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FALL 2011
IN THIS ISSUE
- New books
- Paranormal Events
- UFO's Over MI
- Is Any of it Real?
- The Spooky Attic
- Haunted Hotspots
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WHAT'S COMING?
Dead Souls & Wicked Hearts - Explore ghosts, legends and murder mysteries from west Michigan's past with Michigan's Otherside. We love to promote libraries so look for us at these places. These events are FREE!
Visit our EVENTS page for times & addresses and more haunted events around the state.
Oct 12 - Norton Shores Public Library
Oct 19 - Carson City
Oct 25 - North Muskegon
Oct 27 - Grandville
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The Ghosts Are Creeping Back In...
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--From the weathered and cobb webbed desk of Michigan's Otherside
Well, it’s that time of year again. The nights are getting cooler, Halloween stuff is out in the stores, the cider mills start making those awesome donuts and interest in the paranormal goes through the attic roof! We've been super busy this year. Tom started a new job that has kept him busy, but he had time to check out a few haunted places here and there and he and our newest recruit Bonnie Douglas, headed up to the U.P. for the Michigan Paranormal Convention which he said was excellent on all levels! We've been to a lot of conferences and for Tom to say it was excellent, well, that means it's good! Hopefully there's one in the works for 2012!
The website enjoyed an overhall last year and is still in the final stages of some last minute updates here and there. We have new stories and places to add but need 48 hours in a day to do it! So as always, keep sending us your true tales and experiences. We apprecaite all the emails we get from people.
We also will be getting more involved in some investigations this year and into 2012. We took a long break for a while and traveled around for a couple of years going to haunted places and conferences throughout the United States with Ghostly Talk Radio. We had a blast, met a lot of cool people and saw some equally cool places.
Make sure to check out our events page for spooky things going on around the state. Check out the dates on the left of this newsletter for Michigan's Otherside talks that are FREE to attend!
We started linking Facebook to our website, so if you are on the "book," make sure you "like us" and pass it on to your friends. THANK YOU to everyone who has signed up for our newsletter throughout the years. We are going to try and keep our newsletter going on a monthly basis with updates to Facebook as well.
We are looking forward to the 2011 Halloween season and an even more interesting 2012. Should be a wild year.
Happy Hauntings from,
Tom, Amberrose & Bonnie
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New Book From Michigan's Otherside
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Available September 30, 2011
If you love true crime & mysterious murders, then you will love the newest book by Michigan’s Otherside: Wicked Ottawa County, Michigan. Learn about jilted lovers, annoying mother-in-laws, bank robbers and other crazy characters from Michigan’s past. Pick this book up through our Spooky Attic, at any fine bookstore or pick one up at any of our events this October.
And don't forget to pick up a copy of Ghosts & Legend's of Michigan's West Coast if you haven't! Get them from our new Spooky Attic!
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The Spooky Attic Bookstore
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The Spooky Attic features books all handpicked by Michigan’s Otherside. If we own it, have read it or just find it really awesome and wish we owned it, it's on our virtual shelves. If you want to see a book on there that you think is excellent, let us know about it! We will keep expanding it whenever we come across more awesome stuff. It's powered by Amazon so it's really easy to use and has great prices. Plus, a small portion of each book sale goes to helping Michigan's Otherside stay out there and continue to grow.
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UFO Over Shelby Township?
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This report was sent to us and we thought it was pretty cool. We love getting reports from people who are stunned by their first experience with something. If you have any info or perhaps saw this same thing, send us an email.
--Michigan's Otherside
Alright, I'll start off saying I'm not a very big believer of ghost or aliens or things a lot of people who come to this website are interested in. I mainly found this site through Google because I'm trying to see if anyone else reported what I had seen in the sky last night (August 22, 2011), driving home from work. I was in Shelby Township around 11:30 at night, turning off 23 mile road to go south onto Schoehnner road and out of nowhere, I looked up and saw a small light hovering above the road. It looked like maybe a shooting star way off in the distance, but it started changing colors and going back and forth from a blue/purple to a very bright gold. So I figured it might of been a satellite. But then it started to spin like a boomerang and dart back and forth, zig zagging around above the road. I realized then it was probably only around 200ft up in the air. So I started speeding after it. I was probably doing about 65 or 70 mph trying to follow it but it shot off going twice as fast as me. I saw it go down behind the trees, then I couldn't see it anymore.
I didn't know what it was, but I knew some rich guy in the area owned a helicopter. I figured if the helicopter was that low to the ground I would have heard it, and even though it was late at night, I’m sure I could have seen the body of it. This was a very well lit road with businesses on both sides. So I called my buddy and pulled up to the light at 22mile road and Schoehnner road (1 mile south of where I first saw it). I sat there at the red light and was telling my friend about what I just saw and out of nowhere, it shot out of the trees again so I pulled over into a CVS parking lot and jumped out of my car to watch it. It kept spinning around and was flying in between some very tall trees doing laps around some, flying really high up into the air, then diving back into them over and over again. I tried to pull my phone out and get a video of it but it sunk down in the trees right when I got my camera on it and I didn't get any footage. If anyone else has heard of anything like this, get back to me. I still believe it’s something that could be explained, but I'd like to hear if anyone has any opinions of it possibly being something else.
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Is Any of it Real? by Amberrose Hammond
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In 2008, we took a trip to Cape Cod and hooked up with one of our friends for some paranormal adventures in old New England. Our friend Derek told us we had to visit a particular cemetery at night because strange, dancing lights would be seen sometimes.
We gathered at the cemetery that night, excited to be investigating such a cool place. It was your stereotypical clear night with a big moon spilling light over the old graveyard. We pulled out our equipment and set up in the hopes of catching the anomalous glowing lights. We waited. Talked. Waited. Nothing happened. Waited. Then, deciding while on vacation, talking and hanging out with friends was much more fun than waiting for balls of light to show up, we put our equipment away. After everything was turned off and packed, out came the strangest little orbs of green/blue light moving slowly above the tombstones about thirty feet in front of us.
Derek exclaimed, “That’s it! Those are what I was talking about!”
We stared in wonderment. No one grabbed any equipment. Everyone just watched and in under a minute, they were gone. The people there that night were split into two groups and our first inclination was that the other group had somehow made the lights. But when we met up with them just a few moments later, they thought we had made the lights. The whole thing was mind boggling and whatever the lights were, it wasn’t explainable.
Another moment that could have been nothing but coincidence was when we were at the Mid-South Paranormal Convention in Louisville, Kentucky. I was the only one in the hotel room at the time and I was laying down on the bed. The desk lamp on the table in front of me started to flicker oddly, and turned off. I laid there in the darkness of the room and figured the light must have burned out. But hey! I was at a paranormal conference right? Shouldn’t I assume other things first just for the hell of it? So I said out loud, “Could you please turn that back on?” And bam! The light turned back on. I admit I was a little surprised, but chalked it up to coincidence. I got up and checked the light, half expecting to find the light bulb loose in the socket, but it was securely in place and the light bulb never flickered or turned off again for the rest of our stay. Now can I say that was a genuine paranormal experience? One where I had actually spoke to a spirit and it listened to me no matter how short the exchange was? I will never really know.
That’s where belief and personal experience come into play. The paranormal as we know it right now, really is nothing more then a series of personal and unexplainable experiences that happen to different people at unexpected times. It can never be predicted, often cannot be captured with modern day equipment and is usually explained only by our own five senses and sometimes our “sixth” sense. We “felt” something, “heard” a voice, “smelled” perfume, or just had that “feeling” something was nearby. We try to use our gadgets and gizmo's to validate our five senses. Hopefully our thermometer catches the sudden chill in the room or the thermo camera actually conveys an image on the screen after someone just felt they were touched by an invisible hand. But in the end, it’s still mostly all subjective and open to interpretation by anyone. I’ve seen and felt enough to know something is going on that we are not fully understanding yet, but what that "something" is still alludes me and just about everyone else. Hopefully not for too much longer.
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Live on the west side of the state or looking for an excuse to get over to the shores of beautiful Lake Michigan? Come join the walking tour for an entertaining and spooky evening in Grand Haven's historic district. Visit them at www.grassp.info or Facebook.com/GrasppParanormalInvestigations to get your tickets before they are sold out! |
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Haunted Hotspots: Dining With the Spirits
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Looking for a few places to visit this Halloween that have a haunted history? Check out a few places on this list!
The Kirby Grill - Now we love pimping out The Kirby Grill. Not only does the building have a great history, but it's brimming with little stories of ghostly happenings. Random things will happen to diners and the staff always have a tale or two of their own to share. We recommend the pizza upstairs. It's wood-fired and delicious and you won't even care if a ghost sits down with you. You'll be too engrossed in your food. Location: 2 Washington, Grand Haven, MI 49417
The White Horse Inn - Touted as the "oldest restaruant in Michigan" working on 161 years of service, this fine dining establishment also has its own resident ghost, Lorenzo Hoard, who was alive from 1816-1888. Lorenzo had bought the White Horse Inn in 1850 and hasn’t left since. Location: 1 E. High Street (Dryden Road)
Metamora, MI 48455
Trattoria Stella - Located in the old Traverse City State Hospital, this fabulous Italian restaraunt has been delighting guests from its start. The food is fantastic and you are eating in what used to be an asylum. Since it opened, Stella's has had plenty of stories about spectors of the hospitals past inmates floating in and out of its doors. Location: 1200 West 11th Street, Traverse City, MI 49684
The Whitney - This upscale establishment in downtown Detroit is one of the cities most stunning buildings. It's hard to believe that this grand mansion used to be someone's home! The Whitney has had stories of ghostly happenings for a long, long time and they have even named their bar the "Ghost Bar." If you have a little extra pocket change and are in the Detroit area, check out this gem. Authors Kat & Bev from Haunted Travels of Michigan feel this is one of the most haunted locations they have ever investigationed. You can read about it in their first book! Location: 4421 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48201
If you ever have an experience at these or any other places around Michigan, let Michigan's Otherside know about it!
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If you are looking for a good group of paranormal researchers to check out your home, business or to just answer some questions, check out our Paranormal Teams page on the website. A few of these teams such as Grimstone Inc., have been in operation for over 10 years! Way to go to the people who stick it out and never give up the ghost!
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