KAHUNA

The Authors

Best known as “Hawaii’s Ghost Guy,” Lopaka Kapanui, has been scaring people and sharing Hawaii’s stories for more than twenty-five years. A native Hawaiian born and raised on O‘ahu and spending his childhood vacations on Hawai‘i Island and Maui. Lopaka is the author of four compilations of local Hawai‘i ghost stories, The Legend of Morgan’s Corner, Haunted Hawaiian Nights, Mysteries of Honolulu, and Mysteries of Hawai‘i. He is also co-author of Hawaii’s Night Marchers: A History of the Huaka‘i Pō, written with his wife, Tanya Kapanui. As a Master Storyteller, Lopaka has received a special citation from the Hawai‘i State Legislature in 2020 for perpetuating and celebrating local culture, history, language, and folklore through storytelling and knowledge of these Islands’ history and legends.

Born in Colorado and raised in a military family, Tanya Kapanui had the privilege of living in Colorado, Texas, and Germany before making Hawai‘i, where her parents were born and raised, her home for the last thirty years. The past four years have been dedicated to co-authoring her first non-fiction book, Hawaii’s Night Marchers: A History of the Huaka‘i Pō, and Kahuna, both written with her husband, Lopaka Kapanui. Tanya spends whatever free time she can find reading, researching hauntings and ghost stories, and hanging out with their amazing grandchildren.