Historic haunted places in Traverse City, MI. Each page gives the ghost story, whether visitors can go, and a link to the site the story came from. The stories are folklore, not documented fact.
Staff learn the ghost story during orientation. A diner reportedly photographed a woman with her hair in a bun reflected in a dining-room mirror, resembling former owner Jennie Sti…
Staff and performers at this Victorian opera house report shadow figures in the balcony, footsteps in empty areas and lights or equipment failing mid-show. The central legend invol…
Open to the public (arts center; many exhibits free).
The founder of a local ghost-tour company says that as a teenager she saw a woman in white in an upper window of this then-empty Carnegie library. Staff at the arts center that now…
Exterior viewable; interior on ticketed ghost tours.
Perry Hannah built this 1891 mansion and died in it, and the building later became a funeral home. Ghost-tour accounts describe cold spots in rooms he used, sounds on the upper flo…
Public areas open; historic and ghost tours ticketed.
Residents of the converted Kirkbride asylum and people on tunnel tours describe footsteps in empty halls, shadow figures at the far ends of long wings, and cold stairwells in Build…