Apr 30 2008
New Book: A2 Area Ghosts…Boo!
The Ann Arbor News has info. about a new book focused on Ann Arbor area ghosts. Personally, I think that the locations mentioned in the book would make for a nice nighttime walk:)
As the legend goes, Martha Mulholland died in 1845, supposedly poisoned by a greedy brother-in-law who wanted her land and money.
According to that same legend, it’s Mulholland who, more than a century and a half later, is hanging around the Dixboro General Store, moving things around, labeling jars of jam and generally making her presence known.
Store owner Steve Dani says staff and customers alike have been encountering the ghost since the store opened 17 years ago.
The ghost in the Dixboro General Store is just one of a number of specters described in “Ann Arbor Area Ghosts,” a new book by Royal Oak author and self-described “sensitive” Mimi Uptergrove.
Here are a few of the ghost stories described in Mimi Uptergrove’s “Ann Arbor Area Ghosts.”
• In 1997, in a small carriage house just outside of town, a poltergeist caused walls to bulge, chairs to rock on their own, and a man’s face to appear in a mirror. A male ghost visited the woman renting the home in her dreams, and she says in the book that, when waking from these dreams, she discovered he had done her actual bodily harm.
• In a house in Ypsilanti, the homeowner reported often seeing a “shadow man,” a tall black figure with red eyes, wearing a hat.
• The owner of a house on Miller Road who said that two Japanese foreign exchange students whom she hosted at different times both reported seeing a man standing in their room, gasping for air. The director of a local ghost research center got a tape recording of the ghost, who called himself Dave.