"A reader will be able to easily picture sitting across the table from the narrator of ‘My Ghost Story,’ just talking story. Ghost stories woven with a thread of truth are often the most effective, and our Halloween Fiction Contest judges, members of the Hawaii Book Publishers Association, remarked that Hashimoto’s tale had a ring of authenticity. Hashimoto, who grew up in Hawaii, took her husband’s experiences and crafted a ghost story featuring composite characters and a local setting. … Some people have that connection to the spiritual world." He didn’t really see the person.’ But sometimes you get a visitation from people who have passed. "The rational mind will say, ‘No, it was dark.
He didn’t know who had passed away, but he saw the (dead) neighbor outside the front door across the street," she said. He told me the next morning that he had gotten up in the middle of the night and looked out the window. He also witnessed unidentified flying objects as a child, and more recently told his wife of a ghost sighting similar to the one described in Hashimoto’s winning entry. Mundy claims the fizzling orb was communicating with him somehow. Once during a thunderstorm, ball lightning - an unexplained natural phenomenon - hovered near his crib, an incident corroborated by his parents.
Even as an infant in the Midwest, he seemed to attract paranormal activity. Her husband, George Mundy, is a self-employed electrical engineer who has designed and built instruments for the Grateful Dead and other bands. He’s a special person," said Hashimoto, 62, a Kalihi resident who is a grants assistant at Bishop Museum. She found it at home in her husband, whose real-life supernatural experiences were the basis for "My Ghost Story." Shar Hashimoto didn’t need to look far for inspiration for her spooky entry in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser’s Second Annual Halloween Fiction Contest.
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