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Creek - Court Apartments (formally Webster Apartments) - Reports
of strange occurrences happened only in the East side building, usually
in apartments 1-4, and 8. Closet doors would open, even when closed securely
and if the closet door was closed, you can sometimes hear the coat hangers
(even if immobilized in some way)tap against each other, despite the total
lack of breezes or heat updrafts. Other strange happenings included: Heavy
footsteps and yelling in vacant upper apartments, the feeling of an unpleasant
presence, cold spots (in only one upper apartment), the feeling of being
"touched" or "groped", knocking on doors, dishes being
broken and pans thrown (but still intact and unmoved when you check them)
and flickering lights. The buildings are about 100 years old, but no one
has made any connections of deaths or tragedies to these "hauntings". Battle Creek - Penfield cemetery - when people drive by sometimes they see a white ball run across the into a marble headstone. Battle Creek - Oak Hill Cemetery- At approximately midnight every Sunday night a statue of the Virgin Mary seems to weep this story is over 60 years old everybody in Battle Creek has heard of this story. They call her (CRYING MARY) Bay City - Delta College - Reports of apparitions and footsteps heard in there and found nobody in the building. Bay City - old water treatment plant - white objects seen entering plant, very creepy feeling, some people who have went inside have came out frightened Bay City - Our Lady of the Visitation Church - The legend of the Bloody Hand. For years there has been talk of the appearance of a bloody hand in the church sacristy and in the church basement as well. Bellaire - Richardi House - The Richardi House (now known as The Grand Victorian Bed & Breakfast) is rumored to be haunted by Henri Richardi. Richardi built the house for his intended bride. When she left him for another man, he was heartbroken. Strange lights were seen in the cupola when the house was uninhabited (before being turned into a Bed & Breakfast). Bay Port - Sweet Dreams Inn Victorian Bed & Breakfast- They report to have many ghosts roaming the halls, opening & closing doors, walking up & down the stairs, moving furniture, throwing objects down, etc. They are good spirits, but very active. For information to visit go to Sweet Dreams Inn Victorian Bed & Breakfast Belding - Belding Library - In the Children's section, downs stairs, sometimes you hear a small girl laughing when you are there alone. Books fall off the selves and you feel like there is someone in the room who wants you to go away even thought there is no one there. Belle Isle - bridge near lake tacoma- it is back in the forest part of the island. said that if you park your car on the bridge's anywhere on the island, and turn off the engine. After a couple of minutes an old lady in white will appear. She will wave her hand inviting you into the woods. No person has ever followed her into the woods. Belleville - 94 & Denton Rd. - Go down Denton Rd. at midnight and stop when you see the old road at the bottom of the hill on Denton Rd. (Unknown name of road but it's by the old cemetery) stop turn off all lights and get out of your car wait about 1-10 min. and you will see a glow float down the old road at the bottom of the hill. Belleville - Cemetery off S. Service Drive - Denton Rd. - There's an overall bad feeling in this cemetery. If you take a camera (preferably digital) and take pictures, you'll see orbs everywhere. There's a specific large, greenish orb that shows up in photographs quite a bit. Belleville - Robson Rd - When the street is dark and no one is around you can put your car in park and turn you head-lights on get out of your car and stand in front of the car and you can see another car come towards you and drive right through you and your car and then disappear in seconds. Belleville - Tyler Rd. Cemetery - ghosts dressed in white can be seen walking through the cemetery. It always vanishes into the tallest grave there. The ghost(s) follows vehicles that drive in there at night. Berville - Berville Rd. - An abandoned farm house located 2 miles north of Berville where a very ill 12 year old boy had died in his sleep. Drive past this house at around 1 A.M. when it is said the boy died and you may catch a glimpse of lights flickering in the windows. Inside you can hear a faint whispering, footsteps upstairs, and things will move in the house including doors being opened that were closed. enter the boys bedroom at the end of the upstairs hall and experience an overwhelming cold chill and sudden sad emotions at times. Big Rapids - Big Rapids Cinema - Reports of a woman crying for help, cold chills, weird noises and intense feelings when exploring the basement, which was once opened to tunnels that ran underneath the entire town but have since been filled in. Big Rapids - Ponderosa - Voices are heard often. Shadows of people walking. The sound of high heels down the hallway in the back. A woman in dark clothing wearing white nylons and black heels. Things have been reported to fall for no reason. Big Rapids - Rapids Apartments - The apartments are very close to Ferris State University and have many students staying there. Residents have heard a young lady or small child clearly say "Hi" behind them in the apartment. When they all turned to look no one was there. Birmingham - Adams house - House built in 1920. Originally inhabited by Margaret parks who owned Parks Cole Company in downtown Birmingham around the same period. Countless paranormal experiences in the home. For example: lights turning on and off by themselves, curtains opening as if someone where looking out{nobody being home that is). , cold spots , ghostly apparitions both male and female, items vanishing and reappearing ( items of small size ), a strand of bells ringing in early morning hours. This is only to name a few. Also witnessed by many people. Home at a later date became the Michigan metaphysical society. Birmingham - Birmingham Theater- the exact history of the haunting is not known, but the Birmingham Theater has been around a long time.Possibly built beginning of the ninteen hundreds as theater used for plays. It was closed until the 1990's. At this time it was remodeled into a movie theater. A former employee that worked there in the summer of 2001 reports they had heard stories about the main theater being haunted, but disregarded them. One night after closing, they were in the main theater sweeping the leftover popcorn into piles on the floor. There were two distinct piles app. 10 feet apart. There was what sounded like a creaking and the ducts all of the sudden startes to circulate cold air. The two piles of popcorn shifted over on the floor 3 feet each, still remaining distinct piles. There is also a side door to a basement in the main theater. It is locked from the outside, no other way in. Yet at this time, light flickered on and off while the sounds of things falling could be heard. Bloomfield - Trowbridge Road - A side street north of 16 mile on Woodward holds a very creepy place called Trowbridge. It is a very rich area an local kids that were depressed would jump off the bridge which was a 100 ft. drop to there death, one instance on a Sunday from 8p.m until 12 midnight every half hour on the hour a kid would commit suicide until midnight when the train came an dismembered there corpses. The kids would spray paint there names or something to be remembered by on the wall. It is on a street called Trowbridge, very creepy street with huge houses take it down half a mile an on the left hand side before the street ends is the bridge. Go at your own risk because the place has been known to have many freaky occurrences an not to mention a monks monastery about a mile down the road. - October 2003 Update: The Police DO issue trespassing tickets for $250.00 because the train bridge and tracks are federal property and by being on it you are trespassing on federal property. - February 2004 Update: Police patrol there quite frequently and the neighbor across the street won't hesitate to call them. Bloomfield - Trowbridge Road - Sacred Heart Academy - There is a statue of Mary with her hands raised in the air.. (You can see it as you drive by, its in the front yard.) The urban legend goes that there were 2 young boys playing by the statue. They were supposed to come home when the streetlights come on but never did. The parents started looking for them and found a bloody message on the base of this statue that said "Don't let your kids play after dark". With the fingers of the statue cut off and blood coming out. If you go there today you'll see the fingers cut off and the eyes gouged out.- August 2005 Update: This is believed to be a hoax. a visitor to our site reports the hands of the statue are intact. January 2007 Update: A worker reports the hands are intact because the statue has been replaced due to its evil past. The original statue is believed to be buried a couple feet down facing downward underneath a new edition to the building. Bloomfield Hills - Fox and Hounds Restaurant- It is one of the most expensive restaurants on the states, every night around 11:30 pm, the cooks notice that all the pots and pans fall out of the shelves. They noticed this for about 12 times then put them on the ground. The next morning they are back on the top shelves. Borculo - The Old School House - What used to be an old, one-room schoolhouse, is now said to inhibit guests from the paranormal realm. It is said a former teacher, by the name of Ms. Van moss, would abuse the children so badly that one day after a playground mishap, Vanmoss struck a child so hard in the head that the child died immediately. Today, the schoolhouse is a well know restaurant, but the customers report seeing a small child sitting solemnly alone at a booth in the corner. There have also been reports of silver wear being randomly thrown across the room. Breckenridge - AIM School - Used to be the elementary school but in 1994 they built a new one and now it is a school for mental teenagers, and a place for events. It was said A few years after the school was built(1936)there was a little space in the wall that they boarded up, and some kid unbounded it and shoved another kid in there then boarded it back up, The kid died in the hole and a while later they found him, Now if you go in there by yourself the lockers open and close by themselves and you can here kids laughing, sometimes the toilets flush by themselves and the sinks turn on and off by themselves. Bridgeport - Bridgeport High School - there is said to be in the first years the school was built the principal was accidentally killed by a teacher....Now all the teachers that have problems with the principal face in school injuries like falling and breaking bones. Bridgeport - Cole Rd. Cemetery - There had been said to be seen a little girl wondering the cemetery saying, "Help me”. Seen by a young teenager. Brighton - Brighton Women's correctional institute - before the death sentence was revoked in Michigan hundreds of inmates died in the prison. Rumors of ghost hitchhikers are known to be on the road leading to the prison. These are the souls of inmates executed while attempting escape. Brimley - Point Iroquois Lighthouse - Point Iroquois Lighthouse, outside of Brimley is said to be haunted, there is a story about a ghost girl who was eaten by a bear, the bear was later killed and parts of the girl where discovered inside. The site is also the location of an Indian battle, which took place in the 1600's, where the Ojibwe and Iroquois had a battle, and the Iroquois's where slaughtered. The lighthouse has had cold spots and figures have been seen. Brooklyn - Clarklake - in the house its said that there are noises that can be heard in a closet and the attic. And it is said that a man killed 3 people in the house and then himself. And so now the man is looking all over the house for the 3 people so he can kill them again. Brownstown - Dawnshire Park - Back in the early 90's there was a rumor heard of a man with a ax walking around in the woods and every time a kid from the neighborhood walked into the woods they would see him for a split second but then the face disappeared it was said that someone actually got it on video tape but now you only see it during a full moon you can see an extra shadow walking besides you with a man and a axe. Brownstown - Oak ridge cemetery on Telegraph - Rumors of a little boy and a tall man are said to haunt oak ridge anytime from about 9:00pm to 3:00 am. Brownstown - Tela Valley - there are hauntings all threw out the park. Apparitions of people walking up and down the streets late hours of the night. Burton - Naturally You - ticking clocks that are not there. Things will turn on by them self. Byron - McGuire's House - There was a man named Nick Bradon that lived and built the house, he was plowing the field when he fell of the tractor and got ran over with the blades of the plow. There are reports of lights that go on and off, rocking chairs that rock on their own, foot steps, and there have been reports if people sleeping in the upstairs rooms have seen figure of people watching over them. |