Creepy moment woman unknowingly ‘runs past ghost in haunted woods’

A woman is convinced she ran past the suspected ghost of an ancient warrior in a haunted rainforest without even realising.

When Kay Borleis was pictured by her friend Cassie during a marathon in Hawaii’s Honolulu Mauka trails, they didn’t initially notice anything untoward.

But a closer look at the photo revealed a terrifying dark figure lurking in the trees staring directly at her.

The chilling discovery was made by Cassie’s mum when she flicked through the snaps after the race.

Kay was taking part in the gruelling 100-mile challenge in Oahu in January 2019 during a lunar eclipse, which is often linked to paranormal and mysterious sightings.

They suspect the creepy-looking figure was the spirit of an ancient Hawaiian warrior known as a Night Marcher.

‘We never saw anyone passing us and there were no statues along the trail,’ Kay wrote in a post on Reddit.

‘It is NOT photoshopped or made. This is legit. And we saw it the morning of the Blood.’

She explained that they had driven back to their Airbnb when Cassie’s mum messaged to say she’d noticed something strange in the photo Cassie had sent her.

‘It was a “live” (picture) that showed a dark figure dressed in a cloak moving past me while I was running,’ Kay said.

‘Now, I know my memory is quite shoddy after the race and even while racing, but I did not remember passing a person on that strip of trail.

‘Cassie didn’t either and she had her wits to her.’

After being spooked out by what appeared to be a mysterious entity, Kay and Cassie asked their friends to help them decipher what it was – and that’s when they learned about Night Marchers.

‘According to legend, there are ghosts of Hawaiian warriors that roam the island and they’re called Night Marchers,’ she said.

‘They are “murderous shades, demons, revenants that haunt the island. They are the rabid galvanised spectres of ancient Hawaiian fighters, heroes, and warriors”.

‘Upon further research, we found out that “ancient Hawaiian tenets assert that any mortal gazing upon or being viewed in defiance to the marchers will die horribly and violently. Some people declare that if the mortal lies still, down on the ground, prostrated to the marchers they are giving proper respect, fear, and reverence to the Night Marchers; and they will be forgiven and spared.”’

Kay, a senior art director and avid hiker, said: ‘Luckily, we did not see the supposed Night Marcher.’

Other bizarre events played out that day, according to Kay, who said she had never previously dropped out of a race in all her years of running since she was 14.

But while running the fourth lap of HURT 100, she started suffering with a sharp pain in her foot and was forced to pull out.

‘I never quit things in life. I have never quit a run before,’ she told a podcast. ‘But this felt different. It was like an out-of-body experience and I just felt like quitting.

‘It felt like something bad is going to happen to me if I go forward.’

The unsettling disturbances didn’t end there either. When she shared the photos of her discovery online, she was met with backlash and had to quickly delete them.

She said: ‘Our simple and harmless request to figure out what was in our photo turned a little violent. We received messages calling us, “Haoles,” and that we were disrespecting Hawaiian culture.

‘We even got threatening messages where people wanted us to meet a Night Marcher so we would die a violent death. Less than 72 hours after posting our photos, we took them down.’

Last month, an eerie prison named the UK’s ‘most haunted place’ was saved from shutting down.

Two mystery ‘ghost ships’ also washed up on a beach late last year, while residents revealed what it’s like to live in Britain’s most haunted village.

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