{"id":2184,"date":"2023-11-01T11:46:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T21:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/?p=2184"},"modified":"2023-11-01T11:46:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T21:46:00","slug":"spirited-storyteller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/spirited-storyteller\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirited storyteller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/av-5XHctEqc?si=VdVNaAWFLQSPzJA5\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Staring at the ceiling of the old Kauike\u014dlani Children\u2019s Hospital, a 7-year-old Lopaka Kapanui heard a commotion from behind the curtain in his shared room. At this point, he\u2019d been lying in a hospital bed for months, recovering from a complex kidney operation. It wasn\u2019t long before he became friends with Scotty Boy, the patient in the bed beside him. Scotty\u2019s parents were visiting, and the doctor was there, too. <\/p>\n<p>Curious by nature, Kapanui tried to make sense of the adults\u2019 voices, which all of a sudden turned to cries. When the room cleared, Kapanui saw Scotty rise from the bed and walk over to his side of the partition. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Let\u2019s play, friend. C\u2019mon, friend, let\u2019s play,\u2019\u201d Kapanui remembers Scotty saying. <\/p>\n<p>Just as he began to dangle his feet over the side of the bed, his grandmother, Mary, who had been sitting in a chair in the corner of the room, exclaimed, \u201cNo! Don\u2019t get off that bed. Didn\u2019t you pay attention to what was just happening? That boy just died. That\u2019s why they\u2019re all crying. If you get off that bed and your feet touch that floor and you play with that boy, you\u2019re never coming back.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_98935\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98935\" src=\"https:\/\/www.midweek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/mw-cover-102523-lopaka-kapanui-lt006.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"691\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98935\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-98935\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lopaka Kapanui. PHOTO BY LAWRENCE TABUDLO<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While that was certainly an odd thing for his grandma to say, it wasn\u2019t unusual for her to visit. She would sit with Kapanui nearly every day, wearing her usual glasses and mu\u2018umu\u2018u, to keep him company until his parents arrived. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was good enough to go home, my parents were asking me about what happened and if I made any friends,\u201d the Wai\u2018anae native remembers. \u201cI said I did and that Grandma Mary would come every day and talk with me. They looked at me and I remember my mom asking me what she was wearing. I said, \u2018Oh, you know, those glasses with the string underneath and a mu\u2018umu\u2018u that was black with white flowers on it.\u2019 She looked at my father \u2026 and they told me that while I was in the hospital, she actually passed away and they went to the Big Island for the services. They didn\u2019t want to tell me because they knew how close I was with her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Around the same time, Kapanui also learned that, for just a few seconds, he had died after his heart stopped during surgery. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I got back, that\u2019s when I could see, hear and feel everything,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>What began on that fateful day in the children\u2019s hospital led to a lifetime of paranormal perception, which Kapanui didn\u2019t lean into until adulthood. Yet even as a child, he was enthralled by Hawaiian legends he learned from his \u2018ohana or by \u201cferociously absorbing\u201d books in the library.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor some reason, those legends were very fascinating because as they were being told to me, I was there,\u201d he says. \u201cI could see the sights, smell the aromas \u2014 everything. I would become totally transported. The legends didn\u2019t seem like they were folklore or fantasy.\u201d <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_98938\" style=\"width: 2570px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98938\" src=\"https:\/\/www.midweek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/downtown-tour-kamehameha-statue-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98938\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-98938\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Master storyteller Lopaka Kapanui operates the longest-running and only Native Hawaiian-owned ghost tours on O\u2018ahu, and takes participants to haunted sites, including Paradise Park in M\u0101noa. PHOTOS COURTESY LOPAKA KAPANUI.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t until he spontaneously joined a ghost tour \u2014 led by University of Hawai\u2018i professor Glen Grant, writer of the Chicken Skin Tales ghost story anthologies \u2014 that Kapanui realized he could turn his calling into something more. Grant became his mentor \u2014 the two would drive around the island visiting haunted sites together \u2014 until Grant\u2019s death in 2003, when Kapanui stepped into the role, \u201cwhether I liked it or not,\u201d he says with a laugh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Glen) said, \u2018You can read some of my stories from my books, but what I want you to do is gather your own stories and make this your own thing,\u2019\u201d Kapanui says. \u201cHe said, \u2018I don\u2019t want you to be me. If you do this, you need to make it your own. That\u2019s the way this is going to work.\u2019 He also said something that stuck with me and I say to myself now: \u2018Remember, the people you do this for have to trust you. Don\u2019t lie. Don\u2019t make things up. Because they\u2019ll figure it out.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following Grant\u2019s death, Kapanui carried the ghost-tour torch but, due to some unfortunate circumstances, became homeless, though he never missed a tour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only thing I had to keep me floating was the ghost stories. It means a lot more to me than just a business; it was something that was literally saving my life,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, life got better when he met his wife, Tanya, on one of his tours. He brought her and others in a group to the O\u2018ahu Cemetery and requested there be no photos taken until he gave permission. Just as the words exited his mouth, Tanya snapped a pic and a big, blinding flash went off. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI looked over and I said, \u2018Hey! I just said not to take any photos!\u2019 After it was over, I apologized to her and we became friends and eventually more. But I remember the first time I locked eyes with her. This voice internally said, \u2018If you want to be with that woman, there\u2019s some things about yourself you\u2019re going to have to change.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_98937\" style=\"width: 2570px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98937\" src=\"https:\/\/www.midweek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/us2020_bw1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98937\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-98937\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tanya and Lopaka Kapanui are the experts behind Hawai\u2018i\u2019s Night Marchers: A History of the Huaka\u2018i P\u014d, available now on Amazon.<br \/>PHOTO COURTESY LOPAKA KAPANUI.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Once married, Tanya took over the business side of things and now \u201cbasically runs everything,\u201d according to Kapanui. Thanks to her expert marketing, word got out about Kapanui and his spiritual sensitivity\/historical knowledge, and he\u2019s been asked to guest star on podcasts and reality TV shows and even consulted on motion pictures like Netflix\u2019s hit movie Finding \u2018Ohana. <\/p>\n<p>When the pandemic rolled around, Kapanui took his storytelling skills to the virtual world and live streamed on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram certain days of the week, garnering an entirely new online audience. He also had a ton of time to author some more books. <\/p>\n<p>Kapanui\u2019s fifth book, Hawai\u2018i\u2019s Night Marchers: A History of the Huaka\u2018i P\u014d, is his first collaboration with Tanya. Released earlier this year, the book is basically a night marchers encyclopedia, taking readers on a journey from the inception of Hawaiian cosmology till now, and includes more than four dozen eyewitness testimonies. <\/p>\n<p>Kapanui shares his own encounter: \u201cI was taking a group of people up to the M\u0101noa Cemetery \u2026 and all of a sudden, this wind just tears through the cemetery. It\u2019s bending all the trees in one direction and you can see all the dry leaves kicking up. What I noticed was even though I could see the wind, I couldn\u2019t hear it or feel it, and I felt very warm and encapsulated. I look at the people and they\u2019re all running back to the bus. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe next day I called my cousin and told him what happened, and he said, \u2018Last night was one of the night marcher moons and that\u2019s where they come to, right through there. You might\u2019ve been standing in the middle of the procession.\u2019 I asked him how come I wasn\u2019t killed, and he said, \u2018That feeling you had about being warm and encapsulated, you must\u2019ve had an ancestor in that procession who recognized you and surrounded you and protected you as the rest of them passed by.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paranormal occurrences aren\u2019t uncommon for Kapanui, who leads ghost tours nearly every night. October is an especially busy month for him, with Halloween nearing soon. Seekers of all things spooky can join Kapanui in downtown Honolulu, M\u0101noa or Waik\u012bk\u012b for an eerie excursion to learn about Hawaiian gods and goddesses, legends of spirits and demigods, stories of mystery and hauntings, and more. He also holds ghost story concerts at local theaters and sometimes visits the neighbor islands. For all of his events, though, the goal is to never scare participants \u2014 no intentional jump scares here \u2014 but rather to open their minds and invite them to learn about a new world. Chicken skin is almost always a guarantee.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201c(The tours) are basically to learn about when or why or how spirits communicate to us,\u201d he explains. \u201cThat\u2019s essentially what it is \u2014 whittling away misunderstandings so we can get to the core of the truth, which is: There\u2019s nothing to fear with something that\u2019s just trying to communicate. But because of social media and movies, we\u2019ve been conditioned to believe that ghosts and spirits are evil and they\u2019re after us and they\u2019re trying to possess our bodies. That\u2019s been so ingrained into us for so many years that it prevented us from understanding that this is communication. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though a person has passed away, the person\u2019s personality is still the same. If you can communicate with a spirit, you can talk to it like it\u2019s still a person. A woman asked me a couple nights ago, \u2018If my uncle was a jerk when he was alive, is he an angel when he passes away?\u2019 And I said, \u2018No, he\u2019s still a jerk,\u2019\u201d Kapanui adds with a laugh. <\/p>\n<p>Coming up, Kapanui teases that he has a few films in the works, plus a five-part novel about a generation of healers from ancient to current times. In the meantime, he\u2019s more than content giving tours and being known as Hawai\u2018i\u2019s token \u201cGhost Guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re eventually going to get to the point where I\u2019m going to find someone or a couple of people to do these tours. It can\u2019t be just anyone,\u201d Kapanui says. \u201cIn Buddhism, they always say the student finds the teacher, so I gotta wait.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicken skin is guaranteed when listening to paranormal tales from the \u201cGhost Guy\u201d \u2014 master storyteller Lopaka Kapanui.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover-story"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Spirited storyteller - Hawaii Island MidWeek<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/spirited-storyteller\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spirited storyteller - 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