Strange Deranged Beyond Insane
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Strange Deranged Beyond Insane
Beer pudding, disembodied voices, and a very pregnant ghost hunter at Michigan's Bruce Mansion with Carissa
A Victorian survivor with a Second Empire silhouette, a town shaped by fire, and a midnight voice that wasn’t on any of our devices—Bruce Mansion gave us more than a story. We went in to listen, not to perform, and the house met us halfway with layered responses, names in the static, and a heavy hush near the old outhouse that felt like grief pressing up from the ground.
We start by grounding the legend: how a funeral parlor past, apartment years, and a rumored cupola suicide built the mansion’s haunted reputation. From there, the gear is simple and the approach slower than usual—partly because late pregnancy made every stair count, partly because old houses reward patience. You’ll hear us juggle EVP prompts with respect for place, debate a request for “beer pudding,” and confront a real-time “We’re here” that lands both through an app and as a disembodied whisper. In an upstairs space some call a quarantine room, the name “Emily” surfaces. Out back, a small bone and a string of terms—“I’m close,” “daughter,” “iron”—spark a careful hypothesis about injury and infection in a world without tetanus shots.
We pull apart the evidence like engineers: how echoes behave in tall stairwells, why we discount most “orbs,” and what motion patterns actually make us pay attention. We also talk preservation and access, because the path to better investigations runs through good neighbors, working bathrooms, and roofs that don’t leak. Tours keep the lights on and the history living; kindness from the gas station next door kept us focused and fed. If you’re curious about the line where folklore meets fieldwork, or you just want a clear-eyed walkthrough of a famously haunted Michigan landmark, this one’s for you.
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All right, everybody. Welcome back to Strange Strange Beyond Insane. And I would like to share a couple of recordings from um Bruce Mansion here in Michigan. Chris and I went, um, we visited about a month before it was due. So I was extra large and very slow, like a sloth, and um kept falling asleep towards the end of the night. But we absolutely enjoyed this gorgeous historic old mansion. And it was just we it was kind of surreal that we finally got to go because it has not been open to the public for a long time. So yeah, I have some live recordings that I'd like to share. And uh if you guys can get a chance to go there and visit, you guys should. It is the Bruce Mansion in Burnside, Michigan. So before I get right into the live recordings, I do want to give you guys a little history of the Bruce Mansion. Okay, so the Bruce Mansion was built in 1876 by a Scottish immigrant named John G. Bruce in Michigan, surviving the Great Thumb Fire of 1881 and later used as a funeral home before being divided into apartments. The mansion's reputation for paranormal activity stems from several resident deaths, including a rumored suicide in the cupola and the death of a owner by unknown causes. The property is owned by private residents, and they are offering um tours to fund its restoration. So the architecture architectural style, sorry, um, is a striking example of a second empire in Victorian style. Um the survival of the Great Fire is a great thumb of fire in 1881, which devastated much of the surrounding area. So the mansion served as a funeral parlor, a common practice at the time. Apartments happened sometimes in the 1980s, and the mansion was divided into separate apartments. Prohibition era. A room and an upper floor was used as a speakeasy during prohibition. Um, so like again, the residents' deaths, uh, the mansion's reputation for being haunted is linked to the numerous resident deaths that have occurred over the over the years. The suicide legend. The second owner, Jen Walker, is rumored to have died by suicide in the cupola, a significant contributor to the mansion's paranormal reputation. I believe he got into a car accident outside of the mansion and um he someone died in the car accident. I don't think he that he could take it, and that's why he committed suicide. I think that's what the story is, which is pretty insane because the first time that I called to talk to the um the groundskeeper to set something up, he had to call me back because there was an actual car accident right in front of the mansion, and he was cleaning up um all of the parts and you know everything. I think everybody's okay, but I just found that very strange. Um yeah, it uh it was a very beautiful stay, and I am totally looking forward to going back when I'm not super pregnant, and I believe me, there was a lot of times that I enjoyed being pregnant. The second trimester was beautiful. However, when you at the end, when you're huge and you're tired all the time, it it makes the whole paranormal investigating a little harder, right? Alright, so let's jump into this live investigation. Let me just fix this mic. Alright, here we go.
SPEAKER_04:Okay, it's about 11:30. Um Friday, July 18th, 2025.
SPEAKER_05:We're at Bruce Mansion in Burnside, Michigan.
SPEAKER_04:And we're just sitting in the front, seeing if we hear anything.
SPEAKER_03:Why does it be quiet?
SPEAKER_05:Sorry, are we talking too much?
SPEAKER_01:We're only talking now because we're just getting right in the only way.
SPEAKER_05:What is your name? You know, I didn't walk around to the back of that. You know that I keep looking back at me. I know that there's um porch area.
SPEAKER_06:Um, but can't walk ahead to see or take pictures that I don't think about it to just uh they don't want to get here to try to take pictures that was already pretty much getting dark.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:I've got so much manager.
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_06:Alright, bro. If you're like high with your water to colour but too.
unknown:Yeah, there you go.
SPEAKER_06:Okay, that is reverbed. Also, one I read guy.
SPEAKER_05:Someone nearly that's an old name. Somebody not lost. That's like the name.
SPEAKER_06:Like why should be a chip? That has to be um aligned. A lot, yeah, to like forget some people to open the window. Is this Mr. Locker? Yes. It's nice to meet you.
SPEAKER_01:You two are you happy that we're here?
SPEAKER_03:Jocelyn or Jocelyn?
SPEAKER_05:Is that your name?
SPEAKER_01:Well, we are you?
SPEAKER_05:Tell her your name again. My name is Current.
SPEAKER_01:My name is Melissa. We're here to communicate. So so happy to meet all of you. Are you guys happy that we're here?
SPEAKER_05:So then are we here on the house? Oh shit, we have a little bit of a more um.
SPEAKER_03:Hey, we're gonna we're gonna walk over to the party store. Can I bring you back anything?
SPEAKER_01:Can I bring you back something? Pudding. You want pudding? Okay.
SPEAKER_04:I'll give you pudding here. We are gonna go run over to the gas station. This is part two. She just recruited me, okay? Um, Krista's gonna have necrophonics on on her phone, and I'm gonna keep recording. Here. We'll use this to set our phones on.
SPEAKER_05:Okay.
SPEAKER_04:Or we can put them on the staircase. All right, beer pudding. The um Chris has had some great feedback. They want beer pudding. Ooh, that freaks me out back there.
SPEAKER_06:Oh, wait, right here.
unknown:I have to take a sickle here. Yeah, it's a beautiful flowers. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_07:Okay, be right back, guys.
SPEAKER_02:You can hear a female talking, some males, um, kind of distorted, not really any full like full names until later in the night with a different app. Would you like original or berry? You hear that?
SPEAKER_01:Should we just leave it? Should I just leave the phone's button on the phone? The staircase? Yeah, for a while.
unknown:All these rails and stuff, these are beautiful. This is what these stairs.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, I could I could see Mrs.
SPEAKER_07:Walker, are you here with us?
SPEAKER_04:I'm here yet. Run away.
SPEAKER_07:Run away. No, we don't like to do that. Oh, that's beautiful. Oh, that's cool. Do you play the piano ever? Can you play a little bit for us?
SPEAKER_08:This was in the front of the house, yeah. So that's cool.
SPEAKER_03:So something Where does that door go to? I go to the back.
unknown:Oh, that's good.
SPEAKER_04:Holy shit. Oh, the rake.
SPEAKER_03:I just barely stuck on you. We're here.
unknown:Right here.
SPEAKER_03:We're here.
SPEAKER_04:Whoever the daughter is at passed, I'm very sorry.
SPEAKER_02:I wanted to take a moment to pay our respects for her. I definitely felt that. So I just want to let you guys know that when my ghost tube ab said we're here, that was another disembodied voice. I think either right after or as I was reading we're here. And you can hear it. I'm gonna do it again so you guys can hear it. Take a moment to pay our response. Whoever the daughter is at past, I'm very sorry. I wanted to take a moment to pay our respects for her.
SPEAKER_03:Okay, hold on to that. I just barely stuck on it. We're here.
unknown:Right here.
SPEAKER_03:Right here.
SPEAKER_02:That's yep, definitely a disembodied voice right there, so that was a heavy one.
SPEAKER_05:Should we do uh session down here or bang up here?
SPEAKER_02:Wanted to take a moment to pay our respects for her. I definitely felt that. Ooh.
SPEAKER_05:That was a heavy one. Should we do uh session down here or bad hooks here? I don't know what do you want to do. I don't want you down here too long because you're asking.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, I'm like I feel invine. It was when I wanted to go walk in there.
SPEAKER_06:Oh, that's creepy as fuck. Yeah. I know.
SPEAKER_04:That's like what is it, like 13th century?
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, but you look this way, he's good, you look this way. Ah, changes.
SPEAKER_05:No, that was why.
SPEAKER_06:Oh no, we can't get to it all the way up.
unknown:Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Holy So that's us looking all the way up at the cupola, and it's extremely high up there. So I was thinking, oh, we could climb up there, but no, there's no way. And I definitely would not trust that with an older house like this.
unknown:It's not easy.
SPEAKER_02:It's not easy. Especially for for my fit. He said hello.
SPEAKER_07:Hi.
SPEAKER_02:Who's up there?
SPEAKER_07:Can you talk to us?
SPEAKER_04:Do you like that we're here? The light's not always a good thing though. It can go either way. Oh, I'll give it a double ground. Oh yeah, that's gorgeous. Paul does a lot of that now, so yeah. It's expensive. He said talk he said talk.
SPEAKER_05:What's her name? This really seems to be a little bit fun.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:There's five. So there's three of us, so there's two more with us right now. Five altogether. Would you like me to lead, or you want Dave or Cursive lead? Here comes Dave.
SPEAKER_05:Follow. And this is where the little girl was quarantine.
unknown:What?
SPEAKER_05:And I think it might have been a uh like a secret door.
SPEAKER_06:Oh, like a secret door.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:Or a secret, like I think you can open up.
SPEAKER_04:I've never seen a door frame like that before. Okay, I'm gonna come over.
SPEAKER_07:This is where the little girl stayed. That's what uh Nina said.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_07:You guys be careful for the nails. Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Oh hi, honey. You wanna talk to us? What was her name, person?
SPEAKER_05:I don't think we ever got her name. Do you know still my credit's name? I'm not remembering. Emily. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_02:Great evidence. Yes. Let me. Hi, Emily. Oh, you oh, I lost her.
SPEAKER_00:This way, he's good. You want this way?
SPEAKER_06:Oh, you can just weak.
SPEAKER_01:It says weak. Weak.
SPEAKER_09:This one is the hairy chips, I believe.
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_09:What do you mean, leave me a lot?
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, but I'm so damn sure.
SPEAKER_04:Oh yeah, I can't see how someone's humming. Why is someone just humming? Oh god, how are you? And back there, that one is the first one.
SPEAKER_06:I thought it's all right.
SPEAKER_04:You're not sure how you're doing.
SPEAKER_09:Something glued to it? I think so.
SPEAKER_07:Yeah, so one might have died using it.
SPEAKER_06:No. This is just uh story.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_08:The owner, he never turned it on.
SPEAKER_04:I don't blame him.
SPEAKER_08:Well, there's one meter, there's like many meters from the apartments. I think there's like five meters on the outside of the house.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah.
unknown:Oh, he plugged into the door, so he has power for his own.
SPEAKER_08:Oh, I see.
SPEAKER_00:That's not my equipment.
SPEAKER_04:I think he's I think he woke up, he said hello.
SPEAKER_06:Oh maybe that's not me on this alarm.
SPEAKER_05:I don't know, that was fucking. Don't leave.
unknown:Don't leave.
SPEAKER_06:We're gonna go use the gas room, okay?
SPEAKER_00:Go test it out.
SPEAKER_02:So, really quick, you guys, the groundskeeper, Dan, come to find out that was not his alarm, and he did not wake up and say hello. He actually slept through the night. So I don't we don't know who that is. Um, this guy with us, um my god, I forget his name. Dan is a ground keeper, and this one is oh my god, I can't think of it. Give me a second, brain fart. Because both of their names are similar. But this guy works at the gas station next door, and he is such a sweetheart, and he walked the house with us.
SPEAKER_00:So, um
SPEAKER_02:Sorry about that. It restarted. So um he was walking around with us. He's good friends with Dan, the groundskeeper. But the groundskeeper stays in a room at the Bruce Mansion, but he's the room is completely closed off. He did not wake up. We actually had to wake him up in the morning to let him know that we were up and we were still walking around the house. So again, I don't know who that guy was that said hello, and we have no idea what that alarm was because that is not any of Chris's equipment. Um, I didn't even really set up my equipment. I was just walk walking around with my phone that night. So that's still a mystery.
SPEAKER_07:Here's a bone. There's a bone.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, it's back there because I was both daughters.
SPEAKER_02:Did your daughter pass away here?
SPEAKER_04:Did your daughter die right here? I'm so sorry. Did she have like an iron infection? Somebody near me. Somebody died. I felt it right when I started walking over here. Dirty. So she might have gotten an iron infection. She could have gotten cut. Maybe it could have been like on her butt or something, or in her foot. Back then we didn't have tent in shots.
SPEAKER_03:No, nothing. All that is items and on your cherries and okay.
SPEAKER_02:So keep in mind the reason why I said her butt is because again, Bruce Mansion was not built with a bathroom. So there was like a little mini outhouse outside of the um horse carriage um house. So it was weird. Like you could, first of all, I'm breathing heavy, anyways, because I'm super pregnant. I'm going up and downstairs at this point. But you could hear when I said bone, because I said, Wow, there's a bone right here. It was like a small animal's bone. And then the app said, I'm close. And then as soon as we got by the outhouse, um, is when I started really breathing heavy and I felt sad. I could tell someone died right there, and then it said daughter. And then the camera with my app, uh, it's pointed towards like the, you know, like the little toilets that are built into the bench seat, and it said iron. So for for me, like I said, when I have these, I don't know if you want to say visions, whatever, feelings, it's like a flip book in my head, and I was just imagining her sitting on the outhouse toilet and like either getting like stabbed with a um nail back then, or um, you know, you know, there wasn't tetan shots and stuff, so that's just how I felt the energy that I felt. But I wanted to clarify why I said she could have gotten it like on her foot or her butt is because it's in the outhouse. Yeah. Did your daughter die right here?
SPEAKER_04:I'm so sorry. Usually I'm the one to smell.
SPEAKER_05:I've smelled here.
SPEAKER_02:How old was your daughter?
SPEAKER_04:I'd like to honor her really quick before we walk out of here. Pay my respects. Oh, my lips are tingling. Yeah. I think she had something with like iron, like she either stepped on something. She got an infection.
SPEAKER_07:I'm sorry. You don't want to talk no more, okay?
SPEAKER_04:Oh yeah, someone she definitely died right there. I haven't felt that heavy in a second. Whoever you are, I'm very oh danger. I got an orb too. I got it on my I got an orb.
SPEAKER_02:So we only announce orbs when you can really see the patterns of them. And for us, it's when they go back and forth, up and down, and they're very prominent. Um for this, I mean, we've been doing this for quite a bit of time, you know, going in and out of locations, and you can usually tell dust from orbs. Anyways, very sad about this young girl. Maybe that's who we were picking up on when they said Emily. Um, Bruce Mansion was super active, and I cannot wait to go back there. It's about an hour from all of us, pretty much. Um, so it's not far at all. And like I said, although I, you know, have baby Jack mostly in my arms now, and I do miss him being in my belly. I am very, very almost happy to say that he's out of my belly. Um, there's times that maybe I miss it, but cool thing is is that when I go out on um, you know, spooky paranormal adventures, I won't be breathing like, you know, in my videos. You can hear how much I was struggle struggling to breathe up and down those stairs. So it's nice to not be huge. I've lost most of my baby weight and um pretty much back to my size before. So I will I would love to experience this place, not pregnant again. Um, so yeah, we'll be doing a lot more investigations there at Bruce Mansion. And like I said, if you guys are in the Michigan area or are here visiting, you should try to check the place out. Um, I think it's very reasonable. It's a hundred dollars a person. So they the guy next door, the um that works at the gas station, like I said, you can use the bathroom, and they also, if you get a private, they um they make you a pizza next door. It's a big pizza too. And you get like um, I think we had unlimited pop, fountain pop too from there. So they were super nice people, very, very, very down-to-earth, treated us like almost like family, like it was probably one of the best locations and nice, low-key and simple, and just very nice. So I will continue to talk great things about this place, and um, we're hoping that we can um, you know, perform some type of fundraiser on our behalf or help them in any way to restore the Bruce Mansion so that it is around for at least another two hundred years. But, anyways, you guys, thanks for listening and tune in for some more.
