I work in project management and got a call to come to Hawaii for a month to help finish up the work at a hotel. I worked with the engineering department and got to know the head of security decently well for the time I was there. This first story is his and it would be better from his point of view, so I’ll tell it that way:
5 years ago, the previous hotel was demolished and they started to build a this new one on the property. The property sits on a west facing hilllside going down to the water overlooking the ocean. During construction, I was tasked with looking for these birds (I forget what species) that would land in the construction zone. I would then report to the Hawaii fish and game who would then relocate the birds that flew there. This search was conducted one half hour after sunset and one half hour before sunrise-I would start at the top of the hill by the road and walk the half mile down to the water and back with a flashlight looking for these birds. One evening on my walk, when I got to the bottom of the hill and started my walk up, I heard a walking/dragging sound behind me-I pointed my flashlight towards it and didn’t see anything, so I continued my walk up. Then I heard it again, looked back and didn’t see anything. This continued the whole way back up the hill until I got to my truck and when I got there I turned back and told whatever was following me needed to stop and stay here, and that they couldn’t follow me. This freaked me out a bit so the next morning I brought my thermal scanner. The same exact thing happened and when I looked through the thermal I still saw nothing. I took some photos with the thermal and kept walking back up to my truck and left. When I got home and uploaded the photos to my computer this is what was on there:
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Another incident that happened there was with a girl who was delivering room service to one of the guests. There’s a long service hallway that runs beneath/behind rooms with elevators on both ends, and no windows since it has rooms to the side and the hill to the right (kind of built into the hill). She was going through the hallway and while waiting for the elevator, something pushed her up against the wall using the room service cart. It held her there for a second and she quit and never came back to the hotel.
My story while I was there is the only time I have ever been thoroughly freaked out in my life. I was there in April, which is my birth month, and so I had a 9am breakfast with the director of engineering, the head of security, and the controller on my birthday. I had a regular 8am meeting every day to go over room construction and at the end of the meeting at 8:30 I went to go check on a number of rooms that I had to see if there were any issues with before turning them over to be booked-nobody knew which rooms or floors I was going to-about 8 floors were under construction. At 8:57 I was walking up to room 911, and I got a call from the DOE and she asked if I was at breakfast yet because they were there-I said I’m checking one more room and I’ll be there at 9:00. I hang up the phone and as I pull my room key out of my pocket I hear “Hey (my name)!”. I turn around and there’s nobody there and I think that’s weird I must’ve just heard something. I turn around to put my key in the door and clear as day I hear “Hey (my name)!” behind me-I spin around and nobody is there and my stomach dropped. I look into the maintenance closet and all the rooms around me and there’s nobody there. I went down to breakfast and I was shaking the whole time from adrenaline. Crazy shit
The engineers told me their stories of placing tools down while working, having them disappear, then reappear in the same spot 20 minutes later and seeing shadows all the time. All the people who worked there think the place was built on a native Hawaiian burial ground. With it being on a hillside facing west overlooking the ocean the sunsets were unbelievable and I don’t doubt that’s where the native Hawaiians wanted to be buried
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