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A ultramarathon runner had no idea that she was being watched as she traversed the Hawaiian rainforest during a 100 mile race in Oahu.
What exactly was watching her, however, is a very spooky mystery, but some believe it was a “Nightmarcher” demon.
According to the book Haunted Hawaiian Nights, Nightmarchers are the ghosts of ancient tribal Hawaiian warriors.
The runner, Kay Borleis, had this encounter in January 2019 during the HURT 100 mile race as she was running the 20 mile route on the Honolulu Mauka trails.
Competitors have to complete this route five times to finish the race, running through thick mud-caked roots, several water crossings, and over cliffs and other steep inclines.
Unfortunately, Borleis injured her foot during the second to last lap and had to pull out of the event.
Upon returning home, Borleis’ pacing partner sent her photos from the event, including multiple moving photos.
Borleis wrote on her blog that one of the images showed “a dark figure dressed in a cloak moving past me while I was running.”
This especially got her attention because neither she nor her partner recalled “passing a person on that strip of trail.”
“The reason why no one was on that part of trail is because all runners had to run in a clockwise direction,” Kay Borleis wrote.
“And tourists weren’t out that early. We didn’t see anyone for hours while running together. So, we were — and still are — positive there was no one there.”
Hawaiian locals, however, aren’t buying her story.
“We have the photos and the live photo as evidence to…something,” she still claimed.
“To this day, we still don’t know what it was,” she also wrote.
If it really was a Nightmarcher, Hawaiian folklore their feet never touch the ground and leave no evidence behind after visiting.
Should one encounter a Nightmarcher, it is said that the person should lie motionless (preferably naked), face down on the ground and/or pee on yourself.
All of these are things Borleis might want to keep on mind because she says she plans to continue to compete in the HURT 100, maybe even running into her “old friend” again.