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Weird Wednesday: Michigan Sea Monsters

August 27, 2008 – 6:50 am

Here's a pair of excerpts by Linda S. Godfrey from that fascinating tome of Michigan mysteries: Weird Michigan. The last Wednesday of every month is a "Weird Wednesday" on Absolute Michigan, so be sure to stay tuned and send us or Linda your Michigan weirdness. You can listen to Linda's latest podcasts and read her [...]

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Weird Wednesday: Michigan UFO Sightings

March 26, 2008 – 7:39 am

Michigan is full of UFO's, from numerous sightings over Lake Superior (especially around Saulte Ste. Marie) to the tale of a radio announcer who observed one over the freeway near the Detroit airport in 1978, so close that the radio host, Marc Avery, described it as "looking up into the belly of a craft." [...]

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Weird Wednesday: The Mysterious "Bad Egg" Exorcist of Utica

January 30, 2008 – 10:28 am

The latest of our Absolute Michigan "Weird Wednesdays" (held the last Wednesday of every month) is an excerpt (I think) from the forthcoming Strange Michigan: More Wolverine State Weirdness by Linda S. Godfrey and Lisa Shiel. Linda is the author of Weird Michigan.

In May, 2005, in Macomb County Circuit Court, one Elaine Lee, aka Elaine [...]

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Weird Michigan: The Rowdy Ghosts of the Fenton Hotel

October 31, 2007 – 7:12 am

The following is an excerpt from the excellent Weird Michigan by Linda S. Godfrey. This is the first of our Absolute Michigan "Weird Wednesdays" ... let's hope it's not the last mu-hu-ha-ha-ha.

The Fenton Hotel, a former inn-turned-gourmet restaurant in the small, mid-state town of Fenton in Genesee County, is an establishment that prides itself on [...]

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