It is said that once, at a time when food was scarce, an old woman took her granddaughter to the bluff at Vaitogi, and holding hands, they leaped into the sea down below.

It had rich soil for farming and plenty of game for hunting nearby, however, families began moving away from Fogāma'a before the end of the 19th century to the present-day location due to convenience and ease in connecting with other villages.

[6] Vaitogi was visited by Robert J. Maxwell in 1965-1966, who sampled 52 participants in a 22-month research project inspired by the theories of Hans Eysenck concerning Extraversion and introversion behavior.

At one point, a fire raged through the village for days and could not be extinguished, threatening lives and destroying scores of hectares of vegetation and crops.

After the village chiefs gathered to pray for the fires to end, heavy rain supposedly fell extinguishing the flames.

[11] Between 2022 and 2024, a new park was established in Vaitogi, featuring a 27-hole miniature putt-putt golf course, eight Samoan fales, and a wading pool.

The chief and villagers treated her like royalty, and provided her with a bed made of twenty woven mats topped with a blanket and sheets.

[15] She also described her stay: “It was there [in Vaitogi] I had all my essential training in how to manage Samoan etiquette… I learned to eat and enjoy Samoan food and to feel unabashed when, as a guest, I was served first and the whole family sat about sedately waiting for me to finish so that they, in turn, could eat… Day by day I grew easier in the language, sat more correctly… I learned how to relate to other people in terms of their rank and how to reply in terms of the rank they accorded me.

Vaitogi’s coastline is made up of rugged cliffs and molten lava rocks, with a few patches of sand.

Crops such as cucumber, head cabbage, pineapple, and lime are still brought from Vaitogi to be sold at the Fagatogo Market.

The village is also home people from Western Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, Korea, China, and Tokelau.

[20] Vaitogi worshipped in private homes and guest houses of the village chiefs until the church was built in the 1850s.