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Aloha Tower Marketplace
2015-2016
My university had bought this property shortly before I enrolled and had renovated it to be a second dorm/social hub for our school which is situated in downtown Honolulu. Now this place is literally located in a dock, the back lanai looks out over the harbor, and at night the whole building would shake due to the massive shipping boats coming into the dock. This place was close to 100 years old, and has had a history of deaths due to accidents (it was a shipping terminal, so no surprise there). Well we were the very first students to live here, and when I say it was not the dorm experience you expected...well, it wasn't. Depression rates, assault, r*pe, and other crazy things were rampant in the dorms. We went through 3 roommates in one semester it was so bad. But when people got out of the dorms, it was like their personalities just changed completely.
On top of the heaviness that was happening emotionally thing would move on their own or disappear. When I first moved in my candles disappeared and then reappeared placed neatly in the back of a crawl space no one could fit into. My roommates pillow disappeared and never turned back up. We had a roommate with a peanut allergy so we had a strict no peanut rule in our room and on more than one occasion found an open jar of peanut butter in our fridge. And yes, we did think someone was messing with us at first, until security got involved and went over all of the security footage of our room, showing that Jo one was going in or out in the time these weird things were happening.
When I left that dorm for the last time it felt like a weight was being lifted off of me - like I could breathe again.
Submitted by:
Emily