In this chilling descent into island mystery, we uncover ghostly encounters, dark rituals, and ancient forces tucked away in the forests for Hawaii. From nefarious Kahuna spirit capture and vengeful rock entities, to vehicle spirit sabotage and sorcerer fireballs, we'll explore the haunting traditions of this sacred place.
With the help of Glen Grant’s Obake Files, a treasure trove of Hawaiian, Japanese, and Filipino lore, we'll meet the man dubbed the "Fox Mulder of Hawaiian ghost stories, and sift through the accounts of cursed hands that never grew, ancient burial caves best left undisturbed, and the strange sentience said to dwell in Hawaiian stones!
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⏰ TIMESTAMPS
02:12 | Author and Book: Glen Grant - Obake Files
02:45 | Coming Up: Cursed bones and Dark Magic!
07:17 | Disembodied Hands... In Hawaii!!?
15:51 | Sacred Bones and Their Consequences
20:23 | A Punished Hand
24:26 | The Consequence of Touching the Sacred
27:00 | Rock With a View
26:27 | Sabotaged: Breakdown at the Gate - Anger of the Gods
44:31 | A Giant Footprint in Helemano | Signs of Something Massive | UH-Mānoa Student Folklore Project, 1973 | Filipino American male, 25 years old
51:40 | Darkness of the Akualele Talk About Fireball Sorcery
51:40 | Akualele - Origins in Lightening
58:18 | Dr. Kikuchi Akualele Summary
1:01:11 | Beware the Sorcerers Come to Town
1:07:34 | Another Dark Hawaiian Sorcery
1:11:18 | Hawaiian ‘Superstitions’
1:15:50 | Night Marcher Abduction
REFERENCED IMAGES
BOOKS
The Obake files: Ghostly Encounters in Supernatural Hawaii
Glen Grant
SOURCES
- Kawaihae, Hawai‘i -- Footprints: Night Marchers
- Hawaii - Islands, Immigration & Statehood
- Ancient Hawaiian History Timeline
- Smithsonian: Austronesian Expansion
- Britannica: Chamorro Religion
- University of Hawai‘i: Night Marchers
- SGS: Geology and History of Kīlauea
- THE TRANSPORT PROPERTIES OF BASALT (Academia.edu)
- Unveiling the Spiritual Heart of Hawaii: A Journey Through Historic Temples in Hawaii
- Hikinaakalā Heiau – Wailua Complex of Heiau (PDF)
- The Obake files : ghostly encounters in supernatural Hawaiʻi : Grant, Glen
- Oral History: Customs, Practices and Beliefs of Kaloko and Honokōhau (PDF)
- Pacific Worlds Oral Histories – Akualele
- Fireballs| More accounts of Akualele
- Fireball blazes across Hawaii as object falls to Earth
