henderson castle is NOT torn down. it still stands there all creepy lookin.
some people that do ghost hunting went in there recently and witnessed some strange things. the cemetery across the street is also haunted. the state theater downtown kalamazoo is also very haunted!

You’re right, Henderson Castle is NOT torn down and I investigated there last night. It is active, but it is not open for public investigations at this time. There was a special event there for Halloween with an overnight investigation. Southern Michigan Paranormals have evidence posted on their website from previous investigations there and will be posting last nights as soon as its available. Feel free to contact me there. Denise

I went to college at WMU, there are a lot of houses that are over 100 years old. I do know what ashes of one of the former presidents of the university is inturd in the mian building, east hall, over looking kalamazoo. Friends have told me many stories about things that they have experienced living in those old houses. I cannot prove their stories, but I have had my own experiences in another apartment complex off of kendall ave. One two different nights I had the over powering feeling that someone was watching me. On top of that, when that feeling was persent, I saw shadows moving. not like trafic lights or people walking by outside, I cannot really explain it. Definetly ghost present in kalamazoo.

where is the address? This would be a good place for ceremonies.

i live in the parchment area and would love to hear about some more haunted places. (i actually live off mt. olivet, smack in the middle of three cemeteries, and right across the street from the supposedly haunted park.) i haven’t checked any of these locations out, but i will, and would like to know more about paranormal activity in parchment or around that area. if anyone has any info please let me know!

i think that the people who do these websites leave information like that out google the name and find it out yourself it might be now a private hotel we will have to all do our best and find it when ever u do find it though be self consience paranormal activity in houses isnt to be messed with its a soft thing to handle and hard if u screw with it trust me i know so please if u do stay there leace anything that may come up ALONE!!!! tthankyou- kayla prince bellevue michigan comment or question for and information

i grew up in Kalamazoo I also worked at KPH, and i have heard f this house never have heard of an address, i know the house on Alcott that burned down was very very haunted, as is the factory across the street, i would like to know more about the house near WMU

My wife and I and two very young daughters rented a house on Fairview Ave around 2000-01. The first thing we should have noticed was that our dog absolutley did not like going into that house when we first moved in.
After approximately 2 mos. the first incident came when my wife was in the basement laundry room ( a big oversized utility room with high ceilings for a basement) and in a loud whisper someone (thing) had said her name. She screamed and came running to me upstairs like an olympic track star and told me what had happened. Of course I shrugged it off…so far.
Going down the basement stairs from the kitchen, there was a cold spot midway to the bottom, not always but many times. I also many times-while not even thinking about anything abnormal- when going down those stairs, had the hair on the back of my neck raise and my entire body would go into goosebumps as if there was a presence right there with me, yet could not explain. Again not making any abnormal connection.
A few days after my wife’s experience, my daughter’s (age 3 and 1) and I were home and the youngest was sleeping. My 3 yr. old was with me playing in the upstairs attic area where it had been drywalled and carpeted and was nice for a play area. At the top of the steep narrow staircase to the upstairs there were bannisters on each side to where you could place a child gate that would be LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE for a 3 yr old to remove. The spindles of the bannisters were only 3 inches apart so it was very safe while I worked on a window in the same room.
Suddenly I hear the sound of a small body tumbling down those stairs!!!
As I turn, there lay flat at the top of the steps was the child gate!! I am telling you here and now THIS could not happen!! There was not an inkling of sound of the gate being removed from where I had set it up, and there would HAVE to be because of its mechanism.
I scaled the stairway in a split second down to my 3 yr old who lay at the bottom of the staircase. I made sure nothing was broken and checked her entire body and she fortunately only had a few abrasions from the tumble. I picked her up and cradled her in my arms and made sure she was okay and not too much in a daze from what happened. She wanted to go and make sure her baby sister was okay, which she was…sleeping in her crib.
I asked my daughter once I knew everything was okay what had happened?
She said “that little boy pushed me…”
There was no one in that room but her and I.

In the basement “normal” area where it was finished off and drywalled, in the center of the ceiling started a black spot about the size of a softball. I checked all of the pipes and drainage for leaks, there were none. Within two weeks the black spot had grown to the size of a large kitchen table. It was black mold.
Finally the incident that opened my eyes, and took us to a hotel for the night including the dog.
My wife and kids had gone to bed and I was up late watching TV when I heard my wife say something. I went to the bedroom and to ask her what she wanted. She was sleeping.

Ten minutes later I hear a voice again and thought it was her. So I get cranky and I’m thinking what the hey!? I go to the bedroom and she’s sound asleep. -Sound asleep.-
There go the goosebumps.
I went back to watch TV and within 30 seconds, the voice again. Not discernable but a woman’s voice.
I get up -KNOWING- my wife is toying with me, start toward the bedroom when I’m lightly pushed, not shoved, by what felt like someone using two fingers. Like someone trying to get your attention. How the heck did she get out here without me seeing? I’m thinking my wife of course, I turn around and NOPE, there’s nobody there and then a voice again -from no certain direction, I just heard it- that sounded like “no, it’s not you”.
TIME TO GO!!!
What that voice meant I do not know, maybe a woman searching for her man…your call is as good as mine.
There are a few other things, including the people who moved in after we got thee heck out, but this is too long as it is.
Hope you enjoyed it…It’s true and will tell my kids about it in a few more years when they’re older.

I forgot to mention in my “experience” that a friend of a friend of my wife when she heard about this, did a bit of research on this house and apparently years ago, a man had murdered his wife and children there and had then turned the gun on himself. I haven’t verified this personally but will follow up soon.

@jessica
yeah it does. you obviously have a hihg schooler’s understanding of the religion. a circle is used in a lot of different wiccan rituals, some of which purportedly quite dangerous, if they get out of hand.

Jasper, please contact me when you get a minute concerning your story about the Fairview house. Thanks. Scotty Bud Melvin, WZUU FM Radio, Kalamazoo, MI scottybud@wzuu.com

Basements are made out of cement or rock, not wood. I have lived in in the Vine neighborhood by WMU for four years.I only see College students who “haunt” the student ghetto. That’s OK. I can not handle real spirits…. Too creepy. … Please, stop frightening me, I’m thinking of buying a historic house here…

The wiccan circle doesn’t have a damn thing to do with hauntings!!
Real wiccans follow the law of “Do as you will as long as you harm noone” so hauntings would not be wiccan related!!

Ok, you Wiccans claim that you do not believe in demons or devils and yet one of you seemed to contradict that statement earlier in the fact that she stated that the energies in the wiccan house were probably negative due to the fact that the wiccan symbol was used most likely in devil worship or satanism. If this so called “negative energy”, which obviously is more than just displaced energy if it has a reasoning of its own, isn’t demons then what would you call it? If it can actually reach out and physically touch you as in push or shove you, physically hold someone down on thier bed, flip coasters or move objects then it obviously has a mode of thinking and is more than just a residual haunting. A residual haunting is just an impression left behind on a place which can do no harm to an individual. It is like a house with a memory of events that happened within replaying themselves. If, as you state, that you cannot have good without evil, how can you repectfully think that evil cannot come thru in your practice however unintentional it may be or that you can control the evil that may come through accidentally while practicing Wicca. If, as you gave the impression, Wicca can be used in dark magic or taken to a dark place, how can you be so certain that this is not the cause of the haunting. Nobody wants to believe that thier religion can do harm but the truth is that there is good and bad in all religions. Is this haunting a direct result of rituals being performed in the basement of the house or from someone practicing the religion Wicca in the house? I can’t say that it is without a doubt but you can’t say that it isn’t either and i don’t care how long you’ve been practicing Wicca. If you believe that thier are entities of good or gods you pray to in your religion then you have to believe that thier are entities that are inherently evil by the rules of your own belief. Doesn’t matter what you call them, demon, devil, entity or “negative energy”. Do i believe Wicca is an evil practice? NO I don’t but i do believe that it can be taken to a dark place by people with evil in thier hearts and release forces and energies that can’t be controlled and again, by the rules of your own belief you have to believe that as well otherwise there would be no need to go through the trouble of casting a circle to protect yourself from “negative energy” while performing a ritual or spell because obviously there would be nothing to protect yourself from, but unfortunately there is and you do. So spare us the belief that Wicca is all roses and lollipops and life and good and never harming and nature and blah, blah, blah when you know as well as everyone else that it can be desication and death and evil and vile and everything opposite the good depending on what’s in the heart of the person practicing your faith. Good Wiccan or Bad Wiccan, still a Wiccan as you cannot have the good without the bad. This is your own belief, not my words but yours. Please don’t take this as a negative comment that practicing Wicca is a bad thing, im not saying that at all. It is however an attempt to get you to look at your own faith realistically and see it from all angles and perspectives and not just from your own but from everyone who practices or doesn’t practice your faith.

Anyone up for ghost hunting or touring some haunted areas around Kalamazoo? Add me on facebook John ‘Canto’ Conolly.

Preferably younger people, I don’t feel like wandering around a place with someone as old as my dad…

L Johnson says:
you stated the henderson castle was torn down.. Um it was never torn down and still remains. The previous owner recently sold it for a cool $2 mill and retired to a tropical island. He had lived there for 9yrs w/ no odd activity ever.

@ David Very well said! From a Wiccan of +30 years! David made a very valid argument regarding “good vs. Evil!” We have all heard the terms Good Witch, Bad Witch, White Witch & Black Witch. They all hold a preconceived notion. Each of us has to choose which path we want to take. We all know at least one person that thinks they are Wiccan but when you are near them you “just know” that they are not. My Great Great Grandmother used too say that they had a black spirit. I believe the same can be said for a house. You must protect yourself from them both equally!! And yes I do speak from experience!

Today is Oct 10, 2010.
I was up at the “Hurst Mansion” last night and I can tell you that, although it is a pretty creepy location, and yes the garbage can was out by the side of the road, unfortunately the home in NOT abandoned. Someone does live there. And just as a warning from the owner, whom I spoke with over the phone today, the police do patrol up there and there are cameras and a security system in place for those brave souls who wish to trespass without permission.
So in conclusion, the “Hurst Mansion” on Douglas Ave. IS A HOAX OR A RUMOR, so don’t waste your time.

- SpiritGuide9979 -

Yes the Hurst Mansion is a hoax or a rumor and is a waste of time.

Jasper on the Fairview location: Very interesting. That’s a really nice street, both sides of Westnedge. I’d love to look into that house’s history.
Spirit Guide, I found that out too, but I didn’t actually make a call. I figured if there is a trash can outside, then someone must be paying the bill. Too many people don’t research, or leap to conclusions, love sensationalism. And Unfortunately some “paranormal” groups in the area do just that.