Where exactly is this house located? Is there an address?

Yea where is this house located?

Where is this house, the location exactly….I would love to know where it is.

Where is this house, the location exactly…

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.

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.

Why isn’t there any addresses with these stories? We need addresses to find out if this stuff is real or not.

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

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

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.

im from lawton michigan. can someone please give me the addresses of these haunted places in kzoo. it would be greatly appreciated.

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

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 .

where is this house located

where is this house located
but ye atht is pretty crazy!!!

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Cindy,

Ooh, ooh, ooh doesn’t sound scary to me. I guess it all depends on what she looks like.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Anyone ever heard or been to Ypsi Forensic Center…. worth the trip from kalamazoo trust me.

Please email me the address of this house i would realy like to check it out.

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

Where is this house located at?

um.. why isnt anyone saying where the location is?

OMG! That is so creepy…just make sure you give the exact location…

Where is this place exactly? What is the address

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.

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???

forget activity in k-zoo im out til i check in later

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.

where are the locations for phobia house

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

I do know the Phobia house is on Portage Rd. I think it is 947 Portage.

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 knobs to release pressure…plus the small stream running beneath it adds to the experience…be careful here though you can fall in!

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

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

do you really think its haunted

i like richard follisters story it is funny

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!!!!

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.

Anyone who is from Kalamazoo, are there any haunted house in Long Road?

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.

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?

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.

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.

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..

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.

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.

This is so cool! I’ve had expereiences with ghosts, even though my land is haunted.

I demand to know where this house is located since I’ve had close encounters with the after life. i WANT THE EXACT LOCATION!

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.

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

The Wiccan house is located on vine street not sure the exact adress

Interested in local haunted stories in Kalamazoo, Scotts, or nearby areas. Anyone, Anyone??? Thanks…

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

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

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

Sorry…that’s charliecat@yahoo.com

Sorry…that’s charliecat1964@yahoo.com

(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.

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.

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….

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

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

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

This one time at band camp in Kalamazoo………..I died .

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!

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.

The house named above is located at 5300 N 28th St.

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.

Any stories on Bay City? Frankenmuth?

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.

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

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??

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.

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.

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.

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”.

ford’s hill. yes. what do you know about it’s location? any other way to contact you?

I have GPS coordinates, I will update what I find when it warms up. Other than that…I know what you do.

“i know what you do” ???

I have GPS coords, that’s all.

Found it.

not accessible.

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!

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.

Bravo Thalo! I’m not Wiccan but see your point.

*Nods*

Why thank you. ^^

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.

ok. i sent an e-mail. a few weeks ago. you still around?

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.

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

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!

I live a stones throw from the “old miller road cemetery” It is interesting to say the least, as is the one in ike paine park in galesburg.
The old Upjohn Brook Lodge which is now owned by MSU is reported to be active.
The “doctors cottage” where Dr.Upjohn died, “brookside” and the carriage house are origional to the property.
Brook Lodge is a hotel and conference center now and is located in augusta.

Well If you really want to know of two in Oak St Area one is at 416 Oak St , Which we of a pagans/witchs have seen and heard of ghost, sprit bells start ringing and cats would be crazy at times as well. We had a bunch of west michgan ghost hunters come in to check it out but whatever scarced the living **** out of they left. But theres is another next strret over on normal court which can be found on other site about it. But 416 Oak is Haunted so now we have moved to new house. But now house is beening remodeled now as I speak so just think the landload is unleashing more problems for the next tents.THIS IS REAL STORY AND IS GHOST OF PEOPLE TO OLD TO VERY LITTLE KIDS THAT WALK AROUND THE HOUSE DAY OR NIGHT.

Hey. I was in K-zoo last year visiting my brother, and he took me to a couple of really creepy places. Not houses or buildings, but some backroads. Unfortunately, I don’t know the geography there, so I can’t tell you where in the county we were, only that there were a number of areas where things felt extremely “wrong.” Does anyone know anything about hauntings in the woods? There was one road that was really awful, a dirt one through marshy woods, with tons of signs on the fence that sectioned off private property from the road saying “do not enter” and such. I’ve been trying to get some info on this area for a while now, because the feeling of being watched and actually hunted was so intense that it actually made my eyes tear up, and I’ve never experienced anything like that. If you know any legends or anything, can you send me what you’ve got at tayanny@yahoo.com?

Now, I’m not in the habit of wandering around dark roads and feeling creeped out. There were a few other things that happened while I was in MI that kept me from dismissing the drive as just an overactive imagination. For example, the night after that drive, my bro told me he’d take me past an old house that used to scare the **** out of him before they started remodeling it, but he didn’t tell me which one it was. He just drove me around a way I’d never been before, and when we were sitting at a light, I looked at the house on one of the corners and said, “There’s something weird about that one.” Sure enough, that was the house. I can’t pinpoint what it was, it didn’t actually look all that odd for K-zoo, a late 19th century style, I think, but there was something very off about it. Anyway, that’s one slightly more concrete example, and I’m looking forward to my next visit so I can investigat a bit more. I’ll check back here to get some ideas.

So here’s the thing that is unique about this case. Some people might say what does wiccan have to do with the haunting and wiccan doesn’t have a circle. True the “original” practice of wiccan soley consisted of the elements of life… fire, water, earth…ect… and prayer before them, to different gods deppending on ones desire. But over the years people have tranceformed it into a type of witchcraft where wiccan is performed within a pentogram, candles and relics on each point. So yes wiccan does have a circle for some who practice it, and for those that do practice and dissagree with this maybe u should look a little closer at what you are practicing and do some research. Wiccan can have everything to do with this haunting. Many people don’t realize that you can open demonic doors on accident. Shure your intentions might be good in your practices but you can’t control the negative that comes with it……hense what wiccan is all about. Good and the evil. There are many documented cases all over the world of demonic doors oppend do to the practice of wiccan, google it……..point blank this haunting sounds like a typical cause of wiccan!

pretty interesting…..see heres the kicker about this case. wiccan is a religion that is very old and not practiced like it used to be. True that “original” wiccan practices did not involve a circle, only the main elements of life, earth, fire, water, ect…where ivolved with hours of praying to whatever god one desires. but over time wiccan followers have transformed the religion by prayin inside a pentogram with the elements on all points of the gram and this is where modern day whichcraft came from..so yes wiccan does have a circle……..see what many wiccan practicers dont realize is that yes it can be used possitivly but also at the same time can open demonic doors hense what wiccan is about, the nature of good and evil. to have one you need the other. every year hundreds of cases are reported of wiccan prayers unlocking demonic devises….google it…and often the practicers themselves are attacked. to any of you practicers out there that disagree with what ive said do some research and know all the angles of what you practice cause some of the comments ive read point to people that practice but know nothing about it and thats how doors are unlocked. this case sounds like a good old fashioned demonic force that could or cudnt have been brought do to wiccan but with a pentogram on the floor in wiccan style its safe to say its wiccan or satanism, they r both the same thing really!

Ive been living in kazo for 7 years and hit a few “haunted” places. I would like to do some EVP recordings. If anyone knows of some places with exact location I would like to take my “team” of friends and do some recordings and EVP stuf, any ideas just send em to s2brooks@gmail.com

hey everyone, i found a cool place that gives u a list of places in America (by state)that ae haunted the website is http://www.theshadowlands.net, they have a descriptive desription and some of them even tell you how to get to the places and all, if anyone is going to travel to Kalamazoo let me know i would love to go or to any of the hounted places let me know my email is fire_angel_07@yahoo.com

Carnije,
Dear one-you have made a complete fool of yourself by proclaiming to know so much about Wicca.
First of all-it is capitalized, as in Wicca. Wicca is an earth based belief system that incorporates magick in its practices. WICCAN is one who practices Wicca.
Secondly, the word is pentagram and it has been used in Wiccan practices forever.
Thirdly-Wiccans don’t believe in devils or demons. Those are Christian entities. Wiccans hold that in everything there is an opposite. You cannot have one with out the other. You cannot have good without evil. There is no light without dark. There are the informed and the uninformed.
I have been a Wiccan and Witch for over 30 years, honey. You need to go back and do more research, learn how to use spelling and punctuation and stick to topics that don’t make you look ridiculous in a public forum.
ANYWAY-If the energies in the house are negative, it is more likely it WAS the site of Satanic or Dark Witchcraft (”pentograms” are used extensively in both cases). My son will be attending WMU Spring semester and I would be very interested in visiting this house.

I’m from the area, and have heard of many of these stories. A group of friends and myself went to see the ‘crying mary’ unfortunatley the only supernatural we encountered that night were the ’super’ police…it would be awesome to get a group together and research some of these places.

i live in kalamazoo mi,
there is this haunted old physco ward off of west main on a big hill and some of my friends wanted to check it out one night they when up there and when they got there they said that it looked crazy one of the basketball hoops was all messed up like some one tore the hoop off they went inside and you walk so far and it looked like THE BIG METAL DOORS they had been torn off the hinges you walk a little farther and the wall have blood all on them and old pictures that the crazy people wrote on there soo they walk a lil more and they get to this part a door
they hear crazy noises up the stairs like big bangs and diggings on the walls and on the big door it said BEWARE POINT OF NO RETURN
and all they kept hearing was crazy noise’s that they couldnt explain so they got scared and ran out and one off my friends got soo scared he pissed his pants…. haha
if you wanna no more about it
email me at cheeky_1989@yahoo.com

if any one in kalamazoo has ben on west main and knows where the old physco ward used to be on that hill
email me i got a story to tell you
e-mail me at cheeky_1989@yahoo.com

if any one in kalamazoo has been on west main and knows where the old physco ward used to be on that hill
email me i got a story to tell you
e-mail me at cheeky_1989@yahoo.com

Julie, I had to format my computer and lost this website. I finally stumbled upon it. I never did get your email, did you still need any info on ford’s hill?

screw shadowlands

I live in Parchment and would love to know about haunted places in the city. I was born and raised in Parchment and still live here in my childhood home. My home is haunted by my father who passed away at home. We never had anything happened before he passed. Lights go on and off by themselves. The VCR stopped playing at one point, rewinded itself, popped out, was pushed back into the VCR, fast forwarded itself, and started playing where it left off. My boyfriend heard us talk of stories but never seen or hard anything until that day. Since then he has seen and heard a lot. But the VCR thing really freaked him out.

The carbon dioxide detector will go off and you can unplug it and take the batteries out and it will not shut up. Right after he passed my mom called consumers because it went off and she thought she had a gas leak in the house. Consumers could find no leak and no explaination for unplugging it and taking the battery out only to have it keep going off. They could not answer for that and it kind of freaked it out. I laughed and said dad knock it off and it shut off. I told the guy my dad passed away recently and it was him, he could not get out of the house fast enough. I got a good chuckle out of it. it does not scare me only reasures me that my father is still looking after me the way he did when he was alive. After my boyfriend moved in things calmed down a lot and things only happens around his birthday, my parents wedding anniversary, and around the time of his death which was six weeks after the anniversary date. I do not want anyone to investigate because if it is anyone else and not my dad I do not want to know, I am too chicken.

I also lived in Germany for six years. I saw many old castles and some were great and some I got a bad feeling in certain areas. My home in Germany was haunted my a little German man dressed in WWI era clothing. I called him Harry and he never bothered anyone, just moved things and a few guests saw him but I never did. He let us know he was there and when my Ex and I argued for some reason the TV would get turned up really loud and the shower would turn itself on.

Here is a link that gives the history of the TB hospital in Kzoo. http://www.hauntedhouses.com/states/mi/kalamazoo_sanitorium.cfm. It is definitely a creepy place at night (I was there in the mid 90’s) but it is highly patrolled by the Kzoo police department. As far as the 1-North pediatric section of Borgess Hospital, that is the psychiatric ward of that hospital. There are many areas in that hospital that are disturbing. There used to be a tunnel from the main hospital to the South Professional building (a 60’s ish building that was recently torn down to make room for more parking lot) that was extremely unnerving at different times of day. The Park building downtown used to be an old hotel and it is very creepy in some corners. Of course, the theater people in town all have stories about how their building is haunted (probably because the dead there have a flair for the dramatic and like to be seen, or the live people there do) however the Civic Auditorium on Bronson Park does seem to get a number of people talking. I have lived in Kzoo my entire life, but people don’t seem to discuss too many of these things.

so where exactly is this located at an ddoes anyone live their plus i would like to go in that house my self an dexsperince things people have i have always wanted to be like the people off of ghost hunters an dstuff like that so pleas write me back

pleas tell me where the wicca circle place is located

Killer, (thats kinda creepy)

yeah, i do want some info still. you have pics, right? still want to know where it is. you have the same e-mail?

Hey Julie. If you’re talking about “killer” it’s just old high school nickname that sounded good…killer kyle! Anyways, email is krs60@hotmail.com and I do have pictures. There are only a few tombstone bases left. I can tell you exactly where it is and I have info on some old transcriptions of who’s buried there. It is on private property but owner is nice and let me back there. I’m at work till 3:00 and have meeting at 4:00 so email me and I will email info to you. See ya.

ok killer. i now have sent two e-mails. how about you try me at scorpioj1974@yahoo.com