Tour ghostly Bay City, Michigan and read tales of Native American residents as well as the legend of Paul Bunyan and other lumberjacks who traveled down Hell's Half Mile, the roughest stretch of land in the state. Ghosts still haunt the city and surrounding areas of Midland and Saginaw. Explore Bay City Theatre, with its ghost chair for the former manager. Pine Ridge Cemetery has Civil War soldiers who communicate beyond the grave. Read about the haunted home where spirits hide keys, write messages on walls and carpets, and leave objects from the spirit world. These haunts will chill you well into the night.

"When Kirsten and her family move into an old farmhouse on Gratiot Road in Saginaw, they think it's the perfect home: lots of room, and a big yard with lots of places to play. It's a home that has everything they could have ever wanted ... It also has something else. Something they couldn't possibly have imagined ..."--Page 4 of cover.

Foreign-sponsored terrorist attacks aimed at conquering American communities and US territory have not yet become a reality. Such attacks, though not probable, are unfortunately not impossible. Actual events and even fictional stories about terrorism, both domestic and foreign, are often far removed from American communities and the reality of most people's everyday lives. The Ghosts of Gaylord challenges that reality by dropping the devastation of such attacks onto an otherwise normal, peaceful American community. This troubling narrative is told through the actions of people--active military and veterans, law enforcement, and civilian groups--who unite and fight to preserve their way of life, all while reaffirming their belief in freedom.

Journey into haunted houses and byways of Anchor Bay, Michigan. Through 20 tales and short stories, meet the spirits, travel the roads, and enter the homes and cemeteries of Anchor Bay residents and guests. 36 color photographs. Share thrilling tales that proclaim Anchor Bay to be haunted.

Despite the much vaunted ’end of religion’ and the growth of secularism, people are engaging like never before in their own ’spiritualities of life’. Across the West, paranormal belief is on the rise. The Ashgate Research Companion to Paranormal Cultures brings together the work of international scholars across the social sciences and humanities to question how and why people are seeking meaning in the realm of the paranormal, a heretofore subjugated knowledge. With contributions from the UK and other European countries, the USA, Australia and Canada, this ground-breaking book attends to the paranormal as a position from which to critique dominant forms of knowledge production and spirituality. A rich exploration of everyday life practices, textual engagements and discourses relating to the paranormal, as well as the mediation, technology and art of paranormal activity, this book explores themes such as subcultures and mainstreaming, as well as epistemological, methodological, and phenomenological questions, and the role of the paranormal in social change. The Ashgate Research Companion to Paranormal Cultures constitutes an essential resource for those interested in the academic study of cultural engagements with paranormality; it will appeal to scholars of cultural and media studies, popular culture, sociology, cultural geography, literature, film and music.

At the base of the Saginaw Bay on Lake Huron lies historic Bay City, a gorgeous town with a dark past. In its early days, a six-block strip known as Hell's Half Mile was an epicenter of debauchery and brutality. This tumultuous history has left a deep paranormal imprint on the area. A sinister Victorian lady terrorizes those who visit the upper level of the Bay City Antiques Center. The ghost of a disfigured little girl roams Sage Library. And the former caretaker of the USS Edson lovingly tends the ship after death as he did in life. Local author and paranormal investigator Nicole Beauchamp takes you on a bone-chilling journey through Bay City's most haunted locales.

These are true ghost stories told by people from Michigan. These ghost stories from places like Detroit, Ann Arbor, Battle Creek, Bay City, Flint, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Lansing, Monroe, Muskegon have been featured in our first 11 books and include: - ''... The son said ''mom, we have to tell them. '' The mom said, ''Hush!'' As the son was leaving, his last words to us were ''she always comes back. ...'' - ''... When he left she got herself off the floor and took the money out of a hidden space in the floor and crawled ...'' - ''... Again she was standing on the left side of my bed near my feet. She was not really hostile in expression, but certainly not friendly ...'' - ''... When I looked back at them, I noticed that they no longer had legs and were pretty much turning into a mist. ...'' - ''... I asked her what she was looking at, and she pointed in the kitchen and said ''her. '' I said ''her who'' because ...'' The stories in this book is a small selection of all the stories on our site ghostsofameica.com