Case file 05 / Hawaiʻi
Kaimukī: the record behind the haunting.
The strongest evidence here is evidence of reporting: people described frightening experiences, and newspapers printed their accounts. A police response does not establish a supernatural cause. The identity of the house across successive retellings remains unresolved.
The Record
Two newspaper anchors.
August 13, 1942 · Honolulu Star-Bulletin, page 4. “Police Called To Shoo Ghost From Kaimuki” reports a police response at about 1:25 a.m. Sergeant Moseley K. Cummins and Patrolman Robert Anseth encountered a distressed family. The mother described attacks on her children and used ti leaves and Hawaiian salt. The report says the family left for a relative’s home around 3 a.m. These are the newspaper’s descriptions and attributed claims, not independently verified paranormal events. View the 1942 source ↗
October 31, 1972 · Honolulu Star-Bulletin, page F-4 (archive image page 70). The supplied “Spook Stories” page is a continuation from F-1. It recounts three women leaving a Kaimukī house with a police escort, an alleged roadside attack, a car that would not start, and a sergeant using salt and water. The account gives no incident date or exact address. October 31 is the publication date; it does not establish that the encounter occurred on Halloween. View the 1972 source ↗
The Threshold
Where recollection diverges.
Later accounts connect the legend to different locations and call it the “Kaimukī Kasha House.” Neither supplied newspaper page identifies a kasha. That label belongs to a later interpretive layer; these clippings do not establish when it entered the local story.
Researcher and storyteller Lopaka Kapanui discusses conflicting location traditions and the way later storytelling shaped the legend. No exact property is identified here, and an often-repeated house photograph should not be treated as an authenticated scene. Read Kapanui’s later account ↗
Still unresolved: whether the reports concern the same property; the date of the 1972 account’s encounter; an original police case record; and independent corroboration of the alleged attacks. These sources do not verify later stories of murders or a missing child.
The Obscura
The boundary of invention.
Original characters, encounters, discoveries, and explanations in a Threshold Obscura adaptation are fiction. Historical reporting can inspire a story without proving its imagined events. Hawaiian practices described by witnesses and later Japanese folklore labels should retain their distinct cultural contexts.
This case file presents the research without revealing a fictional resolution.
Source note: the two supplied newspaper scans were reviewed directly. The 1972 attachment contains F-4, not the opening F-1 page. Newspaper archive access may require a subscription. Summaries and links are provided here; the scans are not reproduced. Later commentary is identified separately from contemporary reporting.