Hawaii's Most Haunted - Night Marchers, the Ghost Army of Hawaii
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- Опубликовано: 19 сен 2023
- Here in Hawai’i, a spine-chilling legend has echoed through time, defying the boundaries of culture and belief. For centuries, the dreaded huaka‘i pō, have haunted the islands, marching through the darkest hours, leaving fear in their wake. This is the tale of the legendary night marchers.
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The oral traditions of Hawaii’s Night Marchers were first passed down from mouth to ear by those who had witnessed the haunted procession. After Western contact and the influx of so many different cultures, hundreds of people have observed the ghostly army, Hawaiians and non-Hawaiians alike, all from different walks of life and the most common question is, who are they?
Lopaka Kapanui has been researching and collecting ghost stories, legends, and the history of Hawai‘i for over twenty-five years and has published several of them into four separate books. Now, together with his wife, Tanya, the Kapanuis have compiled more than four dozen eyewitness narratives along with the history of the night marchers and put them into one book. For the first time, an authoritative compendium of accounts has been published, providing a definitive history of the procession and answering the question of “Who are the night marchers?”
Written by: Robert Lopaka Kapanui & Tanya Kapanui
Illustrated by: Alika Spahn Naihe
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Master storyteller, Lopaka Kapanui, brings to life the feared Night Marchers, the goddess Pele, Menehune, e‘epa, mo‘o and more. But… Hawaiian deities and spirits aren’t the only things residing in this island paradise. Here is also where the Japanese dog demons, the inugami, are sent to ruin the lives of unsuspecting families. Here is where the Filipino vampire-like creature, the aswang, roams in search of her next victim. And here is where the Portuguese witch, the feiteceira, spins her spells and curses at her whim. Rich in culture and traditions, these islands are overflowing with stories of ghosts and hauntings, creatures and curses. Lopaka is the keeper of these stories.
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To spend even an hour in this man's presence, listening to the old stories would be such a blessing. Some day, I will make it to Hawai'i.
I was staying in an old “hostel like” hotel up in the Volcano rainforest while my new home in Keauhou was getting a tile floor. I was coming back from dinner and it was pitch black, I was lost in the winding dirt roads of Volcano Village. I was stopped in the dark in the middle of the road beneath the the towering moss covered trees. As I was looking at my phone, I heard them coming from a distance. No drums, just the sound of bare feet marching. I bowed my head very respectfully and never looked up. I was terrified! They did not pass close by but I heard the sound of marching coming nearer and then receding in the forest. When I could hear them no more, I raised my head and through the darkness saw the fairy lights of my hotel in the next block. I still have dreams about this moment and now I doubt whether it really happened or was just a dream.
It's called "being drunk". 🙄
Bless you. I believe that really happened.
@@Factchekka its called “being real” 🙄
@@D3M1G1RL How do a the feet of a ghost make the sound of marching? 🤔
We were told Night Marcher stories as a little kid growing up in Hawaii.
Can't say when, but I was working late one night on Alakea street when I heard a conch shell. This was strange - a demonstration so late? I looked out the window but saw nothing - no traffic or pedestrians... Very odd
When my son was in boy scouts, our troop had hike in kahana valley for a camp over . After the night was over , one of our asst. scout master called me on the side , and told me , during the night he could hear drums . We never said anything to our scouts but that was the last time we camped in there.!!!
Hello Iam from Mass. I lived down Hawaii in Dimon head for 4 yrs. I seen them 6 boys and one girl. i still see them. I love them all!!!!!
As a kid, one night I awoke to a neighbor's car horn honking inexplicably. (This was in the early 1970s before car alarms.) Later there were whisperings that this could have been a sign of the Night Watchers because they could march through cars and set off the horn. As a kid this made a huge impression on me. I always felt the spirits in Hawaii and it wasn't a good feeling.
Hi 👋🏽. My family had this happen with one of our cars in the 80’s, the horn kept honking repeatedly one night and wouldn’t stop. It was not an alarm, I don’t think there were even car alarms then, none the less we sure didn’t have one, but kind of sounded like some car alarms now days. Anyways, my dad did something to the car to make it stop and later a mechanic came to have a look and he said that’s actually a common occurrence & he fixed it.
It did seem “ghostly” though, because you think an invisible person must be pushing on the horn lol.
I wonder if I was your neighbor lol… our neighbors were creeped out by it too and saying the same thing, that it was ghosts or night marchers. 😁
@@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom That's so interesting! This was in the early 1970s in Hawaiian Paradise Park on the Big Island. Could it be more than coincidence?
@@gracepeterson7483
Ah ok, we weren’t you’re neighbors then, because we were on O’ahu at the time and it was in the mid 80’s.
“More than a coincidence” as in could it really have been night marchers or some other spirit activity? I never say never, but considering there’s a very reasonable & commonplace explanation for it, I would say there’s a 99% chance it was just a malfunction in the horn.
If you don’t know that it’s a common malfunction, it would look very eerie though & it DID look eerie… I remember being small and looking out the window and freaking out like “😱Mom, there’s a GHOST👻 in the caaaaar, what do we dooooo?!” Lol 😂🤣😂. And all the neighbors coming out of their houses in pajamas like wtf is going on, then the older neighbors being like “It’s a ghost, there’s no one in the car!” Lol. It’s funny now, all of our reactions, because I know it was just a malfunctioning horn, but while it was happening it was so creepy lol.
It’s not all plumerias, sweetness and light over there.
There’s a really dark energy that dwells in certain areas.
If you’ve ever driven around the back side of Maui from Hana to Kula, over the lava fields on the SW coast where all the rock wall enclosures known as h’eau are, even in the daylight it feels truly bad there.
Night diving and shoreline fishermen are the only people I’ve ever encountered who will go there because the size of the fish are unreal.
But I believe they will always take pork and ti leaves as an offering to appease the ghosts.
An interesting side note:
The local fishermen will NEVER take bananas on a boat though, as it invites bad luck.
A bit of history not typically expressed by the tourist industry;
The locals were cannibals when Cook and the missionaries arrived.
That kind of dark residual energetic atmosphere lingers for many generations.
@@WeAreColorOfWater
Maybe you should refrain from talking about other cultures you don’t belong to, especially when speaking negatively about them.
For your information (& the information of anyone reading this person comment), numerous historical societies have looked into the claims of cannibalism, as well as claims of other nefarious supposed cultural acts & found them to be untrue. These types of claims stem from “Hawaiian history” books that were published and used in schools in Hawai’i for 50 years that were literally written by a klan member who hadn’t even been to Hawai’i (I believe he was a grand dragon or something like that). This person was hired to write these books in order to cause shame amongst Hawaiians for our ethnicity and culture in order to make it easier to “Americanize” us… that’s the official excuse, I think anyone with half a brain cell can figure out the real reason a klan member was brought in to falsify indigenous history. Sadly a lot of other books have used his writings as references and this has perpetuated the lies he told, to the extent that even amongst Hawaiians many people think these things are true.
Another reason for this belief, is when Hawaiians killed Captain Cook (he and his crew had stollen from us and kidnapped a chief) we performed what in our culture is a preparation of the body befitting monarchs, which is to prepare and preserve if you will, the bones. We did this to honor him because aside from his heinous actions not only in Hawai’i but all of the Pacific, he was revered by his crew & so we honored him and them for them. When we gave his prepared remains to his crew (his bones) they (incorrectly) assumed we had feasted on his flesh and all that was left was his bones & that’s the… honestly ray-cyst (sorry I have to misspell to avoid flags) assumption they made.
History written by colonizers is never true, “Thanksgiving” should have taught you that by now, but since it hasn’t, hopefully you learned something and will edit the lies out of your comment or delete it altogether… as it is, people shouldn’t be placing much value in information provided by someone not from here, not of this culture who didn’t even provide one fact in his comment.
Examples:
- You shouldn’t be giving information about *HEIAU* when you can’t even spell it correctly… it’s Heiau, not h’eau. Likewise Heiau are NOT a “rock wall enclosure”, they are ancient temples or shrines from Pre-Christian colonizer imposition.
- We do not take pork and/or ti leaves to “appease” ghosts. Pork isn’t used at all, ti leaves are used for protection, blessings and medicinal purposes.
- Bananas aren’t even native to Hawai’i, they were introduced here relatively recently by foreigners. So I don’t know what “locals” you got that information from, but they sure ain’t local to Hawai’i.
I was staying at Maui eco retreat and it was late at night pitch black everyone was asleep except for me. I was 19 and up late on my phone and I heard humming, marching and drumming. It was a scary feeling. I remember being so confused. Like who tf is out drumming late at night in the jungle? I knew it was something spiritual. But not human like. There was no one around in the middle of the jungle. Not enough people to make that noise. I remember trying to take a video of the sound…I need to find that video. I looked out the window, I didn’t see anything but I heard it clear as day. It passed and I tried to think nothing of it, I thought it was so cool but creepy. I went to bed and woke up the next day and asked Raphael the owner if anyone was drumming last night he said no. I asked a couple staying in the house with us if they heard it and they didn’t. Very interesting…I’ll never know what I heard.
Very interesting!
Ever thought it might be locals trying to perpetuate some ridiculous native ghost story. If you can hear a drum, it's because someone is banging a drum. Nothing strange about that at all. 🙄
As a kid I attended Camp Erdman in the early 2000s. We were sleeping in our cabins and the next day some kids swore they saw night marchers the previous night. I never believed them, but does anybody know if they can be seen in that area?
Also Robert, maybe you could cover the supposed hauntings of Camp Erdman itself. Especially the haunted cabins.
yesss camp erdman
As of being out of high school, me and a couple of my friends went 10 cars deep to cruise the lookout point at makapuu around 2 in the morning and across street is the mountain, but I remember it’s pitch dark and my friend flashing his flashlight at the mountain and him tapping me on my shoulder asking if I see that, I look towards the mountain I said that’s probably your light. Then I looked closer and I see the whole top of the mountain in flames but it was moving in line then, I yelled that’s night marchers. I took a closer look and I was able to witness one warrior in his malo walking around the mountain. Another incident happened at the same place same time but with no moon this time, I remember asking my good friend where’s the moon? And he’s like weird yeah, then he look towards the left side of the mountain and said look night marchers, I looked and this time they weren’t in a line, it was like a big gathering of flames, and flames coming down from the mountain to join the bigger flame. Very cool but chicken skin lol
We used to hear the drums and stomps in the Kohala Mountains and Waipio Valley.
Nightmarchers, daytime....?
Now, you got me in "condition yellow", 24/7!😯
Great video! Very informative about the hawaiin lore. - dabi was here.
Believe it or not I remembered as a kid my dad and his brother who's new to the Hawaii had just came from south east asia had a farm in Pahoa, we went to the forest to look for avacados and at a point my dad said to be quite because he heard something then my uncle came along and said lets go, I was young and did not know why and so we went home. Later that day or next my cousin said why we went home early with no avacados, my dad said the forest people was near by so we got to go, my cousin ask what forest people and my dad said the small people that only goes out at night. So for a person who's knows nothing about Hawaii, this was spooky.
There are “small men” found in other cultures as well. Is there such a race mentioned in the folk lore of your father’s native land? Just curious. 😊
So, "Night-Marchers" are midgets? 😄
Menehune….different from Night Marchers
I’ve seen them I have family in the line they have never hurt me ❤️
I've heard that if you're not Hawai'ian, the most important thing is to show respect and honour them. Some non-Hawai'ians who've seen them have said that they bowed to them in respect and kept out of their way and nothing happened to them.Those who were obnoxious, however...
@@Bunnyroo7🤣🤣🤣
Oh brother...🙄
There was a horror movie about the nightmarchers that came out a few years back and it showed not only ancient hawaiian warriors but also soldiers from different time periods marching along with them, i dont know if that's true with the real life nightmarchers but it was kinda interesting to see.
Thanks!
I work at Chief Sielu's Luau at the Wet n' Wild Park. I do wish he could do more during the Halloween season like telling ghost stories about the islands in his act.
My friend rusty hoots died working at Hawaiian water adventures. He got sucked into the filter system. This was before was wet n wild back in 2002.
Crazy they just paint the slides, All regs
Im hawaiian born n raised nanakuli waianae makaha. My papa said if there are ghosts marching why would they need a torch?!!! 🔥
They are souls, they can see just fine in the dark.
🤣
You should ask them
Lol u story tellers 🤣🤣
The torches aren't for them, they are for us
@@user-db2dg3dq3c it was just a joke my papa was saying. That's all. I know of the legends. All good
Why aren’t the menehune or night marchers taking revenge on Monsanto and the people in charge of the toxic pollution on Kauai!?
The governments secret team took care of them that’s why u know here about them
@@dawsonkuloloia6411🤣🤣🤣
Ummm...let's see...because they're not real, maybe? 🤔
Because it’s pure nonsense 😂
Chicken skin. I was in Waikapuna big I zone doing archeological mapping and surveying for months. Both camping on the makai portion of the ranch. And job house on the course at disco harbor. A few of us camped in the naupaka next to the lagoon. I had parked the suburban on pahoehoe two meters from the edge of the lagoon. Absolutely mind blowing archeological site complex. The few who know where I'm talking about know. Matt played banjo camped by the pali., Jonny & Ashton & myself kicked by the water paleonnit up and doing Pau Hana safety meetings. Long heavy days mapping. All bust up. Go ta bed to Vermont style bluegrass in the back round of pumping surf. The boys are in tents I'm in the sub. Board shorts and feather bed. Livn the dream. Wake at 12.25 to right out my half down window. Chanting that faded off two meters away on a peninsula jutting 4 meters by 1 wide like a pier into the lagoon. Heard others moving but only one voice of a man Chanting or singing. I knew nothing of night marchers at that point. The boys would tell story while mapping Lava tubes about the moa o or smnn li dat and freak themselves at times. They would ask if I was afraid of working around ewe and such. I said know I feel Kool knowing I'm only doin this kinda work for good. Protecting ewe and kapunas on the mainland and in the islands. So no fear no shame. I was gonna sit up a look. At what I know was right there out my window. But like listening to Matt that night. I just lit a cigarette and got down with the wtf Eva! heavy shit Goin down. It went on for at least 30 40 minutes. I woke at o dark 30. Kinda trippn on what went down. Tiptoen making coffee an hour early. Ashton came out his tent spooked looknn. I said sorry for the noise. Had a heavy night. I toldmm what up. He went whiter than I am. Told me he thought the mongoose were goin nuts and he woke up to balls of lightning and hands clawing at his tent. As we were having our coffee w our safety meeting. Ashton starts tellnn me that the moon was new moon last night and the night marchers story. Jonny 6 4 225 F.B. peels the dome tent off himself. And say " ho brah, last nite, one huge hand smash down my tent. Pin my head down On da ground for like ten seconds. Bra that no mon goose. They had cut out little igloo like areas for their tents 15 meters apart in 15' high naupakas. Ashton said he shit his pants till he finnally heard me get up. Still waited to come out. He said his tent has screen only for the top. He watched what he said looked like plasma balls goin lolo thru the naupakas. Way to thick . A mongoose hardly gets thru the root maze. Way more story than I'd eva tell on this here utube. But I'm an atheist full blown science guy skeptic. And on every fish I Eva caught. No cap! As they say. My two young Hawaiian archaeologist friends ask me what I think it was. I said if it's MANA that powerful. Those buggahs been following my white ass thru the miles of Lava tube all the hei---s I mapped and recorded. They know every move this fucka made. I said, if they wanted beef w me?. They coulda got me good when i was having closterphobia worming miles under ground in the lava tubes by tapnn me on the not so funny bone. Or Ifnn they burned out my flashlights. That alone coulda easily kilt me. Lmfatheistao. I don't fuckn know! What the frirkbra it was. But it happened and it was Kool a F. Hearing the part about goin prone and getting naked gave me chicken skin. Cause I didn't lay face down. I lit a smoke listened to the mystery. Must not of ruffled their feathers when I layed face up w a smoke and a smile. Respect the locals. Get local privileges. Aloha.
My hometown ka'u big island
My house up mauka waiohinu
Robert, I'm a new subscriber and just ordered your book for my husband for Christmas. I ordered the t-shirt a week or two ago and am excited to be able to present these things to him. His family was ali 'i from both Hawaii and Maui and I'm learning so much about your history and culture and am trying to educate him and our kids (we're in Georgia!). Can you recommend another of your books that might be a good intro to a regular American who recently discovered his storied ancestry? I've never lived or been to Hawaii, but he lived there in the Marine Corps in the 1980s and upon learning of his family history, he was stunned that now some of the stories/events from his time there really made sense. (too much to write here, but super interesting). I should say, I'm a believer in your and others' stories of spiritual things, but he's much more of a skeptic, so for him to stand up and take note, well, it's pretty interesting! Thanks and can't wait to read your book!
Also, you might answer this in your books, but if your ancestors were pio chiefs or kings, what would happen if the night marchers came? Same as for me if I was there (haha, I'm Norwegian, English, Scottish and French, alas, pale as can be!) I've planned to start researching more, but your intro to your book makes so much sense (about the info available). Thanks for answering, if you can!
Aloha,
A lot of Hawaiians actually come from ali’i bloodlines, myself included, I would guess most Hawaiians have some lineage from ali’i somewhere in their genealogy… which often brings me some tiny amount of comfort when I think about possibly encountering night marchers lol.
Lopaka actually answered your question in this video as to what would happen to your husband… it’s complicated… who gets spared is at the discretion of who is being accompanied and the marchers themselves, it would depend on who the procession was for/accompanying. We had a LOT of ali’i, so the odds that it’s one of his ancestors is probably low. Think of them as people (because they are 🤭🤦🏽♀️lol)… if his grandpas spirit (for example) was in the procession, he probably would try to spare your husband, right?! But say for example the ali’i being accompanied was an enemy of your husbands ancestor, they may chose instead to target him because of that, right?! Or another ali’i may not care either way. Some people say we’re supposed to chant our moʻolelo moʻokūʻauhau (our genealogy or ancestry) but some say you shouldn’t, because there’s stories of spirits in the procession knowing your ancestry without you having to chant it, they just know somehow who you are and if, for example, you are chanting your moʻolelo moʻokūʻauhau and the ali’i being escorted is a rival to your ancestors, they may take that as a challenge or an insult. Again think of it, if you’re an ali’i and you come across someone and they’re chanting their connection to enemies of yours, that would anger you, right?!… it would come off as disrespectful & challenging to their authority and power. And that’s why your first option should be to run, no matter who you are, no matter who your ancestors are, run, because it’s a huge gamble that could cost you your life. If however you don’t have the option to run… you have to take into account who your ancestors are, what island you’re on, where on the island you are, the history etc etc to try to determine who may be marching and hope and pray that you make it out alive.
As for you, you have zero odds of someone from the procession being your ancestor and claiming you to spare you, so again it’s up to the discretion of whoever’s marching and if being married to your husband means anything to them or not, so again, I recommend running 🏃♀️.
Then there’s the fact that it may not be an ali’i being accompanied at all, it could be an ‘aumakua or a god and then it gets even more complicated lol because who’s to say what they would do, right?!
So yeah, the answer for your husband, yourself and your kids, is don’t stick around to find out. If you hear a conch shell, drums, marching or see torches, run immediately and as fast as you can.
On a side note, I have lineage to ali’i on Hawai’i & Maui _(as well as O’ahu, Kaua’i and Moloka’i)_ , so I may be a distant relative to your husband. 😁
🤙🏽A hui hou.
Night marchers are REAL, and they don’t need a full moon to manifest.
I lived in Hawai’i for many years, mostly on Maui.
I had one hassle me in broad daylight back in ‘79 in Ulupalakua.
What did it look like
@@Mell0 it was invisible to the eyes, but I was pushed down onto the floor, and it attempted to squeeze the air out of my lungs by sitting on me. I could feel its large heavy body on top of me quite frighteningly. My hands-fingers became contorted, and if two friends hadn’t been there to help get it off me, it’s uncertain what would’ve been the outcome. The violent history of those islands is still a problem if you’re in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Iao stream running red with blood, and the bodies making the stream back up is just one example. All the emphasis on Aloha these days is great, but please be aware if you visit the islands that there are unseen forces that can be a problem.
@@WeAreColorOfWater the Bible exist in your region? because ain’t not way sprits can just beat you down and almost kill you either they are powerful there or y’all have no divine protection
@@WeAreColorOfWater In Africa and haiti it’s worst but they all fall to the name of the lord crazy story
@@WeAreColorOfWaterThat's called a panic attack. 😉
The way I heard the legend ever since I was a kid in the 60’s said that the night walkers (we called them walkers) were only in the forest. 😉🤙
It's time to ask the gods to help out.
My first experience was hearing a drum beat at around 8pm, Waipahu side, I dont know where it was coming from, I should’ve recorded it. There was no event at that night, I could hear it faintly, I talked to my brother about it, he told me, it might just be a band, but at night? But there was really no event, I searched up fb groups and I cant find any at all. This was around June of 2020.
My would feel the night marchers walking cross her bed whenever she stayed at a certain hotel in Kona. If us kids stayed with her, they wouldn’t come.
I love learning about other religion but this my favorite one
date was 2024 Nov 6th Iam coming back to see them again Iam in mass now but soon to come back to Hawaii 2019
Is this because of harbor / d day ?
I attended the university of Hilo on the big island and was shocked at how superstitious the locals were. I was often challenged to stay outside at night in various locations for 💰! I made rent a few times with that nonsense. It’s really a great example of how powerful belief through social interaction can be. My local friends thought I was insane but it was just free money for me. Camping outside in Hawaii isn’t hard 😂
Haha I grew up in Hawaii and yes locals are very superstitious 😂
Better get to studying that genealogy!
What if u peeped through curtains...
And that shadow stuff what if they deliberately stepped in your shadow???
And has there ever been suspicious brutal murders that seem like they could be the work of nightmarchers???
They sound pretty malevolent to me if they kill u for merely looking at them...
Because weren't warriors purposes for peace??
Mahalo. I love chicken skin kine Hawaii stories.
I call one Mike Miles DDD and Frank Qui Snow
Mahalo 0:39
hello, where did you get these paintings? I want to use them for my background of my computer
Yessah
If you look at them you're face will mellt
Your*
I heard they have a coconut like head or something??
Nephilim?
No. Night marchers.
3 Creations- Human, Angels, Jinn. Before mankind there was a fierce battle between the Angels and the Jinn. Helping the Angels was a Jinn called Iblees(Satan) mistaken for a "fallen angel" . The angels won the battle and the remaining Jinn scattered to the small islands which this awesome Korero reminded me of those strange happenings in our Islands around Hawaiki nui Hawaiki roa Hawaiki pamamao
! Thank You, For This !
Thay May not Be The Dead Haunting, But Jinn and Other Demon Entities ?
Maybe ?
@@please-watch-my-vids Yup they like to play with us humankind
Too bad people can't believe in Jesus and God the way they believe in evil!!!!
Absolutely amen!!❤❤❤
People do.