Entries by weirdmichigan

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Weird Wednesday: The Rowdy Ghosts of the Fenton Hotel

Linda S. Godfrey, author of the excellent Weird Michigan and Strange Michigan books is hard at work on her next book. While she is away, we are running a few of our favorites. The following is the first of our Absolute Michigan Weird Wednesday features, published originally in 2007! The Fenton Hotel, a former inn-turned-gourmet […]

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Weird Wednesday: Michigan Sea Monsters

The last Wednesday of every month is a “Weird Wednesday” on Absolute Michigan. Usually we get a feature from Linda S. Godfrey, the author that fascinating tome of Michigan mysteries: Weird Michigan. Linda is hard at work on her latest book so we’ve gone down to the vault and pulled out some watery weirdness! Stay up-to-date with […]

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Weird Wednesday: Michigan UFO Sightings

Michigan is full of UFO’s, from numerous sightings over Lake Superior (especially around Saulte Ste. Marie) to the tale of a radio announcer who observed one over the freeway near the Detroit airport in 1978, so close that the radio host, Marc Avery, described it as “looking up into the belly of a craft.” (read […]

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Weird Wednesday: The Mysterious “Bad Egg” Exorcist of Utica

The latest of our Absolute Michigan “Weird Wednesdays” (held the last Wednesday of every month) is an excerpt (I think) from the forthcoming Strange Michigan: More Wolverine State Weirdness by Linda S. Godfrey and Lisa Shiel. Linda is the author of Weird Michigan. In May, 2005, in Macomb County Circuit Court, one Elaine Lee, aka […]