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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 14:57:11 -1000
From: Lahela K Han (lhan@hawaii.edu)
To: obiwan@netcom.com
Subject: Story to Share
HI obiwan--
This is my first story I am sharing into this subscription. Hopefully I'm doing it right.
This story comes from Glenn Grant, a collector of Hawaii's 'Spooky Tales', and sometimes they are ghost stories. I don't know, maybe you've heard of him. I hope I do him right when I tell one of the stories, since I heard it from him. His stories are collected from the older generations of Hawaii and they are true stories. It manages to scare all the visitors who come to Hawaii.
This story may not be a ghost story, but it is definitely peculiar and creepy. It's kind of long. It goes something like this:
At Waimea Falls, in the 1970's, there were three friends swimming in the pool of the falls. One man was from Seattle and the other two were from San Diego,CA. They were vacationing in Honolulu and they found Waimea Falls and they were swimming and having fun. They were jumping from the top of the rock down into the waterfall to the pool. The guy from Seattle followed his friends and when he jumped, he went down into the water (his friends saw him) and never came back up. His friends went in and dove everywhere looking for him. They spent the whole day looking for him, they couldn't find him. He just disappeared into the water.
They called the police and two scared, very pale guys told their story. The Lieutenant Officer heard this and frowned. He gathered up his police force, the HPD (Honolulu Police Department), and went to Waimea Falls to search for the body. The Lieutenant knew that this was the third time this year that somebody was missing at Waimea Falls, after three days they would find a dead body in the pool. This was the first day the body was missing and the Lieutenant thought that this could be his chance to actually find the guy alive before the third day. They searched the falls and the area around and they found nothing. He told the two friends that they should go back and get some sleep, maybe he would find their friend's body tommorrow. They told him NO--THEY WERE GOING TO SLEEP THEIR OVER NIGHT. (Idiots) The liuetenant said okay, but I don't know if that would help at all.
That night at the falls the two friends were sleeping about ten feet away from the pool. They were trying to sleep when they heard some rustling in the bushes. They thought it was a wild boar or somekind of animal. They didn't move. They were about to fall asleep when they heard the animal scream. But, was it an animal? It sounded so human. They jumped up and ran out of that valley so fast. They called the lieutenant and told him what happened. Since it was close to daylight, the liuetenant started his search again. They searched for a long time. Today, the water was unusually clear and they thought they had a better chance at finding something, but they couldn't find anything. At about 11 or 12 midday he figured maybe he would see something in the water if he climbed up to the water fall and looked down. He climbed up to the top and looked down. He looked and looked and finally he saw a body of a man faced down(so you could only see his back) on what looked to be a big flat rock. He shouted to his officers that the body was three feet away from them. They coudn't see it. They managed to pull his body out of the water without actually seeing it. When they saw his foot, they knew he was there. As they were putting the body on a stretcher, the lieutenant noticed that the water in the pond was raising. He could see the water begin to bubble back and forth as if something was moving under the water. Everyone was staring at the pond. All of a sudden the water in the pond indeed started to rise and it looked like there was going to be a wave of water coming out. They started to hurry and started to run out of the valley. They were running away as this huge wave of water was behind them. It was as if something didn't want them to find that body. The water splashed on the road and beach as they got out of the valley.
The Liuetenant was amazed and poleaxed and could not explain this strange event. He wrote down in the report everything that happened. The visitors from the mainland left the next day.
Later that year, he was talking to his Hawaiian friend, who lived in the town just outside of the valley. He never shared his work with him and he decided to share his experience with him. He told his friend the story and his friend was said, "Ahh, waterfalls has an akua (a god) that requires male sacrifice certain times of the year. He didn't want the body to leave the pond because the ceremony wasn't finished, and when you took the body out, the water was dirty so he threw the water out." Listening to this the Lieutenant decided that this had to make sense.
Glenn Grant heard this and many other stories where kids and people are swimming at the falls and they couldn't help but feel a hand grabbing their feet as they got out of the water.
Thanks for reading
Lahela