Heading home from Hanauma Bay at night? Keep your eyes on the road. Locals report seeing mysterious fireballs, known as Akualele, shooting overhead as they drive back toward town. The legend warns that if you see these lights, whatever you do, don’t look back toward the bay or Koko Head. Glancing back is said to […]
Legend says a man named Heike, who built stone monuments after having religious visions, went mad. People claim visiting the site at night feels overwhelming and taking a stone brings bad luck. Some even tell stories of car trouble or accidents near the tombs.
Old Morrison is Transylvania University’s historic administration building, and legends say it’s haunted by the ghost of Constantine Rafinesque. Rafinesque was an eccentric botany professor at the university in 1819 who was fired after rumors of an affair with the college president’s wife. Legend has it that he cursed the campus upon his departure and […]
A slave owner from the 1800’s beat one of his slaves to death with a logging chain. The wife of the slave had a local shaman put a curse on the slave owner. The curse was that he would bear the reminder of his murder for eternity. After he was buried, a chain appeared on […]
The former bowling alley is supposedly “cursed”. The land it sits on used to be swampland, and people say gangsters used to dispose of bodies there. No one who has owned the bowling alley supposedly has been able to make a go of it. Some say the building is haunted.
Across the Missouri River from Boonville, MO stands the faithfully restored 12,000 Sq. Ft. Rivercene Mansion built by Captain Joseph Kinney. Originally built in 1869 as a place to entertain and impress, this recent bed and breakfast, now private residence, became the original owners’ family home after his retirement in the 1880s. Within the downstairs […]
