
“The menehune are master stonemasons; they built fishponds, trails, and ditches all around Kauai. They were a race of much shorter Hawaiian people but then they kind of disappeared. They still might be here—on Kauai, hiding in a valley deep in the mountains not far from here. On some nights a light would come bouncing down the trail and light up the wall outside my house. Some people could see it but a number of people couldn’t see it, though it was as bright as the moon and red. It was a good spirit and so I was never afraid of that spirit too much. I tried not to freak myself about it. I didn’t really consider myself that spiritual a person, the kind of person that would have these extraordinary experiences, you know I mean, to see things that you don’t even believe in is like when you have to believe in them.” — Allan Kroll