Following are the most haunted places in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where the echoes of tragic deaths and forgotten souls linger in the darkness. These haunted spots have witnessed centuries of sorrow, and some say the spirits of the departed are not yet ready to rest.
Ameritech Building
: "Formerly Michigan Bell Telephone Company - on the corner of Fountain and Division. haunted by the Randall''s , whose home stood on the ground where this building is today."
Amway Grand Plaza Hotel
: "in the old part (smoking section now). Objects moving on their own."
Aquinas College
: "Holmdene - It is rumored that this mansion (the former Lowe estate) located on the campus of Aquinas College is haunted with the spirit of one of the Lowe children_ a small boy who according to stories drown on the property. Night security guards report turning off all lights in the locked and secured building and having them mysteriously turn on once again. Reports of water faucets turning on have also been mentioned."
The Black Hills
: "A house Norwich St hosts a ghost. On the second story and in the far room at the right-hand side there is a ghost of a man that sometimes appears to be dressed in clothing from the 30''s or 40''s. Sometimes he appears to be an elderly man. At approximately 10:00 to 11:30 the specter wanders from the hallway and then hesitates at the doorway and then look like it is about to turn around. But then he walks into the room. The former residence to that place reported that the ghost walked to the middle of his room and stood there for minutes and then goes out into the hallway and stands. It is not known when he vanishes. He was last seen in 1996."
Cornerstone University
: "numerous stories of a girl that waits outside of Pickett Hall during very late hours. she is always claimed to wear the same dress, and is clothed in a fashion that resembles the 70''s. the girl often vanishes when she notices she is being watched."
Cornerstone University
: "Pickett Hall - numerous stories of a girl that waits outside of Pickett Hall during very late hours. she is always claimed to wear the same dress, and is clothed in a fashion that resembles the 70''s. the girl often vanishes when she notices she is being watched."
Grand Rapids Civic Theatre
: "Reports of an "evil presence" in the peanut gallery, gels flap in the lights, and people have been seen in the side bays or ducking behind curtains"
Grand Rapids Home for Veterans
: "This Old Soldiers Home first opened in 1886 and its early residents were Civil War veterans. To the present day, ghostly men are seen on the grounds wearing Civil War garb."
St. Isidore School
: "Reports of water faucets going on all by themselves. There was one incident where a girl went to the upstairs bathroom and heard someone come in, but when she looked around no one was around."
Ottawa Hills High School
: "In North House Lecture Hall there is reports of strange noises such as water spilling on the floor, footsteps and things turning on by themselves. A girl who was dropped of early one morning decided to sit and wait in the hall until school had opened reports someone or something pulling her hair. In the first row, second seat on the right. Why these encounters are happening no one knows."
St. Stephens School
: "Around 1970,a mysterious fire broke out in the downstairs gymnasium and trapped a young girl named Susan in the girl''s bathroom. Students reported hearing screams and hollers coming from a stall in the girls locker-room, and seeing no one there."
Studio 28 (theater)
: "There is a rumor of a ghost who haunts the projection booth by theater 13. Some employees have seen a shadowy figure dart across the booth. Others have noticed objects moving on their own."
Thornapple Restaurant
: "Daily Grill/Village Inn - At the restaurant that was called the Thornapple Village Inn in the Ada area. the anecdote associated with this haunting is that an engagement dinner was held at the restaurant, and afterward the young woman who was to be married died unexpectedly. She is sometimes seen in one of the mirrors in the ladies room in the restaurant''s basement, and restaurant managers/wait staff has reported working after closing to see and hear the restaurant elevator operating on its own. They report other odd happenings with other electrical devices. She has been seen in silhouette, sitting in the restaurant, and one manager, a young female I spoke with, said after a few nights of working alone cleaning up the bar area after closing, that she won''t work alone there any more, she had seen the elevator operate on its own too many times and was scared."
West Catholic High School
: "There is a cemetery next to the high school that has a ''glowing nun'' near one of the tombstones. You can only see this glowing nun during a full moon. When you see it, it is glowing and transparent. There is no logic of the source of light or why it glows like a hologram. After you drive past the tombstone - it disappears. Hundreds of cars would line up to see the glowing nun every full moon in the 1980''s."