Category Archives: Offbeat

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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Blogs We Dig: Dr. Fong's House of Mysteries

October 31, 2007 – 7:10 am

Kids, ask your parents before you go here - it can be kind of spooky!
It's probably a good thing that there's only one Dr. Fong's House of Mysteries, and even better that it's located right here in Michigan, if only to protect us from the likes of the Michigan Dogman.
Legend in Michigan tells of this [...]

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Five (spooky) Things you need to know about Michigan

October 23, 2007 – 10:02 am

Welcome to a special Halloween prequel edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan. You can find more spooky stuff at our Haunted Michigan page and also at the Michigan Word of the Week: Halloween!  Know a ghostly tale or link that we missed? Let us know in the comments below!
Weird Michigan and [...]

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Michigan Word of the Week: Halloween

October 22, 2007 – 9:41 am

Detroit Zoo Boo by upthedubs1
The word of the week this week is Halloween, and a great place to start is Absolute Michigan's Haunted Michigan. You'll definitely want to check it out for all kinds of spooky photos and features and of course our big list of Michigan Haunted Houses, Mazes & Attractions.
Travel Michigan has a [...]

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Michigan Ghost Stories: The Ada Witch

October 17, 2007 – 9:21 am

It was a rather stormy, wintry day... thus begins a cool and chilling recollection that is my favorite video so far of the Halloween season.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPoXdiJd_Cg

Shadowlands Haunted Places of Michigan relates:
Sometimes you can see a misty blue figure floating within a 3-mile radius of the Ada Cemetery on 2 Mile between Egypt Valley and Honey Creek. [...]

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Haunted Michigan

October 16, 2007 – 8:23 am

A Haunting on Hemingway by Arace
We'll keep track of the haunting highlights from Michigan on this page as we find them! If you have any to add, please post a link in the comments below or send us an email!
Five (spooky) Things you need to know about Michigan
Our special Halloween prequel edition of Five [...]

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Five things you need to know for Wednesday, October 10, 2007

October 10, 2007 – 8:06 am

Welcome to a special "Big Wednesday" edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan.
Big Surf in Grand Haven
The Grand Haven Tribune has a feature on meteorologist Will Beaton, who has realized his life-long dream of surfing and reporting weather at the new web site surfgrandhaven.com developed by Masana, LLC of Grand Haven. The [...]

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Michigan: Great Lakes Surfing Capital

July 10, 2007 – 8:05 am

Surfing Michigan by farlane
We've pulled together a great collection of Great Lakes surfing videos on our Michigan Station at chime.tv including:

The best of the bunch is what appears to be a TV special on Grand Haven filmmaker Vince Deur's movie Unsalted. the 7 minute short introduces you to the history and present day of Great [...]

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