ISLAND HISTORY: Ghostly Hawaiian Night Marchers on Kauai

ISLAND HISTORY: Ghostly Hawaiian Night Marchers on Kauai

One night in 1930, Juliet Rice Wichman (1901-87) and her husband, Fred Wichman, were at home on their Wailua Ranch, located near today’s Hindu Monastery off Kuamoo Road, Kauai, when they heard the beating of drums in the distance. Their head cowboy, who resided in a cottage not far from their home, also heard the drums and rushed to the Wichman’s residence in an agitated state. He then told the Wichmans he’d heard the drums and the thud of the f…