On the show, Finding Bigfoot, the team takes a detour and explores the legends of the Menehune. The irrigation ditch was constructed of 120 carved basalt blocks running for 200 feet. Though Menehune legends abound, some say the word may have derived from the Tahitian word Manahune meaning commoner, or small in social standing, not in physical size.”Īnother structure that the Menehune may have constructed in the ancient past is the Menehune or Kīkīaola Ditch at Waimea. They managed this amazing task by lining up from the village of Makaweli for 25 miles, passing stones hand-to-hand to build the pond. According to Hawaiian legends, the Menehune built this entire fishpond in one night. The Menehune lived in the forest and hid from humans. “The legend that surrounds the fishpond is based on the mythical Menehune, Hawaii’s mischievous little people who performed legendary engineering feats. Menehune are mythical people that lived in Hawaii long before the Hawaiians came here.” “Legend has it that the Menehune built this pond. “They call the ‘invisible hands that built the fish pond.’ They say that they came back one day, and the fish pond was built,” says Roy. Legend says the Menehune created the wall, passing carefully squared lava rocks to each other over a distance of many miles to a quarry. The pond, an engineering marvel, was constructed with a stone wall that is 900 feet long and five feet high. Today, local people point to the structures these people left behind as evidence that the Menehune were quite real, and the first settlers of the islands before the Polynesians arrived.īelow, watch Bradda Roy tell the legend of the Menehune Fishpond on the Kauai island, which locals say appeared after just one moonlit night 1,000 years ago. In Hawaiin tradition, there are many stories of the Menehune, elusive small-statured people, a “pygmy tribe” who lived in the deep forests of the Hawaiian Islands. However, there are many reasons to believe there is more than a mere myth to these tales of giants and dwarves. Conspiracy theories abound, suggesting giant skeletons have been a carefully guarded secret. In the mainstream, these stories are almost always called myths, and the proof is elusive. All across the world, there are stories about people of giant stature, and also of relatively small people.
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