Author : Sally Barber
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 31,42 MB
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0762777494
This selection of 12 stories from Michigan's past explores some of the Great Lakes State's most compelling mysteries and debunks some of its most famous myths.
Author : Sally Barber
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,40 MB
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 149304009X
From tales of pirate treasure to Jimmy Hoffa’s mysterious disappearance, Michigan Myths and Legends makes history fun and pulls back the curtain on some of the state’s most fascinating and compelling stories. Most people have heard about the Bermuda Triangle, where ships and people disappear without a trace—but few have heard about the equally deadly Great Lakes Triangle, where one-third of all unsolved sea and air disasters in America take place. Night after night, curious onlookers congregate on a remote hill near the Michigan/Wisconsin border to watch for mysterious lights that rise out of the ground, hover, and then disappear. Are the orbs merely optical phenomena created by headlights of passing cars? Or are they spirits returning to haunt where their earthly bodies met their demise? In the mid-1960s, the number of reports to the US Air Force of UFO sightings spiked across the country. Were people seeing unfamiliar technological innovations in aircraft? Had the rising popularity of the new-fangled television’s sci-fi programs sparked Americans’ imaginations? Or were extraterrestrial beings actually responding to signals from newly constructed deep-space radio transmitters?
Author : Trinka Hakes Noble
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 12,97 MB
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1627535977
Long, long ago, the ancient people of the forest gathered around warm fires and told the tale of a time long past, when the land known as "Michigane" was covered with ice and snow. For thousands of years the cruel North Wind ruled the land North of Up North, chasing away the gentle, benevolent winds from the East, West and South. Winter stayed the whole year round, so nothing could live in Michigane. Not until an old warrior and a young boy traveled through the frigid cold with nothing but warm hearts and an old pair of mittens was there hope that the frozen land would eventually come to life.Trinka Hakes Noble is the noted author of numerous award-winning picture books including The Scarlet Stockings Spy, the ever-popular Jimmy's Boa series and Meanwhile Back at the Ranch (both featured on Reading Rainbow). Her many awards include ALANotable Children's Book, Booklist Children's Editors' Choice, IRA-CBC Children's Choice, Learning: The Year's Ten Best, and several Junior Literary Guild Selections. Trinka makes her home in Bernardsville, New Jersey. The Legend of Michigan is the 20th book that Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen has illustrated for Sleeping Bear Press. His other titles include The Legend of Sleeping Bear, the #1 Midwest bestselling Legend of the Petoskey Stone, and Texas Bluebonnet runner-up Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot. Gijsbert and his family live in Bath, Michigan.
Author : Sheryl James
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 41,56 MB
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0472051741
A collection of stories drawn from Michigan’s rich folk heritage
Author : John W Robinson
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 24,72 MB
Release : 2019-06-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781070856377
The legends, lore, myths and monsters of Michigan continue to fascinate not just Michiganders, but people throughout the country. Michigan's macabre mysteries are seemingly endless, and this second volume contains 100 more tales that range from hundreds of years ago to present day. Within these pages you'll find graveyard ghosts, underwater creatures, infamous murders, specters, spirits, demons, devils, phantoms, poltergeists, monsters, spooks, witches, apparitions, boogie men, and slews of paranormal occurrences throughout 49 Michigan counties.Pick and choose which ones to believe.....but choose wisely.
Author : Gary W. Barfknecht
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,68 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN :
Seventy 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.
Author : Diane Telgen
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 25,62 MB
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1439670978
Ghost stories from America's Great Lakes State have never been so creepy, fun, and full of mystery! Coastal Michigan's haunted history and local legends come to life--even when the main players are dead. From the souls lost aboard the doomed Alpena, to the restless spirits at Nunica Cemetery, this spooky chapter book will keep readers rapt. Dive into suspenseful tales of bumps in the night, paranormal investigations, and the unexplained; just be sure to keep the light on.
Author : Sheryl James
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 33,52 MB
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0472028308
Over the course of its history, the state of Michigan has produced its share of folktales and lore. Many are familiar with the Ojibwa legend of Sleeping Bear Dunes, and most have heard a yarn or two told of Michigan’s herculean lumberjack, Paul Bunyan. But what about Detroit’s Nain Rouge, the red-eyed imp they say bedeviled the city’s earliest residents? Or Le Griffon, the Great Lakes’ original ghost ship that some believe haunts the waters to this day? Or the Bloodstoppers, Upper Peninsula folk who’ve been known to halt a wound’s bleeding with a simple touch thanks to their magic healing powers? In Michigan Legends, Sheryl James collects these and more stories of the legendary people, events, and places from Michigan’s real and imaginary past. Set in a range of historical time periods and locales as well as featuring a collage of ethnic traditions—including Native American, French, English, African American, and Finnish—these tales are a vivid sample of the state’s rich cultural heritage. This book will appeal to all Michiganders and anyone else interested in good folktales, myths, legends, or lore.
Author : Lisa A. Shiel
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 14,64 MB
Release : 2010-08-13
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1614236011
Little known tales and lore from Michigan's Upper Peninsula uncover mysteries, curses, and strange beasts in this collection of offbeat and fascinating stories. That's the best I've ever seen you look," the barber said to the corpse. What kind of filthy decedent could inspire such derision? Learn the answer and read myriad other little-known tales from Michigan's northernmost region in Forgotten Tales of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Find out what happened after an aggrieved husband aimed a gun at his wife's lover and then asked the crowd, "Shall I shoot him?" Meet the sleeping man who rode the rails without a train. Discover the truth behind the rumors that one mining town was cursed with the ten plagues of Egypt, and learn why hugs terrified an entire city. And what were those hairy, bipedal beasts haunting the woods? Join Yooper Lisa A. Shiel as she brings to the fore these wonderfully offbeat and all-but-forgotten tales from the UP's history.
Author : Jon Milan and Gail Offen, Foreword by
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,49 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 1467104248
Michigan has two beautiful peninsulas that are connected by stories, legends, and mysteries. This book is the perfect glove compartment companion for exploring those paranormal parts of the Mitten State, as most of these hotels, restaurants, theaters, lighthouses, and other places are open to the public. This road trip to "the other side," filled with hauntings, ghost towns, and bizarre tales of murder and mayhem, draws from more than 300 years of Michigan history--from the notoriously haunted remote lighthouses like Seul Choix in the Upper Peninsula to Eloise, one of the most famous psychiatric asylums in America, to the legend of Lover's Leap on Mackinac Island. What Purple Gang member still hangs out in Clare? What spirits lurk at Henry Ford's Greenfield Village? Here is a guide to all that and more, including Houdini's Detroit connections, the poisonings at Cass Corridor's Alhambra, and paranormal activity at Detroit's historic Fort Wayne. Puzzles are still waiting for a solution; Ripley's Believe It or Not once offered $100,000 to anyone who could solve the strange phenomenon of the Paulding Lights near Watersmeet.
