Ghost Story #21: The Haunted Corner

Detroit Free Press, September 19, 1877 (enlarge)

Keywords: ghost, haunting, Detroit, Michigan, Officer Furman, Officer Wilford, Thomas Kennedy, Jefferson Avenue, R. R. Lansing, Charles Van Anden, Woodward Avenue, Griswold Street, Louis Desnoyer, American Express Company, 1877.

Ghost

Detroit Free Press, September 25, 1863

Civil War era paranormal theater at Young Men's Hall in Detroit.

GHOST

The spectres of the dead, shadows of the grave.

Terrible awe and solemnity.

Prof. Martin Leo Jean's Ghost of Conway Castle with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Linden and a complete dramatic troupe.

Tickets 50 cents.

Ghost Story #19: A Voice in the Night

Detroit Free Press, April 15, 1888

I've never quite figured out what the purpose of my finding out about Gundella the Witch was so I just assumed that I should collect ghost stories as she did. Since I don't believe a word of the haunted nonsense coming out of the last 2 or 3 generations' mouths the whole concept of the oral tradition of the living as it pertains to apparitions and spooks goes out the window. Enter newspaper clippings.

I've also been rather lax on that matter because life gets in the way and then there's also STUFF. "Never mind that" I tell myself and then it's six months later. Nonetheless, I always return with something and since Nankin isn't doing it for me at present I'm seemingly back on Detroit proper. Mainly because it's the path of least resistance towards researching and since I can barely force myself into the task it'll have to do.

While I've compiled a thing or two relevant to the Detroit Opera House here is an early "haunting". A gruesome death-rattling moan-cry that came from behind the building which puzzled a cop, a bothered bystander, some gamblers and general neighbors to the building at Monroe and Farmer.