Hawaii’s Haleakala National Park wants visitors to stop taking rocks and then mailing them back, thinking they’re cursed by Pele.
It’s illegal to take anything from a national park — it doesn’t matter if it’s a grain of sand or a pine cone. But every year, visitors to Hawaii have been picking up lava rocks as souvenirs and mailing them back, once they hear of a myth that bad luck will befall them.In 2017, Haleakala National Park on Maui received 1,275 rocks in the mail, often accompanied by a letter of apology with a description of the thief’s misfortune — and not much has changed since then.
No one knows the answer, but it shouldn’t take a curse to realize that taking from someone’s home is a form of disrespect.“Hawaii is a special place to the people that call this place home, and they open up the doors to the world so that everyone can experience this place as well,” Katie Matthew, museum curator for Haleakala National Park, tells SFGATE. “So yeah, in a way, to respect the people that live here and call this place home, and think about, this is their home, this is all we have.
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