A typical picture people have of Hawaii is of its lush landscapes, whispering oceans, and soft breezes. However, when Halloween comes around, the island puts on some spookiness, and gets into the spooky season. If you ever do go to lanai hotels, or any other kind of hotels, you must go to the Haunted Lagoon. Though Hawaii has a short history, insofar as recorded history goes, it does maintain many legends and stories. In 1962, the story of the haunted lagoon begins. In an effort to construct a Polynesian Cultural Center, part of the burgeoning pride associated with some of the movements of the sixties, a missionary was at the construction site, digging, when he saw a woman who was walking towards him. He looked back down again, but when he looked up, the woman was gone.
He was not the last person to see the Lady in White or the Lā’ie Lady . She is supposed to be the ghost of a young girl who made residence on Honolulu. Even if you are in Hawaii only through Kauai vacation packages, you must make a special trip to Honolulu for this great experience. In the same vein of Romeo and Juliet, this girl, Nalani, loved and married a boy her parents disapproved in a clandestine ceremony. It was not so clandestine, however, as the family found out about the eloped couple. Furious, the family of Nalani thrashed the body of the boy.
The couple fled, Nalani with child, but husband, his bones so broken from the trashing he received, died. To remember his memory, she planted a coconut tree near a river. It was a spot she soon occupied much of the time, crying. When her child was born, this sadness passed, but she became a bit of a recluse, only spending moment after moment with her young boy. Yet even more sadness was to visit the young woman when her son was lost to her, forever, despite desperate attempts to locate him. Her last days were with the coconut tree, caring for it in lieu of the family she had lost until she soon was lost too, vanishing.
The coconut tree still exists, and it has mutated into a warped being just as Nalani became warped and strange from the sadness in life. There are canoes rides to see the lady and the coconut ride all through October each year for fairly decent prices. Big island travel are perfect for every time of the year, for the summery months you expect it for surfing and cool drinks by the ocean to even the spooky month of October.