Ghost Story

In reading the book, Woman Warrior, we learn that Maxine is being told stories by her mother. Today in class we shared Ghost Stories with each other so this is mine.

When my father was younger, in the early days of his carrer, he was big into sailing. He has his own boat and would said around the islands alot with a small crew. One night, they were off the island of Oahu, directly off shore from babers point, sailing at a slow pace. It was dark out under the stary sky, so of course it was time for tales and ghost stories. My dad is not from hawaii, so he did not know much about hawaiian legends. Some of the poeple on the boat decided they were fitting and told them. The tale of choice; the hawaiian night marchers. They crew told my dad of the legened, and that the night marchers were dead souls of the hawaiians. They said if you encounter the nght marchers or cross their path and they see you awake, you will become one of them and your soul will march along with them. You see them as a long like of people carring lights and torches. And in hearing this my dad was a little uneasy, because he is very supersticious. So as the night went on, my dad had the late watch of the helm while the crew slept. They were sailing directly out from barbers point, and up the mountain is makakilo and mililani on the mountains. He was gazing around at the island lights and the stars when he notices a long line of what could have been street lights, but up the side of the mountain. And then it hit him, they were no street lights but the nightmarchers themselves!