{"id":3260,"slug":"wainee-cemetery-lahaina-hawaii","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Wainee is the '23 — the 'first Christian' that's the cemetery, the 'Kamehameha' that's the buried. The 'Keopuolani' is the queen — the 'sacred wife' that's the baptized, the 'last hour' that's the converted. The 'kings' is the row — the 'Kauikeaouli' that's the son, the 'Kaumualii' that's the Kauai.","The 'missionaries' is the beside — the 'Richards' that's the first, the 'Stewart' that's the lived. The '2023' is the fire — the 'Lahaina' that's the burned, the 'walls' that's the standing. Wainee is the royal — the 'graves' that's the unmarked mostly, the 'tapu' that's the kept.","The file keeps Wainee: the 1823 first, the Keopuolani baptism, the kings' row, and the 2023 fire.","Wainee Cemetery is the archive's Lahaina file — the kingdom's graveyard."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Wainee Cemetery is the archive's Lahaina file — the first Christian soil.","A cemetery keeps its kings — the file's suggestion being that Wainee's hold is the buried: the 'Keopuolani' that's the baptized, the 'row' that's the royal, and the 'fire' that's the survived."]}],"name":"Wainee Cemetery","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","CEMETERY"],"groups":["dark-history","hauntings","legends"],"desc":"The first Christian cemetery in Hawaii—1823, the missionaries’ graves.","full_desc":"Wainee Cemetery is a site in Lahaina, Hawaii. The first Christian cemetery in Hawaii—1823, the missionaries’ graves. HauntHunt files it with historic cemeteries, dark history and local folklore. Its accounts name only a collective — the wainee dead. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Lahaina","county":null,"state":"Hawaii","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":20.886048,"lon":-156.666195,"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","research_notes":"HI2 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":3324,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures among the graves. Wainee Cemetery in Lahaina, Hawaii carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. It's an investigation claim — the kind that convinces the people who were in the room. Whatever walks there, it walks often enough to keep the reports coming. The account stays in the file — reported, retold, unresolved.","evidence":"PARANORMAL_INVESTIGATION_CLAIM","evidence_label":"Investigation claim","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Wainee Cemetery","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wainee_Cemetery","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":3325,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The dead are reportedly seen. The lore files them collectively as the Wainee dead. The reports at Wainee Cemetery are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. The report is preserved in sources like 'Wainee Cemetery'. Named ghosts are the ones that last — this one has lasted.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The Wainee dead","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Wainee Cemetery","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wainee_Cemetery","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The 1823 cemetery is documented. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The record appears in 'Wainee Cemetery'. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1823","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Wainee Cemetery","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wainee_Cemetery","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The dead are reportedly seen. The reports at Wainee Cemetery are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. 'Wainee Cemetery' carries the account. Every community keeps one story like this; this is theirs.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Wainee Cemetery","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wainee_Cemetery","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The Wainee dead","claimed_identity":"The Wainee dead","verified":null,"summary":"The dead are reportedly seen. The presences go by the Wainee dead in the file. The reports at Wainee Cemetery are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The report is preserved in sources like 'Wainee Cemetery'. The named presence is what turns a haunting into a household.","behavior":"The dead are reportedly seen.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Wainee Cemetery","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wainee_Cemetery","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"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":"Wainee Cemetery","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wainee_Cemetery","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}