Woman in White at Keaiwa Heiau

Haunted Honolulu where some would see a ghostly woman in white at Keaiwa heiau

Woman in White at Keaiwa Heiau

This ghostly encounter was enough to make the witnesses question what they saw.

Kahuna nui Emma deFries was the great-great granddaughter of Keali‘iopunui and Hewahewa, the Kahuna nui of Kamehameha I. In 1971, she shared a story with the newspaper. In her words, she described a ghostly encounter:

“In 1934, we lived at Aiea, my aunt Rose Kilioulani, Grandpa Henry de Fries, and myself. On fair days, during mountain apple season, Grandpa Henry and our yard boy, Akino, would hike up the trail pas a heiau on their way to the highlands. One day, as they were walking past the heiau, Grandpa and Akina met a beautiful woman dressed in white. Her hair was very long and it was wet.

Kahuna nui Emma DeFries explains how her grandpa met a mysterious woman in white in Aiea

Grandpa stopped and conversed with the woman in Hawaiian. Just before they said their alohas, they heard a terrible noise. Large boulders and rocks had broken loose from above and rolled down across the path.

If Grandpa and Akino had not stopped to talk to the woman, both men would have been killed. As Grandpa turned to say goodbye to that lovely person, she disappeared. He looked all around for her but she had left as strangely as she had appeared.”

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