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Author: Linda S. Godfrey
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 1402739079
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores ghosts and haunted places, local legends, cursed roads, crazy characters, and unusual roadside attractions found in Michigan.
Author: Linda S. Godfrey
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781931599849
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Alba to Ypsilanti, if you are looking for the kooky, bizarre, and just plain weird, you can't top Michigan.
Author: Jerome Pohlen
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2014-05-01
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1613748965
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere's more to Michigan than beautiful forests, shuttered factories, and miles and miles of stunning shoreline. Armed with this offbeat travel guide, you'll soon discover the strange underbelly of the Great Lakes State. Michigan has monuments to fluoridation, snurfing, the designer of the Jefferson nickel, and the once-famous Mr. Chicken, as well as festivals honoring tulips, Christmas pickles, and a 38-acre fungus. It's where you'll find the World's Largest Lugnut, the Nun Doll Museum, Joe's Gizzard City, the Teenie-Weenie Pickle Barrel Cottage, Howdy Doody, and Thomas Edison's last breath. The state also has its share of weird history—it's where Harry Houdini perished on Halloween night in 1926, where skater Tanya Harding's posse whacked Nancy Kerrigan, and where the Kellogg brothers invented popular breakfast cereals and less-popular yogurt enemas. Along with humorous histories and witty observations, Oddball Michigan provides addresses, websites, hours, fees, and driving directions for each of its 450 entries.
Author: Weird Michigan Wax Museum
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Published: 2010*
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Amy Piper
Publisher: Reedy Press LLC
Published: 2024-04-01
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 1681065282
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the only king who ruled in the United States to the only President who was also a king, you’ll unearth the fascinating stories behind popular places. From a state with a car culture history, discover the origins of the world’s largest tire, the only state highway that doesn’t allow motorized vehicles, and what ship is a designated continuation of a United States highway. You’ll discover the answers to these questions and many others in Secret Michigan: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure. The book explores weird museums where you can have your picture taken holding a human skull, wonderful natural beauty where rafting over clear springs reveals the trout below, and where obscure shipwrecks lie in a shipwreck alley. You’ll learn about the people who made history in the Great Lakes State, like a hall-of-fame rock band that turned around a small-town football team’s losing season, the first Black woman to sue a White man—and win, and how a man survived the atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Some people would like to keep you in the dark, but local author Amy Piper pulls back the curtain to reveal secrets some Michiganders don’t want you to know.
Author: Helen Pattskyn
Publisher: Clerisy Press
Published: 2012-09-11
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1578605148
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs part of the America's Haunted Road Trip series, Ghosthunting Michigan takes readers along on a guided tour of some of the Great Lake State's most haunted historic locations. With a background in library science, author Helen Pattskyn researched each location thoroughly before visiting, digging up clues for the paranormal aspect of each site. Her approach to each site allows readers to decide whether or not the ghost stories are really true. In Ghosthunting Michigan, Pattskyn takes readers along as she explores some of her home state's most haunted locations, starting with a visit to the Whitney in Downtown Detroit. Some of the other sites include Belle Isle, historic Fort Wayne, the Grand Plaza Hotel, Eagle Harbor, the Point Iroquis Lighthouse, and many more.
Author: Karen Dybis
Publisher: Reedy Press LLC
Published: 2018-04-15
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 1681060752
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDetroit is known for its automotive heritage, the Motown sound, and American's first mile of concrete highway. But this cityon the river has more than three hundred years of history, and most of it iseasy to experience if you know where to look. There's the Michigan Theatre, theornate movie house turned parking garage with a grand stage looming over itscars. Picturesque Alfred Brush Ford Park once stored nuclear missiles among itsplaygrounds and fishing spots. Then there are incredible landmarks like Detroit'smassive salt mines and a monument to urban graffiti known as the Dequindre Cutas well as the world's oldest operating jazz club. Secret Detroit explores thisgreat American city to investigate everything that is odd, unexpected, andextraordinary. Detroit is the kind of city you need to see and experience tounderstand why locals brag about being from the Motor City. Full of stories andtall tales, this book is a must-have for urban explorers, history buffs, andtravelers of all experience levels
Author: Kath Usitalo
Publisher: Reedy Press LLC
Published: 2019-10-01
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 1681062232
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow did a sparsely populated landmass surrounded by Great Lakes and completely separated from the rest of the state become the Upper Peninsula of Michigan? At the end of each winter what do Yoopers—those hardy souls who call the UP home—measure with a 30-foot tall “thermometer?” And should you put ketchup or gravy on a pasty? You’ll find the answers to these questions and many more in Secret Upper Peninsula: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure. You may know that the UP inspired Longfellow’s “The Song of Hiawatha,” but what about works by Ernest Hemingway and Da Yoopers? Find out where a popular Chicago cartoonist summered in a cottage shaped like a giant pickle barrel, and where a ghost town comes alive once a year for a gathering of the descendants of copper mining families. Discover why believers say the mysterious Paulding Light is the lantern of a railroad man who perished on the tracks, or where to find the world’s longest porch and one of the least-visited National Parks. Local author Kath Usitalo takes you deep into the densely forested peninsula that might seem like one big, isolated secret to an outsider. Delve into this insider’s guide to learn about the fascinating quirks and curiosities of the land of Gitche Gumee.
Author: Mike Sonnenberg
Publisher: Huron Photo
Published: 2017-10-15
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9780999433201
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on the popular Lost In Michigan website that was featured in the Detroit Free Press, It contains locations throughout Michigan, and tells their interesting story. There are over 50 stories and locations that you will find fascinating.
Author: Gary W. Barfknecht
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 204
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeventy eerie, bewildering, and fascinating real-life stories--from the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa to appearances by Bigfoot; from ghosts that haunt to psychics who help; from UFO sightings to ships that vanished, from murderers who got away to treasures found.
