Dis was the old cannery days when you gotta get up early in the morning, like 3:00am to get ready for the girls to pick you up to go work carpool style way up in Kapaa. We lived about 25 miles away and those days 25 miles was so fa, that the ride alone, plus all cramped up with like 7 people in the ca can come really boring and uncomfortable.
One day, me and Linda, my friend who grew up with me from small keed time decided we was going play hookey from work and go holoholo with our boyfriends. We neva knew about haunted places in Kauai, because we came from the west side and the east side was new stomping grounds for us, especially when your parents so strict and you no can go fa places..so you gotta sneak, yea?
One day, we was suppose to work night shift, we had 'em all planned, we going all play hookey. All four of us went with Mac's car this time, Linda's boyfriend .. and we went to Kapaa, like we was going work, except we was going explore this new territory. When it got dark, we decided we was going to this place in Anahola, which we just happened to come across. The moon was out and everything was so clear, you could see everything in the night, everything had beautiful sillouettes, trees, houses, you name it, it was beautiful.
So we wen on this road that led to a small white bridge, really small that only one ca can go at a time. We parked under some pine trees and you could see like one big park or something, but we neva knew what it was. (We latta found out that this was one old battle ground for the ancient Hawaiians and nobody goes there at night). There was a big white lighthouse that we could see so clearly in the night, and so we thought oooh dis was a nice place to park.
Danny and I sat in the front seat talking while Linda and Mac was in the back seat talking. They decided they was going walking outside by the watta, see, wea we was parked, there was pine trees and then rocks then the ocean and it was so clear you could see it like it was daytime except it was
still nightime.
As Danny and I were talking, we suddenly felt the ca move like somebody was pushing or somebody big was leaning against it. So we looked ova our shoulders on the right side passanger seat in the back and saw two big sillouettes, I mean really big....so we thought oooh as only Linda and Mac, since they was wearing field jackets. So we neva pay attention, thinking as was dem.
Suddenly, Linda and Mac came running to the car, but from the odda side and wen jump in so fas, that had scare me...I had ask dem "wazta' matta..you act like you had see one ghost"..she said, "a shuddup you, I stay scared, something sta' outside dea." Den I wen ask her, "I thought you guys was outside there leaning against the ca"...she looked at me and said, "wea? ova hea, nea the ca? Shuddup you, we was on the odda side, ova dea." You should see all of us, we was so scared thinking who the hell was dat den? So Danny said "let's get otta hea now."...
Funny thing no, in Hawaii wen something la dat happen, how come your ca no can start? Danny tried turning that ignition like crazy and the ca still wouldn't start...we kept saying.."maybe if we swea and tell dem to get da hell otta hea, maybe the ca going start..." All of a sudden Linda says, "a you guys see what I see?" We all wen look by the watta and dea sitting on a rock was one wahine (mind you, she was transparent just like the ghosts they show in Disneyland) sitting there with a sarong, long haia wavering in the wind, her legs crossed with her hands folded ova her knees to hold her while looking at the ocean. I was so scared, Linda was crying, the ca wouldn't start, we was SCARED STIFF...!!!! The wind was blowing and the pine tree was howling and dea she was still sitting dea, we didn't know wea the otta two "whatever that was" were..we felt like we was surrounded by ghosts, stuck there in the middle of nowea, in new territory for us, man that was scary.....
I told Danny, "eh leave the ca light on"..he said, "you no can start the ca with the light on,"...Linda said, "I no caya, leave the light on." Mac started swea'in and guess what ?? the ca wen START!!... we went otta dea so fast, we had make tracks.
Wen we had get back to civilization (so we thought) we started to talk about it in the ca... Mac said, "a I gotta go hemo watta" so we had stop by the pavillion in Kappa, and no had lights in the bathroom... Linda had on her field jacket and Mac had his on too, wen Linda and I wen go to the wahine side with no lights on, I bumped into her after we had make she-she and I had scream because I thought was the big sillouette I saw by the ca and she had scream, I had scream and we both started to cry... da guys thought we was crazy...
So, neva go places you dunno, because you neva know what you going come across in Hawaii...I tell people here in California about ghost stories and they only laugh and think I'm crazy... boy if they only knew, no?
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Joyce Guzman - Born in Kauai and graduated Waimea High in 1961. Residing in Dana Point, work for JCP as a makeup artist and sales associate. Gave up working corporate level in 1991, enjoying life working with people who needs consultation on skin care and makeup.