Category Archives: Offbeat

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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Michigan History: Harriet's Daring Flight

March 18, 2008 – 11:11 am

Harriet Quimby by Aerofossile2012
Harriet Quimby was always ready for a challenge. One of her biggest came on April 16, 1912, when she flew across the English Channel.
Born near Manistee, Michigan, on May 11, 1875, Harriet Quimby moved with her family to San Francisco, California, when she was a teenager. In 1903, she moved to New [...]

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Michigan Video: Iceboating on Elk Lake

March 12, 2008 – 7:20 am

Jack & Kelly added this video of ice boating on Elk Lake from March 6, 2008 to the Absolute Michigan group on YouTube. If you have a Michigan video to share, you can do the same!
They have a lot more ice boating videos on their YouTube page and also run the Michigan Iceboat group.

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Ice Climbing and the Michigan Ice Fest

March 10, 2008 – 9:19 am

Eben6119 by ETCphoto
The Chicago Sun-Times has a cool feature on ice climbing and the annual Michigan Ice Fest by Felicia Schneiderhan. The Ice Fest is held in Munising (home to over 100 climbable waterfalls) and celebrated its 25th anniversary this year. Schneiderhan says:
Ice festivals are great for beginners since the cost of admission -- $25 [...]

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Full Moon (cabin) Fever - February 20, 2008 Eclipse

February 13, 2008 – 9:24 am

ode to moonball by postpurchase
postpurchase writes:
another image from the full moon rise from last november. unfortunately, ann arbor is located just in the right spot to receive seemingly continuous cloud cover generated by lake michigan in the winter months. i want to test my new lens out on something other than gray... aarrghh. hoping [...]

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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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Michigan February Event Calendar

January 28, 2008 – 9:03 am

Our Michigan February Event Calendar seems to demonstrate that the more the weather tries to keepDownload free cingular ringtone, cingular wireless, download free cingular music ringtone! About Me Name: cingular sprint ringtones View my complete profile. us bottled up, the more innovative ways [...]

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Absolute Michigan: The Week for January 13, 2008

January 14, 2008 – 9:23 am

The third episode of The Week features more Michigan Notable Books, author Tom Bissell, the the 2008 Detroit Auto Show and a great iceboating video from our video group, and lots of photos from the Absolute Michigan pool.

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Weird Michigan: Antlers Taxidermy Restaurant, Sault Ste. Marie

November 28, 2007 – 9:12 am

The latest of our Absolute Michigan "Weird Wednesdays" (held the last Wednesday of every month) is an excerpt from the forthcoming Strange Michigan: More Wolverine State Weirdness by Linda S. Godfrey and Lisa Shiel. Linda is the author of Weird Michigan and also took the photo, which you can see larger if you click it!

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Weird Photo: Meet the Hamtramckquins

November 28, 2007 – 9:00 am

Last year Insomnia Jones, J.D. profiled "the poor, decrepit plastic people of a small, Polish-friendly Michigan town" (Hamtramck) in her Hamtramckquins set. Since it's a "Weird Wednesday" here on Absolute Michigan, we thought we'd share them with you.

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