Hawaii has a lot of ghost stories and ghost sightings.
For the final part of our two-part series "Haunted Hawaii," we head to a Makiki building that's known to have paranormal activity.
At the corner of Kinau and Makiki Streets, you'll the find the Masonic Temple -- a stately building dedicated in 1937.
Freemasonry is a worldwide fraternal organization.
Members have included George Washington and Mozart. And here in Hawaii -- King Kamehameha IV, Alexander Cartwright, and Duke Kahanamoku.
Initiation rituals are carefully guarded secrets. And word has it -- this building is haunted.
"Some gentlemen who have come to lodge frequently all their lives pass on and keep coming to lodge," said Lopaka Kapanui.
Lopaka Kapanui is a famed ghost storyteller, a Hawaiian historian, and a freemason.
"There are some brothers here during the day and knowing there's no one upstairs they will hear footsteps and pounding noises. Others will hear voices calling their name, others being touched," said Kapanui.
Most of the strange occurrences have happened behind these doors, in the lodge room, where the rituals are conducted.
"A couple years back a homeless gentleman broke into the lodge room through the exit in the back here, needed a warm place to sleep, and while he was asleep, he was awoken," said Kapanui.
He started yelling out the window. Neighbors called police, and when officers brought the man downstairs, he saw these photos on the wall.
"And said those were the guys that were surrounding me and walking around me. And those guys are no longer alive," said Kapanui.
We weren't allowed to bring our video camera into the lodge room, but we were allowed to snap still photos.
There appears to be a shadowy figure behind my cameraman Justin, who's standing at the lodge room entrance.
Our photos also captured streaks, and balls of light -- or orbs -- of different colors and sizes, some of them huge.
"I think at one point we were in the middle of a ritual a very sacred ritual that was being conducted," said Kapanui.
That's because the orbs appeared to be moving from left to right -- just like in the ritual.
We also smelled incense and violets.
"The smell of violets also has a significance and that pretty much gave me a sign that we were in the middle of a very important ceremony," said Kapanui.
We also saw orbs with our naked eyes.
That's a room that's used to prepare brothers for their initiation.
And when we played back our digital audio recorder, it confirmed to us we were not alone.
The recorder, which we left in the lodge room, picked up whispers like this one that sounded like, "That's my chair."
But the creepiest unexplained voice was this one that sounded like, "Can it get anymore hot?"
It sounds like an elderly woman, but there was no elderly woman in the room with us -- at least one we could see.
That was possibly an electronic voice phenomenon, or EVP.
Another strange thing that happened -- the water in one of the sinks in the men's restroom turned on -- on its own while we were there.
All of these mysterious occurrences, images and sounds were enough to give us chicken skin -- but we'll let you decide for yourself whether they're normal or paranormal.
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