, Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The City of Refuge—where the condemned found sanctuary. The file’s recurring figure goes by a name, not a description: the sanctuary. 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.

Puuhonua is the refuge — the 'kapu breaker' that's the saved, the 'death' that's the avoided. The 'Great Wall' is the 965 — the 'L-shaped' that's the massive, the '10 feet' that's the high. The 'Hale o Keawe' is the bones — the '23 chiefs' that's the buried, the 'mana' that's the protected.
The 'defeated' is the warriors — the 'families' that's the safe, the 'return home' that's the assured. The 'Kamehameha' is the '19 — the 'abolished' that's the kapu, the 'NHP' that's the '61. Puuhonua is the best — the 'preserved' that's the dramatic, the '450 years' that's the established.
The file keeps Puuhonua: the place of refuge, the Great Wall, the Hale o Keawe, and the kapu system.
Puuhonua o Honaunau is the archive's Hawaii file — the sanctuary.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Puuhonua o Honaunau is the archive's Hawaii file — the forgiven.
A wall keeps its refuge — the file's suggestion being that Puuhonua's hold is the mercy: the 'kapu breaker' that's the saved, the 'Great Wall' that's the boundary, and the '23 chiefs' that's the bones.

FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] legend: The site’s lore is documented. Witnesses name it The sanctuary; the name travels further than the proof. The site in Honaunau, Hawaii gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. 'Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. The tale is the site's other archive — oral, embroidered, and outlasting the documents.
  source: Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu%CA%BBuhonua_o_H%C5%8Dnaunau)
· [Investigation claim] apparition: Reported figures at the refuge. Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. Investigators logged it; whether instruments or interpretation produced it is the open question. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting. It remains the site's standing claim.
  source: Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu%CA%BBuhonua_o_H%C5%8Dnaunau)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· The refuge’s tradition is documented. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The record appears in 'Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu%CA%BBuhonua_o_H%C5%8Dnaunau

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