Kathleen Tedsen - Haunted Travels of Michigan, Volume 3. Spirits Rising

Kathleen Tedsen

& Beverlee Rydel

Holt, Michigan

Haunted Travels of Michigan, Volume III: Spirits Rising

by Kathleen Tedsen & Beverlee Rydel

Copyright 2013 TR Desktop Publishing

All Rights Reserved

No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and articles.

Published by

Thunder Bay Press

Holt, Michigan 48842

ebook ISBN: 978-1-62026-006-7

print ISBN: 978-1-933272-41-2

Book, cover, and maps design by Julie Taylor.

Front and back cover photo: Beverlee Rydel and Kathleen Tedsen.

Dedicated to the memory of

Christian E. Tedsen

A universal truth. Everything ends like the final chapter of a great book. We close the book. Its over. The people weve loved, cherished, are a chapter in our life. We must one day say goodbye. The pain seems insurmountable, but in our pain we know they will remain a part of us. Our solid ground. Our North Star.

You will always remain our North Star.

Story Locations

Story 1Bath

Story 2Big Rapids

Story 3Empire

Story 4Stanton

Story 5Plainwell

Story 6Charlotte

Story 7Houghton Lake

Story 8Waterford

Story 914Mackinac Island

Contents

Story Locations

Acknowledgements

Story Secret Rooms

Story One: Bath School Disaster

Story Two: Lady of the Lake

Story Three: Cottonwood B&B

Story Four: Hotel Montcalm B&B

Story Five: Sams Joint

Story Six: Eaton County Courthouse

Story Seven: Clive and Dots Anchor Inn

Story Eight: Carriage House B&B

Mackinac Island

Introduction: A Haunted Weekend on Mackinac Island

Story Nine: The Ruins of Fort Holmes

Story Ten: The Old Post Cemetery

Story Eleven: The Death Trail

Story Twelve: Rifle Range Trail

Introduction: Mission Point Resort

Story Thirteen: Straights Lodge, Room 2200

Story Fourteen: Mission Point Theater

Photo Credits

About the Authors

Acknowledgements

We want to thank the many people who helped us with this book.

We are especially grateful to the owners/managers for allowing us to investigate their property and sharing information.

Someone we certainly cannot forget is James Sturgill. Jim provided editorial assistance with many of our stories, before going to the publisher.

We are especially thankful for the investigators and paranormal teams we had the pleasure of working with as well as the knowledgeable historians who helped to fill in some of the blanks.

Our Special Thanks to the following:

EDITORIAL ASSISTANCE

James Sturgill

INVESTIGATORS AND PARANORMAL TEAMS

Maria Holt-Aistrop

Donald Altman

Todd Clements, Haunts of Mackinac

Lynn Donaldson

Robert and Shari Dowd, C.H.I.P.S. (Clarkston Haunted Investigative Paranormal Seekers/Supernatural)

Dawn James

Melanie Land (Moyer) and Matt Moyer, Mid-Michigan Paranormal Investigators

Jenny Marcus and Lisa Mann, Highland Ghost Hunters

Tammy Schuster, Psychic/Medium

HISTORIANS

Tara Chapko

Sandy Stamm

Story Secret Rooms

How to Use Our Interactive Web site

www.HauntedTravelsMI.com

To help bring you into each story, we have established a Web site, www.HauntedTravelsMI.com, with a Secret Room for each story. This Secret Room will include audio, video, and full color photographic evidence. It will also have some behind-the-scene video clips and/or photographs of what happened during the investigation.

Secret Rooms are Password Protected

Each story has a secret password that will unlock the room. You must enter a separate password for each Secret Room.

High Speed Internet Recommended

Because the file size for some videos, photos, and audio clips are large, for best results, you should have a broadband or high speed Internet connection. You can use dial-up, but youll need patience.

How It Works

Step One: Go to our Web site: www.HauntedTravelsMI.com and click on Secret Rooms. This will get you to the doorway to enter the Main Secret Room Vault. Youll see a wooden door. CLICK ON THE DOOR HANDLE.

Step Two: You are now in the Main Secret Room. Click on the number associated with the story, (example: Bath School Disaster is Story 1).

Step Three: Once you click on the number, a dialogue box will come up saying youre about to enter a password protected page. CLICK OK.

Step Four: The Password box will come up. Carefully ENTER THE PASSWORD from the story, then CLICK OK.

Step Five: Another dialogue box will come up. If youve entered the password correctly, it will let you know. CLICK OK. If youve entered the wrong password, it will re-direct you back to our main page. Youll need to try again.

Thats it!

Youve unlocked the Story Secret Room door.

Your virtual experience begins.

Story One: Bath School Disaster

Bath, Michigan

Guest Investigator: Maria Holt-Aistrop

Password: bsdk313

Andrew Kehoe, The Mad Murderer of Bath

The Mad Murderer of Bath, thats what people of Bath called Andrew Kehoe. The demented man, on May 18, 1927, bombed the Bath Consolidated School. His hatred and violent insanity resulted in the death of thirty-eight children and seven adults along with an estimated fifty-eight injuries. This horrific disaster eclipses even the profoundly tragic Sandy Hook and Columbine school massacres. The story is ugly. Its difficult to understand what caused that mans mind to twist into such unthinkable decay.

For many years there have been reports of paranormal activity at the site where the school once stood and at Pleasant Hill Cemetery, where some of the victims are interred. It is said that the sound of children crying or the light touch from small unseen hands is not an uncommon occurrence. In the cemetery, ghostly shadows have been seen moving across the quiet grounds.