If you enjoy creeping around haunted places in your free time, then listen up. If you don't enjoy creeping around haunted places in your free time, then I suggest you go somewhere else. I personally do not find it that exciting to go to haunted places — but not because I am afraid of ghosts or anything. I'd just rather do other things in my free time, like hammock or watch Netflix. For all you thrill seekers out there, here is a listen of seven haunted places around Marquette, MI. For more information about these places or other places like these, check out Pure Michigan's Blog.
1. Cabin 13 at Bay Cliff Health Camp
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Bay Cliff is a summer therapy camp for children who need help with speech, occupational, vision and hearing therapy. Originally the camp's purpose was to help care for underprivileged children. The story goes that a child named Sam had committed suicide while at camp. Sam had poor sight, wore large circular glasses and was an exceptional artist. Sam lived in cabin 13 and covered the walls of the cabin with his artwork. One night he was being bullied by another camper and some of his paintings were destroyed along with his glasses. Not able to see or paint he fell into depression, and he later took his own life. To this day campers report that paintings in cabin 13 would fall to the ground and then float back to their place on the wall. Campers also were sent to the nurse after they stepped on glass that is believed to be from Sam's broken glasses.
2. Acocks Medical Center at Morgan Heights
Acocks Medical Center was a tuberculosis hospital back in the 1930's. The building used to be very large but has since been demolished, and all that remains is two brick houses that used to house both patients and staff. The hospital was known for people checking in but never checking out. Acocks was constructed before a cure for TB was made, so most of the treatments were experimental. Psychic mediums have reported seeing hundreds of souls of the patients wandering around a field just outside of the two houses.
3. Park Cemetery on Seventh Street
Obviously cemeteries are going to have a handful of ghost stories, but the most notable one relates to Holy Family Orphanage. A boy who was beaten to death by a nun at the orphanage is buried here. People have reported seeing a large hole in the ground by this boy's grave. At the same time this hole is seen, there is a green glow in the basement of the orphanage. Minutes later, the green glow is gone and the hole is filled in as though nothing has happened.
4. Holy Family Orphanage
This orphanage has a very long history before it finally closed in the 1960's. Now it is completely boarded up and I believe it is being rebuilt into low income housing. Hope the new residents don't mind ghost. There are too many ghost stories to count, but one that I've heard a few times deals with a young girl who played outside without permission and got stuck in a blizzard. She came down with pneumonia and later died. The teachers displayed her body in the lobby for the children to see in hopes of teaching them a lesson. Another story talks about a boy who had drowned but was likely a target of the abuse that commonly happened at the orphanage. Local residents who live around the abandoned building have reported hearing sobs of children who now haunt the grounds.
5. 304 Halverson Hall, Northern Michigan University
Halverson Hall is one of the oldest halls still standing at Northern Michigan University. Back in the 1960's, a student who was residing in Halverson hung herself from her top bunk. Current residents report her ghost still haunts the hall, but students have heard fingernails scarping along the blackboards in the study rooms of the third floor. Currently, Northern is planning to build new dorms where Halverson and several other halls currently stand. I wonder — once Halverson is torn down, will the girl haunt the new dorms?
6. The Landmark Inn
The Landmark Inn is one of the most popular locations in Marquette. With amazing views of Lake Superior from the rooms and its prime location to downtown, it is a popular lodging location for vistors. On the sixth floor is the Lilac Room, which is a room now used for banquets but used to be a guest room. Rumor has it that the telephone in the lobby gets calls from this room even though no one is in the room. The calls are believed to be made by the Lilac Lady, who use to be a lover of a sailor who was lost in the lake. Heartbroken, she commited sucide by hanging herself from one of the windows. Workers have reported seeing the Lilac Lady roaming the sixth floor after calls have been made from the room.
7. Big Bay Point Lighthouse
The first lighthouse keeper was a hardworking perfectionist when it came to the lighthouse. Eventually the keeper's son started assisting his father on the grounds. One day, the boy missed a step and fell on the concrete by the pier. He cracked his shin bone and cut himself. He never told his father of this and he eventually got gangrene. The son felt brutally ill and with no clear roads, the fastest way to the hospital was by rowboat. Despite the father's best efforts, the son died in the rowboat before they could reach the hospital. The grief was too much for the father and he set off into the woods with a gun and cyanide. He left suicide note with the wife of another grounds assistant. The wife found the father in the woods, who was still debating between the gun or the cyanide. The wife happened to have rope with her and suggested he hang himself, which he did. Now visitors of the lighthouse, which is now a bed and breakfast, report being awoken by the ghost of the father.
