Pu'u Ola'i was a projection created by an old woman and her accomplices.
Physical appearance[]
He is a large golden statue head with an angry expression, and can sometimes be seen transparent, glowing, or surrounded by grains of sand.
Personality[]
He's very territorial of the lands in Hawaii, and demands people to leave the islands forever according to the legend, or else he'll bring them doom.
History[]
Scooby-Doo and the Tiki's Curse[]
The tiki god legend was used by a greedy old woman and her two accomplices via projected images of him around a section of land in Hawaii, as it was own by Mystery Inc.'s friend Johnny Kopono and his family, to them away so they could buy the land for next to nothing. They also used special effects like a giant fan to make it look like sections of the island were being blown by hostile winds, and the old woman would use grains of sand to throw over the projection for the glowing effect, while also disguising her own voice.
Old woman and her accomplices revealed.
Eventually after a few attacks, a chase and a charity interruption, plus revealing of one of the projections, the three crooks were found out thanks to Johnny shining a light at them from his helicopter and they were arrested the following morning.