Wiccan Circle
This house is said to be very haunted. A total of eight people have died in one way or another in the house and they are all thought to still reside there. It is said that one may experience faucets turning on and off, coasters flipping over, and footsteps throughout the house. There have also been reports of the appearance of a glowing cross. Others have alleged to be held to the bed and shoved down the stairs. Beneath the carpet in the basement, there is reportedly a Wiccan circle carved into the wood.
Where exactly is this house located? Is there an address?
Comment by Rachel | 09.16.2005 | 9:11 am
Yea where is this house located?
Comment by Samara | 10.2.2005 | 1:47 pm
Where is this house, the location exactly….I would love to know where it is.
Comment by Ariel Brown | 10.2.2005 | 11:04 pm
Where is this house, the location exactly…
Comment by Ariel | 10.2.2005 | 11:05 pm
I have never encountered a haunting, but I have a theory that ghosts are either demons posing as the spirits of the dead, or else are merely unexplained scientific phemonena, and could not possibly be the spirits of the dead. I am looking to research my theory.
I live near downtown Grand Rapids and have no car and am wondering if anyone who has been to and knows this house could email me at nathan@iamnathan.com and provide me a ride to this house so that I could check it out for myself.
Comment by Nathan | 10.5.2005 | 7:35 pm
OK, This may be the house I visited in 1982. I was a student at WMU and was looking for a place to live. Well the job in Kalamazoo, were very few back then, but that house has stayed with me to this day. Is this the house which was just off the main road into WMU but over the highway. It is close to a biker bar (in 1982) that was their called the ??? boar, I think. Let me know if their is anyone in Kalamazoo, I would like a picture of the house, write me and I will tell you more.
Comment by David | 10.7.2005 | 7:11 pm
Why isn’t there any addresses with these stories? We need addresses to find out if this stuff is real or not.
Comment by Show me your...Nevermind | 10.11.2005 | 5:06 pm
d.como@verizon.net send me an email if you live in Kalamazoo michigan and I will tell you how to get to a very haunted house, it is near WMU. Send your cell number and I will call you
Comment by David | 10.21.2005 | 2:14 pm
i live in kazoo i get around quite often
i do have two questions one is does any
body know about hurst mansion off douglas
i have and i saw some pretty spooky stuff
but i want to know more
but is there any more local haunts im all for
ghost hunting
Comment by jack jacobs | 12.7.2005 | 8:58 pm
One very famous haunted house in Kalamazoo is on West Main hill, about 8 houses west of the Henderson castle. Unfortunately, because no one could stay in the house for more than a year, it was eventually torn down. I believe there is still an empty spot where the house once stood.
Comment by L Johnson | 02.28.2006 | 1:37 pm
im from lawton michigan. can someone please give me the addresses of these haunted places in kzoo. it would be greatly appreciated.
Comment by SirB00b | 03.6.2006 | 12:37 am
yeah i have seen this house it is actually down the street from my old highschool. true stoy: me and my buddies thought that it would be funny to take our gfs to this “haunted” house that we had heard about on halloween but little did we know that it was really haunted i went in with my friend first and our gfs followed we all walked around and were trying to scare eachother and then we heard somthing bummping down the stairs and i seen this old guy comming down the stairs so none of us moved or breathed, he got to the bottom of the stairs and looked out the window. i grabbed the girls and went out the back but my friend wouldnt move and then i heard him yell i ran back inside and my friend was ghost whit and he had said that the guy turned around and said get out and he couldnt move and then the guy moved over and grabbed him by the throat and pushed him down. i looked at his neck and he had large hand prints on his neck and they didnt match neone that was with us so i know that he wasnt lying
Comment by jeremy | 03.14.2006 | 1:24 am
I used to live off of Douglas, but I don’t think I ever heard of “Hurst Mansion”. I would love to know more, because in a couple of months I’ll be going back there to visit my dad. If anyone has any information on it, let me know by emailing me at PalmCoastChick@msn.com .
Comment by Amber | 03.24.2006 | 3:26 pm
where is this house located
Comment by G AND M | 04.1.2006 | 4:22 pm
where is this house located
but ye atht is pretty crazy!!!
Comment by G AND M | 04.1.2006 | 4:23 pm
Now I remember that when the radio station 92.3 WZUU started, the girl on the morning show was in a haunted house in the Vine area and one of the particular traits was cigar smoke. Same house?
Man, I’d love to know where this is.
Comment by K | 04.3.2006 | 11:02 pm
i live in kzoo and off drake, you can see it off croyden it is across from my apartments theres a very creepy old house and barn that is boarded up. we took pics there and there was lots of orbs. i found shackles on the ground outside the barn and im tryign to find out if theres any record of it being haunted or why its boarded up and what it used to be. anyone know? laine.porter@gmail.com
Comment by ashley | 04.11.2006 | 1:05 pm
Just because the house supposedly has a Wiccan “circle” on the floor doesn’t mean that makes it haunted. And for the idiots Wiccan is a religion that believes in the good and evil of nature not just evil. It’s not just all witchcraft and curses. The Wiccan religion doesn’t even have a circle has part of the belief system.
Comment by Jessica | 04.19.2006 | 6:12 pm
I have lived near the hurst mansion all my life but only know very little about. It is kind of hard to see in the summer but if you take Douglas Ave for about an mile after Mosel Ave there will be a road to your left “Old Douglas” the drive way is right before the left turn, It is very strange to me that once a week there is a trash cart at the end of the drive and every time it snows a lot you can see tire tracks. The best way to see it is to take Old Douglas and look to the left up into the trees, I have never seen any lighs on in the place at night so you probaly will want to scope it out during the day first. Right now the woods are to thick to get that great of a veiw, after all the leaves are gone but before the snow is probaly the best.
As for the old farm house on Croyden, all I know is that it was the first farm in Oshtemo Township and so it probably has a cool history.
Comment by Nan | 05.17.2006 | 1:06 am
They made a couple cheap horror flicks at the house I am thinking of. It’s quite possible the Wiccan circle was left over from some film makers.
Comment by anne | 05.22.2006 | 5:41 pm
Cindy,
Ooh, ooh, ooh doesn’t sound scary to me. I guess it all depends on what she looks like.
Comment by Big Bill | 06.6.2006 | 4:48 am
I grew up in Kalamazoo and have heard of all these hauntings…and i lived on Douglas but never heard of the mansion would love to get some pictures…But if you want to check out a very cool place you have to check out an old cemetery on miller rd. almost to 35th street.. i got some outstanding pictures there . it is very hard to find but if you would like a map let me know and i will send you one.. well worth the trip. and also the house everyone is talking about the pipe and cigar is not on Vine st… it is on Westnedge ave..If you turn south and vine and westnedge it is about a half mile down the road on the left it still has a cast iron fence around it.. and yes i was one of the stupid kids that had to check it out. i was about 17 and there was probably 6 or 7 of us.. only 3 of us went in the yard and up to the door.. and yes there were candles burning and a pipe and cigar in the ash tray.. no onw has lived in this house for years.. the story is that a family came home from a vacation and all disapeered in that house or yard they were seen in the drive way but never seen again.. this was back in the 70ies when i was there. and this happend late 40ies early 50ies my father can remember this. Another place that is very cool and just off Douglas is the old TB Sanitorium my sis and i spent hours trying to figure out how we was going to get in threw the fence.. i spoke to an professor from western michigan and showed me how to get it through the fence. i told her we would be a couple of hours. i had to promise her i would not go in the building.. and we didn’t, maybe if we would have had a few more people we might have.. that place looks like a war zone.. i grew up there and never seen it or heard of it before.. a good view of it is at the top of michigan ave hill near the castle if you drive in to the cemetery and look straight south you can see the building..alot of web sites have this building in portage michigan… If anyone would like to spend a day just going to different places in kalamazoo and taking pictures i would love to go. and before i leave could i please have a list of hauntings in kalamazoo.. there is a bar down town that has a visitor every once in a while but i do not know the name of it.. i do this on a daily bases in Indiana but so much more fun in michiagn were i grew up…. you can see some of the pictures from the miller rd cemetery, and TB Sanitorium. plus more that i have taken…you more than welcome to join it’s all free and when i get new pictures you will be notified.
Comment by Roberta Lytle | 07.2.2006 | 7:04 pm
im 11 and lived in in kalamazo all my freakin’ life
and i kow a good ghost story when i hear one and this certainley is a good ghost story but 1 problem they dont tell u the address
Comment by Audrey | 07.20.2006 | 11:09 am
this is for roberta lytle
i live in battle creek and my dad and i would love to tour around kalamazoo with your knowledge of these places and take pictures, but you didn’t leave a way to get ahold of you, please contact me at
laylakathleen.com
Comment by layla | 08.4.2006 | 3:22 am
I also have some ghost stories of my own, I tried to submit them, but it’s been like 3 months and they still aren’t on this site yet. Anyway. It seems that almost every house I live in is haunted. I grew up in this house in Battle Creek (Springfield, technically) that was haunted. It has been confirmed that 3 people have died in this house, which I did not know about until after my first couple of encouters. The first time I ever had a supernatural experience was when I was about 12. I had come home from a friends house to find that no one was home, I called out and nobody answered. So I continued to gather my things to stay the night at my friends house again, and as I’m walking through the house I hear a voice whispering my name very loudly. Again, I called out everone’s name and no one responded. I walked through the house looking in every room and closet and found no one, the entire time this voice keeps calling for me. After walking around the whole house twice and finding nobody with this vouce calling for me, I got really freaked out and left without my things. After I walked out the front door this voice called out my name as well as both of my sisters names, I turned around and ran all the way to my friends house. But that’s not the only thing that happened there. When I was 15 I was playing with a Ouija board in the tunnel (the house used to be part of the underground railrod in the slave days, complete with a secret room and all - current owner may not even know about it because when my dad discovered it he patched the hole) and ended up talking to one of the ghosts that still resided in the house. She said her name was susie and that she had died from suicide. Almost 2 years after that event is when I was talking to one of my friends dads that had lived in the neaighborhood for a long time and confirmed that people had actually died there, he even knew susan(susie). He said that she was an avon lady. The other two people that have died there, I have actully seen. One was a little black girl that was killed in a raid on the house looking for escaped slaves, and the other is a farmer that owned the house at the time: he was killed in the front room, but it was not said by whom or why. Quite a number of people that lived in this house with me said that at night you could hear the little girl crying through the heat vents.
Comment by layla | 08.4.2006 | 3:52 am
When I saw the little girl I was down in the tunnel giving a tour to a few of my frineds. My sister saw her as well; but when she saw her, the little girl was mad and my sister said that her eyes were glowing red because we had guests at my house were using racial slurs against her. I saw the farmer in the dining room one night when I awoke feeling like there was someone staring at me. but since nothing had happened to me in the years that I had already lived there I thought nothing of it and went right back to sleep.
Comment by layla | 08.4.2006 | 4:00 am
I had some friends that lived in a house in Howell, Mi and they felt an unnatural pressence,and one day my husband and I were there,waiting for our friends to return home and we heard one of the bedroom doors upstairs slam shut,my husband went to check things out and found nothing. When the same thing happend again,we left. About a week before our friends moved out, a man stopped by and told them that should move out, that they should not be living in the house and that the “little boy” does not want them there, the man left and wouldn’t give his name or any other info. Our friends only lived in the house for about 6 months and have said that things would go on, mainly unexplained noises and such.The house is on Grand River between Howell and Fowlerville (if it’s still there). I believe in sprits, but I also want to comment about the house in Kallamazoo, a wiccan symbol has nothing to do with a house being haunted…true wiccans do not perform evil of anykind. Deb
Comment by Deb | 08.14.2006 | 7:30 pm
Hey ya ive went and saw the old TB hospital also and i have not went in there as of yet,me and some friends plan on it soon tho.And if anyone knows of good haunted houses in the kalamazoo,portage,comstock,or parchment areas please get a hold of me somehow whether on this site or at jrsnowball32@sbcglobal.net.If anybody would like to go with us to the TB hospital let me know gotta meet up in daytime tho to make sure you are cool and not some freak haha.Alright get a hold of me if you have any info on haunted places.
Comment by Jordan | 08.15.2006 | 1:46 am
Anyone ever heard or been to Ypsi Forensic Center…. worth the trip from kalamazoo trust me.
Comment by sinister | 08.16.2006 | 11:22 am
Please email me the address of this house i would realy like to check it out.
Comment by Bill Campbell | 09.5.2006 | 9:22 pm
This is for Sinister. I live in Taylor, where exactly is the Yspi forensic center? And how is it worth the trip? Also, does anyone know of any haunts downriver, or in wayne county? Would appreciate all the info i could gather, thanks in advance…TIM
Comment by Tim | 09.10.2006 | 2:00 am
Where is this house located at?
Comment by ashley | 09.16.2006 | 5:18 pm
um.. why isnt anyone saying where the location is?
Comment by randella | 09.25.2006 | 10:48 pm
OMG! That is so creepy…just make sure you give the exact location…
Comment by Anonoymous | 10.3.2006 | 9:31 am
Where is this place exactly? What is the address
Comment by Dip | 10.5.2006 | 4:11 pm
i have lived in kalamazoo my whole life too.. i am from the winchell neighborhood off oakland drive. I have been to the TB hospital and it is cool. I went in the day and me and my friends climbed all the way to the top so u could see all of kalamazoo…my other friends checked out the incenerators in the basement. (it’s pitch black down there). The whole place smells like pee from bums…but there are old cells,an old front desk where they handed out pills, old beds, chairs, and old kitchen…I had to break a window near the top to get into the psycho relaxation room…there is a mural of flowers on the wall and the rest of the room is white..with some old chairs..i would recommend going…its off Prospect off west maine hill…there is a big gate in the front…police go around there so dont get caught. they might tear it down soon.
Comment by j | 10.11.2006 | 6:39 pm
hello…do people resond here?? also…who’s from kalmazoo..and who knows about the empty lot 8 houses from Henderson castle…Ive never heard of this….and… Hurst Mansion..and whatever Wiccan circle is let me know…is it even a house???
Comment by j | 10.11.2006 | 6:42 pm
forget activity in k-zoo im out til i check in later
Comment by j | 10.11.2006 | 6:52 pm
I live on Vine, to start out this comment. I am sad to say that I have yet to encounter anything paranormal in the least, unless you count the strange college students and bums. Second, there was a question about the house at Drake and Croyden. The house was built by Benjamin and Maria Drake in the mid 1800’s. The Drakes were the first white settlers in Oshtemo, and very important members of the community. I have some information on it on my site
http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/preservedrakefarm
It is now owned by the historical society and they plan on it being the Township historical museum. I have been inside before anything dealing with the township happened, and would like to think had something to do with it being protected now. It is a wonderful house with a very inspirational history.
The house has six bedrooms, only two bathrooms, two living rooms, a dining room, a back and front stairs, a breakfast room, and two kitchens(the original with stove, and a modern one). The property also had a Carriage house (torn down in the 90’s), a Garage, and a barn with stables (partially torn down). When I was a kid there were some greenhouses on the property as well. A few of my friends felt very cold in the attic on a very hot summer day, but I never felt or sensed anything paranormal, and I am sensitive to it.
I do have a couple of suggestions for interesting paranormal activity, though. The first is the abandoned town of Mentha. Mentha was a Mint Farming community out by TimberRidge Sky area. Take D Ave out to 23rd (it’s a dirt road on the south side of D Ave and hard to see, so if you pass the road to Timber Ridge you’ve gone to far) and turn left if you are coming from 131, or right if you come in from Gobles.
I ALWAYS get a migrain as soon as I turn down the road that leaves as soon as I turn off the road. There is still an old railroad station were the tracks were.
The second is in Spring Valley Park in Kalamazoo. You turn into the park at the entrance near Barclay and Mt. Olivet. There is a walking trail right off the parking area that heads down towards Riverview dr. The walk is beautiful during the day, but I still get an ominous feeling walking down there. There is a pond that every couple of years a kid will drown in. (not making it up. about three years ago a boy from Comstock drowned in it. It’s a matter of public record) It is also surrounded by not one, not two, but three Cemeteries. Riverside Cemetery, the Jewish Cemetery, and Mt.Olivet Catholic Cemetery. If you do wish to visit the trail at night (And I do!) You will want to park on one of the side streets near Barclay and walk down. Remember to take flashlights, and go during the day first. Very Very creepy.
Comment by jenn | 10.18.2006 | 8:03 pm
where are the locations for phobia house
Comment by Jessica | 10.21.2006 | 3:00 pm
I have lived in Kzoo for a year now….and would like to know more about haunted locations. If someone is interested and knows more, Im in. westsyde_31@yahoo.com
Comment by Jaren | 10.22.2006 | 9:49 pm
I do know the Phobia house is on Portage Rd. I think it is 947 Portage.
Comment by Jaren | 10.22.2006 | 9:50 pm
I went to WMU and be to some creepy places…TB Asylum is a fun at night, now there are cameras there and cops patrol constantly..but it’s very cool, there used to be a swing set up top the would rock by itself…also be careful the elevator shafts are wide open, if you fall in your in serious physical trouble, but it’s a nice site! Also, the old paper mill..especially it’s powerhouse with the smoke stack creepy place at night, you can hear the pipes creak as if someone is turning the ***** to release pressure…plus the small stream running beneath it adds to the experience…be careful here though you can fall in!
Comment by Malcom | 10.24.2006 | 10:57 pm
I know of several places in Kazoo that have had paranormal events such as The West Main Cenetery and Mount Olivet Cemetery where I have gotten EVPs from…which really surprized me. I grew up in Kal on Park Place..so alot of these stories still exist and I also know of much more than what is mentioned here..ya wanna know something I am here iapiaya@hotmail.com
Comment by Kirk | 10.28.2006 | 5:01 pm
Once I ate a grape. It was juicy and savoury. Then suddenly, its ghost appeared and ate ME. So here I sit inside the belly of a dead grape.
THE END
Comment by Richard Follister | 11.1.2006 | 11:43 am
do you really think its haunted
Comment by gfrdeswaqzxcvbnmkjhyt | 11.1.2006 | 6:34 pm
i like richard follisters story it is funny
Comment by gtrfdesxadawqzg hb | 11.1.2006 | 6:36 pm
does every person that goes in this house die or not that is the question that haunts me at night….just kidding!!! but get it haunt me at night and haunt as in haunted house lolololololol!!!!
Comment by qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm | 11.1.2006 | 8:49 pm
A good Haunted place in Battle Creek is Webster apartments, formally Kulp Court. Unlike most haunted sites, this place is still up and in use. I use to live there, and some VERY freaky things would happen on a regular basis. Crashing sounds (like dishes, pots and pans), knocking on doors, ghostly yelling and whispers, and something that happened to me often: Coat hangers in my closet banging around, even when I would immobilize them! Other stuff people have told me included stomping sounds from vacant apartments, cold spots, apparations, and lights blinking on and off.
If anyone is interested in knowing anymore, e-mail me at demaray@netzero.com and I’ll give you more details.
Comment by Chad | 11.9.2006 | 9:03 pm
Anyone who is from Kalamazoo, are there any haunted house in Long Road?
Comment by Leila | 11.10.2006 | 6:10 am
I lived in a house, 433 Hutchinson, off of south westnedge in Kalamazoo.That, my friends, was pretty freaking creepy. The house is actually very small, but in certain parts…primarily the back part of the house near the pantry and the basement, a very negative feeling can be felt. It’s like you’re being watched. A lot of people mentioned feeling creeped out near the pantry without me or my roomates saying anything. One night when me and my girlfriend were in bed and our roomates were gone, the motion light in the pantry kept going on and off. At one time the pantry (which was located right outside ourbedroom)was actually part of another bedroom in the rear of the house, but our bedroom was added and the other room was turned turned into a halway and the pantry when the house was remodeled. I believe the negative vibe in that house made all of the roomates fight. My best friend since childhood and I have been in many stupid fights, but yet havent talked since we moved out of that place. We found a mace ( a weapon which consists of a spiked ball and chain) hidden in a corner in the basement. I am scared to know what kind of stuff may have gone down in that place.
Comment by Asher | 01.23.2007 | 1:57 am
This comment is in regards to the old TB asylum off of North St. in Kalamazoo. The reason people have mistaken it to be in “portage” Michigan is because it was actually called the Portage Asylum back when it first opened. VERY creepy place! I have also been to that cemetary off of Miller road ( was nearly eaten alive by mosquitos getting there hehe ) but one of the most fascinating things about that place was the erie original brick road!! Very hard to see had to sweep away leaves and debris to see. My mother worked for years at the Kalamazoo State Hospital, and I have heard many stories about that place as well. ( there is a video on youtube of the Kalamazoo Asylum taken not to long ago which is also very erie). There is a house on Hayes Park that was also said to be haunted, as well as the West Main cemetary, has anyone ever heard anything of those two?
Comment by curiousscare | 02.6.2007 | 2:51 pm
does anyone know of any haunted places in the downriver area?
i do know that my mom haunts her house. when she died, i found her in the kitchen, it was a heart attack. my husband and i fixed it up and put it up for rent. during the process of packing all her stuff, a friend of ours was sitting in the living-room, a few feet away from a couple of boxes. the one box had moved by itself rattling the contents.
we would get there at night to do repairs or remove more things, and lights would be on (we were the only ones with keys) i went there alone and was painting in the basement and could hear noises up stairs and the floors would creak as if someone was walking up there.
not ever telling the tenats what happened. the guy worked with my husband, and had come into work saying that every night when him or his wife would wake up and go into the kitchen, the hood-range light would be on. in which neither had turned on. and the back porch light would be on.
he couldn’t understand why the lights were on. my husband then told him that my mom died in the house, and every night before she went to bed she would turn the back porch light and the hood-range light on.
that she was just sticking with her nightly rutine.
i know its not like crazy and scary. but if any one lives in melvindale, mi you may know of the house. its on wall st down from the police station.
Comment by c | 02.20.2007 | 11:02 pm
I’ve lived near this house all of my life. i live off of old douglas and g ave. it’s creepy looking but i have never seen anything weird out of it.
Comment by Aimee | 03.7.2007 | 10:20 pm
oh and i go to parchment, and used to go in the paper plants with my friends, and we went down these stairs and there wasa door cracked open a little bit, and someone spray painted, “i’m down here” on a wall next to the door…it was really frickin creepy..
Comment by Aimee | 03.7.2007 | 10:23 pm
Hey, I would like to know more about this. If anyone has any further info on any haunted places that you can actually go to please contact me. My e-mail address is ChaoticPrincess22@aim.com.
Comment by LuLu | 03.18.2007 | 9:04 pm
Wparanormal.com is currently undertaking the task of compiling local hauntings in the state of Michigan. If you are interested in investigations, Investigating, or just the paranormal world, please check them out.
Comment by JennJenn | 03.29.2007 | 2:02 pm
This is so cool! I’ve had expereiences with ghosts, even though my land is haunted.
Comment by Izzy | 04.3.2007 | 12:07 pm
I demand to know where this house is located since I’ve had close encounters with the after life. i WANT THE EXACT LOCATION!
Comment by Izzy | 04.3.2007 | 12:09 pm
I suspect that people don’t put up exact addresses to these places in order to avoid any potential law suits or privacy issues. Many “abandoned” houses are still owned by SOMEBODY who might not take kindly to having ghost-hunters trespassing on the property. Chill out. Go to the area and ask. if it’s got a big enough reputation, somebody can point you in the right direction.
Comment by dingey | 06.21.2007 | 5:21 pm
I would not be surprised if there really are ghosts. I know people including me who have seen ghosts and they have seen them with the disturbence of what has been seen and heard in this house. Some people might think that it is silly but I believe there are ghosts.
p.s. we really need some directions to this place
Comment by Rowan | 07.6.2007 | 10:15 pm
The Wiccan house is located on vine street not sure the exact adress
Comment by Babs | 08.8.2007 | 5:06 am
Interested in local haunted stories in Kalamazoo, Scotts, or nearby areas. Anyone, Anyone??? Thanks…
Comment by Michelle | 08.16.2007 | 9:04 pm
Interesting. I was born and raised in Kzoo, but never heard of anything like that. I do know from firsthand experience about the old tuberculosis sanatorium - we broke in before it was bought by WMU, and that place is fucked up!! The cemetary near there off of W. Main is also completely and utterly haunted, and I do have photographical proof of that. It’s scary as hell. If anyone wants to discuss the hauntings of Kzoo or knows of anything that would be interesting, email me at Quislai11@yahoo.com. Thanks!
Kendra
Comment by Kendra | 08.18.2007 | 6:27 pm
Ok.
What’s the address?
And if any of you have any other REAL haunted places in Michigan w/ their addresses, please feel free to email them to me.
=]
I would like to go to one this Halloween.
emily_the_strange979@yahoo.com
Comment by NikkiLea | 09.14.2007 | 10:17 pm
I have an exact location of a haunted farm and house that is located in Fairgrove, Michigan. If you’d like directions e mail @ charlicat1964@yahoo.com
Comment by loco | 10.1.2007 | 3:58 pm
Sorry…that’s charliecat@yahoo.com
Comment by loco | 10.1.2007 | 3:59 pm
Sorry…that’s charliecat1964@yahoo.com
Comment by loco | 10.1.2007 | 3:59 pm
(Posted By curiousscare: There is a house on Hayes Park that was also said to be haunted)
Hee firstly I live on Hayes Park (have for 28 years)… I think this is my neighbors house. The original family lived in it until my neighbors bought it a few years ago after the last surviving member of the family passed away. If so the last name was Early. It is 1227 Hayes Park. It was owned by them for generations. It could be a totally different home but this house is the original house in the neighborhood and the rest of the land around it was farm land belonging to the home. Theres been I guess a race way around here and what not since but I’ve always heard this house was haunted and the freaky part is that one night my step sister and I were in my bedroom and everynight before we went to bed after the woman passed away we’d flash a flash light up into the windows and when we flashed it upstairs the whole upstairs lights came on. My brother came home like 30 seconds later and pulled up in his car and we had him inspecting it. His friend was yelling Mrs. Early your lights are on. This house doesn’t look as freaky as it feels.
However, This wiccan house you discuss, I’ve never heard of.
I’ve been all over inside the TB center. We’ve heard foot steps following us and chains rattling. The place doesn’t necessarily look like people just up and left but it does look like it was shut down with no intent on removing the items within such as the library and the small room that looked like an auditorium. The piano is or was at the time still in that room with tables and chairs around it. The nurses stations although they looked ransacked looked as if the stuff was just left on the shelves and the place has been ran down by bums and people that just wanted to be destructive. Some of the patient rooms were still intact with beds and everything when I went into it. I went in around 1998. We went in 3 days in a row. The 2nd night we decided it wouldn’t be cool to be in after dark. We didn’t have to climb through the windows, the back door where it looked as if they carried supplies and possibly dead patients through were wide open. The basement where the bodies were kept imbalmbing tables were there the fridge that you slid the people into were there. There is alot of broken glass and what not all over.
When we were inside we heard foot steps thinking we were in trouble and that it was cops. When we went to give ourselves up, there was no one there. The sounds kept following us and that night when we left it was because we heard a really loud thump on the floor above us. It was getting dark and we chickened out.
The next night we went to the highest part of the roof which is this 20 foot by 20 foot square on top of the first roof that has a ladder to it. It has a great view of Kalamazoo. Nothing really strange happened that day.
I saw some one mentioned a movie filmed in one of the houses possibly the wiccan house, never heard of that house again but I do know that The Dread (spelling?) was filmed in a few places around here including East Hall that faces Vine also known as University High School (i think) and apparently part of the lost boys was filmed in a house near west main cemetary. The actual house that was in the cemetary. The small cement and brick one.
I live in Kalamazoo and have my whole life in fact in the same house. If any one knows something haunted here and has atleast and address or proof I’d love to go see it my self.
Comment by Keri | 10.1.2007 | 11:40 pm
As for movies, the ones that I know of that have been shot in Kalamazoo have been “house sitters: the night they saved Sigfried’s brain”, which was shot at Henderson Castle, “The Dread” at East Hall, and of course, “Kalamazoo?” which was shot all over town. I have never heard anything about scenes for “the lost boys” being shot here, and frankly don’t believe it for a second, simply because there is no good financial reason for a large studio to pack everything up and bring it to Michigan just for a couple scenes that could be done on a LA sound stage. But I could be wrong.
The Edison Neighborhood of Kalamazoo is just fantastic, with the old racetrack and the fairgrounds and all the factories that used to be there. I know that a good chunk of it was originally developed by Charles B. Hays, who was big in the local paper industry. The Kalamazoo public library has an online database of Kalamazoo history that I highly recommend.
Comment by jennjenn | 10.2.2007 | 6:23 pm
I have sat here and read all these stories and well
i am thinking either most of you didn’t grow up in Kalamazoo or your very young.
What about places like the Old Miller Road Cemetery
i was there last summer very hard to find but well worth the look. great PICTURES. And what about the house on Westnedge not far from Old Kalamazoo Central
very well known haunted house. The TB Hospital is very creepy and looks like a war zone. My sister and i snuck in last summer after a Professor from WM told us how to get in. We were warned about the place and told not to enter the building, we did find a place we could get in but we didn’t we took pictures through the windows.Another good place is the old Jewish cemetery, it’s behind mount olivet way in the back.. you will be shocked but not by ghost check out the statue in the middle of the samll cemetery….
Comment by Berdie | 10.3.2007 | 6:43 pm
The TB Center has been destroyed everyhting that was in the building is now out side on the grounds near were the swings use to be. looks like a war zone. very sad
Comment by Berdie | 10.3.2007 | 6:49 pm
I found a pretty good website that lists haunted places all over the U.S. There are 64 pages (printed out), of Michigan listings.
There are five mentioned in Kalamazoo.
Kalamazoo BRONSON HOSPITAL, has nurses who have seen spectres out of the corners of theirs eyes in the halls, and inside empty rooms, and weird things happen it the kitchen.
BORGESS HOSPITAL have reports of people seeing red lights and ghosts of the old nuns who used to operate the hospital. There have also been reports of children staying in the section known as 1-North feeling as if they are being watched. In the room across the hall from the nurse’s station a pair of glowing eyes can be seen…and when you look at the cemetery next door, you become nauseated.
The GILMORE HOUSE which is well over 100 years old and used to me the Gilmore’s mansion is now Alpa Tau Omega fraternity house. Evidently in the 30’s a butler fell down the servant’s stair case, all the way to the basement, and died. There’s a lot of activity present there.
The T.B. Sanitorium is located on Alamo Hill just off of Douglas Ave. It supposedly has a lot of activity including “screams that can be heard from the patients who had been experimented on. As has been mentioned, it IS heavily patrolled by police now…they say that when you COULD get in the building, you could see unfinished card games and tools left on tables and shelves.
The South Riverview/Mt. Olivet area is also mentioned…”This area bordered by three cemeteries, The Riverside Cemetery, the local Jewish Cemetery, and Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery. Residents of the area have talked about strange occurrences happening in houses in the area, including a young boy that could see ghosts, and in the same house, blood dripping from a kitchen cupboard.
There are many sensitive places right outside the Kalamazoo Area too.
I personally lived in a house in Allegan, which is a small town with a lot of really OLD houses, that had quite a bit of activity.
If you aren’t familiar with the website I’m referring to, you can email me at sbce3@excite.com and I’ll be glad to give it to you.
Also, those of you who go to these places out of curiosity, please do research first, and learn how to conduct a proper paranormal search. When you don’t ask permission when appropriate, trespass, make noise and leave trash, it makes it harder for those of us who seriously pursue the science. Be respectful of other people’s personal spiritual paths as well. For instance, although I am not Wiccan, I have done research about their belief, as others should. They are NOT evil, which is the typical sterotype given them. They follow a nature based, spiritual path, and strive to respect nature, and others. They have nothing to do with satan or the devil. Other religions are represented in particular cemeteries in every area. All cemeteries should be considered sacred and respected, no matter what spiritual path they represent.
If anyone is not familiar with the website of which I’m speaking, you are welcome to email me and I’ll be glad to give you the address.
sbce3@excite.com
Comment by SarieB | 10.4.2007 | 6:19 pm
I lived in Kalamazoo for 15 years, and have never heard of most of these places. I have heard of the TB Sanitorium, but have not been able to visit it. Sounds fun though. If anybody has any address for any of the haundings I would love to visit them next time I am in town (I have moved to Colorado). I am all about that kind of stuff
Comment by Liz | 10.12.2007 | 1:01 pm
This one time at band camp in Kalamazoo………..I died .
Comment by PAINBRUSH | 10.14.2007 | 12:03 am
this comment is for sarieb-i don’t know if i’d know you but i lived in allegan for a long time, and have experienced small paranormal activity a few times in those old houses downtown! the first house my ex lived in (it was gray-don’t know exact address-but on m-40 right before curve to fairgrounds on left), we were just sittin on the couch one day by ourselves, everyone was gone…and we were talking about how weird it was the night before when the toilet flushed on it’s own-i guess his dad went and checked to see who was up and nobody~ then all the sudden a really cold breeze seemed to enter the room and then this huge picture frame on the wall (that came with the house) just instantly came off one of the nails on the wall (it was held up by two) and just swung back and forth on the wall really fast for about a minute! it was freaky as hell. none of us could even talk for a few after that.. almost like we were upsetting a spirit or somethin.
then the next house they moved into down the road across from the police station and jaycee park, there was said to have been two sisters that lived in that house together and never got married and died there…there was a picture of them left with the house that my ex’s dad’s girlfriend always would have sitting out. it wasn’t really scary until her daughter started hearing a girl talk to her while she would be trying to sleep or by herself in the shower?? she would always be freaked out to take a shower after that. i don’t know, but i agree for sure that there’s a lot of haunted old houses downtown allegan!
Comment by nel | 10.16.2007 | 6:58 pm
I have lived in the kalamazoo area my whole life. My mother actually was at the t.b. ward for a year. She was one of the fortunate ones. My husband worked 15 years at the psych hospital in kazoo. He says the access tunnels under the hospital are unnerving.
There is a store in Richland that is haunted. It is in one of the oldest homes and it is called Choices Unlimited. Several people in it’s history have died there including a suicide in the barn. I have helped out before in the store, and the basement door kept opening. I firmly, and I mean firmly secured it and 10 minutes later the door was wide open again. I am not easily fooled. There was no explanation for this. The proprietor sees specters often as well as customers.
I guess it is appropriate it is an alternative store. There was a college student who came out last summer to video tape and do a paper for her class. It is a store, open to the public. This is one place you can freely visit during store hours.
Comment by Jules | 10.21.2007 | 7:12 pm
The house named above is located at 5300 N 28th St.
Comment by James Bailey | 10.27.2007 | 2:06 pm
The old T.B. ward on Dauglas and Blakslee is impossible to enter. All of the windows, the doors and every other knok and cranny, up to the third floor have been bricked in. The original main entrance
is the only door left and it has been replaced with a big steel plate. bad luck, sorry.
Comment by Davey | 11.6.2007 | 8:52 am
Any stories on Bay City? Frankenmuth?
Comment by loco | 12.4.2007 | 11:49 am
I have lived in the k-zoo area my whole life. The castle some of you speak of is simply a bed and breakfast now. No strange happening at all. The house on the south side near Vine area, not haunted, it’s owner was in several wars and was “shell shocked”. Was always hearing things from his war days. He went as far as to run off his own children-saying they were his enimies. He held himself up in his house untill the day he died by one of his own “traps”. The house still sits empty. None of his kids could bring theirselves to do a thing with it.
Comment by Regina | 12.16.2007 | 10:06 am
203 glendale in parchment is creepy. I used to live there and could hear voices often and was held down in bed a couple of times. It still won’t sell. Hmmm
Comment by david shafer | 12.21.2007 | 12:19 pm
i have seen stories posted about the “old miller rd cemetery”. one stated this is on miller rd almost to galesburg. if you take miller rd “almost” to galesburg isnt it ML ave at that point? anyone know where this is? when i search the net the closest i can find is listed as an “abandoned, badly vandalized (sad) cemetery” listed as either ford’s hill cemetery or ford cemetery- depending on where you look. it was once described as having a brick drive near the road that cant be seen due to the fact the it is covered by dirt and leaves. exact location or good directions, anyone??
Comment by julie | 12.31.2007 | 12:15 am
Julie, it sounds like Charleston (Riverside). Take I-94 to the 35th street exit and head north (towards Galesburg). That first traffic light just off the highway is Miller Road. Take a right and Miller dead ends at 38th…the cemetery is on the corner.
Comment by killer | 01.5.2008 | 8:45 pm
killer, it’s not that easy. this cemetery is marked on the county map and is on or off of ML ave. the map is not very detailed though. it is always described as “hard to find”. if you search kalalmazoo county cemeteries you’ll eventually find what i am talking about.
Comment by julie | 01.6.2008 | 12:18 pm
in regards to the lost cemetery– it is on the west side of 35th st (according to the map). i have gotten orb photos out of the one near the speedway though. anyone live in parchment? several haunts in parchment.
Comment by julie | 01.6.2008 | 5:02 pm
If it’s off ML close to 35th it’s ford’s hill. I plan on finding it when snow is gone. I mentioned riverside since it is on the mentioned “miller road”.
Comment by killer | 01.6.2008 | 9:37 pm
ford’s hill. yes. what do you know about it’s location? any other way to contact you?
Comment by julie | 01.12.2008 | 10:08 pm
I have GPS coordinates, I will update what I find when it warms up. Other than that…I know what you do.
Comment by killer | 01.15.2008 | 9:02 pm
“i know what you do” ???
Comment by julie | 01.23.2008 | 8:39 pm
I have GPS coords, that’s all.
Comment by killer | 02.12.2008 | 9:27 pm
Found it.
Comment by killer | 02.20.2008 | 7:56 pm
not accessible.
Comment by killer | 02.20.2008 | 7:57 pm
32nd street used to run off ML to the right between 31st and 33rd. It used to connect to Miller road before I-94 came through. It’s on private property now. The owners won’t let you visit the cemetery, cranky old lady!! She said if I came back with proper identification I could go check it out, my drivers license wasn’t good enough? She couldn’t tell me what she considered “proper identification”. I don’t know how the person who says they visited it last summer was able to without trespassing. You could chance it and park along i-94 and jump the fence!
Comment by killer | 03.1.2008 | 4:30 pm
I really like the description to this story; “…A wiccan circle is believed to be carved into the wood…” And that effects a haunting exactly *how* ?
That would have nothing to do with it. I’m Wiccan myself and I am so fed up with dabblers and pre-teens doing love spells and defacing property of others with wiccan symbols, giving the rest of us a bad name.
Comment by Thalo | 04.8.2008 | 1:00 am
Bravo Thalo! I’m not Wiccan but see your point.
Comment by killer | 04.8.2008 | 6:39 pm
*Nods*
Why thank you. ^^
Comment by Thalo | 04.9.2008 | 1:54 am
Julie, contact me at krs60@hotmail.com and I will give you my info. I found Ford’s hill and have been there, I also took pictures.
Comment by killer | 04.12.2008 | 1:58 pm
ok. i sent an e-mail. a few weeks ago. you still around?
Comment by julie | 05.14.2008 | 4:26 pm
I think it would be interesting if someone would get ahold of Ghost Hunters and have them come and do a show about these places. I find all this so cool.
Comment by Rhonda | 05.17.2008 | 5:31 pm
Hey if anyone knows anything about grand rapids ghost story i know some and been to some but havent been that scared!!!if u could email me at youngstuntinjanes@yahoo.com and maybe if some one knows where the house is at could tell me too thanks
Comment by Nicki | 05.20.2008 | 10:21 pm
I live in Portage and would love to check out the houses in Kalamazoo. I would love to get a group together to go out and check these places and see if we couldn’t get TAPPS to come and do a show.
You can email me at tdurek0000@charter.net
THANKS!
Comment by Tracy | 06.18.2008 | 10:05 pm