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Location: The Fire Station on South Street and the newer Station on Queen Street

Known for: Creepy sounds throughout the night

Story behind it: The station was built in 1929, near a graveyard where 1,000 bodies were buried during a smallpox epidemia in the mid 1850s

Urban Legend Experience:

1) John Clark, now a deputy fire chief rushed to the captains quarters where he heard a shrill cry. Clark then shook him as he lay screaming. The captain awoke dazed and said a ghost was sitting on his chest choking him.

2)Captain Jack Dennis of the new Kakaako Fire Station recalled how a firefighter's dog suddenly became frightened while inside the late 1970s. "I never seen a dog like that. All his hairs stood and everything," said Dennis, adding other firefighters soon followed the dog out of the fire station.

Though ghost have thrived, it has not prompted firefighters to request a transfer to another station. "I think everyone accepts that's part of the station life," Clark said.



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