Hawaii storytellers take listeners on journeys combining a shared culture and spooky tales in time for Halloween
hen Lopaka Kapanui was a child, he suffered from asthma and such severe kidney problems that he spent a lot of time in the hospital. During one lengthy hospitalization, a woman who introduced herself as his hanai grandmother visited him every afternoon. After he returned home and described the woman to his hanai parents, he was told she was indeed his hanai grandmother — but she had died prior to his hospitalization.
Kapanui has been receptive to spirits — “hearing and seeing things” ever since.
“Some (people) get the full signal, others just get sounds, and others are only able to feel things,” Kapanui explained. He describes himself as a storyteller, adding, “I’m beginning to think I’m a channeller.”
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