Olde World Canterbury Village
The property began as a family farm called the Haddril Farm, and later was bought by the Scripps family, who had amassed a fortune through the newspaper business. Mr. Scripps bought it as a hobby, and soon developed it into a major farm of about 3,000 acres. During this time, many people lived and worked at the farm which Scripps called Wildwood. There was supposedly a cook named Minnie that was born on the farm and lived her life there. Her presence has been reported in what is now called the Canterbury Tails store. A local psychic, James, has found several other ghosts including Mrs. Scripps, who is said to have been seen by several people over the years as a woman in white, walking about the grounds. Many workers at this site have claimed to hear odd noises in the buildings, and have witnessed items, such as lights, being turned on randomly . One worker was locked in a basement room, and despite his best efforts, could not even budge the door. Finally, the general manager came to his aid only to find that the door was unlocked and opened easily. There is a rumor that a family cemetery was somehow lost when a man planned to develop the property. This occurrence could be the cause for some of the paranormal disturbances on the site.
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Laura says: |
July 5, 2010, 10:00 pm |
I recently heard that Canterberry Village is closing. If this is accurate, then I am very sad. I visited one time, but had no paranormal experience.
Anonymous says: |
August 21, 2010, 5:17 pm |
No, Canterbury Village isn’t closing-
There isn’t a great economy in Michigan right now, it’s especially difficult for gift stores??? With 25% of the state unemployed-who has extra money to spend on non-necessities?
Tay says: |
May 17, 2011, 12:26 pm |
i live off of scripps road and i can officiallly say the place is really creepy but i haved lived here a long time and i have yet to have a paranormal experience
Jordan says: |
June 26, 2011, 3:41 am |
Tonight me my girlfriend and 3 other friends went to Canterbury in hope of finding some paranormal activities. Let’s start at the caresol I had always heard of the caresol being haunted and what not so I went up to it and blew on the glass and wrote “hello?” and my friend did the same thing and long after mine was completely gone hers looked like she just did it. Next we went to a building by a big silo around back and I knew about mrs scripps and the cook so me and my one friend went to one side and were looking in and asking if mrs scripps was around and when I asked if the cook was here my other friend came from around the building where he couldn’t of heard me and said he heard what sounded like2 spoons being tapped together and as soon as me and my other friends said “the cook” the red safety lights that are always on turned off inside the building. Next we were around the dress store when we saw dresses move and for some reason we all kept staring at the same window. This next one is the coolest and wildest thing I have ever experienced in my life. We went to the fudge shop and I had sat down on the path with my girlfriend and I was staring in the back window of the store when I saw a ball shaped object be slowly pulled out of my view and when I told the others we all started watching it and we watched as what turned out to be balloons move from one side of the window to the other and out of view and up and down. Not like there was ac blowing it, then we went to the front of the fudge shop and there was a balloon tied around a outer light. And we watched the balloon be pulled down numerous times and when we would address mrs scripps the balloon would move is what ever direction we asked it, there was no wind at all. Then my buddy sat on the Bench under the balloon the balloon moved away from hi
, not just a little bit to the other side of the light as far away as it could, the completely opposite direction as it had been moving before, we could see the string being pulled on, and all around the balloon was freezing cold. I recommend if you go to check this place out to be polite and respectful to the spirits and they will have no problem showing you they are there. I hope to go back soon and try And find out why the spirits are still there
Rooster says: |
September 24, 2011, 12:14 am |
Boo !!! I’m a ghost. I haunt the internet.
William says: |
November 1, 2011, 12:35 am |
i cut the lawn one summer for a few days, and I kid you not, the Mansion Is remarkable, Eerie but very elegant. Needless to say, I only cut the lawn For the few days being that its has well over 50 acres of property……very large…there was trails that needed to be weed whipped…..needless to say…They didn’t get weewhipped due to the fact that…..It felt like If you went down there, you werent comming back out….very eerie……..I think they should have a paranormal expert team come out and investigate the entire property.. Im not the kind to get sensitive to THe paranormal…but The entire time I was on the property….There was this presence all around you….as if horrible things have taken place there before in the past….IDK hope this helps!
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anonymous says:
November 10, 2009, 6:48 pm
Also, Canterbury brought in the Motor City Ghost Hunters to come do an investigation this September. You can search them online to view their findings. It’s pretty interesting. They did seem to pick up some things.