I'M COMING BACK TO HAUNT YOU

My father was a conflicted man.  Shortly after he was born, he was given away to a childless couple while his twin brother remained with his original family. This separation left him bitter and confused, and made him incapable of sharing his love wholeheartedly with his own family.

Before his death, he vowed to come back and haunt my mother and sister, Jill.  I however, was curiously spared from his wrath.  Perhaps leaving home at an early age made me less of a target.  Immediately after his death, my sister defiantly waited for his return but he never made an appearance.  Several years later my mom passed away but still no sign of him.

Shortly after our mother's passing, we were on a tour of Kawaiaha'o Cemetery.  There happened to be a psychic medium on the tour and he mentioned seeing "an angry man" following us around.  Upon hearing this I quickly took several photographs of Jill as she continued to walk around the cemetery.  One of the photographs captured a huge orb on her back.

After hearing from two other people that "an angry man" was following her around, Jill finally consulted someone who helped our father cross over.

 This is the original photograph of the orb on my sister's back.

A black and white cropped version of the original photograph shows that the orb is almost solid looking and seems to have some substance to it.

SHADOW FIGURES

For some reason, it seems as though shadow figures are on the rise.  Here are a couple of past photographs of shadow people.

This photograph was taken at an abandoned property in Honolulu, Hawaii.  There's a shadow person slightly to the left, in the middle of the weed infested basketball court. I don't know what it is with shadow figures, but they all seem to have misshapen heads.  

A shadow person is seen in front of the Puerto Rican house at Hawaii's Plantation Village. 

 This is a lightened version of the original photograph.

Large shadow person watching from the far left.

NAHUKU (THURSTON LAVA TUBE)

The Thurston Lava Tube is a lava cave, which is located in the Hawaii Volcano National Park. The tunnel has been closed since the May 2018 Kilauea eruption. Park officials were concerned about the cave's structural integrity, so until they can establish its safety, it will remain off limits.

While visiting the park in 2013 with my husband, we had the distinct feeling of being watched as we made our way through this huge tunnel.  As we neared the end, I took a picture of the exit without a flash.  There appeared to be a figure standing guard to the right of the cave.

Because of our anxious feeling of being watched, this could be a situation of apophenia.  It could also be a form of matrixing or pareidolia.  In any case, it's a photograph to keep and wonder about.

Hawaiian warrior-like figure standing to the right of the cave's wall and a possible orb in front of him

Cropped version of the area in question

PAST PHOTOGRAPHS DEBUNKED

After eight years of taking tens of thousands of photographs, I can now debunk several pictures that I once thought were paranormal.  Spirit Photography is a learning process.  Here are some of the shots than I can now explain away as pareidolia, lens flares, slow shutter speeds, or other human contributory factors.

I would consider this my "holy grail" of pareidolia.  This photograph was taken at the Kaniakapupu ruins in Nuuanu.  On a previous investigation I thought I heard a woman's voice coming from the trees.  I heard a distinct, "Hello?" not once, but twice.  When we revisited this location I took several pictures of the trees.  Needless to say when I saw this female face peering at me from the branches with a sideway glance, I was ecstatic.  My bubble burst when my son (who was on the investigation with us) said it was just a light colored bump on the tree trunk.  When I reviewed my other photographs of the same area, I realized that there was indeed an abnormal growth on one of the trees.

This shot was taken in San Diego at the Whaley House Museum.  I originally thought I had captured a full bodied apparition.  After taking other photographs in the dark, it dawned on me that I may have snapped an unseen visitor at the museum who was just standing in the dark.  It looked so distorted that I didn't think it was a human being.  However, I've since noticed that the dark does distort colors and shapes.  

After seeing an orb fly across this room at the Davis-Horton House museum in San Diego, I thought I had captured in a photograph what I had seen with my naked eye. I later discovered that when there's an outside light source, that light can reflect off of the camera's inner lens, creating what looks like an orb with a nucleus.

Another example of an "orb" with a nucleus created by light reflecting off of the camera's inner lens.  This photo was taken at the Manoa Chinese Cemetery.

This is an example of the camera being moved while using a slow shutter speed.  The clarity of the fence in the foreground really stumped me, but with a slow shutter speed, the slightest movement can cause background lights to appear as lines. This was taken at the Kawaiaha'o Cemetery in Honolulu.  These anomalies were caused by the condominium lights in the distance.

An out of body experience?  Not really.  This type of photograph sometimes happens when the camera's shutter lags and the subject is in motion.  Even the slightest movement will cause a blurred image, which can sometimes be mistaken for a spirit or paranormal experience. 

(photo by Raina "Abby" Molina)

These "spirit lines" are actually bugs in motion that were caught by the camera's flash.  Sometimes the camera's shutter will lag a bit, showing the insect's flight pattern.  This happens a lot if there's a lot of moisture in the air.

One of my first paranormal photographs was similar to this picture of a curious light anomaly.  I later realized that these fairy-like apparitions were actually mosquitoes that were illuminated by the camera's flash.

MYSTERY WOMAN OF THE NAVAL AIR MUSEUM AT BARBERS POINT

There are definitely spirits that roam the grounds of the Naval Air Museum at Barbers Point.  Last month we hoped to encounter, Joe Beczek, one of the museum's frequent visitors who died in a plane crash on the Waianae Mountain range in 1954.  Joe's been seen on several occasions near the machine shop so I focused my attention on an area where he was known to appear at.

I took 5 photographs of a particular pathway near his favorite haunt.  In the first photograph I notice an orb in the background.  In the second shot, a face appeared close to where the orb was located in the first shot.  Except for a few random orbs, there was nothing significant in the subsequent photographs.

The image in the backgrounds looks like the face of a young oriental woman.  We have no idea who she is.  There hasn't been any report of a woman entity being seen on this property before.

This is a close-up version of the original photograph (second in a series of five), which reveals the face of a woman peering over some stored equipment.

This is the first shot in a series of five photographs.  Notice the large orb hovering towards the back of the pathway.

This is the second shot taken of the same area.  If you zoom in towards the back of this pathway, you'll notice a face near the area where the orb was hovering in the previous photograph.

THE BROWN MAN OF HAWAII'S PLANTATION VILLAGE

For the past two years, my sister and I have conducted Halloween night tours of Hawaii's Plantation Village.  One of the stories we tell is of the "Brown Man" who frequents the area near the Filipino house.  The Brown Man is a shadow person that is often seen darting back and forth along the fence surrounding the Filipino house.  He has also been known to follow people who pass by this area.  On one of our tours, my son (who had never been on a ghost tour before), caught this image of a shadow person standing next to a tool shed, which is located in the area frequented by the Brown Man.

This is the original photograph of the shadow person taken by Dane Kinoshita.

Close-up, cropped version of the shadow person photograph.  Notice that his body fades from the waist down.  If you zoom in on his face, you can actually see his facial features.

HOSPITAL POINT AT FORD ISLAND

When Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941, one of the primary targets was the USS Nevada.  The Japanese were hoping to block the harbor by sinking the Nevada in the narrow channel entrance. Instead of heading out to sea and risk being disabled in the channel, the badly damaged ship beached itself at Hospital Point. A memorial was erected to honor the 60 crewmen who lost their lives on that day.

On Saturday, June 18, 2016, I accompanied a few friends on a night tour of Ford Island in Pearl Harbor.  One of our stops was at Hospital Point.  There were four of us in the group, and except for a lone security car, no one else was at the location.  I took several shots of the shoreline while investigating this location.  This is what showed up in three of the photographs.

This first photograph is of Irene White (left) and my sister, Jill Okita (right), using their EMF detector and Ovilus to investigate the shoreline at Hospital Point. If you look directly beyond where Jill is squatting, you'll be able to make out a spirit figure walking towards them.

This is a cropped, close-up of the entity walking near the water's edge.

Photo #2. This shot was taken immediately after the first photograph.  There is a spirit figure in the background.  Unlike the first figure, this one looks to be walking towards the water.

Photo #3.  This shot was taken 4 frames after the two photographs above.  After lightening the picture a bit, a figure can be seen walking along the shoreline.  It looks completely different from the figures in the first two photographs.

This is a cropped, close-up of the figure in the third photograph.

Finally, here is a lightened version of the anomaly.  It appears to be two people; one holding up or supporting another person.