A collection of ghostly encounters from Michigan's Thumb and Upper Peninsula include the following: a haunted hunting camp, a spirit who is damned to perdition, a residual haunting in the ghost town of Fayette, wet footprints left by a waterlogged spirit, a fishing pier whose ghosts are not camera shy, and a young spirit searching for a playmate for eternity. Hauntings are frequent in the small towns and villages of Lake Huron's sunrise coast known as the Thumb. The huge fires of 1871 and 1881 left spirits to wander the peninsula in search of eternal rest. Lost lovers, shipwrecked sailors frozen into grotesque shapes and floating apparitions follow the lake shore roads.
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Jan BSL Langley. Startled from Their Graves...
Introduction
Christmas Spirit
Peshikee Grade Camp. Boys of Autumn
The Ford River Haunting
Recollections of a Haunting
The House Had Always Been Haunted
Spirits of the Whitefish Point Lighthouse
A Residual Haunting
The Paulding Light Revisited
Sweet Dreams Inn Victorian Bed and Breakfast
The Haunting of the Loop-Harrison Mansion
Ghosts of Forester Inn
The Myth of Minnie Quay
Point-Aux Barques Lighthouse
Mary Wilkenson: A Haunting
Myth of a Bus Tour to Eternity
A Haunted Dock?
Teabury Hill
The Glowing Tombstone
Contributors Page
Is Your House Haunted?
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Many people pass on quietly to their eternity, but then there are those who are startled from their graves. Resting in Peace is not their idea of the hereafter. What binds their spirit to an earthy abode can be many things: “...an incorrect or absent funeral ritual can leave the soul of the departed uneasy and unable to make the transition to the next realm and now it has nothing better to do then hang around here and make life miserable for the rest of us....”
Perhaps the departed left suddenly and are not quit sure that they are dead; on the other hand, a house they once lived in and loved is under restoration and they do not like it. Not one bit. Some spirits are insistent that the place they are haunting remain the same as it was in their lifetime and will do everything they can to make sure that it does. This includes scaring the living daylights out of you. Or could be that lovely broach they once were so fond of, given to them by a beloved husband or lover has just been auctioned off to a lady who will use it to decorate her silly pink sweater. Sorry, they want it back. Others seem quite content to repeat their lifetime behaviors such as swinging on a porch swing, watching you from a window or hitchhiking to eternity on US 2.
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A white-haired lady wearing a silvery dress stood at the bottom of the steps. In her hand she held one of the missing ornaments. She smiled and turned to walk upstairs, vanishing as she went.
