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    Michigan Haunts: Public Places, Eerie Spaces
    Michigan Haunts: Public Places, Eerie Spaces
    Michigan Haunts: Public Places, Eerie Spaces
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    Michigan Haunts: Public Places, Eerie Spaces

    By Jon Milan, Gail Offen and Gerald S Hunter

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    A ghostly travel guide to the Great Lakes State.
     
    Michigan has two beautiful peninsulas that are connected by stories, legends, and mysteries. This book is the perfect glove compartment companion for exploring those paranormal parts of the Mitten State, as most of these hotels, restaurants, theaters, lighthouses, and other places are open to the public. 
     
    This road trip to “the other side,” filled with hauntings, ghost towns, and bizarre tales of murder and mayhem, draws from more than 300 years of Michigan history—from the notoriously haunted remote lighthouses like Seul Choix in the Upper Peninsula to Eloise, one of the most famous psychiatric asylums in America to the legend of Lover's Leap on Mackinac Island. What Purple Gang member still hangs out in Clare? What spirits lurk at Henry Ford's Greenfield Village? 
     
    Here is a guide to all that and more, including Houdini’s Detroit connections, the poisonings at Cass Corridor’s Alhambra, and paranormal activity at Detroit’s historic Fort Wayne. Puzzles are still waiting for a solution; Ripley’s Believe it or Not! once offered $100,000 to anyone who could solve the strange phenomenon of the Paulding Lights near Watersmeet. So, buckle up and prepare to explore the eeriest the Wolverine State has to offer.<
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJul 30, 2018
    ISBN9781439668177
    Michigan Haunts: Public Places, Eerie Spaces

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      Michigan Haunts - Jon Milan

      INTRODUCTION

      About 20 years ago, I owned a 1928 two-story duplex in Dearborn. My lifelong friend and bandmate Rick Pinkerton (co-owner of the gone but legendary Music Menu in Greektown) became my second-floor tenant. One evening, shortly after we moved in, Rick came downstairs and said, Y’know, Milan, I think this house may be haunted! He was a true skeptic but described how, when getting up to use the bathroom, he felt as though something was trying to physically knock him down. I had actually heard the loud thuds. Stranger still, that morning he had awakened around 3:00 a.m. because he heard water pouring into the bathtub.

      After that, I became aware of strange sounds coming from upstairs when Rick was at work—and we both heard odd noises and banging coming from the attic. After an animal control service determined nothing had ever been up in the attic, I called Gerald Hunter.

      I had read his first Haunted Michigan book. Gerald’s approach is to always start by looking for logical explanations. He is a great observer who has found many unexplained things. He is also an ordained Methodist minister. He immediately asked me to rule out several possibilities, including animals in the attic or something falling on the tub faucet handle. Nothing had.

      When Rick was at work, it was never surprising to hear someone running back and forth upstairs or a crash coming from the living room. But when I would go up there—nothing!

      Eventually, Rick moved out. The night he left, I was again awakened by the sound of running upstairs.

      Stop it! I yelled, and it immediately stopped.

      I just started laughing. I mean, how do you explain such a thing?

      Once, I stopped at home during my lunch hour and heard the unmistakable sound of water running in the tub. I ran up to the unoccupied apartment and shut off the water—it took four complete turns. As soon as the water was off, I heard a chair scraping loudly in the living room and some excited whispering. I simply turned toward the living room and yelled, Yeah, I know you’re there!

      Another night, I was leaving home in a hurry when I realized I had not left a light on. When I pulled into my driveway about 10:30 that night, I was stunned to see every light in my house was on—on both floors and in the basement!

      Later that spring, Brian Harris, who played drums in my band (he now owns Harris Conservatory of Music in Plymouth), wanted to pick up his drums. He was unaware of the strange goings-on at the house.

      When he arrived at our gig, Brian handed me the key he borrowed and said, Wow, your upstairs tenants must be a real piece of work! I was barely there 30 minutes, and they kept pounding on the floor.

      Ah, I said, with a slight nod. I don’t have a tenant.

      Brian looked at me and laughed nervously, Well, there was definitely someone upstairs.

      Yeah, I know, I said, but I have no idea who it is.

      Brian gave me a look.

      You get used to it, I replied. And somehow, I did.

      Eventually, I sold the house. But it left me with a fascination about other places with haunted stories. There are so many spots in Michigan with legends, sightings, sounds, and unexplained activity. But since you cannot visit private homes, my coauthor and I decided to focus on public places. We hope you will visit these locations and draw your own conclusions. And, if nothing else, you will see a lot of our fascinating state.

      —Jon Milan

      One

      RESTAURANTS AND

      WATERING HOLES

      VORGESCHMACK. Visiting a haunted restaurant or tavern is the perfect aperitif for thirsty, time-crunched paranormal adventurers, and Brooklyn’s Cherry Creek Winery is ripe for an initial tasting. Built in 1870, this old schoolhouse is where wine tasters attend class by the glass. And though school’s out forever, one ghostly little girl is still in attendance—a bit shy, she is often seen peeking out from the back room. More wine?

      WHATCHU TALKIN ’BOUT, WILLIS? The tiny village of Willis is best-known for Bone Heads BBQ, where some customers never seem to leave. Housed in a structure dating from 1865, Bonehead’s has several paranormal patrons—including a window washer from the otherworld employment agency—frequently seen from the street. There is also Nellie, often seen descending the stairs in a white dress, and a little girl who sometimes appears in the mirror of the women’s bathroom.

      WALTZ OPUS POSTHUMOUS. The Waltz Inn began as a biergarten in the 19th century, long before becoming the popular and haunted eatery it is today. A previous owner named Tom is thought to be haunter-in-chief, and his silent apparition has been spotted sitting on an upstairs couch, staring out windows and standing in the kitchen. He is a prankster and has been known to turn lights on late at night and slam the freezer door.

      SO, THIS GHOST WALKS INTO A BAR . . . A stagecoach stop known as the Old Tavern along the old Grand River Trail between Detroit and Lansing, the New Hudson Inn looks pretty much unchanged since 1831. In fact, it is now the oldest continuously operating bar in Michigan. During a recent renovation, a hidden room that the New Hudson historical society believes was used for hiding fugitive slaves along the Underground Railroad was discovered (at right). The opening exposed in the ceiling would have been concealed within a hollow, wooden support pillar extending to the floor, with a ladder inside to the secret room. With so many well-kept secrets, there is no telling how who might have come and gone here—and some who never left. Perhaps that explains some of the seldom-seen tenants who make their presence known on an almost daily

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