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It’s not just a single room on campus said to be haunted at the Chaminade University in Honolulu, it’s not even a single dorm. Throughout the years of this Catholic University, plenty of ghosts are said to be lingering.
It’s not just a single room on campus said to be haunted at the Chaminade University in Honolulu, it’s not even a single dorm. Throughout the years of this Catholic University, plenty of ghosts are said to be lingering.
On the slopes of Honolulu, Chaminade University boasts a serene campus with stunning views of Oahu. But beneath its tranquil exterior lies a darker, more unsettling history—one that makes Dorm Lokelani the epicenter of eerie tales and paranormal activity. This building, according to rumor, once served as a children’s hospital during World War II, and the spirits of its past inhabitants seem to linger within its walls.
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The private and catholic university was founded in 1955 by the Society of Mary, and has a lot of legends surrounding it. For one there are supposedly tunnels underneath the school. Throughout the years, people have shared strange things that have happened to them. Like Gloria McCoy who claimed to have seen a shadow in Frische Hall moving quickly past her, a chair rolled as a voice from nowhere said “Hello”.
But how come the school is haunted? It is said to make way for the school they dug up the graveyard that used to be on the land, and the spirits attached to the school are remnants of the spirits that used to be buried there.
There are many stories from the school, one being that the campus is haunted by a former student, still skateboarding in the afterlife around the campus ground. Some say it was a girl, attending the university as a sophomore when she lost her life in a car accident.
It is said that even in the dorm rooms are places where she skates, also said to appear more frequently around Halloween.
There are also tales about ghosts haunting the halls of the 4th floor in the office building. One Mr. Murphy stayed late to grade papers when hearing people running through the halls and walking by the classroom he was staying in. Although thinking it was a bit weird at first as it was no class, he figured it might be the cleaning crew.
When he left late in the evening, he turned off the lights before getting out in the parking lot. When he turned, he saw that the lights were on, although he was certain he had turned them off. He went back to turn them off, but when he got out, again the lights were on. When he got out of the building after turning the lights off for the third time, he decided to drive home as fast as he could when he saw that they were once again turned on.
As well as faculty members experiencing strange things when working late, it seems that there are some pictures hanging in the building that somehow seem haunted. The children in the old pictures seem to move.
There is also a story about a Dr. Kralemann’s mother who came to visit the school. They went on a walk on the campus and then she ended up levitating on the haunted bridge close to the end of Cemetery Lane. When crossing the bridge, she felt cold, but continued over. When the professor turned, her mother was levitating and her eyes rolled back into her head.
She rushed over to help and as soon as she touched her arm, she fell to the ground and had no recollection of what had just happened.
There is also supposed to be a picture of the bridge circulating on the school, showing the faces of what appears to be two faces of priests smiling, although the picture was taken when no one was standing on the bridge.
In this dorm it is said that children haunt the hall. Most of the ghost stories come from a particular person though, the Hale Hoaloka Dorms former housekeeper, Mrs. Bailey. She claimed to hear children laugh and run through the halls, but when checking, there was no one there. There are said to be at least two of the ghostly kids roaming the halls.
Once Mrs Bailey was going about her day and work in the dormitories, she also heard more than one radio turn on by themselves and she had to turn them off.
People also claim to have heard them playing a game with a ball. Those staying in the dorms also say that locked doors open mysteriously, apparitions come and go in their rooms and people keep complaining about sounds in the night they never find the source for.
The rumors of Lokelani Dorm’s past as a wartime children’s hospital have given rise to numerous ghost stories among students and faculty. The most common reports involve the disembodied voices of children—soft whispers, playful giggles, and even the occasional cry—heard echoing through the hallways, especially late at night. These sounds, often dismissed by skeptics as the wind or the creaks of an old building, are difficult to ignore when they seem to come from empty rooms.
Doors in Lokelani Dorm are also known to open and close on their own, as if guided by invisible hands. Many students have reported the unnerving sensation of being watched or followed, even when they know they are alone. The heavy, oppressive feeling in the air has left more than a few residents questioning whether they should stay another night.
Among the haunted spaces in Lokelani Dorm, Room 208 stands out as particularly notorious. This room has earned a reputation as a hotspot for paranormal activity, and the stories surrounding it are enough to make even the bravest souls think twice before entering.
Legend has it that Room 208 was the site of at least one suicide, and the tragic energy left behind seems to have created a vortex of negative forces. The room is often described as having a cold, unwelcoming atmosphere, and those who have spent time there speak of an overwhelming sense of dread. The flickering lights, objects moving on their own, and the feeling of being touched by unseen hands are just some of the chilling experiences reported by those who have dared to stay in Room 208.
The room’s dark history doesn’t end there and is said to have started with the outline of a crucifix that used to hang on the wall. It is also said that an exorcism was once performed within its walls, an attempt to cleanse the space of whatever malevolent force resides there. However, despite these efforts, the paranormal activity has persisted, leading some to believe that the spirits in Lokelani Dorm are not ready to move on.
Another room in the Hale Lokelani dorm is said to be haunted is Room 319, although by an entirely different ghost. Although not as well known as the haunting as to go on in Room 208, this palace is haunted by the ghosts of dead soldiers from the second world war.
How this connection to soldiers and the war happened is uncertain.
Chaminade University’s Lokelani Dorm and the rest of the campus is a place where history and the supernatural seem to intersect. Whether the building’s haunted reputation stems from its rumored past as a children’s hospital or from the tragic events that have occurred within its walls, one thing is certain—those who enter Lokelani Dorm should be prepared for an encounter with the unknown.
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