[By Rubina Rivers in the PCC’s UPDATE newsletter of February 1989; reprinted in pcc50.com, September 24, 2012]
Intro: The “Laie Lady” was a ghostly character featured in the Polynesian Cultural Center’s series of Haunted Lagoon scary Halloween canoe rides.]
On Monday, January 23, 1989, at around 8:15 p.m. — way past closing time — Jerry Pineda and Daniel Wong, who are Concessions employees, were making a delivery to the Mission Settlement Snack Bar [yup, there used to be one there].
Upon approaching the area, they
heard singing coming from the Chapel. They parked their cart by the Wishing Well and as they did so, observed through the front windows of the Chapel a family of about four adults and three children sitting inside while a woman dressed in white was playing the organ.
The two workers stopped for about a minute inside the Snack Bar, and when they came out, they found the Chapel all closed up, the lights out and not a soul in sight in the darkness. Both men experienced an eerie feeling as
they quickly made their way back to the front to the comfort of lighted areas. At about 11 o’clock that night Security reported the front door of the Chapel unlocked.