LEGENDS OF HAWAI'I: Madame Pele (with Lopaka Kapanui)

So Supernatural

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True Crime, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Yvette and Rasha continue their trip home to Honolulu alongside master storyteller Lopaka Kapanui—this time discussing the history and legends of the ancient Hawaiian goddess of fire and volcanoes, Madame Pele. She’s said to still walk the island, taking many forms—and Rasha and Yvette talk about their own personal experiences with the goddess.

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0:00.0	Aloha and how my so supernatural listeners. I'm Rasha Pecarrero. And I'm Yvette
0:15.7	Gentile and do we have a surprise for y'all? We have the most beautiful and amazing human.
0:24.2	We have ever encountered it in our entire lives sitting right next to us.
0:28.7	And his name is Lopaka Kaponui.
0:31.8	He is a native Hawaiian storyteller, Konaka Mauli.
0:36.2	He is an author and actor, a Kumuhula, a cultural practitioner, former professional
0:42.5	wrestler.
0:43.7	What is that doing in there?
0:47.4	And Lopaka is a proud husband, father, and grandfather.
0:52.5	Sometimes known as the ghost guy, Lopaka, makes a business of leading guests
0:58.3	into some of the darkest, spookiest, and dare I say, supernatural places on the island of
1:06.4	Oahu in our hometown in Honolulu, Hawaii. Hello, Hawaii.
1:13.6	It's nice to meet the both of you.
1:29.3	Well, we've met previously, what, almost 12 hours ago.
1:34.3	On a Nightmarters Tour.
1:38.3	Yes.
1:39.3	On a ghost tour.
1:41.3	With mysteries of Hawaii, which was absolutely incredible.
1:45.4	Thank you.
1:46.2	Yes, it was fantastic, you know.
1:48.7	It was so profound and so beautiful to hear the stories that you were telling and to walk the path and to fill the energy.
1:58.4	But just the history, the history that you tell, it's so needed,
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