Night Marchers: A Haunting Warning

You're hiking in Hawaii at midnight when you hear it, drums, war drums.

Getting closer. Run now because in Hawaii, something still hunts at night,

the Huaka'i Pō, the Night Marchers. They're not ghosts. They're the spirits of ancient Hawaiian

warriors whose only job was to protect their chiefs, chiefs so sacred that if a commoner

even looked at them, instant death. Their eyes shot bolts of light that burned you where

you stood, so the warriors marched at night. Drum beats, conch shells,

a warning, hide your face or die. And even though they died centuries

ago, they never stopped marching. People still see them drifting through