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Personal Narrative: Stories From Hawaii

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Stories from Hawaii Hawaii has lots of supernatural things that happen around on this little island. The things that go on here can be hard to believe sometimes but when you experience them for yourself, you will start believing me. Here are a few recent stories that I hear from my family.
One day, my family witnessed the most shocking experience in their life. My uncle has a pet dog that he found on the side of the beach and was handicap. It was missing a leg and was helpless but my uncle loved that dog no matter what. One day however, he came home from work and the dog was dead in the yard. He was very sad and called my grandpa and dad to help him bury him. They dug a hole in the backyard and placed him in there, and my uncle cried and prayed. The next day, he went outside and found the dog walking around. He freaked out and called my grandpa and dad again to come over it’s important. When they arrived to the house they couldn’t believe what they saw either. The same exact dog that they buried was now walking around the yard. The dog was for sure dead the day before, was stiff was stone and they buried it underground. …show more content…

At the time we just finished experiences a flash flood so the ground was very muddy and we enjoyed driving through it. After around sunset, the car started to stop working. We were confused on why the car stopped working so my dad went to check it out. The engine was wet and he needed to dry it off before it worked again. We tried to ask for help but all of a sudden no cars started to pass by and we were getting worried. My grandpa got mad at us because we got stuck and of all places it was a graveyard. It was getting really dark so we tried to call mom but there was no service there. After waiting for a long time we decided to pray and the next minute the car turned on. We jumped back into the car and as soon as we got on the road my mom called

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