Strange Deranged Beyond Insane
Everything paranormal and unexplained. History of buildings old hospitals any haunted locations along with personal experiences. Famous murders in Michigan. Ufo and extraterrestrial. Urban legends of Michigan. Folklores witches and tribal tales. Horror movies and unexplained curses and deaths on set.
Strange Deranged Beyond Insane
Paranormal Pursuits with redditt reads in Michigan's Shadowed Corners
Ever wondered what secrets lie within Michigan's eerie landscapes and haunted hotspots? Join me, Melissa, as we tiptoe through the spine-tingling tales that make the Wolverine State a paranormal playground. From the chilling whispers of Dice Road in Merle to the grim legends of Blood Cemetery in Lanesburg, our journey is fueled by genuine curiosity and firsthand experiences. This episode unravels the mysteries behind the haunted halls of Eloise Asylum, the ghostly echoes of the Holly Hotel, and the spectral sightings at the Michigan Theater in Jackson. With insights from local paranormal expert Rusty Jones, we explore the unseen and unexplainable, inviting you to keep an open mind and perhaps even plan your own ghostly expedition.
As we navigate through Michigan's shadowy history, we encounter the tragic past of the Bath School massacre site and the spectral remnants of the old state hospital in Traverse City. Unearth the chilling stories lingering in the abandoned psych wards of Ypsilanti and Northville, and the haunted halls of the Dory Felt Mansion. Our exploration doesn't stop there; we also uncover the peculiar paranormal activities at places like Bratz Trucking in Owasso and the Ticonderoga Grill in Troy. As we wrap up, the haunted tales of Mackinac Island and the spooky Ghost Trestle in Lenawee County remind us that the unknown is closer than we think. Join me on this eerie adventure and perhaps discover a new appreciation for the stories that haunt our world.
Hey everyone, welcome back. It's your host, melissa at Strange, strange Beyond Insane. So I wanted to do a fun quick episode on Reddit, right? So everybody seems to know what Reddit is. If you don't, it's basically just like a news feed online that you can, you know. I mean you can ask anything, right, anything and everything. Ask a question, look at Reddit and you see people's responses.
Speaker 1:I find that Reddit is pretty true and authentic. Most people are honest on here. I think you know it's a discussion and then you know, basically people just comment. So the discussion that I am looking up is you know haunted paranormal areas in Michigan? Is you know haunted paranormal areas in Michigan? All right, so this person this is three years ago and they said hey, y'all, I'm looking to film a small documentary on YouTube, either proving or disproving the existence of the paranormal in a very truthful way, without the drama in most TV shows etc. Anyways, I'm looking for any genuinely haunted places that I can reasonably get permission to investigate or places that no one is likely to care if I'm in there filming. If anyone has any suggestions, it'd be much appreciated. Thanks, okay, I think they have about 36 comments, but I'm going to kind of sift through these. So this person said think they have about 36 comments, but I'm going to kind of sift through these. So this person said, depending where you're at Dice Road in Merle has a lot of stories around it, which I have so many stories about Dice Road. And if you guys have not heard about Dice Road, whether you're in Michigan, not in Michigan, you have to watch the documentaries. Whether you're in Michigan, not in Michigan, you have to watch the documentaries. It is like fucking insane and it is so creditable what has went on, I mean from police officers, emts, any kind of first responders, you know, firefighters, eyewitnesses, even dating back, you know, 30 years before anyone had really talked about 30 to 50 years. Okay, so moving forward, this one says when I was in the MSU Paranormal Society, we investigated Blood Cemetery in Lanesburg all the time and you guys know we have a lot of stories about place too.
Speaker 1:I stumbled on Blood Cemetery by accident. I was with Tom and Scott and we were leaving. Oh, my goodness, I can't believe I forgot what it's called. You know, when you're put on the spot, you can never think about it. A location where there was a school bombing. Okay, we'll come back to that.
Speaker 1:That was back in, like, I believe, the 40s, that that happened. That really really sad story. But it's remarkable that they have made a nice like monument and, you know, like the memorabilia there is really nice. But anyways, we we were there really really wasn't anything around that part, that location that we were in. So I was looking up places and of course I seen oh you know what. I looked up places like Blood Road in Michigan, anything with like blood in it, and, um, I came across this blood cemetery and there was like all these stories circulating around it. So I was like, hey, we have to go. So the first night we didn't really get out and walk around much, um, but Tom and I had went back several times. I've taken Christina there. Um, who else has went out there with me? I don't think her has been to that one one.
Speaker 1:It is quite a bit of a drive and I do need to Sorry about that. You guys, my phone was going off. You know it's always going off when I'm podcasting but no one else wants to talk to me any other time. You know how it works. I do need to get to a library in Lanesburg and really look up the facts, because I have three books paperback books about Blood Cemetery and any of my listeners. If you guys want specifics on these books and how to find them, I know I got them off Amazon. I have let some people borrow them. I always let people borrow my books as long as you give them back. There is a lot of old tall tales there and we have talked about that cemetery quite a bit here on the podcast too.
Speaker 1:Okay, and this one is Holly Hotel is legit. There's a good local team that runs a ghost investigation around October open to the public. They let us use a bunch of recorders and devices. So we have drove by Holly Hotel plenty of times. We've been in the area. One thing that annoys me with this is like when they say, oh, investigations are open in October and look you guys. I know everybody loves fucking Halloween and so do I, but spooky time for a lot of us is all year round. Please don't just wait till October or only have October open for people to investigate, because most of us like to investigate all year round and even if there's not heat in the building, like we're cool with that, we have, we have warm weather gear for this reason um, let's see. This person said have you gone post COVID? Huh, that's an interesting question, all right. So this person wrote do a blind investigation.
Speaker 1:One of my pet peeves of ghost hunter shows is that they spend all this time getting background and hearing about the scary experiences and then they have the same similar experiences in the same similar locations. You should visit two places you know nothing about one with history and one that has nothing to do with anything and record and document the experiences for comparison. That is a very good point, just like last episode that I just finished. I said you know everything that I recorded the night before. I did not go over it, I did not edit it and I literally put it on here for you guys all to hear with me. You know, unedited.
Speaker 1:I don't look up things either. I just a lot of these places we just run into because you know we drive all around and I used to drive for a living, for work, so I used to drive past cemeteries, all these like weird places, and I would just either snap pictures or I would pin it in my phone. Also, if you are looking for a place filled with unexpected tragic deaths and unfinished business filled with unexpected tragic deaths and unfinished business, I'd go to the local hospital. Statistically speaking, there should be way more specters wandering these brightly fluorescent lighted, sterile hallways than any old creepy homestead. Oh, thank you. Thank you so much, TinyHulk27. That is such a good, good point. Good luck trying to just wander around the hospitals.
Speaker 1:Um, we have done that traveling. We've tried to get into many hospitals and you try to explain to security guards or hospital workers they're what you know, while you're walking around and you're taking you know you're trying to be discreet about it, but they're always like what the fuck are you doing? And it's like well, okay, so we're like paranormal researchers soon. As you say, paranormal people are like, oh, my fucking god, they're crazy, they're gonna. It's like I can't believe. We haven't been admitted to the loony bins yet and some of these places that we have visited, even police officers. We've had to tell them like, look, this is what we do.
Speaker 1:We actually got pulled over in a cemetery what? A few months ago and the cops were kind of like laughing. They're like no, you're not really like doing this stuff, because you know people that come out here they're, they're always up to no good. I'm like no, like seriously, so they had searched um the friend that I was with his car car, and they seen all my shit in the back and they're like, holy shit, you're legit, you have like real equipment. They're like this isn't like corny equipment. I'm like, no, it's not. And I record. I'm like, and I have a podcast. And the guy's like, oh, you have a podcast. And I said yes, I do, this is what I do, like this is my thing. And I literally pulled up my podcast and put it right in his face. It's a police officer. And he was like, oh, okay, well, with a name like that, I mean I, I guess it is about that.
Speaker 1:You know all the paranormal stuff. I said it's paranormal, it's anything, everything conspiracies um historic places, haunted places. You know anything like. You know old tales, you know urban legends, anything you can think of um okay, so this was from three years ago, about um Eloise. It says, sadly, eloise asylum isn't doing tours anymore. That was the best spot.
Speaker 1:There's a cemetery near 13 and mound I think it's called the Warren Union, that has a lot of local gossip of haunts. Every time I'm there I'm unbelievably uncomfortable. I was a funeral director for a decade and none of the other Metro, detroit and Colorado Springs cemeteries left me feeling like that. So Eloise is definitely still doing tours. I have friends that you know still work there. Um, really quick, you guys, I'm going to take a picture of this 13 and mound cemetery, okay. Um, yeah, that's interesting, 13 and Mound. I'm trying to think where that would be. I mean, I know that area really good, okay. So this person said Try the Michigan Theater in Jackson. It's supposed to be very haunted by a few spirits and they've had a few ghost hunters there before, so I'm sure they wouldn't mind. So I'm going to snap a shot of that too. I know some of our friends um did investigate that theater before.
Speaker 1:Actually, our friend Rusty Jones that has been on this podcast. He is a big paranormal person out in Jackson. That's where he lives now. Don't't quote me, rusty, if you ever hear this. I'm sorry if I didn't get the complete date or I'm sorry the year right. I know Rusty has. He has been actively in the paranormal field and has had maintained like a paranormal team since like the 1980s. I know that's fucking old for young people. Oh my God, the 19th century. Some of us were born in the 1980s, but I think that's remarkable that we're almost in 2025 and he is still very much into paranormal research and investigating and he does tours out in Jackson. You guys can find him on Facebook. I think he's on TikTok too, but yeah, he's a really nice guy. He's been on here before.
Speaker 1:Okay, so, of course, eloise in Westland Morrow Road, in St Clair County, morrow Road I have mixed reviews about that. Okay, so here's a good one. Fountain Street Church. An anomaly was photographed in the balcony. This comes from a friend of mine who worked there. I will not name this person to protect their privacy.
Speaker 1:The Dory Felt Mansion in Suggatuck is reportedly haunted by the wife of the man who built it for her. While shooting a wedding there, an employee told me she saw a cup I'm sorry, saw they didn't spell this right saw cupboard doors opening and closing, as well as other sounds and misty silhouettes. Okay, so my husband and I did visit the Felt Mansion this past summer. We took a little motorcycle trip out there. Beautiful, it is absolutely fucking beautiful. It is very overly built for just a wife and, uh, you know, the kids and some grandkids.
Speaker 1:Um, I do need to get there and do an investigation. I was supposed to um the middle of October and I couldn't get out there, um, but one of the directors there, cause we just did like the daytime tour and we watched like the video, beautiful, beautiful mansion, very, very well kept up, um, but I was, when I was going back to you with the director, she was telling me like she goes, you have to come out here and do an investigation. And I was like I have to. So we, we do have to plan that and even if it's in the winter, um, you know, the winter is right around the corner, I hate to say it. We're in the middle of November. Um, I don't think we're going to have terrible winter we haven't in the last couple of years but hopefully, if it's not terrible and the roads aren't, you know, death-like, I wouldn't mind going, you know, there in the middle of winter because it would kind of break it up. You know, um, oh, yeah, um, okay, we already talked about that.
Speaker 1:A lot of people, same things. Um, Okay, eloise again. Felt Mansion again. Okay, this is interesting. This says try, bratz Trucking in Owasso. So Bratz on caps lock in Owasso. So Bratz on caps lock, abbreviated B-R-A-T-T-S, trucking in Owasso.
Speaker 1:The men that work there swear that the place is haunted. There are big. These are big, burly men, marine Corps vets that saw wartime. They, they almost sold the building after only being there a year because it's so scary. Wow, I got to take a picture of that too in Owasso. That's not that far, okay, all right. So this is, oh, this is very close to me, so, um, I'm going to try to pronounce it Ticonderga, ticonderga Grill in Troy. He had a family who worked there. They had several experiences like disembodied crying coming from the bathroom, sightings and more. So I do see a lot about restaurants being haunted, bars and grills. You know. Pubs, you know, obviously these can, just because they're very, very old, have a lot of history. Sometimes they these newer buildings are built on top of. You know catacombs you don't know. Right, this person says go to the old state hospital in Traverse City. It's all trails. Now people say it's haunted. They're building apartments where some used to be. That isn't. That is. On. My bucket list, too, is to get up to traverse city to that hospital. All right, so again still on reddit.
Speaker 1:Reddit, weirdest, creepiest, most airy town city place in michigan that you've ever visited, or or? Well, this guy has a lot of comments. Okay, white Pine, small Mining Community. Once the mine stopped operating it started to turn into a I don't know what they were trying to say um but basically turn into a ghost town. They have a cool restaurant that feeds the bears outside too. Nice, okay, um, oh yeah, we were just there, okay. So this one says got chatting with a gentleman during the height of the shutdowns for covid. He was telling me about how he was regularly making the trip from roscoe common to st john's and how crazy surreal it was stopping at the rest stops along there because of how quiet it was and the few cars traveling through.
Speaker 1:I grew up in the up, but my did not. I still remember the first time she heard a bird fly by Just a bird fly. It can be so silent here at times that the only sound you hear is the air displaced by a nearby bird's wings. That would probably freak me out. I can't deal with that much quiet. Um, let's see, I'm just trying to kind of like skim through these.
Speaker 1:Traverse City State Hospital again, this has to be Eloise. Yeah, this is Eloise, okay, um, yeah, again, blood Cemetery. Um, also right around that area this is the early 90s there was a dive pub restaurant with fucking huge jackrabbits hairs everywhere. I went with my mom think we were buying something from a farmer around there. It was stuffed hairs, huge stuffed heads, creepy paintings of them in a field. Didn't notice it at first, but the more you looked around the more of them there were. That would be freaky when you're younger. Right.
Speaker 1:Here's another one about Owasso, okay, estrell Beach. The houses were extremely close together. It was 70 degrees and sunny, with no children outside, but there were toys that were laying around in abandoned I'm sorry, abandoned near houses and in the parks. The adults were outside and it gave us, they gave us a stink eye as we drove past. It felt like we'd stepped into Children of the Corn. Estrell Beach Okay.
Speaker 1:So someone replied and said as someone who lives a short distance away from Estrell and has frequented it many times, I can attest to it being I'm sorry, guys, I'm reading from Reddit so a lot of these things don't make sense. They don't. They haven't spelled right. I can attest to it being very odd. The lakefront side of it has some nicer homes, but the inner part is run down and the folks do seem to have a rather off-putting demeanor. Oh wow, this is creepy. Um. Another person replied.
Speaker 1:I commented about estrell beach in a different chain, but my creepy association is with the nice homes along the water on lakeshore. I've been there to dog sit and water and water plants a bunch of times and have stayed the night and felt like I was being watched by people I couldn't see, and I never hear bugs or animals, just water, silence or electricity humming. I don't even see cars drive by. The homes are really nice, though, and it's beautiful and would be relaxing to just sit out and watch the water if I didn't feel so on edge there. Okay, estrill Beach, I have to definitely check that out.
Speaker 1:This person says the creepiest is my basement of a 130 year old home. It's a classic Michigan basement, so the ancient stairs are dangerous and rickety, it's full of spiders and it looks like a dungeon. I try to avoid going down there when I can. Huh, I would be fixing that basement up. So my basement has a has a old coal room in it, so after getting through spiders and dingy rocks, it is a dusty, dark room with chains and piles of ash. Wow, wow.
Speaker 1:This is some person's bitching about Christmas. Um, christmas being depressing in Michigan. That's great. Um, let's see Parachaney and Grayling. We've been there very creepy. Oh, that's what I'm. Okay, you guys. I couldn't remember the name of the township. So where that school bombing was, it was Bath Town township and I was way off. It was actually 1927, the bath school massacre. So that's how we got to blood cemetery that night was from um bath township. That's kind of a very eerie town too. Very old, um, I think people go to bed by like 8 pm.
Speaker 1:Okay, this one says the old psych warden ipsilanti, abandoned, with a massive network of underground tunnels, haunted and creepy as fuck. This guy writes ipsy or northville. We went to northville as teenagers and partied in the tunnels. Someone always knew someone whose brother never left the tunnels and nobody ever knew what happened to them. And then they said I went back there in 2021, but there was a police officer parked on the road near the trail that leads into the woods behind the hospital. So me and my husband were cautious and only explored the building. I'm sorry, only explored the buildings J and K. Yeah, the story went around when I was in high school, circa 1987 to 1990. I was too chicken shit to go to the tunnels, but the buildings were already creepy as fuck. The furniture the furniture was still in some of the buildings.
Speaker 1:I've always wanted to go there, but my husband did a job out there last year and he said that someone I think the homeowner told Paul that they turned that whole hospital or that area into um pretty much like a workshop for police officers um to do like their training. I'm sorry, that's my cat. You guys heard that sound. He was messing with the wheels on my chair, so disregard that. Nothing haunted right now. Um, oh, we were in Northville that's where we got um stopped by the cops. Um, when I was with my guy friend. But now I was just out there a couple of weeks ago with Christina and no cops came.
Speaker 1:But this person is saying the city of Northville is very creepy, um, and I think Northville is. It's very dark, lifeless, um, I don't, I'm not there a lot, obviously, okay, um, this person said that I realized that this is different. This is creepy, but in a different way. The border between gross point and detroit no other place in michigan is so unsettling to me. I lived right on the border street for about 10 years.
Speaker 1:I was living there when a woman a few few doors down was strangled in her own home due to a robbery gone wrong. She lived there peacefully with her cats and was just gardening that day and some guy came looking for money to buy drugs and for some reason killed her. It was one of the most disturbing things I've lived through, knowing it could have easily been me, and I was home studying with my windows open when it occurred. Another time I woke up at 4 am to my window lit up with a fire blazing in the back alley. One of the houses on the Detroit side had burst into flames. I went out there to move my car and the firemen were like this is no big deal, it happens all the time. The next day the house was just gone and everyone was just going about their day as normal. Unfortunately, in Detroit there are a lot of fires. Okay, I lived next to 8 Mile for two years. I drove past three houses I'm sorry, three house fires on my way to work in that time, feeling the flames. Then, a few years after, I moved out of the house I lived in and it caught fire and killed two people inside.
Speaker 1:I live next to a cemetery and I'm surrounded by fields, so I'd say my house is haunted. There is a cemetery in my neighborhood even creepierier. There's headstones from the civil war, all right. So again, estrell beach. I have to check that place out. Um, most haunted in mich, all right, one more round on Reddit.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, um, I actually did an episode about um sports stadiums being haunted with my godson and I thought that was an awesome topic that he picked out. He did all of his own research. Um, this person said, just pick a sports stadium. Stadium in Michigan, they're all haunted, like I think he meant like all over the world. Because we did, I mean, I was very surprised and I was very interested in this because I never thought of that and with my godson being a sports freak, um, he, you know, he taught me. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:So Mackinac, mackinac Island, the Grand Hotel. Um, mackinac Island has more recordings of witchery and you know, witch trials and all that you know sort of stuff. I'm just kind of giving you a gist of it. More than Salem, like literal, more recordings than Salem, massachusetts, in Mackinac. I do need to get to Mackinac too. I'm thinking about doing a little Mackinac trip in the spring, okay. So Felt Mansion again. So yeah, these are.
Speaker 1:Oh, this person says again so yeah, these are. Oh, this person says Gilks Cemetery on the corner of Cedar Lake and Schaefer Roads in Putnam Township. Do not go at night. Huh, okay, I have to. Definitely let me take a picture of that. Um, this person says ghost trestle. Lena, we lean away County, you guys also.
Speaker 1:With my own experiences on Casco, michigan is also very haunted. Um, I mean there's. I thought about starting to write on Reddit, um, cause there are so many little tiny places Um, not even just cemeteries that I have seen and experienced over the years. So that's going to be my next project, but you know, you guys know, I'm always starting a new project with this, cause there's so much information, right, and there's just so much to do with all this. And there's just so much to do with all this. Oh, yes, and the Henderson Castle in Kalamazoo. Carissa and I did have a stay at the Henderson Castle and we enjoyed it. It was very nice. I wouldn't say it was crazy haunted, but I would say the surrounding areas around there is very haunted.
Speaker 1:Another place that I have to visit is Grand Rapids. Grand Rapids is said to be extremely haunted. My brother, sister-in-law and the kids stayed there this past summer for my niece's um cheerleading competition, and even they said they're like we thought of you as soon as we got there that you could just feel how haunted it was. Um, so I do need to make a trip there and do a little girls, maybe like a weekend. Um, also, coldwater Michigan, you guys know, because that's the movie um, jeepers Creepers. That movie was made off of a real life murderer in Coldwater Michigan, so that's how that movie came about. No, there was not a man flying in the air killing people. But I love the first original Jeepers Creepers. But let me tell you, coldwater Michigan is a very fucking weird, eerie place. I mean, there's just so many just that I can talk about alone. But I just kind of wanted to do like a quick episode on Reddit.
Speaker 1:So you guys, do me a favor after you're done listening to this, please hop on to our website or, you know, go on to TikTok, facebook. Email us at ghost sisters 21,. 24 at Gmail Again, that's GhostSisters2124 at Gmail. Let us know where you think the haunted places are in Michigan, and if you don't want to share, I mean that's okay too. Just tell us about your experiences. But I will say this the most well-known places are really over-researched. The hole in the wall, little tiny places that no one has even seen or heard. Those are probably going to be your best. You know your best places to visit and you're probably going to get the most outstanding evidence. All right, you guys. Thank you for listening. Tune in for some more.
