Hanted Places In Michigan
Last Updated: July 2005
(Don't worry, this isn't even half of them. Just cities I've been to and am somewhat familiar with in Michigan. They are in alphebetical order And I didn't paste any further than Detroit. And no, it hasn't been edited, that's supposed to be the job of the owner of the website I got these from.)
Alpena - old radio tavern - A few witnesses heard footsteps and saw heads in the windows before they were boarded up. next to the long lake chapel.
Ann Arbor - Huron High School theatre. - Story goes some time in the late 70s a student named Mary (last name never mentioned) who, while working on some lighting fixtures alone one day, fell from the catwalks head first and died upon the stage. Sightings include actors and stagehands seeing a girl up in the catwalks wearing a light pink dress. Also, in the prop room where all the senior thespians spray paint their names on the wall shortly after Mary's death her name appeared in bold red paint above the doorway about seventeen feet from the floor and upside down.
Ann Arbor - Mercywood Hospital - Mercywood was a mental hospital before closing down. security guards heard the elevators moving when the building was empty. Sounds would come from the boiler room. In the basement were personal belongings of the inmates. There was also a bowling alley and bumper pool tables in the basement. There were insane rambling written on the walls in some of the rooms. Behind the hospital there was a convent where the nuns lived that worked in the hospital and even to go in there was a very uneasy feeling. It is like you can feel the insanity that surrounded the place. Also an evil feeling. They have since torn down the old hospital but something has been built there recently. It is on Jackson Ave. in Ann Arbor a little way down from the cemetery next to I-94 on the right side if you are going west.
Battle 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
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.
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.
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.
Burton - Naturally You - ticking clocks that are not there. Things will turn on by them self.
Canton - Denton rd - many legends about this rd. the bridge is said to be haunted by a woman who's child was killed by a car, she walks the bridge and you can hear the baby cry. dark figures chase your car and there is said to be a house on a side rd. that is haunted
Canton - Denton Road Bridge - The story goes that a group of kids were playing chicken near Denton Road bridge, and one of them proved to be chicken. His car swerved off the road when they reached the bridge, and crashed into the river below. Many people claim to see a light come out of river and chase their vehicle to the end of the road, if they stop at the center of the bridge at night.- November 2003 Update: the road has been reconfigured in that area and that the bridge no longer exists. That is not to say that the hauntings no longer occur.
Canton - Gyde Rd. - Reports of whispers heard and cars being pushed.
Cass City - Crawford Rd. bridge - Back in the 1800's a young lady got in a horse and buggy accident. Her buggy wheel went off the bridge and flipped, she drown in 2 feet of water. On foggy summer night you can see her hand come up over the road and hear her please for help!
Chesaning - Chesaning Market Street Square (a mini mall with indoor shops) - Store merchandise has been found moved when stores are opened in the morning. Employees hair pulled, employee shoved, voices can be heard at night. A Santa decoration was seen by 3 eye witnesses as it lifted from a table and was sat down on the floor outside a store. Transparent images of a woman and man seen separately over periods of time. Numerous unexplainable events occurring since mall opened in 1985. Unknown before this date. A smallpox outbreak in 1837 devastated some of the last remaining Indians in this area before the village of Chesaning was started.
Clinton Township - 18 mile road and Hayes - In the woods right off Hayes and 18 there is a small cemetery that has about 30 stones, most of them dating back to the 1800's and its said that if you come alone to the cemetery at 12:00 at night on a Friday you will very loud whispers in the woods that corner the whole cemetery and if you brave enough to stay longer the whispers come closer until there right in front of your face
Clinton Township - Chateau Clinton Trailer Park - In the Spring, Summer, and sometimes early Fall, some of the streets will have fog only at the end of them, and there will be Shadows of teenager looking people walking down the middle of the street. Also, sometimes if you cross the middle of the streets you feel a temperature drop repeatedly.
Clinton County - St. Johns - R.B.W. (Rodney B. Wilson) - People have said to hear a noise from the hall ways like a drum beating after closing hours when only the janitors are there.
Clinton County - St. Johns/Clinton County - Cemetery on Forest Hill Road - Witnesses claim to have taken tons of pictures of orbs here.
Clinton Township - Rudgate Manufactured Home Park - During The Night Here, You Can See Ghosts Of People who were killed by the train. And when you walk around the park at night you can see black figures in the wood line at the back of the park. And You Can Also See Ghosts Of Animals. Legend is that this park was built on old cemetery that was there in the 1800's.
Dearborn - Divine Child High School - Several years ago, when a new gym addition to the school was being built, a construction worker fell from a scaffolding and died from head injuries. Many people say that the new gym in the school is haunted and see his ghost up on the catwalk at night. If you walk down the halls of DC by yourself you always feel like something is watching you, or following you, usually due to the footstep noises. It has been said that at night, in the empty halls, if you get in the school and walk around some of the rooms are lit up and the janitor equipment will be standing outside some of the rooms, but if you go in the rooms there is no one to be found, but often strange things written on the chalk boards.
Dearborn - Dunworth Pool (Seashore) - Overnight maintenance and guards have reported seeing children running through the building. The lifeguard break room is always cold and often feels like someone is watching. At night the gates rattle and shake. Children can be heard calling out "Jack" (the person the pool is named for) or the night maintenance man's name. Also footsteps can be heard throughout the night. Police often are called in to make sure it is not vandals. Never find anything but the noises continue.
Dearborn - Fire Station 2 - Reports of many of the fire personnel that work there state that at night, a lone figure shuffles across the apparatus floor knocking over fire boots and rattling the coat hangers. Some think it is the ghost of a firefighter that refuses to retire even after death. The description is of a tall figure, glasses and mumbles about the old days gone by. The watchman of the night shift always keeps one light on for fear of this poor shade.
Dearborn - Greenfield Village - haunted by many ghosts in most of the homes, the most active are in Firestone Farm, and Webster home. A man committed suicide in the barn at the farm, and Webster is just unhappy.
Dearborn - Greenfiled village - Henry ford museum - Henry ford museum has a car from the time President Kennedy was Shot. In the evening on the anniversary he has been spotted standing next to his car waving to the security officers and leaving a single red rose on the hood of the car. Often felt a cold wind and was also told he said that there was two men that As well was not the man that shot him there was another man out side the building that was standing on the lawn where there was trees and shot him.
Dearborn - The Henry Ford Estate - Doors and windows opening and shutting on their own. Several reports of the figure of a man following someone and vanishing. Reports of a man in and old fashioned uniform wandering the hallway and vanishing (a witness who spotted this later saw a picture of the Ford's butler and said that it was the same person that they spotted). The Michigan Ghost Watchers did an investigation at the estate and got pictures of orbs, mists and a figure of a man in one of Mr. Ford's cars.
Dearborn - Players Guild of Dearborn - It's a local community theatre to which I belong. Pictures have been taken of outlines of ghosts and it has been known to play tricks on members of The Guild. I have had a few encounters with the ghost. Hearing footsteps, when no one is around, and things moving around. At times, there is also a heavy breathing coming from stage Right.
Dearborn - Showcase cinema - 2 men died in a fire of the upstairs. When you go up there you can feel something is there with you. Employees also see figures standing in numerous places inside building.
Dearborn - Tournament Players Club - The cleaners have claimed at nighttime to have felt presences and witnessed the lockers opening and shutting. You always feel as if your not alone. It is believed to be the spirits of golf legends.
Dearborn Heights - Berwyn Senior Center - About 33 years ago, at a old school called Berwyn elementary(located at Berwyn and Richardson), there was a janitor that hung himself in the location of where the library stands today. Today it is called the Berwyn Senior Center. It is said by the senior citizens, and neighborhood kids, that they hear keys rattling, tapping on the glass of the library windows, moaning, and sometimes a figure or a face in the library's windows. Many say that this place is haunted.
Dearborn Heights - Crestwood Computer Lab - Computer number 25 is definitely haunted by an old senior who didn't not graduate because he failed computers. Now the computer acts up and any senior who sits at that computer passes with an 'A'. All the work is already done. This ghost is unlike any other ghost, he is a kind one!
Dearborn Heights - Crestwood High School - People have reported sightings of ghosts walking the halls at night, sounds coming from classrooms that are empty, things being moved, and voices behind students in the daytime. The origin of the hauntings are unknown.
Dearborn Heights - Highview Elementary School - Mary is said to have run into the girls bathroom on the second floor crying after the teacher screamed at her. And she tryed to climb up a vent to get out of the school.She didnt know that the vent was an old air conditioning vent and turned on automatically. She is said to have climbed up and screamed as the blades cut her body and she died in the vent. There is a dark stain beneath the vent and the door to that stall is removed.
Dearborn Heights - O.W. Best Middle School - The right wing of this school was closed off, supposedly because a young girl hanged herself in the hallway's bathroom. People claim to hear sobbing and see drops of water drip from thin air.
Dearborn Heights - Riverside Middle School - The Pool area was torn down this past summer, 2002 - There is a closed pool were a girl dove in and crack her head open and died and people reported that they saw her roaming the halls and her in the pool area. Also they heard her say student’s names. Couple people claim they saw her in the pool area wearing blonde hair that is shoulder length with blue eyes.
Detroit - Coca-cola Plant - a supervisor was shot by a disgruntled employee in the 50s. He is sometime seen yelling at workers and keeping the line running when the supervisors are gone.
Detroit - Crossing of Tireman and Evergreen- No one knows why, but almost every month a horrible accident happens at the stoplight near the 3rd block of Tireman. Every accident is horrid and leaves a disgusting scene. Just last year 2 cars collided and a mans leg landed onto a lawn, while a little baby who had been in the car seat in the back was found mangled and beheaded on one of the lawns also. It happens at an unearthly rate, and no one knows why. Children around the area never cross it, and try to stay away from it, they call it "fear street".
Detroit - Dept Of Transportation Main Office - A former employee killed himself on the 2nd floor .....so every night around 11:00 pm ....he roams the building ...operating the elevator and walking the stairs...... When he is really restless he rides the elevator with the living stopping on the 2nd floor on every up and down trip.....
Detroit - Detroit Historical Museum - In the lower level of the museum, there is a stain on the floor and it smells like sulfur that seems to disappear when it is touched. Not many know about this but it is true that some workers have seen an orb in the lower level by the stain.
Detroit - Detroit Institute of Arts - There is a figure in the African Gallery called the nail figure. I work security in the museum and several officers who work the afternoon and midnight shift have reported that when the lights are out the nail figure has (an African Sculpture who is impaled with several shards of wood referred to as "nails") has been seen performing a tribal dance. In the American Gallery there have been several reports of loud crashes in a room which houses a painting called the court of death. A loud crash has been reported to be heard by several officers patrolling through this area in the dark, sounding like a painting falling (It is a very large painting). When the lights are turned on there are no painting or any artworks out of order.
Detroit - The Detroit Masonic Temple - This huge edifice was built in 1912 especially for the Masons. The building has over 1,000 rooms, many secret passages, and secret floor compartments. The builder, a gentleman named George D. Mason, was said to have gone broke financing the building, and having lost all his money (and his wife, who left him shortly after filing bankruptcy) became despondent & jumped off the roof to his death. Night watchmen have seen his transparent form at the bottom of the stairs that lead to the roof. Also, one of the roof doors will always be open, sometimes only moments after the watchman has locked it. Many other unusual sightings have occurred there, including unnatural cold spots and shadows moving in the third floor hallway behind the Drill Hall, various footsteps, the sound of doors slamming in locked, unoccupied rooms, and feelings of being "watched" or being "unwanted". Many night watchmen have quit on the spot after having an experience with a ghost, and others refuse to even enter certain rooms.
Detroit - General Motors Plant - a man was saved from being crushed by a ghost of man that died that way in 1944.
Detroit - Henry Ford Hospital - Late at night you can hear shoes squeaking on the gym floor or hear a ball bouncing off the racket ball court. When obviously there is nobody in that area. It is off limits to personnel.
Detroit - Henry Ford Hospital - Clara Ford Pavilion - formerly a live-in nursing school is quite haunted. Security and maintenance personnel have had doors locked behind them during the early morning hours. One of the first floor boardrooms has a particularly obvious cold spot and a feeling of dread, as well as the smell of decay. In 1926 a nursing student, distraught over failing grades, took her own life by jumping from the roof onto the stone walk of the courtyard below. The doorway she used to gain access to roof will reportedly not stay closed on the anniversary of the event. A nurse there comes in every morning to the basement section and always has to close the 75lbs lead door to the x-ray room, when she is positive they close this every night before the last doctor leaves.
Detroit - Jefferson St. - before the Tunnel to Canada - A little girl was hit by a car on a rainy day where the turn for the Tunnel to Canada is. She was stuck under the car and was knocking hoping that the driver would hear her, but he didn't. It is said that when you take that turn on a rainy day you can hear four knocks on the bottom of your car. These knocks belong to the little girl.
Detroit - Majestic - magic stick - The Majestic is a theater on Woodward, It is where Harry Hudini did his final show, there is a basement below the theater that if you go down to is now a small room and a hallway that has been bricked up there has been several occasions people have seen someone coming from the basement--there is also an old mezzanine that is covered by a large drape you can hear applause and screaming coming from there. in the other part of the building there is a bowling ally(the garden bowl) and a pool hall/concert (magic stick) area above the bowling ally on several nights after all the patrons left several of us sat drinking in the garden bowl, you could hear a man yelling and running footsteps from the magic stick. thinking that someone had snuck in or stayed past closing, all of us split up and ran up the main and rear stairs not finding anyone this happened several times over the 3 years.
Detroit - Orchestra hall - Ossip Gabrilowitsch, the Detroit symphony orchestra's Second Music Director (and Son in Law of author Samuel Clemens) Walks through his old office and rehearsal spaces in Detroit's Orchestra Hall. The hall was built as a prerequisite of Gabrilowitsch before he would lead the Detroit Symphony , and many maintenance and Security personnel still find his images walking around as if he were still the Music Director.
Detroit - Our Lady Queen of Angels Parish Hall - Story goes, several decades ago the captain of the school's basketball team took his cheerleader girlfriend up to one of the rooms in the back of the upstairs. He said he wanted to give her something, so she agreed to go with him. When they got up there, he pulled out a knife and stabbed her because he said he saw her cheating on him. When you go up there now, when you `pen the doors, they shut. And when they are shut, they open. You can hear the pipes clanking and sometimes you can see the figure of an older woman walk through the halls. This upstairs used to be a school, but is now used for the hall and storage.
Detroit - St. Andrew Hall - St. Andrews is a well known concert venue. There has been several Ghosts seen walking around the basement(the Shelter) and actually chasing people up the stairs. On one occasion all the areas but the shelter was open. Doors opening and closing.
Detroit - University of Detroit - Mercy - Marion Hall - The ghosts of nuns long dead still let there presence be known by locking doors, cold chills and uneasy feelings of being watched.
Detroit - The Whitney - originally the home of David Whitney now a very swank restaurant. Reports of table settings moving, doors opening and closing, elevator being operated when there is no one there, cold spots and sightings of a male spirit (possibly David Whitney)
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