The following story has been reprinted by permission of Glen Grant from his book "Obake Files."

SOURCE: UH-Manoa Folklore Project, 1973
INFORMANT: Filipino male, 45 years old, Dole Company worker

Hildago Domingues worked for Dole Company since the early 1950s, first as a pineapple harvester and later as a supervisor. One of his jobs was scheduling the trucks that would bring the pineapples from the field to the cannery in Iwilei. These trucks would operate around the clock during the harvest season. When he made the schedule, some workers would insist that they wanted the daytime hours, not the graveyard shift. They complained that they had seen something really unusual on the side of the road whenever they passed the Mililani cemetery. Several drivers insisted that they had the same experience.

As one driver told Hildago, it was about 3 a.m. as he approached the area near the graveyard when he noticed a man walking along the highway towards the approaching pineapple truck. It wasn't too unusual to see people walking in this area since there was a Navy Camp nearby. In his headlights the driver could see clearly that the man was wearing a white long-sleeve shirt, white pants and white shoes. So it had to be someone in the navy coming back from Pearl Harbor. Maybe his car broke down and he had to walk the rest of the way. The driver slowed down, rolled down his window and was about to ask the man if he needed any help. The truck pulled up alongside him, and the driver saw that he was wearing a black long sleeve shirt, black pants and black shoes. The driver hit the gas pedal and tore off towards town.

"If one guy tells me a story like that, " Hildago explained, "they are maybe making it up or seeing things. But two other drivers have also seen this guy with the white clothes turning into black clothes on the road near the Mililani Cemetery. Bull? So far I have seen nothing yet and I always pass that side. Still I get chicken skin when I take that route. I know they get somebody over there."

Obake Files, Copyright 1996 Mutual Publishing.