{"id":3933,"date":"2010-07-01T01:10:11","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T06:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=3991"},"modified":"2010-07-06T17:00:27","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T22:00:27","slug":"across-the-great-divide-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2010\/07\/01\/across-the-great-divide-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Across the Great Divide"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Michigan Hauntings<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’ve had the fortune of visiting many interesting places to come away with some amazing personal experiences and evidence.\u00a0 I’ve included links, where appropriate, to photos and EVPs from these locations.\u00a0 Just click on the image thumbnails or the sound clip to access the links.<\/p>\n

In the spring of 2008 I was involved in the investigation of a house in the historic city of Mount Clemens, Michigan.\u00a0 Nestled in a quiet neighborhood, under the shade of centuries-old oaks and maples, sits a home that was built in the 186o\u2019s.\u00a0 With such a long and profound history of the house and its neighborhood it was not surprising that tales of supernatural events would surface.<\/p>\n

The homeowner reported an astounding amount of odd occurrences in and around the home.\u00a0 On quiet summer nights the sound of horse-drawn carriages can be heard galloping down the street.\u00a0 In the house itself, there are reports of numerous interactive spirits including men, women, and children.\u00a0 One of the key entities is kindly referred to as \u201cVictoria\u201d who goes into all areas except the kitchen; another more malevolent presence is confined to an upstairs closet.\u00a0 The owner notes that most \u2018entities\u2019 are gentle and treated as extended guests.<\/p>\n

Occupants and visitors see shadows and lights, and experience feelings of being watched or being in the presence of others; lights flicker, especially at dusk\/twilight hours (it should be noted that the home was completely rewired in 2006) and the sound of children laughing can be heard.\u00a0 While on an initial investigation of the home I felt physically and emotionally pulled to the back of the house.\u00a0 Upon questioning this, I discovered that visitors to the home had similar experiences. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Objects have been thrown both in general and at people and any type of remodeling or painting stirs up activity.\u00a0 Technology also seems to draw activity.<\/p>\n

During the preliminary investigation dining room lights and stand-alone lamps began flickering around dusk\/twilight for roughly an hour and faint whispers were heard.\u00a0 During a tour of the home a presence\/cold spot quickly passed around me and into the hallway as I was given a tour of the home.<\/p>\n

During the investigation while in the former back servant\u2019s quarters a whistling sound was heard by investigators and did appear on audio recordings.\u00a0 Also in the servant\u2019s quarters while conducting an EVP session the chains on the ceiling fan began to move by command to specific questions and answers.\u00a0 A cold spot with no traceable origin was documented in the children\u2019s\/guest room.<\/p>\n

The most shocking documentation was a vortex\/plasma light seen in a photograph of the kitchen as well as an EVP.\u00a0 During a session the question was asked \u201cCan you tell me what year it is?\u201d\u00a0 Immediately afterwards a very faint, gruff male voice says \u201cSeventy Nine<\/a>\u201d!<\/p>\n

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There were no shortages of personal experiences either.<\/p>\n

Another investigator, while in the children\u2019s room, saw a black shadow three separate times while looking in a mirror.<\/p>\n

I was conducting an EVP session in the servant\u2019s closet that had the reports of a malevolent entity.\u00a0 Upon ending the session and preparing to leave I felt a pull.\u00a0 When I turned on my flashlight, a long string of yarn originating from behind boxes and bags was wrapped around my flashlight and leading back into the pile of boxes.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t make any exaggerated movements during the session and was sitting in the same position the entire time.<\/p>\n

The owner noted that most activity ceased immediately for a period of several weeks after the night of investigation but has since resumed a normal level of interaction.<\/p>\n

***<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Located on Kidder Road in Bruce Township, Michigan sits Goodrich Cemetery.\u00a0 This \u201cfinal resting place\u201d is home to some of the most interesting experiences, photographs, and EVPs I’ve experienced.<\/p>\n

Hidden way in the back, almost forgotten, stands a lone obelisk and Worden family marker.\u00a0 Perhaps coincidentally, this was also the location of plasma lights captured one night.\u00a0 The following pictures were taken mere seconds apart.<\/p>\n

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EVP recordings of a very deep and menacing male voice have been captured on very active nights.\u00a0 I’ve provided links to the best ones: Goodrich 08\/20\/2007<\/a>, Goodrich Growl<\/a>, \u201cHe\u2019s Mine\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/a> While orbs are rarely evidence of spirit activity, the following picture from Goodrich is quite interesting.<\/p>\n

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***<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Memphis Cemetery in Memphis, Michigan is the final resting place to some of the most prominent names in the history of Saint Clair County, with citizens interred from the founding days to the present.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>There are literally hundreds of stories revolving around the cemetery and many more centered within the town itself from long dead soldiers of early American wars to jilted lovers out for revenge.\u00a0 The most well-known legend is of the Memphis Witches\u2019 Ball.\u00a0 At the very back of the cemetery, where some of the oldest headstones reside, there is a huge black marble stone locals call the \u201cWitch\u2019s Ball\u201d.\u00a0 Many children are buried here from the age of a few days to adolescence.\u00a0 According to locals if you get close enough you can see faces and shadows in the stone, voices have been heard and apparitions have been seen.<\/p>\n

One story came from older members of the community who said that after having heard noises from the ball a few too many times they went out with axes, pitch forks, and other tools and took turns beating up the marble orb, claiming it hasn\u2019t been active since.\u00a0 No record exists of this desecration, but there are chip marks, scratches, and dents on the stone that would coincide with it being struck by farm tools.<\/p>\n

From my very first visit to Memphis I’ve walked away with numerous EVPs of young women with clear and distinct words, some of which are direct answers to questions.\u00a0 \u00a0These are some of my best EVPs to date: \u201cBridgit\u201d<\/a>,\u00a0 \u201cDate\u201d or \u201cRobin Day\u201d<\/a>, girl laughing<\/a>, \u201cWhy don\u2019t you believe me\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

***<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Michigan, just like any other location across the planet, has a long and complex history.\u00a0 It is only logical that urban legends, folktales, and other stories are told from generation to generation.\u00a0 As with any urban legend there is some underlying truth to the story but time and interpretation have added to the mythos.<\/p>\n

Belle Isle is a Detroit city park located in the Detroit River and open to the public.\u00a0 First off we have the classic \u201chonk your horn\u201d legend.\u00a0 The story goes that if you drive your car onto a bridge that\u2019s on Belle Isle, turn your engine off and honk your car horn three times, a spirit will appear from the woods, motioning for you to follow her.\u00a0 There have never been any reports of anyone following her into the woods.\u00a0 The ghost of Belle Isle has a couple different versions to the story, either there is a certain bridge or any bridge on the island will call this spirit.\u00a0 One version even mentioned she was an elderly woman.<\/p>\n

***<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Haunted roads make for fascinating stories but are the most difficult to investigate due to so many contaminating factors, least of which are other cars- something that also makes these locations dangerous.<\/p>\n

One of the most widely talked about roads is Morrow Road in Algonac, Michigan. \u00a0So popular is the story that a movie was filmed about the legend.\u00a0 Interestingly, and perhaps an indication of the validity of the legend, there are widely-differing versions of the story.<\/p>\n

In one version a woman walking along Morrow Road was attacked and raped sometime in the late 1800\u2019s or early 1900\u2019s.\u00a0 She became pregnant and left the baby by the bridge where she had been assaulted.\u00a0 A severe snow storm started and she couldn\u2019t stop hearing the cries of the baby and when she went back out to retrieve the baby it was buried in snow and the mother died from exposure.<\/p>\n

In another version, the child in later years wandered away from home one night during a snow storm.\u00a0 The mother ran out in search of the child and both reportedly died from exposure and their bodies were never found.\u00a0 The mother now spends her afterlife in search of her lost child.<\/p>\n

Whatever version you hear, both tell of the ghostly mother appearing to the random passerby looking for her lost child.\u00a0 She\u2019ll ask people, \u201cWhere is my baby?!\u201d\u00a0 People have claimed to have seen her, been chased in their car by her and have heard the sounds of a baby crying.\u00a0 Proponents of the story claim that if you park on the road by where the bridge used to be and wait with the car off a light will appear down the road and if you speed off towards it the light will follow and then mysteriously disappear.<\/p>\n

***<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In the early days of Troy, Michigan, Henry Blount in the 1820\u2019s purchased land near Long Lake (18 Mile Road) and Rochester Road and built a sprawling two-story home.\u00a0\u00a0 This is now the Sylvan Glen Golf Course.\u00a0 He and his wife, Elizabeth, raised seven children in this home.\u00a0 Two of Blount\u2019s grandsons, Harry and Frank, continued to farm the land after his death.<\/p>\n

In the early 1900\u2019s, the house was modified into separate living quarters for three maiden aunts of the Blount family and descendants of the family continued to live in the home until May 13, 1924 when the home and land were sold to develop the golf course.\u00a0 The home was then remodeled into a restaurant donning several names through the twentieth century including The Double Eagle, The Wooden Horse and Shark Creek Inn.\u00a0 The former Blount family home has been home to Camp Ticonderoga since 1996.<\/p>\n

The Ghost of Camp Ticonderoga is referred to as Hannah. \u00a0The legend passed on through employees of the various restaurants that have occupied the Blount House and according to the story Hannah hung herself in one of the upstairs bedrooms and now haunts the building.\u00a0 Strange noises have been heard and unexplainable things have been witnessed, such as doors slamming shut, lights turning on and off, and rattling dishes and objects falling for no reason.\u00a0 Employees will not close by themselves.<\/p>\n

***<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Butler Cemetery, also known as William Ganong Cemetery, is widely considered the \u201cmost haunted cemetery in Michigan\u201d.\u00a0 Butler Cemetery is located outside of Westland along Henry Ruff Road, just down the street from the old grounds of the Eloise Mental Asylum.<\/p>\n

The cemetery is now neglected and overgrown with weeds and other debris.\u00a0 A wire fence that runs around it is grown over with vines and a rusty gate is broken at the entrance.<\/p>\n

A witness reported encountering a woman in white crossing the road in front of the cemetery.\u00a0 He swerved to avoid her and she vanished right in front of his eyes.\u00a0 A year later, he saw the same woman again in the graveyard itself.\u00a0 He claimed to see her standing next to a tall monument and nearby was another apparition of a man wearing a uniform.\u00a0 He stopped his car for a closer look and the two figures faded away.<\/p>\n

The stories of ghosts at Butler still continue today and researchers have pointed out that there have been an inordinate number of auto accidents along that stretch of road near the cemetery perhaps due to sightings of this lady in white.<\/p>\n

***<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Located on Michigan Avenue in Westland, Michigan, and coincidentally a few streets away from Butler Cemetery, stands Eloise.\u00a0 This was once one of the largest mental hospitals in the country.\u00a0 Eloise opened in 1839 as the Wayne County Poorhouse to house the mentally ill.\u00a0 There were many reports of patient beatings as well as patients being housed in overcrowded, unsanitary conditions.\u00a0 The majority of it has now been torn down or made into of office buildings. The few buildings that do remain on the property of the old Asylum are the D building now known as the Kay Beard building, also the fire house, the power plant, and the bakery.\u00a0 The ghosts of many of the tormented patients walk the halls of this asylum. Voices are heard in the empty halls; lights are turned on and off; and growls and moans are heard near the playground built for the use of the office workers\u2019 kids.<\/p>\n

General information, history and video footage and a map of the grounds can be found at http:\/\/www.talesofeloise.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you have a personal ghostly encounter, or know of a local legend, I encourage you to share your story here and add a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michigan Hauntings I’ve had the fortune of visiting many interesting places to come away with some amazing personal experiences and evidence.\u00a0 I’ve included links, where appropriate, to photos and EVPs from these locations.\u00a0 Just click on the image thumbnails or the sound clip to access the links. In the spring of 2008 I was involved in the investigation of a house in the historic city of Mount Clemens, Michigan.\u00a0 Nestled in a quiet neighborhood, under the shade of centuries-old oaks and maples, sits a home that was built in the 186o\u2019s.\u00a0 With such a long and profound history of the house and its neighborhood it was not surprising that tales of supernatural events would surface. The homeowner reported an astounding amount of odd occurrences in and around the home.\u00a0 On quiet summer nights the sound of horse-drawn carriages can be heard galloping down the street.\u00a0 In the house itself, there are reports of numerous interactive spirits including men, women, and children.\u00a0 One of the key entities is kindly referred to as \u201cVictoria\u201d who goes into all areas except the kitchen; another more malevolent presence is confined to an upstairs closet.\u00a0 The owner notes that most \u2018entities\u2019 are gentle and treated as extended guests. Occupants and visitors see shadows and lights, and experience feelings of being watched or being in the presence of others; lights flicker, especially at dusk\/twilight hours (it should be noted that the home was completely rewired in 2006) and the sound of children laughing can be heard.\u00a0 While on an initial investigation of the home I felt physically and emotionally pulled to the back of the house.\u00a0 Upon questioning this, I discovered that visitors to the home had similar experiences. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Objects have been thrown both in general and at people and any type of remodeling or painting stirs up activity.\u00a0 Technology also seems to draw activity. During the preliminary investigation dining room lights and stand-alone lamps began flickering around dusk\/twilight for roughly an hour and faint whispers were heard.\u00a0 During a tour of the home a presence\/cold spot quickly passed around me and into the hallway as I was given a tour of the home. During the investigation while in the former back servant\u2019s quarters a whistling sound was heard by investigators and did appear on audio recordings.\u00a0 Also in the servant\u2019s quarters while conducting an EVP session the chains on the ceiling fan began to move by command to specific questions and answers.\u00a0 A cold spot with no traceable origin was documented in the children\u2019s\/guest room. The most shocking documentation was a vortex\/plasma light seen in a photograph of the kitchen as well as an EVP.\u00a0 During a session the question was asked \u201cCan you tell me what year it is?\u201d\u00a0 Immediately afterwards a very faint, gruff male voice says \u201cSeventy Nine\u201d! There were no shortages of personal experiences either. Another investigator, while in the children\u2019s room, saw a black shadow three separate times while looking in a mirror. I was conducting an EVP session in the servant\u2019s closet that had the reports of a malevolent entity.\u00a0 Upon ending the session and preparing to leave I felt a pull.\u00a0 When I turned on my flashlight, a long string of yarn originating from behind boxes and bags was wrapped around my flashlight and leading back into the pile of boxes.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t make any exaggerated movements during the session and was sitting in the same position the entire time. The owner noted that most activity ceased immediately for a period of several weeks after the night of investigation but has since resumed a normal level of interaction. *** Located on Kidder Road in Bruce Township, Michigan sits Goodrich Cemetery.\u00a0 This \u201cfinal resting place\u201d is home to some of the most interesting experiences, photographs, and EVPs I’ve experienced. Hidden way in the back, almost forgotten, stands a lone obelisk and Worden family marker.\u00a0 Perhaps coincidentally, this was also the location of plasma lights captured one night.\u00a0 The following pictures were taken mere seconds apart. EVP recordings of a very deep and menacing male voice have been captured on very active nights.\u00a0 I’ve provided links to the best ones: Goodrich 08\/20\/2007, Goodrich Growl, \u201cHe\u2019s Mine\u201d. While orbs are rarely evidence of spirit activity, the following picture from Goodrich is quite interesting. *** Memphis Cemetery in Memphis, Michigan is the final resting place to some of the most prominent names in the history of Saint Clair County, with citizens interred from the founding days to the present. There are literally hundreds of stories revolving around the cemetery and many more centered within the town itself from long dead soldiers of early American wars to jilted lovers out for revenge.\u00a0 The most well-known legend is of the Memphis Witches\u2019 Ball.\u00a0 At the very back of the cemetery, where some of the oldest headstones reside, there is a huge black marble stone locals call the \u201cWitch\u2019s Ball\u201d.\u00a0 Many children are buried here from the age of a few days to adolescence.\u00a0 According to locals if you get close enough you can see faces and shadows in the stone, voices have been heard and apparitions have been seen. One story came from older members of the community who said that after having heard noises from the ball a few too many times they went out with axes, pitch forks, and other tools and took turns beating up the marble orb, claiming it hasn\u2019t been active since.\u00a0 No record exists of this desecration, but there are chip marks, scratches, and dents on the stone that would coincide with it being struck by farm tools. From my very first visit to Memphis I’ve walked away with numerous EVPs of young women with clear and distinct words, some of which are direct answers to questions.\u00a0 \u00a0These are some of my best EVPs to date: \u201cBridgit\u201d,\u00a0 \u201cDate\u201d or \u201cRobin Day\u201d, girl laughing, \u201cWhy don\u2019t you believe me\u201d. *** Michigan, just like any other location across the planet, has a long and complex history.\u00a0 It is only logical that urban legends, folktales, and other stories are told from generation to generation.\u00a0 As with any urban legend there is some underlying truth to the story but time and interpretation have added to the mythos. Belle Isle is a Detroit city park located in the Detroit River and open to the public.\u00a0 First off we have the classic \u201chonk your horn\u201d legend.\u00a0 The story goes that if you drive your car onto a bridge that\u2019s on Belle Isle, turn your engine off and honk your car horn three times, a spirit will appear from the woods, motioning for you to follow her.\u00a0 There have never been any reports of anyone following her into the woods.\u00a0 The ghost of Belle Isle has a couple different versions to the story, either there is a certain bridge or any bridge on the island will call this spirit.\u00a0 One version even mentioned she was an elderly woman. *** Haunted roads make for fascinating stories but are the most difficult to investigate due to so many contaminating factors, least of which are other cars- something that also makes these locations dangerous. One of the most widely talked about roads is Morrow Road in Algonac, Michigan. \u00a0So popular is the story that a movie was filmed about the legend.\u00a0 Interestingly, and perhaps an indication of the validity of the legend, there are widely-differing versions of the story. In one version a woman walking along Morrow Road was attacked and raped sometime in the late 1800\u2019s or early 1900\u2019s.\u00a0 She became pregnant and left the baby by the bridge where she had been assaulted.\u00a0 A severe snow storm started and she couldn\u2019t stop hearing the cries of the baby and when she went back out to retrieve the baby it was buried in snow and the mother died from exposure. In another version, the child in later years wandered away from home one night during a snow storm.\u00a0 The mother ran out in search of the child and both reportedly died from exposure and their bodies were never found.\u00a0 The mother now spends her afterlife in search of her lost child. Whatever version you hear, both tell of the ghostly mother appearing to the random passerby looking for her lost child.\u00a0 She\u2019ll ask people, \u201cWhere is my baby?!\u201d\u00a0 People have claimed to have seen her, been chased in their car by her and have heard the sounds of a baby crying.\u00a0 Proponents of the story claim that if you park on the road by where the bridge used to be and wait with the car off a light will appear down the road and if you speed off towards it the light will follow and then mysteriously disappear. *** In the early days of Troy, Michigan, Henry Blount in the 1820\u2019s purchased land near Long Lake (18 Mile Road) and Rochester Road and built a sprawling two-story home.\u00a0\u00a0 This is now the Sylvan Glen Golf Course.\u00a0 He and his wife, Elizabeth, raised seven children in this home.\u00a0 Two of Blount\u2019s grandsons, Harry and Frank, continued to farm the land after his death. In the early 1900\u2019s, the house was modified into separate living quarters for three maiden aunts of the Blount family and descendants of the family continued to live in the home until May 13, 1924 when the home and land were sold to develop the golf course.\u00a0 The home was then remodeled into a restaurant donning several names through the twentieth century including The Double Eagle, The Wooden Horse and Shark Creek Inn.\u00a0 The former Blount family home has been home to Camp Ticonderoga since 1996. The Ghost of Camp Ticonderoga is referred to as Hannah. \u00a0The legend passed on through employees of the various restaurants that have occupied the Blount House and according to the story Hannah hung herself in one of the upstairs bedrooms and now haunts the building.\u00a0 Strange noises have been heard and unexplainable things have been witnessed, such as doors slamming shut, lights turning on and off, and rattling dishes and objects falling for no reason.\u00a0 Employees will not close by themselves. *** Butler Cemetery, also known as William Ganong Cemetery, is widely considered the \u201cmost haunted cemetery in Michigan\u201d.\u00a0 Butler Cemetery is located outside of Westland along Henry Ruff Road, just down the street from the old grounds of the Eloise Mental Asylum. The cemetery is now neglected and overgrown with weeds and other debris.\u00a0 A wire fence that runs around it is grown over with vines and a rusty gate is broken at the entrance. A witness reported encountering a woman in white crossing the road in front of the cemetery.\u00a0 He swerved to avoid her and she vanished right in front of his eyes.\u00a0 A year later, he saw the same woman again in the graveyard itself.\u00a0 He claimed to see her standing next to a tall monument and nearby was another apparition of a man wearing a uniform.\u00a0 He stopped his car for a closer look and the two figures faded away. The stories of ghosts at Butler still continue today and researchers have pointed out that there have been an inordinate number of auto accidents along that stretch of road near the cemetery perhaps due to sightings of this lady in white. *** Located on Michigan Avenue in Westland, Michigan, and coincidentally a few streets away from Butler Cemetery, stands Eloise.\u00a0 This was once one of the largest mental hospitals in the country.\u00a0 Eloise opened in 1839 as the Wayne County Poorhouse to house the mentally ill.\u00a0 There were many reports of patient beatings as well as patients being housed in overcrowded, unsanitary conditions.\u00a0 The majority of it has now been torn down or made into of office buildings. The few buildings that do remain on the property of the old Asylum are the D building now known as the Kay Beard building, also the fire house, the power plant, and the bakery.\u00a0 The ghosts of many of the tormented patients walk the halls…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3877,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933\/revisions\/3877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}