10/31/2026
Veges are stocked.. persimmons.. fresh young coconut.. jackfruit..
Do you believe in ghosts? Don’t poopoo the question! I am pretty down to earth and I do..
I was a manager at Ross Dress for Less in the year 2000 or so in Pearl Highlands (Oahu) and I was tasked with getting the stockroom under control.
I was working the overnight shift with about 6 workers. We had to have a member of management because you can’t lock someone in a store in case there was some form of emergency.
It wasn’t a bad shift because you could put whatever station you wanted on the radio. Well.. the station we were listening to put a loop on of about 10-15 popular songs at the time and it repeated hourly. Everyone was working within my direct line of vision so I could maintain their productivity.
In Woolworth one of the other chains I worked for someone had pushed the laundry baskets out to the edge of the shelf and fallen asleep behind the baskets (not on my shift)
About 2am one of the ladies said ooooh this is my favorite song and started to sing along. Some ditzy ballad popular at the time. About half way through the song the music stopped. I called for everyone to take a 15 minute break and at the end of the break went in the back and pressed the intercom button and put the music on again.
About an hour later the same song came on and as soon as it did the music cut off immediately. We were working directly outside the stockroom that had the radio directly next to the intercom. I fiddled with it and got it going again.. by the time I did the song was over.
YES you guessed it an hour later the song came on.. and this time..
The station changed. It was an old fashioned radio with a dial and it moved. And it switched from FM to AM. Oahu is relatively close to Maui and when the weather was just right you could get Maui stations. Well this Maui station was playing Hawaiian music from like the 1940s and 1950s. I listen to a LOT of music, especially Hawaiian, and this stuff I had never heard.. never.. ever
The station was so scratchy and it sounded like it was playing through a megaphone.. you know really distorted. Well we finished the night and we kept it on that station.
Everyone was talking about the radio and the manager the next day told me that the store was haunted. There would be no one in the bathroom and the sink would run.. the district admins office was down the hall (one way in one way out) and she confirmed.
There were two twin towers next door and one of the towers sank down to the point that they had to jack up the tower to reinforce the foundation. (The one closest to the store) also there would be lights going on in unoccupied apartments. I promise you that the haunted building was 25% less expensive to buy an apartment I checked.
I found out later that they had found native Hawaiian remains when the building was under construction and just covered up the facts until the structure was completed. They would have faced likely a year or more of construction delays.
Before you poopoo me on religious grounds there are several examples of ghosts in the Bible. Way more spooky than even my story.
The reason you pop fireworks on New Year’s Day at 12:01 am is to drive the spirits out of your house.. we always have the doors and windows open at least a crack then close them all up BEFORE the fireworks over.. so yeah I believe..
Please be careful when driving today.. remember all those kids wired on sugar maybe running amok.. parents put lights on your kids.. take flashlights etc.. let’s all have a safe night.. drive slow through downtown.. head to WTLO to get your goodie bag.. be safe..
Oh and we only played contemporary Hawaiian music after that and never had a single issue.
