Kualoa Ranch

or a cold back where you began, which are the monsters only friend, and so the knocking, starts again,

crossed over his boot, stay, okay, so I hadn't seen her for a long time.

“Since a long time, it was breaking me, so I read, I studied they said what you should”

do. Just make a habit a few times a day, rub your fingers together, look around, notice, is this actual, is this regular, really look, look, question doesn't look off, does it look

strange, so so I did for days, for weeks, I kept rubbing my fingers together, peering

around, again and again and again and then, when I go to sleep I wake up, look down, run my fingers together, and I see my fingers pass through each other, I look up and this sky is

“not blue, it's not cloudy but swirling, this warm, jinter of trees, these trees, these”

are not really trees at all, they're made of plato and I laugh, because it worked just like they said, my own lucid dream, I draw a circle in the air, take three steps and I'm

going to be trying, standing on a critical avenue, from her house, there are no people

know smells, no traffic, this is sound, and the ice came in, taking off from the distance, I step up the porch, push over the door, hear the theme from all my children playing on the TV, I turn into her living room, look past the chairs, cover them, plastic, I start

“sobbing, because on the sofa she sits shining, smiling, hold not our arms, then pat me on the”

head, granny, I know, baby, I know, we're going to talk about it, we'll talk about everything, I promise, I promise, yes, as soon as we get to the commercial, so sad, not (upbeat music) (upbeat music) Dreamscapes.

They're about to hear from C-Shell. A few years back, C-Shell, she got a job against a tour guide, a cool-a-ratch. A 4,000 acre nature reserve on the Wimbledon coast of Oahu,

and as a kid, C-Shell had only seen the rants and glimpses, through breaks from the tall fence that's around the land, but now, now she's getting to know every cave, every valley, every waterfall, every shadow. And today she's gonna take us there.

It's a place, one of you may not have heard of before, but chances are, you've seen it. (upbeat music) - You've seen Jurassic Park, right?

Tim and Lex, they're on a hill,

“and they're watching the Gallimymus dinosaurs,”

and then little boys like, "Um, era." They're flocking this way. - So, they run across the road and hide behind a dead tree. And then after they hide behind the tree, they're watching the dinosaurs, keep going,

they're running, and then the T-Rex comes out, and she meets one of those Gallimymus dinosaurs. So, that is the only scene, what I call a cameo, that was filmed at the ranch. But the cameo put us on the map.

- Oh, an average day at the ranch is,

you know, basically four, 90-minute tour.

We have our jungle tour, which is my personal favorite tour. 90 minutes on the back of a truck. So many talking story, playing music for you, while you look at something gorgeous. The trucker is gonna take us up to at least

2000 feet in elevation, and there,

“you have a little optional walk up a little ridge line”

to look into both valleys. Our south valley is more dense jungle, more fauna, more greenery there. So, a lot of thick vegetation out there as well. So, that's where the indigenous plants are.

A north valley, very green as well, but very, very dry. But all in all, it'd be beautiful. The cliffs are just magnificent. It's gorgeous.

One day, I got my truck loaded, we're about to start the jungle tour. Traveling through the forest, it opens up into hockey pool valley. Now, as you keep going through the valley,

we're driving next to a river. (crowd cheering)

“All of a sudden, I start to see these shadows.”

They're weaving in between the tall cocoon trees. I see the shadow just soon, right past the truck. I was like, "Okay, pull the crap." So, I started glancing around, pause a little bit, not really slamming breaks, but I pause.

Look around. They look like just tall figures, just shadows, elevators. You don't really see a face. They came across pretty much right in front of my truck

when straight and kept weaving in between the cocoon trees. It's a bit rattling. I have my hair standing up on both arms, but I try not to freak out.

My guests are in the back. I have to push through. I just try to put in my back on my mind, and I'm like, "You know what? Just continue on with a day."

One night after a pretty stressful day having all four tours, I get home.

I get dinner, go to shower, finally get to sleep.

And I have this dream. In the dream, it's the same place that I see the shadows. I'm standing there. I hear all of our native birds just chirping away.

I hear the river flowing beneath me. And I smell the ginger flowers. Right next to me in the river bed. But then I notice after about a minute or so, I smell rotting flesh.

The smell is nauseating. As if it's, you know, maybe a dead pig, something that's definitely not alive. It's rotting.

That's when I finally look down at the river.

Bright, red, and then it goes dull, red. I'm panicking a little bit. I don't know where the source is coming from. What the smell is, what's enemy? So I start to follow the smell.

I keep walking, maybe about a hundred feet. And I get this eerie feeling. So I turn around. See, seven or eight tall gentlemen are just standing there staring at me.

The one that's in the center, he's a good chief. He's wearing a bright yellow head dress. Almost down to your line. These feathers, oh my God, they're so beautiful. You can tell the work that was put into the weaving.

to the ground.

In traditional Hawaiian times,

when you see the short cape, that means he's going to war. The other gentlemen that are standing there with him, the other Kanaqa, they're just super thick, muscular and bronze. They're barefoot.

And they're wearing something called a malo. So it's a loincloth that has an open back,

“covers the goods in the front, that's what we would see”

back in the 1700s, who may be even before that. Then I hear a thunder clap and then, Kahi Kilie, as if, you know,

he's saying his name announcing his presence.

And with that deep Kanaqa to a voice is like, okay, it strikes a little bit fear, especially as native Hawaiians. We learned about Kahi Kilie growing up. Now I already knew, okay, I don't mess with this guy.

I mean all sorts of respect. But we lock eyes, he turns around and points to the left. He turns around and I hear it in my head. It's over there.

“So I replied to him, "Oh, what's over there?"”

And then I wake up as if I'm lost for Ratu, sitting up in my coffin, shaking to my core. Get up, get ready, I'm thinking about it the entire time. There was something about the dream that made me feel like it was more than a dream

seeing these shadows, you know, I didn't have a dream about the place. It feels like there is a purpose that needs to be fulfilled. There is something that needs to be found.

. Around lunch time, so it's about 12.30. We are in our small little break room where we can barely fit all 20 people in there. We're all eating plate lunches.

I'm eating an ahikatsu plate, so that's fried fish. Lots of beautiful sauce on top with some rice. And this dream that I had, it's been kind of nagging me, kind of bugging me. So I look around and lo and behold.

The two of that I trust the most out of everybody that worked that day. My two friends, Cyrus and Halo. Cyrus, let's just say he's a Virgo, okay? So he's a little bit grouchy on the exterior, but on the inside he's kind of soft and gooey

when he stops deflecting. I think of him as a younger brother that, you know, I did not have. Halo, on the other hand, he's a little bit older than I am. He is the walking encyclopedia of his family. He knows everything from his own genealogy,

all the way to, I joke with him, all the way to King Command Man of the First.

So because the stream is bugging me, I just, you know, kind of, invite them over like, I gotta talk to you guys. I gotta tell you guys something. I chose those two because both are very strong and, you know, independent men and they believe very strongly in our culture as well,

as Native Hawaiians. So trust came very easily with them. And I'm just like, hey, we have to go and check this out.

“That's what the dream is telling me, we have to go and look.”

They say, all right. So we finish up the day, we end up taking the truck out into the Southern Valley, hockey pool. I take them exactly where I had the dream. We parked the car, we all got out, checked our surroundings, and we all started our trek towards the river.

The sun is already on the other side of the mountain and hockey pool valley is very dense forest, so it gets a little bit darker, very cool in there. But as we started walking next to the river,

It's a searing kind of hot, almost as if I'm touching a hot plate.

“And then I start to feel claustrophobic.”

Like the walls are getting a little bit higher in this little riverbed where walking through. Then the headache starts. And I start to feel really, really irritated. I get the feeling that I want to fight with someone. Now, I know that Cyrus is feeling this way because when I glance at him,

his posture starts to shift a little bit. He went from standing up tall, straight to a little bit hunched over. I see his eyes get a little bit hooded. And then he starts to ball his hands up into fist.

So I touch his arm real fast, like bump him, he feels very, very tense.

He's like a statue. The look in his eyes was a dark one. I don't understand why we're feeling this way.

“But while Cyrus and I are feeling all of his emotions running through us,”

he'll him is fine. He'll him is trauma law. He is walking around through the river, still looking in the same area. He doesn't notice that Cyrus and I are having these issues. I said, hey, bro, we got to go. And he turns around and says,

"Here's okay." And I reply, I'm like, "We have to go." Something is not right here.

So he starts running back to us. We all start to make our way back to the truck.

He's still fine. As we loaded up into the truck and left the area, got away from the sounds of the river. I no longer feel hot. The urge to fight.

“This weird feeling is gone as we get further away.”

So I felt relief. But six months go by. One day a bunch of us jump on the back of one of our trucks. We're going to go out and check one of our trails. It's me, Cyrus, Helo, and about 10 more of our other co-workers in the department.

We start our journey into hockey pool valley. I was sitting on the back of the truck as well. It felt good to have a breeze in my face. But as soon as we start to hear and see the river, I start to have that seam hot feeling that I had.

That's when I started smell. Rodding flesh. It smells like meat that's been left out in the sun for days. Like immediately I was nauseated. And then I started dry heaving,

spitting stuff off over the side of the truck. Everybody else is sitting around. They're more concerned on if like I'm okay. Then if they smell any sort of rotting flesh either. So nobody really has a reaction. Then I start to get this mean headache.

And then when I close my eyes instead of darkness, there's just a bright light. As if I'm on the operating table and there's all the lights all around me. And it just materializes, I can see the river, I can see hockey pool valley. And then I see those seven or eight, Kamaka that I've seen from my dream.

And they're stacking bodies upon bodies in the river, making a dam. Some of them still had blood dripping off of their bodies. Bright red as if they were just sacrificed. I was if they just went to war. And that's where all of the blood comes from.

And that's where it's flowing into the river. Nobody is aware that I'm there. It says if I'm looking through somebody else's eyes as it's happening through the chiefs eyes at what his men are doing in front of him. And then it all starts to fizzle away.

I'm just back to the drive. [Music]

everything subsides, I don't feel any sort of heat.

I don't feel nauseous, but it shook me.

“I'm terrified that I'm gonna pass through this area on another tour”

and another vision's gonna hit me while I'm driving. You know, something's going to follow me home. [Music] One day I was thinking about it very heavily with it. Okay, I need to go visit this area.

It's really, really nagging at me. I want to find out like what happened here? Why am I seeing it? Yeah, I jumped in my truck. I drive and talk about it.

It's after all the tours. Now, around 4.35 o'clock PM. Reparct a truck.

“I can only hear the birds. It's so peaceful.”

Find the river and start walking next to it. The firmware, I got further up the river. I start to get all warm and whatnot. The further I kept walking, I was okay. I noticed it started getting more intense.

I do have to stop walking and, you know, kind of like hold my head

just my temples and my third eye red in the center because that's searing pain.

All of a sudden, this is bright white light and then I see the chief. wearing his yellow head dress almost like a mohawk. Beautiful yellow feathers. His cape ready to go to war. His back is facing me, but I see those side profile of his face. I can clearly tell that's chief Kahi Kui.

When I see him, what I feel is, like, I'm not a reverence for this guy. But, I do feel fear because, you know, growing up in reading stories about him, he's a scary dude. The vision of chief Kahi Kui, the last speed between five to ten seconds. When this vision ends, it just dissipates. The pain goes away, the bright light's go away, and then I'm back in the forest.

One day, after everything happens, I get off a tour and, you know, I'm coming back to the break room. I see a hill on him. He's only one in there. So I just called him, start talking story, just sharing a little bit more of the audio. Let him know everything happened and, if you know, there's anything about the area, about chief Kahi Kui. Of course, being the walking encyclopedia that he is, he knows something about chief Kahi Kui.

Hey, little bit tells him in the story of how chief Kahi Kui came from the island of Maui.

Now, he was a very strong and powerful chief. When he came over, he wanted pretty much all the

resources there, land, water, that is deep into that valley. That sacred valley of Haki Puu, there was a big war that happened there. The chief was coming for war. And they would sack the bodies in the river creating a dam. So as he sharing the story, I did have the chills. It confirms. I'm like, okay, that is exactly what I had seen in all these weird visions. I'm not crazy. This guy knows the history. This

“is something that really happened in the area. I think that chief was really just trying to get”

his story out there. Like, yeah, so this is what I did here. And I just happened to be the lucky tour guide to pass through with the abilities. I felt like a better human, a better, a better native one, now that I know the history. When I do my tours now, I explained that there was

us and, you know, what they did back then is very different than what we do nowadays.

“I don't go too much in depth about Chief Kahi Kili. When I do go in depth, it's not on tour.”

It's just with some of my co-workers who truly understand the culture. I no longer have the same visions, but everyone's in a while. I'll drive Fiyaki Puu valley and I'll see the shadows. It freaks me out at the very first second and then I start to feel really faster. Like, okay, we know we're here. We can acknowledge each other. Like, I'm just here on tour. You know, I'm just passing through.

Thank you C-shell for sharing your story. That piece of scouted, but E-shell Lopez's original score.

“It's by the leans and juice was produced by Zoe Frigno.”

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and dreams reduced us. Turtles vulnerable state a person deep in dream and not fight back. Can not run, can not scream, defenseless. This weakness is built into the fiber of even

our most powerful. Our kings, our giants, our fighters. Sleep will find you,

whoever you are. Every night, risking a blade to the throat.

“It's not often gone so far as to dismiss sleep as a design flaw. Why?”

Because they don't understand that it is a power. A portal to infant possibilities, infinite worlds, and every power has a cause. How you wield this power matters. What you shake and dream is cast in reality. The dragons you slay in slumber fall before you in light, but doors open both ways. Monsters fought in darkness, no exactly. Were you rest your hand? No exactly whom you love, what you fear,

what brings you joy, what leaves you terrified, do not let them fall you, understand if something matters it is real. And this matters.

Never, ever, never, never, ever, never, ever, turn out the light.

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