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CELTIC CROSS
AT GLENDALOUGH, IRELAND THERE IS AN OLD MONASTARY WITH A
CELTIC CROSS IN FRONT OF IT. IT IS BELIEVED THAT IF
YOU ARE ABLE TO PUT YOUR ARMS AROUND THE CROSS AND YOUR
FINGERS TOUCH, YOUR PRAYER WILL COME TRUE.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal P477.13 |
Date learned: 12-01-1969
WARNING
WHEN YOU GO BY A CEMETERY HOLD YOUR BREATH OR YOU'LL DIE.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal P477.13 |
Date learned: 01-29-1968
PEOPLE CLAIMED THAT EVERY FAMILY WHO LIVED IN THIS HAUNTED
HOUSE WOULD LOSE AT LEAST ONE MEMBER IN THEIR FAMILY.
THEY HAD SOME SPECIFIC EXAMPLES OF DROWNINGS, FALLING
FROM A BUILDING, ETC.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal P477.13 |
Date learned: 03-08-1970
THERE IS A MANHOLE IN DETROIT THAT MARKS A PLACE
WHERE A GIRL DIED. IF YOU DRIVE OVER IT AT NIGHT,
YOU COULD HEAR HER MOAN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal P477.13 |
Date learned: 03-00-1970
A LITTLE GIRL WAS KILLED IN AN AUTO ACCIDENT YEARS AGO ON
STRASBURG STREET (DETROIT, MICHIGAN). ALTHOUGH THE
BODY WAS TAKEN AWAY, THEY WERE NEVER ABLE TO FIND HER
SEVERED HAND. EVERY TIME YOU DRIVE DOWN STRASBURG STREET
BY VON STUBIN SCHOOL, YOU CAN HEAR HER HAND TAPPING
AT THE BOTTOM OF YOUR CAR.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal P477.13 |
Date learned: 03-12-1970
THERE IS A HOUSE ON THE CORNER OF TRACEY AND CHALFONTE
(DETROIT, MICHIGAN ASSUMED) THAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE
HAUNTED. THE RESIDENTS SAY THAT WHEN ONE WALKS BY
THE HOUSE, LATE ON SOME NIGHTS, A LOUD KNOCKING SOUND
CAN BE HEARD.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; DEARBORN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal P477.13 |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IF YOU ARE PASSING UNDER A RAILROAD BRIDGE WHILE A TRAIN
IS PROCEEDING OVERHEAD, AND MAKE A WISH, YOUR WISH WILL
COME TRUE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal P477.13 |
Date learned: 00-00-1968
IF A WORKMAN IS KILLED WHILE BUILDING A BRIDGE, HIS
GHOST WILL BE ENTOMBED IN THE TOWERS, AND AT TIMES IT
IS POSSIBLE TO HEAR HIM TRYING TO KNOCK HIS WAY OUT.
Where learned: UNKNOWN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal P477.13 |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
ONE DAY WHEN BILL WAS OUT PLAYING, HE SAW AN OLD HOUSE.
THIS OLD HOUSE LOOKED VERY INTERESTING TO HIS FRIENDS
AND HIM. AS THEY APPROACHED THE HOUSE THEY COULD HEAR
STRANGE MUSIC, THE MUSIC SOUNDED LIKE IT WAS COMING
FROM AN ORGAN. WHEN THEY LOOKED THROUGH THE WINDOW
THEY SAW A PLASTIC NOOSE HANGING FROM THE CEILING.
THERE WAS ALSO A DEAD CAT LYING ON THE FLOOR. EVERY-
THING IN THE HOUSE WAS DIRTY AND CROOKED. BILL SAID
HE HAD HEARD MANY RUMORS ABOUT THIS HOUSE BUT HE WOULD
NEVER HAVE BELIEVED IT IF HE HAD NOT SEEN IT WITH HIS
OWN EYES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SOUTHFIELD
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal P477.13 |
Date learned: 09-00-1968
THIS LEGEND PERTAINS TO A CERTAIN GRAVE IN AN ISOLATED
SECTION OF MT. OLIVET CEMETERY ON DETROIT'S EAST SIDE.
IT IS SAID THAT ON NIGHTS WHEN THERE IS A FULL MOON
THE TOMBSTONE ON THIS GRAVE WILL GLOW TRICE (TWICE?)
DURING THE NIGHT. THIS IS AT THE TIMES WHEN THE
SPIRIT IS LEAVING AND ENTERING THE GRAVE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal P477.13 |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
A LITTLE GIRL WHILE CROSSING DECOSTA STREET, WAS HIT
BY AN ONCOMING CAR. ALL THE PARTS OF HER BODY WERE
FOUND EXCEPT HER LEFT ARM. FROM THAT TIME ON, ANYONE
DRIVING OVER THAT SPOT HEARS A KNOCKING SOUND UNDER
THE CAR. THIS KNOCKING SOUND IS SAID TO BE THE
LITTLE GIRL.
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal P477.13 |
Date learned: 02-02-1970
IN REDECORATING ONE OF THE BUILDINGS OF THE CONVENT
IN SYLVANIA, THE CHAPEL WAS CONVERTED TO A
COMMUNITY ROOM. ONE EVENING AS ONE OF THE SISTERS
SAT ALONE STUDYING, SHE HEARD FEET SHUFFLING ALONG
THE WALL BUT, LOOKING, SHE SAW NO ONE. THIS
HAPPENED SEVERAL TIMES TO VARIOUS SISTERS. IT
SEEMS THAT THE POOR SOULS COME BACK TO SAY THE
STATIONS OF THE CROSS, WHICH WERE ONCE ERECTED
ALONG THE WALLS.
Submitter comment:
A GROUP OF US WERE TOLD ABOUT THIS BY THE SISTER WHO
HAD HEARD THE FOOTSTEPS.
Where learned: OHIO ; Sylvania
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal P477.13 |
ONE TIME, A FRIEND OF MINE WENT OVER TO THE SHRINE
AT LOURDES, AND HE DOUBTED THE STORY OF THE BLESSED
VIRGIN'S APPARITION. SO WHILE HE WAS PRAYING AT
THE SHRINE, HE ASKED TO SEE A LITTLE GIRL TWELVE
YEARS OLD IN A WHITE DRESS HAND HIM A RED ROSE, AND
THEN HE WOULD BELIEVE. SO, AS HE WAS WALKING OUT,
HE SAW A LITTLE GIRL IN A RED DRESS, AND SHE HANDED
HIM A RED ROSE. SO THEN HE ASKED HER HOW OLD SHE
WAS, AND SHE SAID, "TWELVE."
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT HIGH SCHOOL ; HISTORY CLASS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal P477.13 |
Date learned: 00001968 FALL
JUDGE MURPHY'S HOME ON JEFFERSON NEAR RIVARD IN
GROSSE POINTE STOOD EMPTY FOR MANY YEARS. SOME
PEOPLE EVEN SAID IT WAS HAUNTED. KIDS USED TO PLAY
IN THE HOUSE DURING THE DAY. THE ELEVATOR SHAFT
AND BASEMENT WERE TWO PLACES NOBODY WENT HEAR. AT
TIMES, THE SOUNDS OF AN ELEVATOR IN OPERATION COULD
BE HEARD THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE HOUSE. ALSO,
STRANGE SOUNDS USED TO COME FROM THE DAMP BASEMENT.
THE GRASS AND SHRUBS HADN'T BEEN CARED FOR IN YEARS.
THE DODGE HOME WAS RIGHT NEXT DOOR, AND MANY OF US
KIDS THOUGHT THAT "OLD LADY" DODGE USED TO VISIT
THERE EVERY NIGHT.
MOST OF THE WINDOWS WERE BROKEN, AND THE POLICE GAVE
UP TRYING TO PATROL THE PLACE. ONE NIGHT, A FEW
YEARS AGO, THE HOME BURNED TO THE GROUND. SOME
SAID THAT JUDGE MURPHY, DISMAYED AT THE HOME'S
DISUSE, CAME BACK AND SET IT ON FIRE, BUT THE
POLICE BLAMED VANDALS.
Submitter comment:
THIS STORY WAS KNOWN BY MANY OF THE PEOPLE IN THAT
SECTION OF TOWN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal P477.13 |
Date learned: 00001950S EARLY
MYSTERY SPOT-GRAVITY
THIS IS A PARK AT ST. IGNACE, MICHIGAN, IN THE U.P. WHERE, BECAUSE OF A GHOST HAUNTING IT, THE GRAVITY IS EXTRA-STRONG, AND YOU CAN STAND ON THE WALL OF A CABIN AND NOT FALL BECAUSE OF THIS
GRAVITATIONAL FORCE.
Data entry tech comment:
"U.P." IS MICHIGAN'S UPPER PENINSULA
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; informant's home
James Callow Keyword(s): ANTI-GRAVITY ; UPPER PENINSULA = U.P.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Creation and Order of Universe BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter BELIEF -- Earth BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal P477.13 |
Date learned: 03-08-1970