We’ve all experienced a strange chill at certain locations, but it might be from more than just a cool breeze in the air.
Every region has its share of tales of the unexpected and unknown, and the legends of local haunts always get revived around the Halloween season. Jenn Carpenter, owner of the Deadtime Stories bookstore in REO Town, offered a few of these locations for those interested in a supernatural tour.
The home of the Lansing Lugnuts was once the location of the Michigan Fruit Co. and National Fruit Co., which were rumored to be operated by organized crime. It is said that those businesses were a front for bootlegging during Prohibition. According to Carpenter, more than a few bodies dropped there during those illicit days.
The former Michigan School for the Blind, now a senior apartment complex on Willow Street in Lansing, has always been the subject of murmurs of otherworldly activity. The apartment complex is named after Abigal Rogers, who helped found the Michigan Female College on the site in 1858. Some say Rogers still roams the grounds.
Oak Park Cemetery closed in 1875; however, there’s always been lingering whispers that not all of the cemetery’s residents made it over to Mount Hope Cemetery during the transition. If you feel a unusual energy as you frolic at Oak Park at 601 Lesher Place in Lansing, it may be some lingering spirits saying hello.
The Michigan Capitol is said to be haunted by a spirit of a man who died while painting the rotunda. According to hauntedhouses.com, his apparition is seen wandering around the walkways of the rotunda, going about his business in his painting outfit, perhaps wanting to still finish the job and not quite ready to go to the other side.
