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Another well-known haunting in Michigan is the Bowers Harbor Inn. It’s located on the Old Mission Peninsula just north of Traverse City and it overlooks West Grand Traverse Bay. According to the Inn’s website, it was originally built in 1885 as a summer home for J.W. Stickney, a wealthy Chicago industrialist.
After Stickney’s death, he left the house to his wife, Genevieve, while his mistress, Genevieve’s former nurse, got Stickney's entire fortune. It is said that this betrayal led Genevive to hang herself in the elevator shaft of the house.
Since then, the building has become a bed and breakfast hotel.
According to hauntedhouses.com, there has been a steady flow of supernatural activity at the Inn since Genevieve’s death in the earlier part of the 20th century. Doors slamming and inanimate objects being thrown are common occurrences.
There have also been manifestations of the deceased. The most notable instance took place in 1964. A woman who was staying there was looking into a mirror on the second floor of the inn. The gilded mirror, which belonged to Genevieve, was designed to make the subject look thinner. As the guest admired herself into the mirror, she saw a woman standing behind her. She turned around to find that there was no one there. The reflection she saw matches descriptions of Genevieve.
I would like to investigate Bower’s Harbor Inn myself, but I’m too busy with work right now. I’ll go there at some point, though.
http://www.hauntedhouses.com/states/mi/bowers_harbor_inn.htm
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