Welcome To Maui Ghosts
Underneath the shadows of the palms, the gruesome realities of life and death in the royal world of Hawaii are revealed. Venture with Maui Ghosts to Lahaina town and discover the spirits that still watch over it.
Protectors Of The Water
Nothing is as it seems on the Hawaiian Islands. Natives and settlers alike have long considered them places where the veil is thin. Many sites across the island nation are blessed with great spiritual importance, but none are more critical than Moku’ula.
Journey with Maui Ghosts to Malu Ulu Olele Park, once the capital of the entire Hawaiian Kingdom and home of King Kamehameha I. While these days are long gone, it is said that the spirit of Kihawahine protects it to this day. This lizard-like spirit called Mo’o once traversed the water surrounding the Hawaiian royal palace and has been spotted here for centuries.
Hear about the ghost that led one author in the 1800s to discover items belonging to an elite Hawaiian royal family member. Maui Ghosts visits this historical landmark and offers an in-depth look at its spiritually charged past.
What Will I See?
Visit Maui’s Most Haunted Locations, Including:
- Holy Innocents Episcopal Cemetery – The Holy Innocents Episcopal Cemetery was once a crossroads between cultures. Now, the winds surrounding the holy site carry whispers of the island’s lost past.
- The Spirit of Lahaina – Gather under Lahaina’s famous Banyan Tree known to hold spiritual connotations for cultures across the world, with many of them becoming homes for spirits.
- Lahaina Lighthouse – Learn about the many superstitions and spirits that lurk along Maui’s coast and deep within its valleys.
Spirits Under The Banyan Trees
Scattered across Maui are 25,000 trees, the Spirit of Lahaina is perhaps the most important. Hope grows underneath the dropping leaves of this massive Banyan Tree that has been a symbol of prosperity for Lahainans since it was planted in 1873. The largest Banyan Tree in the United States also symbolizes a more spiritual role Banyan Trees play across islands.
Maui Ghosts reveals how the other forlorn souls find solace underneath these sacred trees’ branches, as many have been seen by locals and tourists alike across the island. Learn how Banyan Trees have stood as symbols of spiritual import for millennia. Hawaiians and the ghosts surrounding them now treat these enlarged fig trees with the same spiritual respect.
Why is Maui so Haunted?
Chained To The Walls Of Destruction
Lahaina came into Western view in the early 1800s when the sacred home of Hawaiian royalty became the whaling center of the world. Rowdy sailors from America stopped in Lahaina between stints at sea, and the town gained a seedy reputation. Herman Melville, the author of Moby Dick, even briefly docked in Lahaina. Chaos and vice reigned supreme until a code of law was written by King Kamehameha III in 1850.
Journey with Maui Ghosts to where the Hale Pa’ahao Prison once stood and learn about this treacherous time. Criminals, drunk sailors, and any other offenders were tossed into the “stuck in irons house.” Prisoners were chained to the walls and brutally punished. Their misery has made the Old Lahaina Prison one of the most haunted places in Lahaina.
Maui’s Most Haunted
Lahaina is far from the only place in Maui that is home to sacred lands and spooky secrets. One such place is the Iao Valley. Here, Kamehameha filled the rivers with blood after defeating the Chief of Maui and his army in 1790. Tales of mystical Hawaiian warriors are just as thick as the tropical underbrush filling the valley floor.
Just outside Lahainatown, some of the most disturbing haunts on the Island of Maui await. Lahainaluna High School, the oldest school in the Western United States, sits above Lahiana. Watching over the town are the shadows of Hawaiian ancestors from a great battle. The grave of academic and historian David Malo has also sparked many tales of the otherworldly at Lahainaluna.
Many schools on the islands are possessed by the spirits of former students and sacred souls alike. The Old Maui High School, which was built upon an old sugar plantation, one of the many marks of colonialism that scar the land. It has laid vacant for thirty years and explorers report all sorts of eerie and unexplainable phenomena.
Across Maui in Wailuku, The Iao Theater is considered one of the most haunted places in all of the islands. Lights flicker and disembodied voices float through the air in this theater that has been featured on the Syfy Channel show “Haunted Collector.”
* This is a walking tour and we do not enter privately-owned buildings or private property *
