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.
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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?